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Zen in the Art of Archery, and Zen in Swordsmanship are two of the most read and respected texts which, paradoxically, bring Japanese martial arts into the fold of Buddhism with its deeply peaceful attitude to life. How did this happen, and how does it work? These are classic studies from two...

After years of preparation, House Lysandor finally marches into the Voidlands to reclaim their ancestral birthright—the lost capital of Milaos. But the city has festered under undead dominion for decades, and the servants of the Void cannot allow the Republic to spread its wings. Much is at stake as the servants of the Void push from all sides, the noose tightening around the Republic with each passing year. A failed expedition could mean the end of their family's ambitions and cast the Ferridan Republic into ruin.

A kraken, a scientist, and a love under pressure. As a kraken bodyguard, I rarely get human clients. When I do, the only way to protect them is to form a telepathic bond. I don't like it, but after my wife's death years ago I've learned to build an impenetrable shield around myself and my...

The lies we tell ourselves are the worst lies of all. Silas Manning: Doorman at Hanover Gardens on the Upper East Side Senator Graham Lather is the client I can't shake. The bane of my existence. My opposite in every way. He's my soulmate. He came into my bed the way most men do, but he wouldn't...

In Different, world-renowned primatologist Frans de Waal draws on decades of observation and studies of both human and animal behavior to argue that despite the linkage between gender and biological sex, biology does not automatically support the traditional gender roles in human societies. While humans and other primates do share some behavioral differences, biology offers no justification for existing gender inequalities.  

A blind sculptor. A satyr bodyguard. A dangerous plan to expose a criminal empire. Aceon doesn't care for holidays—or humans. As a satyr bodyguard, his job is to keep his clients alive and his emotions out of the equation. But Satin, a blind sculptor with a biting wit and a deadly secret...

I was built to monitor. To calculate risk. To protect agents with impartial precision. Then Sirena Bannerman pulled herself from the wreckage—bleeding, brilliant, half-siren and utterly unreadable—and I've been recalibrating around her ever since. She thinks I'm just her handler. A voice in...

For my kind, to be without a mate is to be doomed. I know it is too late–all that awaits me is retirement and death, and I've embraced it. But when a suicide mission lands on my old boss's desk, I'm the one he calls. Who better to tackle the mission in the deep, oppressive mines of my own...

Out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across Northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran into Kurdish Turkey, Colin Thubron undertakes a journey along the greatest land route on earth: the Silk Road. Travelling 7,000 miles in eight months, he traces the passage not only of trade and armies, but of ideas, religions and inventions.

I woke up in a game I never played, stripped of choice, doomed to die. They gave me the Soldier class and threw me into a barracks ruled by elves. No tutorial. No way out. Just drills, bruises, and the creeping realization that I’m not playing. I’m being played. My masters are NPCs who think they’re real. The system says I’m here to fight their wars. But a hunting accident changed everything.

Writing the Everyday: Body, Place, Time concerns the stories we tell of the familiar, the routine, and the mundane. It pays attention to what does and does not happen, what is and is not present, what does and (apparently) does not matter. Writing the Everyday tells such stories to bring the everyday–a walk to work up a steep Edinburgh hill, writing in a favourite café, laughter, loss, rupture–alive. It tells these stories to explore how the everyday offers glimpses into, lies close to, the profound and the intimate, and it tells these stories to trouble the politics of the everyday.

A rekindled friendship. A web of deceit. A father's worst nightmare. Private investigators Sebastian Clifford and Lucinda 'Birdie' Bird are tracking a sophisticated theft ring targeting Leicestershire's wealthiest estates. Priceless, valuable antiques and collectables vanish without a trace, and...

The light is fading. Shadows creep across Elystria and the Warrior Republic stands as one of the last strongholds holding back the void's desire to extinguish Elystria and its people for good. As a gifted spatial mage of House Lysandor, Asterion carries the weight of everyone's expectations. While others see future leadership in him, he knows the truth—he'll either prove himself worthy of joining the Undying or get himself along with his friends killed trying.

Over 50 years, Charles M. Schulz created a comic strip that is one of the indisputable glories of American popular culture. Some 20 years after the last strip appeared, the characters Schulz brought to life in Peanuts continue to resonate with millions of fans, their beguiling four-panel adventures and television escapades offering lessons about happiness, friendship, disappointment, childhood, and life itself. Here, 33 writers and artists reflect on the deeper truths of Schulz’s deceptively simple comic, its impact on their lives and art and on the broader culture.

A comprehensive and practical guide to the stock market from a successful fund manager—filled with case studies, important background information, and all the tools you’ll need to become a stock market genius. Fund manager Joel Greenblatt has been beating the Dow (with returns of 50 percent...

La larga agonía del “hombre enfermo de Europa” , una expresión utilizada por el Zar de Rusia para describir la caída del Imperio Otomano, podía casi cegar a la gente de su increíble poder e historia. Preservando su herencia mixta, proveniente tanto de su posición geográfica que se elevaba sobre las cenizas del Imperio Bizantino como de la tradición heredada de las conquistas musulmanas, el Imperio Otomano duró más de seis siglos.

Terra stands upon the brink of Unity. The armies of the self-proclaimed Emperor of Mankind have waged their bloody wars to bring the whole planet under his rule, crushing all traces of outlawed religion and worship from the face of this now secular utopia. But even the mighty Thunder Warriors cannot cow Uriah Olathaire, last priest of the Church of the Lightning Stone, as he goes about his empty, hollow rituals - and only one last and thoroughly unexpected visitor can bring any hope of a possible reconciliation.

When Aidan Errollson returns home to Corenwald after three years in the Feechiefen Swamp, he is shocked to discover a newly formed party known as the Aidanites. They believe the ancient Wilderking Chant makes reference to Aidan, and that he is destined to overthrow the tyrant, King Darrow. Aidan has no intention of leading any rebellion. However, as Corenwald weakens and the Pyrthen Empire threatens to invade, it seems that the Aidanites may be the only army the Corenwalders have left.

He'd had so many names over the centuries, so many new identities that he could scarcely remember who he had originally been. Now his name was Daetrin, a name given by the alien conquerors of humankind, the Tyr. Three hundred years had passed since the Tyr conquered the people of Earth as they had previously overcome numerous races throughout the galaxy.

"The Prince" is the most famous of Machiavelli's works; it gives very clear, precise and realistic instructions on how to gain and maintain power, fortune, and glory, sometimes at the expense of others. Written in 1513, it is one of the most feared and hated political treatises, taken to be the first work in which the effect the leader desires to achieve is taken as more important than any abstract ideal or ethical value that might prevent him from taking immoral action.