Mysteries abound in Spindle Manor.For Huntress Isabeau Agarwal, the countryside inn is the last stop in a deadly hunt. Armed with a gaslamp and guns, she tracks an insidious beast that wears the skin of its victims, mimicking them perfectly. Ten guests reside within Spindle Manor tonight, and the creature could be any one of them. Confined by a torrential thunderstorm and running out of time, Isabeau has until morning to discover the liar, or none of them—including...

A personal history of a Nazi battalion's experiences on the Eastern and Western fronts of WWII, told through the vivid accounts of the soldiers themselves.This is the little-known story of Heavy Panzer (Tiger) Battalion 507. Helmut Schneider, himself a veteran of the battalion, sought out as many survivors of the unit as possible and gather their reminiscences. The resulting account is a treasure trove of first-hand material, including personal memories, diaries, le...

This classic study is one of the few books to explore extensively the many facets of envy—“a drive which lies at the core of man’s life as a social being.” Ranging widely over literature, philosophy, psychology, and the social sciences, Professor Schoeck— a distinguished sociologist and anthropologist—elucidates both the constructive and destructive consequences of envy in social life. Perhaps most important, he demonstrates that not only the impetus toward a totalitarian regime but also t...

Birthed Rebirthed and Born: Turned Around Again is a book of poems written through trials. It was written to inspire others to follow Christ and, for those who do, to become better in their understanding. The romance involved causes one to hope for love again. In all hopes, we search for that which can fill us and lead us into a better way of living. Through Christ and love, all things are achievable.

For nearly a century, historians have depicted Germany as a rabidly nationalist land, born in a sea of aggression. Not so, says Helmut Walser Smith, who, in this groundbreaking 500-year history challenges traditional perceptions of Germany's conflicted past, revealing a nation far more thematically complicated than twentieth-century historians have imagined.Contrary to widespread perception, the people who first described Germany were pacific in temperament, and the pernicious ideo...

It’s been said that the past is another country. Stefan Zweig’s memoir The World of Yesterday takes readers into several such countries.This book has been called the most famous work about the Hapsburg Empire of Austria-Hungary (which Zweig calls “the world of security”) in the last decades before its collapse in the First World War. Zweig, an Austrian Jew born and raised in Vienna in 1881, pays a haunting tribute to his vanished nation in this memoir, com...

Immanuel Kant was one of the most significant philosophers of the modern age. Historical Dictionary of Kant and Kantianism, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on key terms of Kant’s philosophy, Kant’s major works and cover his most important predecessors and successors, concentrating especially on the relation of these thinkers to Kant himself. This book is an excelle...

When madness meets morality, reality shatters through a monocle of mayhem.This third volume in Clarke's Through Strange Eyes series continues his exploration of reality, morality, and madness through a darkly imaginative sci-fi and speculative lens. Each story examines the extremes of human nature - our cruelty, guilt, and capacity for self-destruction - viewed through a "monocle" of distortion, irony, and cosmic consequence.

Helmut and Charlotte Jacobitz were born in Berlin during the mid-1920s. They experienced depression and inflation, and witnessed violence as fascists and communists vied for control of Germany. When the Nazis prevailed, they survived the 12 years of the Third Reich. Drafted in 1943, Helmut was wounded fighting in Normandy. Charlotte, meanwhile, worked at the Reichsbank and took shelter against frequent bombing raids. After the Russians surrounded Berlin in April 1945, she ...

Business Book Awards 2026 Shortlisted in Work and Life categoryWe all play the professional game, but how far should we take it?From our first job, we’re taught to compete for promotions, pay raises, and recognition. But in chasing success, many of us lose sight of something essential: meaning and fulfillment. A Groundhog Career: A Tale of Career Traps and How to Escape Them explores why so many professionals feel stuck, disillusio...

Social Innovation: Comparative Perspectives investigates socio-economic impact. Since it is hard to establish causality and to measure social properties when investigating impact, especially at the level of society, the book narrows down impact to one priority aspect: social innovation – understood as organizations’ capacity to generate novel ideas, ways and means of doing things, of addressing public and social problems of many kinds.This volume’s primary assertion is tha...

An overview of central topics of financial managementThe book offers a clear and very compact presentation of the central issues of corporate finance and financial management for students at universities as well as for practitioners and entrepreneurs.Due to the clear language and the underpinning with many examples in the text as well as the frequent reference to data from business practice, the book is also very suitable for self-study. The focus is on Aus...