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A Kingdom on the Edge of War. An Unlikely King. An Ancient Magic That Should Have Stayed Buried. Abria is a kingdom facing invasion, betrayal, and a war that could change its future forever. When Allric, a young man with a hidden royal bloodline, becomes King of Abria, he inherits far more than a crown. His kingdom is divided, powerful enemies are gathering in the north, and an invasion is coming. But the greatest danger may not be the armies at the borders. Ancient and forbidden magic is beginning to return.

Forrest Scoville is used to being sized up and found wanting—built like a linebacker, teaching kindergarten. His students follow him around like he hung the moon. It's their parents who keep asking if he's really cut out for working with five-year-olds. Conrad Langdon is one of those parents...

An updated and expanded edition of the book that launched a global phenomenon, The Daily Stoic 10th Anniversary Edition includes a new introduction and bonus chapters. Why have history's greatest minds—from George Washington to Frederick the Great to Ralph Waldo Emerson, along with today's top...

La géopolitique est partout et s'invite dans nos conversations quotidiennes pour le meilleur ou pour le pire. Car entre idées reçues et affirmations péremptoires, commenter l'actualité internationale est devenue un sport de combat où tout le monde joue sans forcément connaître les règles. Non, le monde n'est pas de plus en plus dangereux.

Die einundzwanzigjährige Rory Bennett hat einen Plan: schnellstmöglich ihr Studium zu beenden, um endlich ihre Heimatstadt, vor allem aber ihre Stiefmutter und Stiefschwestern, ein für alle Mal hinter sich zu lassen. Als sie Damien Steel begegnet, ist sie deshalb eher genervt von dem reichen Schnösel, dem anscheinend jede Frau zu Füßen liegt...

Ja, auch Wölfe mögen Weihnachten – und mein erstes Weihnachten als Omega ist mehr als (be)sinnlich. Nach dem Trubel der vergangenen Monate ist es einfach nur schön, das Fest der Liebe mit denjenigen zu feiern, die mir näherstehen, als jede Familie der Welt es könnte.

Das große Finale der legendären Saga: Tausend Jahre nach der verhängnisvollen Mission der „Discovery" wird der Astronaut Frank Poole in den Tiefen des Alls geborgen und kehrt ins Leben zurück. Nun muss er sich nicht nur den Wundern des vierten Jahrtausends stellen, sondern auch den Geheimnissen, die die Menschheit seit Urzeiten begleiten. Als der Monolith erneut erwacht, hängt die Zukunft der menschlichen Zivilisation von Frank Pooles Entscheidungen ab. Ein allerletztes Mal müssen sich Poole, HAL und Bowman vereinen, um sich den mysteriösen außerirdischen Mächten entgegenzustellen.

We see our age as the greatest in human history, filled with seemingly unending originality. Yet such dynamism is not a necessary characteristic of great eras. Among the most long-lasting and stable civilizations was that of medieval Europe. There stasis was achieved, and with it a stability...

In The Wisdom of the Shire, Noble Smith sheds light on the life-changing ideas tucked away inside the classic works of J. R. R. Tolkien and his most beloved creation—the stouthearted Hobbits. Drawing on The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and other tales of Middle-earth, Smith shows how a snug...

Drought, plague and war have left the Isle of Mighty battered and the beloved King Arthur grievously injured. But astonishingly, the High King lives, his wounds healed by a sacred and secret relic: the Holy Grail. Now, in this time of rampant disease and death, the great king wants to share the...

From the bestselling author of The First World War and Intelligence in War comes the most up-to-date and informed study yet of the Iraq War. John Keegan, whom the New York Review of Books calls “the best historian of our day,” now brings his extraordinary expertise to bear on perhaps the...

Saint Francis of Assisi is one of the most influential men in the whole of human history. This acclaimed biography of Saint Francis examines the life of a pure artist, a man "whose whole life was a poem." Here is the Saint Francis who prayed and danced with pagan abandon, who talked to animals...

During his lifetime, Jean-Paul Sartre enjoyed unprecedented popularity for a philosopher, due partly to his role as a spokesman for existentialism—at the opportune moment when this set of ideas filled the spiritual gap left amidst the ruins of World War II. Existentialism was a philosophy of...

Hegel’s dialectical method produced the most grandiose metaphysical system known to man. Its most vital element was the dialectic of the thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. This sprung from Hegel’s aim to overcome the deficiencies of logic and ascend toward Mind as the ultimate reality. His...

In an age when philosophers had scarcely glimpsed the horizons of the mind, a boy named Aristocles decided to forgo his ambitions as a wrestler. Adopting the nickname Plato, he embarked instead on a life in philosophy. In 387 BC he founded the Academy, the world's first university, and taught...

Karl Marx's devastating critique of capitalism, and his proposal of communism as the answer to the failings of the capitalist system, bore their greatest fruits in the twentieth century with the formation of the communist state in the Soviet Union. This great venture has now all but completely...

Building on his enormously successful series of Philosophers in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern now applies his witty and incisive prose to brief biographical studies of the world's great writers. He brings their lives and ideas to life in entertaining and accessible fashion. After narrowly avoiding...

Schopenhauer, the "philosopher of pessimism," makes it very plain that he regards the world and our life in it as a bad joke. But if the world is indifferent to our fate, it doesn't thwart us on purpose. The world's fa├ºade is supported by what Schopenhauer calls the universal Will—blind...

If we accept Wittgenstein's word for it, he is the last philosopher. In his view, philosophy in the traditional sense was finished. Ludwig Wittgenstein was a superb logician who distrusted language and sought to solve the problems of philosophy by reducing them to logic. All else—metaphysics...

Immanuel Kant taught and wrote prolifically about physical geography yet never traveled further than forty miles from his home in Königsberg. How appropriate it is then that in his philosophy he should deny that all knowledge was derived from experience. Kant's aim was to restore metaphysics...