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Coming face to face with an important illuminated manuscript in the original is rather like meeting a very famous person. We may all pretend that a well-known celebrity is no different from anyone else, and yet there is an undeniable thrill in actually meeting and talking to a person of world stature. The idea for this book, which is entirely new, is to invite the listener into an intimate conversation with a selection of the most famous manuscripts in existence and to let each of those manuscripts illuminate the Middle Ages and sometimes the modern world too.

Beren was a mortal man, but Lúthien was an immortal Elf. Her father, a great Elvish lord, was deeply opposed to Beren, and imposed on him an impossible task that he must perform before he might wed Lúthien. Undaunted by Lord Thingol’s challenge, Beren and Lúthien embark on the supremely heroic attempt to rob Morgoth, the greatest of all evil beings, of a Silmaril, one of the hallowed jewels that adorn the Black Enemy’s crown.

The New York Times bestseller from business journalist Christopher Leonard infiltrates one of America’s most mysterious institutions—the Federal Reserve—to show how its policies spearheaded by Chairman Jerome Powell over the past ten years have accelerated income inequality and put our...

Unlock the potential of Generative AI with this Large Language Model production-ready playbook for seamless deployment, optimization, and scaling. This hands-on guide takes you beyond theory, offering expert strategies for integrating LLMs into real-world applications using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), vector databases, PEFT, LoRA, and scalable inference architectures. Whether you're an ML engineer, data scientist, or MLOps practitioner, you’ll gain the technical know-how to operationalize LLMs efficiently, reduce compute costs, and ensure rock-solid reliability in production.

In the heart of an Atlantic superstorm, the Tahila fights to stay afloat. Amid the chaos, the ship’s collision-avoidance system blares a warning. Radar shows no ship. No signal. No lights. Just a strange silhouette beneath the waves. A searchlight is focussed into the raging sea and the crew spot something impossible: the slanted roof of a house with glass windows and solid walls… adrift in the open ocean more than a thousand miles from land. Lightning flashes – and behind one of the windows, a woman is staring out, her eyes wide with a silent plea.

Led by a man willing to risk everything for power and conquest, armed with technology a hundred years ahead of ours—technology promising salvation to its allies and doom to its enemies—and drawing on a far deeper military history, the Protectorate Expeditionary Force has arrived to invade and incorporate our world into the greatest empire the multiverse has ever known, or die trying.

In The Dating Edge, men’s dating coach and former health leader Chris Bates lays out thirteen field-tested principles that cut through the noise and help you date with clarity, confidence, and purpose. This book helps you move away cheesy pickup lines, and scripts so you can become the kind of man who leads with integrity, vision, and zero time for bullshit.

Rethinking sex therapy aims to provide magical and mysterious strategies to help prevent relationship breakdowns and to build self fulfilling and meaningful relationships in this 21st century

Christopher Liam Rose Motivations (CLRM) is Spiritual Motivations about Helping Other People, Giving Back, Spiritual Change, Faith, Spirituality, Religion. Christopher Liam Rose founded Christopher Liam Rose Motivations to inspire Humanity to Help Other People & Give Back. Christopher Liam Rose want to provide Spiritual Motivations for Humanity which will enable people to become the person they want to be and live their Spiritual Life Purpose & Spiritual Calling for Jesus Christ – Jehovah – Buddha. Christopher Liam Rose Motivations is to inspire the next generations of Spiritual Leaders, ...

Twist Tales in Sports pulls back the curtain on sports history. Each episode breaks down three iconic stories you thought you knew—rivalries, upsets, scandals—then flips them with a twist you never saw coming. Expect deep-dive storytelling, stats, and myth-busting context from the NFL, NBA, MLB, NCAA, soccer, tennis, golf, and more. Follow for viral moments re-examined and endings that change how you see the game.

The EverHuman Podcast is where human biology meets the future of medicine, technology, and human potential.Hosted by Dr. Christopher C. Thompson, Harvard Professor, Forbes Contributor, and Advanced Endoscopic Surgeon, the show unpacks how breakthroughs in biotechnology, digital health, and human physiology are redefining health, longevity, and performance.From the science of metabolism, appetite, and weight regulation to advances in med-tech, genetic therapy, and human optimization, EverHuman brings a physician’s insight to the technologies transforming how we live, age, and thrive.

A London intelligence agent pursues a money launderer to expose the dealings of a shadowy Russian oligarch. In a world where national borders shrink to insignificance in the face of colossal wealth and corporate power, The Silent Oligarch offers a new kind of hero to combat a new kind of crime...

An unprecedented publishing event: to mark the centenary of its foundation, the British Security Service, MI5, has for the first time opened its archives to an independent historian. The book reveals the precise role of the Security Service in twentieth-century British history, from its...

Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. They're even about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie's doing okay—until people start dropping dead around him, and everywhere he goes a dark presence...

Lieutenant Magnus survives the harrowing rescue of his unit only to find himself charged with treason by the very military he’s pledged his allegiance to. Now, he must attempt to escort Piper to the Luma, homeward of Worru before dark forces discover her otherworldly abilities. But once there, Magnus finds himself confronting new enemies in the place he least expects to find them. Meanwhile, Awen uncovers a new plot that threatens to upend order throughout the galaxy. She and Magnus find their way to an alien world where they must work together to build a new team from the ruins....

George Bernard Shaw has been called the second greatest playwright in English (after William Shakespeare) and one of the inventors of modern celebrity as the most famous public intellectual of his time. Beginning in the 1880s, as a critic and as a playwright, he transformed British drama, bringing to it intellectual substance, ethical imperatives, and modernity itself, setting the theatrical course for the subsequent century. That his legacy endures 70 years after his death is testament to the prescience of his thinking and his prolific creativity.

Gondolin, beautiful but undiscoverable, is central to the enmity of two of the greatest powers in the world. Morgoth of the uttermost evil seeks in vain to discover the marvellously hidden city of his Elven enemies, while the gods in Valinor refuse to support Ulmo Lord of Waters' designs to protect it. Into this world comes Tuor, cousin of Túrin, and guided unseen by Ulmo he sets out on the fearful journey to Gondolin to warn them of their coming doom.

When Christopher Littrell pinned on his badge, he believed his mission was clear: protect the innocent, stop the dangerous, and serve his community with courage. But what he could not anticipate was how the streets would shape him, scar him, and eventually force him to confront the cost of wearing the uniform.

In the idyllic, snowbound town of Winter’s Kiss, Christmas arrives with glowing lights and Bing Crosby on the air—a postcard come to life. But a ghost from Christmas past has returned to play Santa. As a historic blizzard traps the valley, Sheriff Heather Blake must hunt a killer hiding behind the face of an old friend. With the Winter Ball approaching and the bodies piling high, she may be the last present to be unwrapped. In Winter’s Kiss, terror is the only thing coming to town.

Radical Antiquity takes you on a unique journey in search of anarchy, statelessness, and social experimentation in the Graeco-Roman world. Sweeping across the Mediterranean from the time of the first Olympic Games in 776 BCE until the emergence of Islam in 610 CE, Christopher B. Zeichmann introduces the listener to communities of escaped enslaved people, pirates, and religious sects—all of whom sought a more egalitarian way of life that avoided the coercion, hierarchy, and exploitation of the state.