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More than 2,400 years after his death, Socrates remains an iconic but controversial figure. To his followers, he personified progressive Greek ideals of justice and wisdom. To his detractors, he was a corruptor of the young during wartime and one of the reasons Athens had suffered a humiliating defeat...

Brimming with lavish, full-color photos and graphics, the Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary walks you verse by verse through all the books of the New Testament. It’s like slipping on a set of glasses that lets you read the Bible through the eyes of a first-century reader! Discoveries...

There is a story that Schopenhauer used to begin his lectures on Kant by saying: "Let no one tell you what is contained in the Critique of Pure Reason." The writer of this little book hopes that no one will imagine that he has disregarded this warning. There are no short-cuts to the understanding...

The first comprehensive examination of the increasingly important role of forensic psychologists in consulting and expert witness testimony in child custody litigation, this book offers practical advice on understanding the critical psychological dynamics often found in child custody cases as...

It was not easy to be a sportswoman at the end of the nineteenth century. Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic Games, said in 1896: "No matter how toughened a sportswoman may be, her organism is not cut out to sustain certain shocks." Women competed in the Olympics for the...

Simbiosis es la continuación de la historia de Verónica, la nostálgica joven- ahora convertida en mujer-que posee el extraño poder de viajar en el tiempo. En esta segunda entrega, la protagonista se enfrenta a la difícil elección de continuar su vida en el bucólico pueblo de Santa Carla del...

Meet Agata Gate Carson, a shy bookseller with a quirky sense of humor. She loves to dance, she writes the script for the Skydwellers computer game, and all she dreams about is a normal, ordinary relationship. Yet nothing is normal and ordinary after she crosses paths with Rob Florin, the front man...

"Death on Lake Ice" begins with reclusive but brilliant engineer Jacob Adami deciding to change his life and move to Mountain Top County. He takes the position of county engineer. He moves himself and his three cats into a home overlooking Lake Ice. On his first inspection trip as county...

The first part of a family saga inspired by events actually occurred in the communist Russia of Joseph Stalin, on the one hand, and on the other in a Galician town known by the name of "A Guarda". It contains narration and description of scenes of crimes, torture, humiliations, facts and...

 Sapphire is a human, at least in every other human's eyes. As for those who like to drink blood and kill those humans? She is their executor. Vampire Assassin, code named Firestorm, lives with her sister Jade. For many years Sapphire has protected and hid them both from their hunter who wants...

In Everyone Lies by AD Garrett, DCI Kate Simms is on the fast track to nowhere. Five years ago she helped a colleague when she shouldn't have. She's been clawing her way back from a demotion ever since. Professor Nick Fennimore is a failed genetics student, successful gambler, betting agent, crime...

Sworn enemies are plunged into a steamy, forbidden romance in the first book of a new series that explore the darker side of the richly imagined world of Nightshade Twenty-five-year-old Tristan Doran is a direct descendant of the Keepers—witches who have embraced dark magic. Deferring only...

L'avventura di un uomo disperato in cerca di soluzioni ai suoi molteplici problemi economici. Dopo un lungo processo di riflessione autocritica, il protagonista decide di lasciare il suo posto di lavoro per crearsi una sua propria impresa. E ci riesce, non prima di aver superato decine di scogli,...

Magnetic resonance imaging has already become a most valuable imaging modality in the diagnostic work-up of musculoskeletal neoplasms. While high accuracy of MRI for staging purposes has been proven, we will focus in this monograph on the characterization of primary bone and soft tissue tumors by...