Nathan: 1413 books

Touch of Evil, Part 1: The Twins, Road to Pripyat is the story of twin girls who have superhuman powers as a result of the nuclear disaster Chernobyl. At a very young age, these girls discover they have extraordinary powers. Orphaned at age five, they're raised by an aunt and uncle and trained by...

Limbo has traditionally been viewed as a place between heaven, on the one hand, and purgatory and hell, on the other, to which the patriarchs, who lived under the old law, and babies who died before being baptized into the Christian faith have been consigned. Like purgatory, it is a dark place but...

Although some statesmen and historians have pinned Austria’s—and the world’s—interwar economic implosion on financial colonialism, in this corrective history Nathan Marcus deemphasizes the negative role of external players and points to the greater impact of domestic malfeasance and predatory speculation on Austrian political and financial decline.

Why should you have to fight off something that is supposedly here to help you? Well here's the deal, if you can afford it then the law can indeed be a great asset to you, but for the average citizen the law amounts to an ongoing barrage of harassment, fines, threats, fear, grief and humiliation,...

Environmental asset classes are not a hope for tomorrow but a reality today. This new asset category promises to grow dramatically in the 21st Century as financial analysts, investors, and corporations around the world try to find ways to profit or reduce costs while promoting environmental social...

Jasper Moorelock was born in the City of the Silent Rain and is now an assassin in the City of Ghosts and Shadows. The City of Ghosts and Shadows is a fascinating place and there is some speculation that the inhabitants of the city may be ghosts themselves. Everyone in the city wears a mask and many...

Rangelands are vast, making up one quarter of the United States and forty percent of the Earth’s ice-free land. And while contemporary science has revealed a great deal about the environmental impacts associated with intensive livestock production—from greenhouse gas emissions to land and water...

Given recent controversies over suspected WMD programs in proliferating countries, there is an increasingly urgent need for effective monitoring and verification regimes—the international mechanisms, including on-site inspections, intended in part to clarify the status of WMD programs in suspected...

This is a collection of articles, many written by people who worked with Mandelbrot, memorializing the remarkable breadth and depth of his work in science and the arts. Contributors include mathematicians, physicists, biologists, economists, and engineers, as expected; and also artists, musicians,...

Praise for Treating Adolescent Substance Abuse Using Family Behavior Therapy "This is an extremely positive and strength-focused text that provides therapists with a structure and the tools to implement interventions that have a long history of promoting the types of clinical changes desired...

Nathan R. Byrd was inspired to write *No Apology Needed: Learning to Forgive as God Does *during Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement and forgiveness, in 2012. As he began to research the Jewish perspective of the holiday, he realized that neither Adam nor Eve ever apologized to God for their...

“The involvement of semi-immortal beings makes for an easy comparison to N.K. Jemisin’s The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, and it’s justified. Written on a grand scale and set in an ancient world of humans, immortals, and other magical beings, this debut is an engaging and quick-moving story of...

Jacob Daniels breaks away from his life in San Francisco to explore a dream that has haunted him most of his adult life. When he was a young boy, his widowed mother took him to a magical place called Yosemite Valley to find peace and closure after his father's unexpected death. Now after her recent...

Julian è un povero ragazzo di cafe che fa a malapena sufficiente per pagare l'affitto. Un giorno, incontra un misterioso straniero bello chiamato principe Adrien, che lo spazza via i suoi piedi e lo rapisce in un mondo di ricchezza e di potere, passione e romanticismo, segreti e intrighi. Ma...