Charles Broadstokes is a little confused...There are cowboy boots on his feet, pop-up hints appearing in his vision, and, oh yeah, there’s a mariachi band in his head.The world's not going to slow down and let him catch up though, no, it's going to throw a chrome hover car at him and hope he gets the picture.Charles isn't what you'd call inept though, and before long he's proving himself as a quick shooter, fast learner, and more than willing to immerse himself in his pseud...

The last thing Mathilda thought she’d be doing was boarding the Titanic to escape the danger hot on her heels. With knowledge of important papers that could get her killed and a wad of money, she’s trying to get as far away as she can with her older sister.Fleeing for her life, she becomes a mail order bride. However, Mathilda discovers she might not be able to keep her past a secret. The man she’s supposed to marry is a policeman, with a sixth sense she’s hiding something...

The adventure continues!Excited to get the Stargun Agency up and off the ground, Chuck and his group set out to get more money, more personnel, and a whole lot more moon.Finding everything from outlaws to accountants in their travels around the space western-themed rock, they quickly expand their operation and make new allies to secure their strengthening foothold of the Stargun Agency compound, all the while ignoring a growing threat on the horizon.

L’Italia comunale e rinascimentale ha ricoperto un ruolo precursore nella formazione dell’Europa moderna, per quanto riguarda il costituirsi sia delle strutture e istituzioni europee che delle singole culture nazionali. Ancora oggi è vitale il valore fondativo delle esperienze culturali elaborate nel ‘Rinascimento lungo’ della storia d’Italia, in specie nell’ambito letterario e artistico, specifico della stessa identità e civiltà italiana.Italienisch- und deutschsprachige Wissensch...

Toby wasn’t ready to die in 2008 and wake up in 2088. 2088 wasn’t ready for Toby either.Gen-X computer hacker Toby is a classic American: impulsive, irreverent, intelligent, and inventive. And, after a silly accident in 2008, he can add “inanimate” to the list—because Toby is dead.But only for a while. Eighty years later, medical science has advanced enough to bring Toby back to life.Welcome to Southern California, 2088. The skies are clean...

In the late nineteenth century, scientists, psychiatrists, and medical practitioners began employing a new experimental technique for the study of neuroses: hypnotism. Though the efforts of the famous French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot to transform hypnosis into a laboratory science failed, his Viennese translator and disciple Sigmund Freud took up the challenge and invented psychoanalysis. Previous scholarship has viewed hypnosis and psychoanalysis in sharp opposition or claimed that ...

How should you approach your investments? How should you think about them? Those are the types of questions Chris Mayer tackles in his newest book, How Do You Know: A Guide to Clear Thinking About Wall Street, Investing, and Life. Through a series of provocative-and often amusing-examples, Chris puts those perennial investing questions into a much larger context... How do you know anything at all? His answer, which is sure to make many readers uncomfortable is... you don't. Ho...

This is a series of short summaries and brief overviews of many main ideas within general semantics, all couched in the style of personal letters. It is designed to give people an intimate view into many insights offered with general semantics, and just as equally, it represents how principles of general semantics can be applied within everyday life.

Who were Shakespeare's first readers and what did they think of his works? Offering the first dedicated account of the ways in which Shakespeare's texts were read in the centuries during which they were originally produced, Jean-Christophe Mayer reconsiders the role of readers in the history of Shakespeare's rise to fame and in the history of canon formation. Addressing an essential formative 'moment' when Shakespeare became a literary dramatist, this book explores six crucial fields: lite...

Invaluable insights into finding diverse investment opportunities in the emergent global economyFrom Brazilian farmlands to Colombian gold fields, from Chinese shopping malls to Indian hotels, from South African wine country to the boom/bust souks of Dubai, this around-the-world investing field trip explores the nooks and crannies for hidden investment opportunities. World Right Side Up: Investing Across Six Continents is packed with ideas to power your po...

The gap between the developed world and the emerging market has been shrinking and will continue to do so. Hence, the so called gap between the so-called developed West and the other markets in terms of technology, economic size, financial development, incomes is much smaller than in the past. While some people fear this reality, the author feels that it is a positive trend and these new sizeable markets will create extraordinary new opportunities for investors. The book will examine vario...

The unspeakable level is Korzybski's term for that swirl of events language cannot fully capture. It is all that 'is.' Our abstractions-names, descriptions, etc.-often hide andobscure this unspeakable level. In this volume, the author looks at various ways to get behind these abstractions. Korzybski's Razor is one such tool, which knocks many lofty sounding terms off their pedestals. Another chapter explores the nature of polarities, drawing on insights from Meister Eckhar...