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Published four years after Rousseau's death, Confessions is a remarkably frank and honest self-portrait, described by Rousseau as "the history of my soul". From his idyllic youth in the Swiss mountains, to his career as a composer in Paris and his abandonment of his children, Rousseau lays bare his entire life with preternatural honesty.

Rousseau's Social Contract remains, after a quarter of a millennium, one of the most controversial texts in the history of political philosophy, variously seen as a model for participatory democracy, a blueprint for totalitarianism, and several points in between. In addition to Rousseau’s magnum opus, this production includes an introduction by George Douglas Howard Cole, an English political theorist, economist, writer and historian. Also included are three discourses that Rousseau composed apart from The Social Contract.

When Jacques Lusseyran was an eight-year-old Parisian schoolboy, he was blinded in an accident. He finished his schooling determined to participate in the world around him. In 1941, when he was seventeen, that world was Nazi-occupied France. Lusseyran formed a resistance group with fifty-two boys and used his heightened senses to recruit the best. Eventually, Lusseyran was arrested and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp in a transport of two thousand resistance fighters.

Jacques Futrelle's Inspector Lestrade joins Professor S.F.X. Van Dusen ("The Thinking Machine") in trying to solve a strange case involving self-mutilation.

Finding murderers is just a day on the job for police captain Nadia Barka. But when a mutilated corpse is discovered in an old baptistery, she's faced with some difficult questions: Who left a young woman's body in a high-security museum in the middle of the night? And where is the victim's heart?

From the New York Times bestselling author of We All Looked Up comes the second novel in the Anchor & Sophia trilogy, where the rules of humanity are called into question by two warring cities. After their devastating journey from the Anchor to Sophia, Clive and Clover Hamill, Gemma Poplin, and...

Urban fantasy author Hillary Jacques spins a mesmerizing tale of investigation and gods for the Carniepunk anthology—a collection of darkly supernatural short stories you won’t be able to put down! Olivia Locke, formerly the Greek titan Mnemosyne, has built a nice little life for herself...

The vicious Rapscallion army is threatening to batter down the walls of Redwall Abbey. But standing in their way are the brave hares of the Long Patrol and a stout-hearted contingent of forest creatures. And no defender of Redwall is more courageous than young Tammo, an inexperienced but eager hare who dreams of great adventure. Fueled by sumptuous feasting and hearts lifted by stirring ballads, Tammo and his honorable companions raise their swords in a pitched battle for the future of their land.

New York Times best-selling author Brian Jacques is one of the most popular storytellers in the world. With millions of copies in print, his tales starring the remarkable creatures of Mossflower country have earned him a devoted legion of fans. Now the story continues in Loamhedge, as brave warriors stand tall against evil beasts, and bold explorers journey to faraway lands in search of long-buried secrets.

The otters of Green Isle have long been enslaved to the Wildcat Riggu Felis and his catguards, who torture the otters at every opportunity. The otters trudge on, waiting for the day their savior will arrive, the prophesized High Rhulain, who will lead them in battle and a return to glory. Meanwhile, young Tiria Wildlough, an ottermaid at Redwall Abbey, pines for her chance to learn the ways of the warrior, much against the wishes of her father.

Mousemaid Mariel and her bellmaker father are besieged and tossed into the sea by vicious pirate rat Gabool and his thugs. Washed ashore, Mariel is taken in by the kind animals of Redwall Abbey. But Mariel cannot find her father and is certain he has lost his life. With a motley band of adventurers, she swears revenge and begins a perilous quest straight into the heart of Gabool's stronghold, where a few surprises await.

On a moonless night, two rats follow hypnotic lights into the forest, never to be seen again. Such is the power of the Doomwytes, sinister ravens led by the deadly Korvus Skurr. And when the young mouse Bisky persuades the creatures of Redwall Abbey to go in search of a fabled treasure, hidden long ago by one of the abbey's most notorious thieves, they do not suspect Skurr and his ravens will be vying for that very treasure.

When the outlaw clan of foxes, weasels, stoats, and other vermin led by vicious ferret Sawney Rath kidnaps an infant otter of Redwall to serve as their Taggerung - a fierce warrior who no beast can stand against in battle - they have no idea what they're getting into. Trained in all the deadly arts and able to outfight, outrun, and outthink any clanbeast, the Taggerung grows up with only one slight peculiarit.

New York Times best-selling author Brian Jacques has millions of copies of his phenomenally popular Redwall series in print. Fans cannot get enough of the feasting, fighting, and fantastic adventures that fill every book.

Seen as godless by the religious and weak by the atheists, secularism mostly has been misunderstood. In How to Be Secular, Berlinerblau argues for a return to America’s hard-won secular tradition; the best way to protect religious diversity and freedom lies in keeping an eye on the encroachment of each into the other. Berlinerblau passionately defends the virtues of secularism, reminds us what it is and what it can protect, and urges us to mobilize around its cause, which is for all Americans to continue to enjoy freedom for - and from - religion.

Deze audiocursus Canadees Frans is speciaal ontwikkeld voor Nederlandstaligen die snel en op een natuurlijke manier de basis van het Québécois willen leren begrijpen en spreken. Zonder te hoeven lezen of schrijven bouw je een stevige basis op door uitsluitend te luisteren en na te spreken. De cursus is ideaal voor beginners die Canadees Frans willen leren voor reizen naar Quebec of Canada, of voor wie interesse heeft in de Noord-Amerikaanse variant van het Frans.

What if the greatest love of your life belonged to your best friend? Charles, a loyal and disciplined lawyer, never expected his heart to betray him. After the death of his best friend, Michael, he finds himself irresistibly drawn to Nicolette, Michael’s widow—a once-vibrant artist whose grief has dimmed her creative spark. As Nicolette struggles to reconnect with the art that once defined her, she turns to Charles for solace but finds a connection that feels startlingly like home. What begins as a friendship born of shared loss transforms into a connection neither can deny.

Professor Dr. Dr. Dr. Augustus van Dusen, die „Denkmaschine", stellt sich einer scheinbar unmöglichen Herausforderung: In nur einer Woche will er aus der ausbruchsicheren Zelle 13 eines Hochsicherheitsgefängnisses entkommen – ganz ohne fremde Hilfe. Mit kühlem Verstand, Logik und einem Hauch Arroganz demonstriert van Dusen, dass kein Schloss zu sicher, keine Mauer zu hoch ist – wenn man nur klug genug ist.

In the year 2120, the human race teeters on the brink of extinction as a disease known as M6-27 sweeps mercilessly across the globe, leaving a trail of death and decay in its wake. Only a small group known as the First Liners are immune, Sandra Nkosi among them. Desperate to escape, she seizes on the chance to join the Endocarp Program. Transported to an underground bunker, she is assigned to a stasis chamber where she will spend the next 30 years. When she is brought out of hibernation, she and her fellow First Liners will shoulder the enormous weight of rebuilding society.

In 2120, a virus known only as M6-17 sweeps across the planet as humanity teeters on the brink of extinction. Killing nearly a third of the world’s population, the disease is the great equalizer. It spares no one, and quickly breaks down all social barriers.