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Drawing on compelling material from research interviews with former hostages and political prisoners, Guy Saunders reworks three classic thought experiment stories: Parfit's 'Teleporter', Nagel's 'What is it like to be a bat?' and Jackson's 'Mary the colour scientist' to form a fresh look at the study...

An experience of the fragility of conventional images of masculinity is something many modern men share. Psychoanalyst Guy Corneau traces this experience to an even deeper feeling men have of their fathers' silence or absence—sometimes literal, but especially emotional and spiritual. Why is this...

Gatti generosi, pronti a offrire subito il proprio affetto, gatti perfidi, capaci di architettare terribili trappole, gatti vittime dell’egoismo umano, gatti che ridonano ai loro padroni il perduto equilibrio spirituale; e poi gatti pasticcioni, gatti filosofi, gatti spioni, gatti rubacuori, gatti...

Australian author Guy Boothby put his wanderlust to work as fodder for his fiction. Though his first publication was a non-fiction account of a trip through his native country, he soon turned to fiction as an outlet for his creativity, focusing primarily on action-adventure, mystery, and detection tales....

The Amazons by Guy Cadogan Rothery "The legend of the Amazons is amazingly consistent across three continents, even though actual documentary proof seems elusive. In particular, the Athenians were most insistent about the historical reality of a nation of all-women warriors; their legends...

Catastrophic events are woven into an allegorical story about an enchanted land suddenly thrown into chaos. Set in early North America, foreign explorers in search of gold and the fountain of youth discover more than they bargained for: Leira, the Deceiver who’s crafted in gems and walks on three...

In a dusty attic there lies the means by which to access another world. A sunken world long unvisited by man. There is a choice to be made between good and evil, a choice that could alter the very existence of mankind, as it did once before. An ancient evil no less potent with the passing of time...

Australian-born author Guy Newell Boothby broke onto the literary scene with a series of bestselling action-adventure novels, but The Mystery of the Clasped Hands finds Boothby trying his hand at classic detective fiction. Fans of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes will enjoy this engrossing mystery.

Set in the French Quarter, New Orleans -- on of the most exotic places in America -- Quarter Romance traces the relationship between a jaded side-walk artist and a cajun girl come to the big city. Jason is a true New Orleanian. He lets nothing get in the way of a good time. When Claire becomes pregnant their lives change and their expectations collide.

With another entry in my library of slightly shorter short stories at roughly 11,000 words, Got Wood explores a more magical means of fast transformation. This is another story of mine that addresses the reader as "you" in narration all the way to the end. Previously, the protagonist was...

In the astonishing follow-up to Agents of Change, the Agencies of Influence and Justice have been effectively rendered powerless, and the world, for the time being, is safe. While this turn of events remains unbeknownst to the human race, the agencies are none too happy about it. Left as the only...

MAUPASSANT, HENRI RENE ALBERT GUY DE (1850-1893), French novelist and poet, was-born at the Chateau of Miromesnil in the department of Seine-Inférieure on the 5th August 1850. His grandfather, a landed proprietor of a good Lorraine family, owned an estate at Neuville-Champ-d'Oisel near Rouen, and...

Nouvelle de l'écrivain Français Guy de Maupassant publiée en 1881.  Après avoir dirigé une auberge à Yvetot, Madame Tellier, dite "Madame", est devenue tenancière d'une maison close. C'est une brave femme au rire facile et qui aime ses...

This carefully crafted ebook: "Mademoiselle Fifi and Other Stories - Bilingual Edition (English / French)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Guy de Maupassant (1850 - 1893) was a popular French writer, considered one of the fathers of the modern...