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The Lucifer Priciple is a revolutionary work that explores the intricate relationships among genetics, human behavior, and culture to put forth the thesis that "evil" is a by-product of nature's strategies for creation and that it is woven into our most basic biological fabric. Though this argument is not a new one - it has been brought forth by such great historical figures as St. Paul, Thomas Hobbes, and Raymond Dart - Howard Bloom here takes fresh data from a variety of sources and shapes it into a lens through which listeners can reinterpret the human experience.

THE PAST PROVED DEADLY... No one knows the dangers of getting close to legendary CIA Black Ops specialist John Medina better than communications expert Niema Burdock. Five years ago, she and her husband worked with Medina on an explosive mission that ended in tragedy. Although she has slowly...

A única vida que Tress conhecia na ilha onde nasceu, em meio a um oceano verde esmeralda, era simples, com os simples prazeres de colecionar copos trazidos por marinheiros de terras distantes e ouvir as histórias contadas por seu amigo Charlie. Porém, quando o pai de Charlie o leva em uma viagem para encontrar uma noiva e um desastre acontece, Tress precisa se esconder em um navio e procurar a Feiticeira do mortal Mar da Meia-Noite.

Selected testimonies to living history-speeches, letters, poems, songs-offered by the people who make history happen, but are often left out of history books: women, workers, nonwhites. Featuring introductions to the original texts by Howard Zinn. New voices featured in this 10th Anniversary Edition include Chelsea Manning, speaking after her 35-year prison sentence; Naomi Klein, speaking from the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Liberty Square; a member of Dream Defenders, a youth organization that confronts systemic racial inequality; and more.

Der Schatten über Innsmouth ist eine der berühmtesten und unheimlichsten Geschichten von H. P. Lovecraft, dem Meister des kosmischen Horrors. In dieser neuen Übersetzung von Benjamin Werner wird die beklemmende Atmosphäre des verfallenen Fischerdorfs Innsmouth eindrucksvoll zum Leben erweckt. Der junge Robert Olmstead reist nach Innsmouth, um die Geschichte und Kultur der Gegend zu erforschen. Doch er ahnt nicht, welches grauenvolle Geheimnis sich hinter den verschlossenen Türen und den fischähnlichen Bewohnern verbirgt. Als er die Wahrheit erfährt, ist es zu spät, um zu fliehen.

The survivors of the zombie apocalypse have built a safe but dangerous life inside the super shelter at Fort Sumter. As they attempt to learn who is living inside the Yorktown, the famous World War II aircraft carrier, the Mud Island family discovers that former government agencies have a diabolical plan to destroy the infected dead. Unfortunately, the plan could also eliminate the rest of mankind. The Chief and his friends face some of the most unexpected threats from the infected dead, the living, and the ever-changing laws of nature. The war may already be lost.

Writer John Howard Griffin (1920-1980) decided to perform an experiment in order to learn from the inside out how one race could withstand the second class citizenship imposed on it by another race. Through medication, he dyed his skin dark and left his family and home in Texas to find out.

Johannes Cabal, a necromancer of some little infamy, has come into possession of a vital clue that may lead him to his ultimate goal: a cure for death. The path is vague, however, and certainly treacherous as it takes him into strange territories that, quite literally, no one has ever seen before. The task is too dangerous to venture upon alone, so he must seek assistance - comrades for the coming travails.

A widower grieving for his young wife. A piano tuner concealing a lifetime of secrets. An out-of-tune Steinway piano. A journey of self-discovery across time and continents, from a dark apartment in Taipei’s red-light district to snow-clad New York. At the heart of the story is the nameless narrator, the piano tuner. In his forties, he is balding and ugly, a loser by any standard. But he was once a musical prodigy. What betrayal and what heartbreak made him walk away from greatness?

*Soon to be a TV series* Jimmy Fallon’s Book Club Top Four Pick and a PBS Book Club Pick For fans of Kazuo Ishiguro and Emily St. John Mandel, this “mind-bending take on time travel” (The New York Times) is about an isolated town neighbored by its own past and future, and a young girl who...

