Victorian Passions Volume 14 curates a provocative anthology of rare Victorian erotica, uniting three anonymous gems: The Autobiography of a Flea by Stanislas de Rhodes, Julie, and Maude Cameron and Her Guardian. This collection delves into the shadowed realms of 19th-century desire, where youthful innocence collides with unbridled lust amid rigid social facades. Through masterful prose, it unveils the era's clandestine sensual adventures, from garden seductions to convent excesses, captur...

In the wake of the October 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, a young noblewoman in the Russian Empire makes the bold decision to stay behind, while her family scatters across the globe. Her brother flees with the White Russian emigration to New York, while her mother and sister escape to Poland. Strangely, her brother leads his American family to believe that his sister, along with her husband and daughter, vanished during the Russian Civil War (1917–1922) and are presumed dead. But this is far f...

Stanislas Yassukovich returns with another riveting collection of short stories, a worthy successor to his acclaimed Short Stories and A Cape Town Decameron. Each tale, woven from his vast experiences, spans an array of subjects, characters, and locales. Drawing inspiration from his illustrious career as an international investment banker, Yassukovich gives readers a privileged peek into the intersections of finance, adventure, and the human spirit. Every story offers a unique flavour, cap...

A renowned cognitive neuroscientist?s fascinating and highly informative account of how the brain acquires readingHow can a few black marks on a white page evoke an entire universe of sounds and meanings? In this riveting investigation, Stanislas Dehaene provides an accessible account of the brain circuitry of reading and explores what he calls the ?reading paradox?: Our cortex is the product of millions of years of evolution in a world without writing, so how did ...

Reasonable and Holy addresses the conflict over homosexuality within the Anglican tradition, demonstrating that the church is able to provide for and support faithful and loving relationships between persons of the same sex, not as a departure from that tradition, but as a reasonable extension of it.It offers a carefully argued, but accessible means of engagement with Scripture, the Jewish and Christian traditions, and the use of reason in dealing with the experience and l...

Resource for clergy to give/use with couples seeking to be wed in an Episcopal ChurchMany couples come to an Episcopal Church seeking a place to hold their wedding ceremony because they love the setting in our beautiful churches. Others seek to be married in the Episcopal Church because their parents are members and/or it was the church of their childhood but have lapsed in attendance. While marriage is a tradition for many rooted in the religious tradition, the ch...

Like the scribe and master of the household cited by Jesus in Matthew 13, Re-membering God “brings out of treasure what is new and what is old,” and empowers us to go and do likewise. As both critique and encouragement for the church in the early part of the twenty-first century, it seeks to reclaim the foundational riches of the church’s liturgy and spirituality in the face of cultural change. These resources, some lost or neglected and others under-utilized, can help rebuild the...

Explores how we can use our bodies sexually and holistically in contemporary culture.What About Sex? provides a moral compass to navigate the changing landscape of sex and sexuality. Dealing with the Bible, evolving traditions and customs, and the findings of science and psychology, Haller endeavors to inform and guide rather than lay down the law. This book is not about what goes where or who does what to whom, but about what it means to be an embodied pe...

The latest work by the well-known Italian astrologer and fortune-teller Antares Stanislas.It is a biblical work because it is a twenty-two-volume series containing the interpretation of almost five thousand Tarot spreads over more than two thousand pages.Each volume is dedicated to a single Major Arcana, and its combinations with all the other Major Arcana.This series completes a whole series of publications by Antares Stanislas on the Tarot, from its meaning withou...

This book was born as answer to those impassioned and beginners of cartomancy. They are not few those people that after having studied the meaning of the major and minor arcanes they don't succeed, in the practice, to give a correct interpretative meaning to the combination of the tarots. This text picks up and illustrates the methods and the games of divination that I have successfully practiced over 20 years of experience. In this book there are 23 illustrated and explained examples of c...

This ebook (paper book pages 223) contains the full version of two successful books:"Tarot Major Arcana their Meaning Without Learn it to Memorize"and" The Tarot Minor Arcana Learning the Cards Without Memorizing their Meaning ".Readers wishing to learn with the major arcana and minor will avoid to have two separate books.

Horary astrology is a branch of astrology that answers detailed questions in a prompt, simple and reliable way. Horary astrology is more and more appreciated by people who feel passion for this sector and generates curiosity in card reading lovers due to the number of questions they can answer. The author makes the book unique by presenting his beliefs and the way to approach readings with clarity and synthesis, mentioning only valid concepts according to his experience, making things easy...