THE PAST DID NOT DISAPPEAR. SOMEONE BURIED IT.What if the greatest mysteries of history are not the stories we have forgotten—but the stories someone desperately wanted us to forget?The Seventh Seal of the Lost Kingdom takes readers into the shadowy world of vanished kingdoms, buried archives, ancient artifacts, disputed prophecies, corrupted maps, and secrets preserved across centuries.Beginning with the forgotten kingdoms of the ancient w...

When your living room window starts giving you visions of the future... you better pay attention.Chloe Blake’s campus rental has it all: a retro Victorian vibe, a beautiful picture window, and a perfect view of Ethan Reynolds—the guy who broke her heart and lives across the street. But when disturbing visions of death slide across the panes, she’s convinced she’s glimpsed Ethan’s future. She’ll stop at nothing to change fate and save him… even if it means everyone ...

Sybylla Melvyn wants more than the life laid out for her on a struggling Australian farm. Fierce, funny, and stubbornly herself, she dreams of music, of writing, of a world beyond the dust and drudgery of the bush-and refuses to trade her ambitions for a comfortable marriage, however tempting the offer.Written when its author was barely out of her teens, My Brilliant Career startled readers in 1901 with its raw honesty and its heroine's fierce insistence on choosing her ow...

'The tour de force is Franklin's focus on the Deity's "I" in the Hebrew Scriptures, inviting the reader to enter the original world of the Jerusalem Temple and experience it – perhaps for the first time.' – Margaret Barker, D.D., author and biblical scholarIn this original and thought-provoking exploration of one of the Bible's most profound mysteries – the Divine Name 'I AM' – the author uncovers striking patterns woven through biblical texts that have long remained unnoticed. Dra...

Originally curated by Harvard President Charles W. Eliot as a complete liberal education in fifty volumes, the Harvard Classics gathers philosophy, science, literature, and history into a single indispensable library. Plato's dialogues and Marcus Aurelius's meditations sit alongside Dante's Divine Comedy, Francis Bacon's essays, Charles Darwin's scientific writing, and Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, tracing the foundations of Western thought from ancient Greece to the modern age. Homer...

You "public speak" in some way everyday in every way. Understand the bits and pieces of what to say and how to say it, be in control of any situation. You're nerve free, confident. Eye contact, voice, volume, hands and delivery are under control. So simple! So easy!Recognize rhetorical devices, learn to use them to your advantage! Understand the strategies of rhetorical communication at its easiest and best!

Language can be a battleground of ideas, and nowhere is this more vivid than in the Russian context. Across 350 years, Russian has been shaped by competing visions of what it should be, from early grammarians defining a literary standard to digital-era debates about slang, obscenity and online identity. Simon Franklin traces how tradition and disruption have continually reshaped the language, including sections on the discovery by the educated elite of the language of ‘the people’, the lin...

Are you truly prepared to meet God? In Well Done, My Good and Faithful Servant, Shelver Franklin invites readers to examine their relationship with Jesus Christ through the unchanging truth of God's Word. Grounded in Scripture, this book explores the essential foundations of the Christian faith, including salvation, the new birth, forgiveness, obedience, love, the work of the Holy Spirit, and living with eternity in view. Rather than relying on religious tradition or personal opinion, this...

They’re gifted. They’re powerful. And they’re after her.Ava Michaels isn’t sure what’s real anymore. She’s haunted by terrifying nightmares of a huge, hulking man with mismatched eyes. But then that same man shows up on her doorstep and tries to abduct her – and her mild-mannered physics tutor, Caleb Foster, appears out of nowhere to come to her defense.And she has no idea why.On the run for her life, Ava discovers a secret, ancient race with amazin...

While studies have shown that only about 30% of family-owned businesses survive the second generation and less than 10% survive the third generation, there is a paucity of research on the causes of the failure rate of family-owned businesses in developing and emerging markets (DEMs). This book examines family-owned business management in DEMs with emphasis on Africa to uncover effective and ineffective strategies. It identifies corporate strategies, theoretical models and pragmatic measure...

'The Pie King is back with another beauty of a book' Jamie Oliver'What Calum doesn't know about pies is not worth knowing' Angela HartnettFrom the iconic Pork Pie to the little-known Buckinghamshire Bacon Badger, in this delicious new book, Calum Franklin, best-selling author of The Pie Room, gives British pies the appreciation they deserve.One of the oldest forms of British cooking, every ...

This book presents the first scholarly account of the life and artistic legacy of the influential École de Paris painter, Chaïm Soutine (1893-1943). In addition to presenting new archival and fieldwork findings, Franklin interrogates and decisively dispels many of the persistent, popular but problematic biographical myths that have dogged the artist and limited interpretation of his works.This book is at once a critical biography and a handbook – with chapters organised bo...