5/14/2023 0 Comments Seize the Fire by Laura Kinsale![]() Nothing can distract her from her goals, and Ransom offers her refuge at his estate a safe haven to work on her invention undisturbed. Merlin Lambourne is a brilliant yet slightly eccentric scientist whose dream is to build a flying machine. ![]() What Ransom doesn’t realize is that Merlin is a woman, and not everyone wants to see her invention become a reality… Ransom Falconer, Duke of Damerell, is sent to see if Merlin Lambourne, the famous inventor, has created a truly magnificent innovation that can be used in the war against Napoleon. ![]() Praise for Laura Kinsale: ‘Magic and beauty flow from Laura Kinsale’s pen.’ Romantic Times ‘Readers should be enchanted.’ Publishers Weekly ‘One of the best writers in the history of the romance genre.’ All About Romance ‘Laura Kinsale delivers powerful, unique romance.’ Amanda Quick ‘A writer who always provides a triumphant novel.’ Affaire de Coeur An impossible inventor… ![]()
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![]() That's what artistic license is all about, after all. There is simply no way of knowing how much of the story is the truth, and how much has been fabricated or exaggerated. That's why I'm calling it faction, while the publishers might prefer non-fiction. He has, however, talked to many of the key players, and from doing so has pieced together a story of what might or might not have happened. ![]() He wasn't there at the same time as them and, prior to writing this book, had never met the boys. He is a Harvard grad, but that's the only link between him and the characters in the book, also students at the Ivy League institution. ![]() And, yet, that's exactly the claim you find on the cover of this book, a work of faction that claims to tell the inside story of the founding of Facebook.īen Mezrich is not, and never has been, associated with the social networking site. But, with a website? And a supremely geeky (in its beginnings) website like Facebook? Surely not. ![]() is the sort you'd generally associate with works by Danielle Steel or Jackie Collins. Summary: The inside story of the biggest thing in social networking sites, this is a sometimes bitter but mostly absorbing account as told by various people who, perhaps crucially, are no longer involved with Facebook.Īs subtitles go, Sex, Money, Betrayal. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments The highland witch susan fletcher![]() By telling it, she transforms both their lives.Īs in her award-winning debut novel, Eve Green, Susan Fletcher shows that she is "a novelist with the soul of a poet" (Booklist). Hers is a story of passion, courage, love, and the magic of the natural world. As she awaits her death, she tells her story to Charles Leslie, an Irish propagandist who seeks information she may have condemning the Protestant King William. Forty miles south, brilliant, captivating Corrag-accused witch and orphaned herbalist-is imprisoned in the Scottish highlands for her involvement in the massacre. Thirty-eight members of the MacDonald clan are killed by soldiers who had previously enjoyed the clan's hospitality. A breathtaking novel of passion and betrayal in seventeenth-century Scotland and the portrait of an unforgettable heroineįebruary 13, 1692. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments The rising the newsflesh trilogy![]() The virus lies dormant until death where it then coverts the host into a zombie but in some cases it can ‘go live’ expectantly. The two combined to create Kellis-Amberlee, a virus that infected the entire planets mammalian life. ![]() The Rising (what the zombie apocalypse is referred too) came about when scientists found cures for the common cold & cancer. Thankfully Feed is a fantastic read with compelling characters, a fascinating take on political corruption & a zombie virus that might be one of the most terrifying yet. ![]() It hardly sounds thrilling especially as zombies have become seriously overdone in horror fiction. ![]() Feed is the first entry in the Newsflesh trilogy, a series set in the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse but from the point of view of journalists. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Dragonquest mccaffrey![]() ![]() OL73382W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 94.06 Pages 374 Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 650 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0345275071 Dragonquest book by Anne McCaffrey Science Fiction & Fantasy Books > Space Books ISBN: 0345314484 ISBN13: 9780345314482 Dragonquest (Book 2 in the Dragonriders of Pern Series) by Anne McCaffrey See Customer Reviews Select Format Hardcover 76.29 - 80.09 Paperback - Mass Market Paperback 4.69 - 5.69 Library Binding 11.19 - 18. ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:06:05 Boxid IA1479821 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Curatestate approved Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition 8th Canadian ed. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Neuware - In this theoretical tour-de-force, renowned scholar Ariella Aïsha Azoulay calls on us to recognize the imperial foundations of knowledge and to refuse its strictures and its many violences.Azoulay argues that the institutions that make our world, from archives and museums to ideas of sovereignty and human rights to history itself, are all dependent on imperial modes of thinking. