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This is the story of Ace, a young Australian football player from a small town in Queensland. Fleeing his questioning relatives, he spends holiday in Thailand. There he rescues Matt, a young sophisticated man from Sydney. In turn, Matt rescues Ace and helps him accept who he is.A romance of self-discovery, with a few twists and turns thrown in, is as sultry as the Thailand sun.

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...

**SHORTLISTED for the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction An intense psychological drama that echoes sophisticated entertainments like Gorky Park and The Talented Mr. Ripley.** Nick Platt is a British lawyer working in Moscow in the early 2000s—a place where the cascade of oil money,...

The Testimony Of A Lost Soul is a collection of poems which reflect my life. A life that has been a long road. It's a collection of a broken, painful past, and the bad choices I have made along the way. Yet, I have found a quasi peace as time goes by. As it's said, "Time heals all wounds."

This book is dedicated to people who want to dedicate to the real estate business and haven’t got an indispensable basic formation to do it. The real estate management is a very profitable activity, which offers the possibility to obtain economical and financial independence in a very brief period...

The bestselling analysis of higher education's impact, updated with the latest data How College Affects Students synthesizes over 1,800 individual research investigations to provide a deeper understanding of how the undergraduate experience affects student populations. Volume 3 contains the...

This journey takes readers through the many ups and downs of love for a young girl. With each stumble and heartbreak she emerges a stronger and wiser being. She embodies the definition of love. For her love is friend and foe, as it is for many people. The journey began as a young girl and ends...

A mother and daughter are snatched on their drive home from a cinema. The crime has a number of chilling similarities to a cold case Professor Nick Fennimore had been lecturing on. Then Fennimore begins receiving taunting messages - is he being targeted by the kidnapper? Meanwhile, a photograph...

When hallucinations prove real, the end of sanity is near. In recent years, Detective Inspector Alicia Friend has seen herself descend from a perky, often annoyingly-happy analyst, into a CID detective facing the everyday violence, intimidation, and apathy that has caused so many police officers...

Two Women, Two Murders . . . A stunning and suspenseful story of families, betrayal, and a community divided. Nothing is ever quite at peace on Scotland’s Black Isle—the Traveling people are forever at odds with the locals, the fishermen have nothing in common with the farmers, and...

A history of architecture is a record of man's efforts to build beautifully. The erection of structures devoid of beauty is mere building, a trade and not an art. Edifices in which strength and stability alone are sought, and in designing which only utilitarian considerations have been followed, are...

A history of architecture is a record of man’s efforts to build beautifully. The erection of structures devoid of beauty is mere building, a trade and not an art. Edifices in which strength and stability alone are sought, and in designing which only utilitarian considerations have been followed,...

What is Consciousness? What is the Holy Spirit? What if the ancient word St. Paul used for Spirit, so long ago, Pneuma, were to be interpreted as equivalent to Consciousness as we are striving to understand it today? What would be the effects and implications of this upon our understanding of our-selves,...

". . . Nothing less than a major contribution to the scientific culture of this world." — The New York Times Book Review This major survey of mathematics, featuring the work of 18 outstanding Russian mathematicians and including material on both elementary and advanced levels, encompasses...