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...

Water bears, also called tardigrades, are the toughest creatures around.Since a scientist first spotted them through a microscope in 1773, researchers have learned that water bears have survived every mass extinction on Earth and can tolerate all kinds of extremes, from radiation to low gravity to boiling and freezing temperatures. They can even enter an inanimate state to protect and preserve themselves in harsh conditions, then reanimate when their surroundings i...

**A chilling romantic folk horror inspired by the legend of the Wild Hunt! Months after their harrowing final performance, a teen girl reunites with her acting troupe for a weekend in the woods—only to find something they awakened has followed them there."One of the most exciting YA horror writers working today." —Melinda Salisbury, author of Her Dark WingsThere’s something on those moors that likes to hunt young maidens for sport....**Senior Hazel...

A country clergyman with a large family, a small fortune and an unshakable good opinion of himself loses the money in the first chapter, and things proceed downhill with perfect cheerfulness. Goldsmith failed at medicine, teaching and the church, wandered Europe playing the flute for meals, and — the story goes — sold this manuscript overnight to keep his landlady from having him arrested.

Manila Espionage is the autobiography of Claire “High Pockets” Phillips, an American entertainer living in Manila in 1941 when war breaks out. Using her popular Tsubuki Nightclub as a headquarters, High Pockets and her staff serve spiked drinks to Japanese officers and seduce military information out of them. During the day, Claire smuggles contraband in her bra (‘high pockets’) past bribed Japanese guards paid to look the other way, into imprisoned American POWs – money, food and...

Agent High Pockets is the autobiography of Claire “High Pockets” Phillips, an American entertainer living in Manila in 1941 who becomes an angel of the underground when her husband is killed by the invading Japanese. Using her popular Tsubuki Nightclub as a headquarters, High Pockets and her staff serve spiked drinks to Japanese officers and seduce military information out of them. During the day, Claire smuggles contraband in her bra (‘high pockets’) past bribed Japanese guards p...

He says this is his life.The problem is, it won’t stay the same.Elba Kramer is a memoir that revises itself as it goes—starting with a childhood that can’t agree on what happened.Memories contradict.Facts dissolve.The narrator insists he’s telling the truth.This time.But if every version feels real…what does “real” even mean?You won’t believe this book.

A realistic novel of female spies and coming of age in the Cold War era of British Intelligence.A Nicollette Beverley Spy NovelIt’s 1976 and on the prompting of her coach and former teacher, Nicolette, a star field hockey defensive back with a typical factory job in rural England, applies for a governmental job. What she doesn’t realize is that the man in the well cut suit at the back of the spectators at her matches, in consultation with h...

"All the error that has existed down the ages is founded on the theory or belief of two worlds, one the heavenly kingdom, or spiritual life, and the other a material world or mortal existence, each separate from the other. In spite of this sense of two worlds, men have always attempted to bring harmony into the discords of human existence through an attempt, by prayer, to contact this other world, or spiritual realm, and to bring Spirit, or God, to act upon the so-called material existence...

Bestselling author and world-renowned executive coach Marshall Goldsmith examines the environmental and psychological triggers that can derail us at work and in life.Do you ever find that you are not the patient, compassionate problem solver you believe yourself to be? Are you surprised at how irritated or flustered the normally unflappable you becomes in the presence of a specific colleague at work? Have you ever felt your temper accelerate from zero to sixty when...

"Smugglers’ Island and the Devil Fires of San Moros" is a book written by Clarissa A. Kneeland, with illustrations by Wallace Goldsmith. Unfortunately, there isn't much information available about this specific title or its contents. It seems to be a lesser-known work, and details about the plot and themes are not readily accessible.However, based on the title, "Smugglers’ Island and the Devil Fires of San Moros" suggests an adventurous and possibly mysterious story set on an island. The m...

Margaret Goldsmith's Maria Theresa of Austria is a compelling biography of one of Europe's most remarkable and influential monarchs. As the only female ruler of the Habsburg Empire, Maria Theresa reigned from 1740 to 1780, navigating a male-dominated political landscape to transform her realm into a modernized and centralized power. Goldsmith delves into the life and reign of this formidable empress, from her unexpected rise to power following her father's death to her determined efforts t...