In Superopolis everyone has a superpower! Well…almost everyone. Meet Ordinary Boy.In a town where everyone is a superhero, what if you were the only person with no superpowers at all?Welcome to the life of Ordinary Boy. He’s...well, he’s pretty much exactly as his name suggests. But things are not so super in Superopolis these days, with the evil Professor Brain-Drain on the loose. To make matters worse, Ordinary Boy and his friends are thrown into the midd...

A huge international bestseller, with over 2 million copies sold worldwide, Night Train to Lisbon is an utterly compelling novel about one man's escape from a humdrum life in search of passion and spontaneity.____________________'One of the best books I have read' Isabel Allende'A rare reading pleasure' San Francisco Chronicle'Pascal Mercier now takes his rightful place among our finest European novelists'

Nullement limité à un domaine de connaissances, à l’exclusion d’autres champs symboliques, l’irrationnel est polymorphe, relatif et contextuel. Il agence aussi bien des trajectoires in-signifiantes que sur-signifiantes, chacune difficilement conciliable avec la vraisemblance textuelle ou la rationalité sociale en vigueur à tel moment. Irréductible à une formule à visée universelle, il s’inscrit dans une stratigraphie culturelle, choquant les habitudes d’interprétation de nos soidisant mode...

The Harvard Classics Anthology gathers an extraordinary transhistorical conversation, ranging from Greek epic, tragedy, philosophy, and Roman civic prose to Renaissance drama, Enlightenment inquiry, Romantic poetry, Victorian fiction, and modern scientific reflection. Its forms are equally expansive: dialogues, sermons, essays, travel narratives, memoirs, fables, plays, lyric poems, novels, political treatises, and experimental investigations. Landmark selections from Homeric epic, Shakesp...

For Jessica and Elizabeth, the sweet life begins at 30…Three years after the events of Sweet Valley Confidential, Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield are back in Sweet Valley and inseparable once more. But Jessica, now a mother, finds her marriage to Todd hanging by a thread. Meanwhile, Lila Fowler, reality TV star extraordinaire, embarks on a risky scheme that could win her fame but cost her everything. And the scandal rocking Sweet Valley deepens for Elizabe...

In Search of Enlightenment: 50 Spiritual Masterworks gathers a capacious cross-cultural archive of religious reflection, mystical testimony, philosophical inquiry, devotional counsel, and literary meditation. Moving among aphorism, sermon, autobiography, visionary prose, theological argument, and poetic revelation, the volume stages enlightenment not as a single doctrine but as a continuing struggle over selfhood, grace, reason, suffering, and ethical action. Its most memorable selections ...

A gripping novel of love and slavery of both heart and body. Based in Victorian England and Eastern Africa, it explores the dangers of colonization, family ties, and the Dark Continent. Zanzibar. The island of dreams. The island of nightmares. In Victorian England, it is considered both: a tropical haven for every dispossessed visionary, every soldier of fortune from Timbuktu to London—until recently—the slave capital of the world. Now Charlotte Earnshaw, the youngest daughter of the earl ...

THE writings of St. Francis may, as is obvious, be considered from more than one point of view. Premising this, we are afforded a clue to the difficulty which has led students of Franciscan sources to divide themselves into two camps as to the objective value of these writings. Indeed, one writer 1 goes so far as to compare the attitude of modern scholars toward them to that of the "Spiritual" and Conventual Friars respectively in the first century of Franciscan history. For while one part...

A business novel about using the Lean quality improvement method to turnaround a failing company. It is the sequel to the author's successful business novel, Andy downstream into distribution and sales. Thus, we will transform our entire enterprise. At CMM union members will get their jobs back, but there will only be two job classifications: production and maintenance team member. Team members will be involved in continuous improvement work. The union and management will work together und...

This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the many different facets of the Swiss political system and of the major developments in modern Swiss politics. It brings together a diverse set of more than 50 leading experts in their respective areas, who explore Switzerland's distinctive and sometimes intriguing politics at all levels and across multiple themes. In placing the topics in an international and comparative context and in conversation with the broader scholarly literature, th...

Three gripping novels, one low price.The first three Boniface novels in one volume.The Murder of Henry VIIIWhen the author he is representing is murdered, Boniface realizes the job demands more than he expected. And when the man he is talking with is shot, Boniface runs.Pollute the PoorThe first Boniface knows about the dead body in the next room is when he is arrested for murder.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks, ADHOCNETS 2018, held in Cairns, Australia, in September 2018. The 27 full papers were selected from 50 submissions and cover a variety of network paradigms including mobile ad hoc networks, sensor networks, vehicular networks, underwater networks, airborne networks, underground networks, personal area networks, device-to-device (D2D) communications in 5G cellular networks, and home netwo...