Spartacus, a fictionalization of a slave revolt in ancient Rome in 71 BC, is well known today because of the 1960 movie starring Kirk Douglas and Laurence Olivier. It was originally published in 1951 by Fast himself, after being turned down by every mainstream publisher of the day because of Fast's blacklisting for his Communist Party sympathies. The story of Spartacus, born a slave, trained as a gladiator, who led a slave revolt that was eventually put down by Crassus, was immensely popular and went on to sell millions of copies.

During the course of a career that began in the late 1940s, Lenny Bruce challenged the sanctity of organized religion and other societal and political conventions; he widened the boundaries of free speech. Critic Ralph Gleason said, "So many taboos have been lifted and so many comics have rushed...

Tauchen Sie ein in das düstere und packende Abenteuer Salomon Kane - Rote Schatten von Robert E. Howard, meisterhaft gelesen von Benjamin Werner. Diese Geschichte folgt dem unerschrockenen Puritaner Salomon Kane, der gegen dunkle Mächte und gefährliche Feinde kämpft, um die Unschuldigen zu retten. Robert E. Howards spannende Erzählweise und Benjamin Werners fesselnde Lesung lassen diese klassische Fantasy-Geschichte lebendig werden. Perfekt für Fans von düsteren Abenteuern, klassischer Fantasy und heroischen Geschichten.

From the Hugo Award-winning hosts of the Writing Excuses writing advice show comes a collection of all-new stories of the fantastic, with beautiful illustrations and a behind-the-scenes look at each story’s creation.

This is the story of Joseph Pilates, a gifted man who immigrated to the United States at forty-three with no assets or credentials. He not only invented an exercise regimen—which today is practiced by more than ten million people—but in the process, reinvented himself. John Howard Steel brings Joseph Pilates and his eponymous exercise regime to life from his unique perspective as a student, friend, and confidant. Joe’s influence profoundly changed Steel’s life; in turn, Steel was crucial for the survival of the Pilates Method and Joe’s legacy.

Erleben Sie das Grauen, das in Träume im Hexenhaus lauert, einer neuen Hörbuch-Interpretation von H. P. Lovecrafts Werk, gelesen von Benjamin Werner. Walter Gilman, ein Student an der Miskatonic Universität, mietet sich in das ehemalige Zimmer einer gefürchteten Hexe ein und wird bald von einer Welle übernatürlicher Phänomene erfasst. Die Wände seines Zimmers scheinen sich zu bewegen, getrieben von einer seltsamen Geometrie, die Türen zu anderen Welten aufstößt. Mit jedem Traum, der ihn tiefer in den Abgrund des Unfassbaren zieht, verschwimmen die Linien zwischen Wirklichkeit und Albtraum.

Spanning three generations, this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks that depict events of staggering horror set against a landscape of gemlike beauty, as the Chinese battle both Japanese invaders and each other in the turbulent 1930s. A legend in China, where it won major literary awards and inspired an Oscar-nominated film directed by Zhang Yimou, Red Sorghum is a book in which fable and history collide to produce fiction that is entirely new—and unforgettable.

Natural Language Processing in Action is your guide to building machines that can read and interpret human language. In it, you'll use readily available Python packages to capture the meaning in text and react accordingly. The book expands traditional NLP approaches to include neural networks, modern deep learning algorithms, and generative techniques as you tackle real-world problems like extracting dates and names, composing text, and answering free-form questions.

“As poet, prophet, and priest, Thurman builds upon a powerful legacy of ancestral hope: belief in a liberating God who can always be found ‘in and among the struggling.’” —Yolanda Pierce A universal beacon of hope and endurance for people of all faiths seeking to meet the challenges...

A thrilling, fast-paced novel of romantic suspense from sensational New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Linda Howard. For Morgan Yancy, an operative and team leader in a paramilitary group, nothing comes before his job. But when he’s ambushed and almost killed, his supervisor is...