This collection of three uncanny tales highlights the best of a 19th-century German author who is seen by many as the father of modern sci-fi and fantasy. In 'The Sandman', young Nathanael grows up terrified of a legendary figure who will steal his eyes if he's caught out of bed at night - but it's only when Nathanael has grown to adulthood, seemingly settled and happy, that the full, terrifying truth unfolds. A living doll, a series of doppelgangers, and the seeds of madness combine in th...

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...

SPLATTER THE NORMALFor this book, weird horror isn’t weird enough, and the extreme needs to be more extreme: the nineteen stories in Extremely Weird Splatter take the “quiet” respectability that characterizes a lot of weird fiction these days and fuses it with the elsewhere typically grounded—but very loud—transgressions of the extreme and splatterpunk. The results are messy, fantastic, and nineteen kinds of bizarre and disturbing.Join three Lifeti...

For American workers, the social contract is broken. This book gives a firsthand view of where the breaks occurred, and a prescription for rebuilding it to give workers their due.With AI making the decisions and CEOs and moguls making the money, sometimes it seems that most workers today might as well be drones. If not for a long string of missed opportunities over the last 50 years, it might have been different. In Roads Not Taken, Thomas Kochan reviews t...

Make the Christmas season brighter with a wonderful collection of stories, poems, and timeless holiday tales. The Big Book of Christmas brings together a generous selection of classic Christmas stories, festive poems, fairy tales, and seasonal writings by various authors, offering hours of holiday reading for the whole family. From snowy winter nights and cozy firesides to family gatherings, unexpected adventures, acts of kindness, and magical Christmas encounters, these stories capture th...

She built a decade of victories on top of grief she never let herself feel. He built a decade of vengeance on top of a father he never let himself mourn. Neither expected the wedding to be the easy part.Queen Elowen Silverfang hasn't sat at the head of a table in eight years. She doesn't trust rooms she can't see the exits in, doesn't trust peace she can't verify with her own hands, and doesn't trust the fire that runs beneath her skin - the same fire that killed her mother's judgm...

Seeing Yourself Through the Eyes of God is a weekly devotional for anyone struggling with poor self-esteem. Each week provides one focus scripture and the opportunity to meditate on that scripture as you allow it to change how you see yourself. It is Tom’s hope that if you focus on these scriptures for a full year, you will see a dramatic improvement in your self-esteem as you learn to see yourself as God sees you.

Violence Against Women: Intersectional Case Studies provides a critical, in-depth examination of intimate partner violence as it is shaped by intersecting identities such as race, gender identity, age, socioeconomic status, and group affiliation. Each chapter offers helpful background information on a specific identity category, followed by multiple case scenarios and guided discussions that illustrate how particular forms of violence may manifest in real-life contexts. This approach equip...

Advanced Space Propulsion: Technologies, Missions, and Computer Modeling includes coverage of all these topics in an integrated manner. The volume, written by a team of sector-specific R&D experts, touches upon fundamentals cardinal to the understanding of [i] Orbit theory and its implications for control, estimation, and optimization of trajectory and attitude, and [ii] How each mission is designed (depending primarily on the mass of the payload, but also on how far from Earth the launch ...

When physicist Tom Weaver meets Swami Sivananda Radha, his life takes an unexpected direction. This memoir traces his journey through science, yoga, family life, and spiritual practice, offering thoughtful reflections on consciousness, personal growth, and the enduring search for meaning.

SURRENDER! Our Journey Back to the FatherIs a compelling invitation to move beyond simply knowing about God and into a life fully surrendered to Him.Drawing from personal experiences, biblical truth, and years of theological study, Thomas A. MacDonald explores the transformative journey of Christian discipleship and what it truly means to surrender every part of life to the Father. Through thoughtful reflections on holiness, suffering, leadership, the Churc...

The American story told through one of the country's most celebrated art forms.Musical theatre has been no stranger to placing historical events on stage: from the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the first 'populist' President in Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, through to the movement against the Vietnam War in Hair and the newsboys strike in Newsies; the musical form has long-explored and been inspired by th...