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Mchangama free speech![]() ![]() Meticulously researched and deeply humane, Free Speech demonstrates how much we have gained from this principle - and how much we stand to lose without it. ![]() Yet the desire to restrict speech, too, is a constant, and he explores how even its champions can be led down this path when the rise of new and contrarian voices challenge power and privilege of all stripes. Jacob Mchangama said, Since launching the Future of Free Speech Project in 2020, Justitia has significantly expanded its international focus Read More Press release: The think tank Justitia is expanding with a new office in the United States and appointing a new Danish director. Wells and modern-day digital activists - Mchangama reveals how the free exchange of ideas underlies all intellectual achievement and has enabled the advancement of both freedom and equality worldwide. Through captivating stories of free speech’s many defenders - from the ancient Athenian orator Demosthenes and the ninth-century freethinker al-Rāzī, to the anti-lynching crusader Ida B. In Free Speech, Jacob Mchangama traces the riveting legal, political, and cultural history of this idea. It was the air that we breathed in the ’90s and early 2000s. Today, in democracies and authoritarian states around the world, it is on the retreat. Jacob Mchangama:I was born in cozy, secular, liberal Denmark, and in my youth, free speech was taken for granted. ![]() But it is a challenging principle, subject to erosion in times of upheaval. Hailed as the “first freedom”, free speech is the bedrock of democracy. A global history of free speech, from the ancient world to today ![]() ![]() ![]() Bailyn has substantially and profoundly altered the nature and direction of the inquiry on the American Revolution. ![]() “With this reading of the American Revolutionary Experience, Mr. “The most brilliant study of the meaning of the Revolution to appear in a generation. “Tightly written and politically sophisticated… In the field of American Revolutionary Studies, Bailyn’s book must henceforth occupy a position of first rank. His meticulous scholarship is matched with perceptive analysis. Bailyn writes with the authority and integrity that derive from a thorough mastery of the material. “One cannot claim to understand the Revolution without having read this book. For many, it remains the most persuasive interpretation of the Revolution. ![]() His book, which won the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes in 1968, influenced an entire generation of historians. These radical ideas about power and liberty, and deeply rooted fears of conspiracy, had propelled Americans in the 1760s and 1770s into the Revolution, Bailyn said. In The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, the most famous of his works, Bailyn uncovered a set of ideas among the Revolutionary generation that most historians had scarcely known existed. “In every area of Bernard Bailyn’s research-whether Virginia society of the 17th century or the schools of early America-he transformed what historians had hitherto thought about the subject. ![]() ![]() ![]() The photo of this book is of the actual book for sale. ![]() Category: Science & Technology ISBN: 0006374549. The book also shows how the ancient Egyptians treated incipient baldness with a mixture of hippopotamus, lion, crocodile, goose, snake and ibex fat how a mystery epidemic devastated ancient Athens and brought to an end the domination of that great city and how lemons did as much as Nelson to defeat Napolean. Starting in ancient times, this text charts how this health revolution came about and how life for human beings in the West has ceased, in Hobbes' memorable phrase, to be "nasty, brutish and short." Porter plots the growth of medical specialisms - pharmacology, physiology, anatomy, neurology, bacteriology - and the institutions of medicine - the hospital and asylum - to show how medical advances have often created as many problems as they have solved. ![]() ![]() *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Medicine advances ever faster, and with it not just a capacity to overcome sickness, but to transform the very nature of life. More specifically: Covers have moderate creasing. The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present Roy PorterThe Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to. *** CONDITION: This book is in good condition. The Greatest Benefit to Mankind by Roy Porter Paperback 34.25 Paperback 34.25 eBook 22. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Fontana Press, UK, 1999. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Things i never got over![]() The novel is also intended for mature readers, and features strong language and sexually explicit scenarios, some of which are reproduced or represented in this guide. ![]() This study guide uses the 2022 Bloom paperback edition of the novel.Ĭontent Warning: This novel contains instances of domestic violence and child endangerment. In late 2022, Score announced on her website that she completed a second volume, The Things We Hide from the Light, set in the same town with some of the same characters. A veteran romance fiction writer with more than 30 titles published, Score found popular success with Things We Never Got Over, which became both a New York Times and Amazon best seller. Score also explores the dark psychology of sibling rivalry, the challenges and complications of adoption, and how wealth can both create and destroy love. ![]() ![]() The novel plays with familiar elements and themes of the romance genre, including the courage it takes for a wounded heart to rediscover passion, the critical support of friends and family, and the hopeful power of love. ![]() |