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In this work, the author addressed an in-depth discussion about the truth and its different meanings, and why the truth is essential. He delves into the arguments about why and how to sustain truths that can be shared on the basis of good reasons,...

In this essay, Thomas Bauer reconsiders classical and modern Islam by tracing differing attitudes toward ambiguity. Over a span of many centuries, he explores the tension between one strand that aspires to annihilate all uncertainties and establish absolute, uncontestable truths and another, competing tendency...

How to Innovate is an engaging and entertaining introduction to key ideas about―and examples of―innovation and creative thinking from ancient Greece. Armand D’Angour provides lively new translations of selections from Aristotle, Diodorus, and Athenaeus, with the original Greek text on facing pages. These writings...

WELCOME TO A JOURNEY BEYOND REALITY, WELCOME TO THE METAVERSE. The metaverse is the new three-dimensional Internet about to change everything in digital consumption. A new dimension will allow us to have incredible experiences in fairy-tale places never before explored. Locations where we will...

The letters of the elves, fairies and goblins are an effective instrument of knowledge and transformationthat will undoubtedly bring us truth and wisdom from the primordial energy and from the entity spirit that governs nature. The people of the "World of Light" now return...

The Alexander Technique is a simple and practical method to improve ease and freedom of movement, balance, support, flexibility and coordination. We are all capable of improving our health and our lives through better coordination between thought and physical movement. In this book, the...

Graham Greene's chilling exposé of violence and gang warfare in the pre-war underworld is a classic of its kind. Pinkie, a teenage gangster on the rise, is devoid of compassion or human feeling, despising weakness of both the spirit and the flesh. Responsible for the...

A library apprentice, a sorcerer prince, and an unbreakable magic bond... The Solaris Empire is one conquest away from uniting the continent, and the rare elemental magic sleeping in seventeen-year-old library apprentice Vhalla Yarl could shift the tides of war. Vhalla has always been...

It's one of the most disturbing cases DI Fawley has ever worked. The Christmas holidays, and two children have just been pulled from the wreckage of their burning home in North Oxford. The toddler is dead, and his brother is soon fighting for his...

An indomitable and epic investigator in a mysterious Milan. A tough and fragile woman, an unsolved homicide, a father in search of the truth. Penelope wakes up at a stranger's house, after the umpteenth night to forget. She walks alone and in silence, walking...

Ida is an architect, childless, and in her prime, but lately the warning signs have become too different to ignore. To be safe, she has explored the possibilities of freezing her eggs for her later use, should she meet the right man. Now summer...

This volume brings together six stories by Nobel laureate Issac Bashevis Singer, six unpublished masterpieces (with the exception of The Guest, published in our Mini-readings collection). The world described by Isaac Bashevis Singer in his novels and stories evidences the destruction of a threatened...

The Way to Rainy Mountain recalls the journey of Tai-me, the sacred Sun Dance doll, and of Tai-me's people in three unique voices: the legendary, the historical, and the contemporary. It is also the personal journey of N. Scott Momaday, who on a pilgrimage to...

London, 1965. An unworldly young woman believes that a charismatic psychotherapist, Collins Braithwaite, has driven her sister to suicide. Intent on confirming her suspicions, she assumes a false identity and presents herself to him as a client, recording her experiences in a series of...

Swinging between his wife and his mistress in the sacred and profane love machine and between the charms of morality and the excitements of sin, the psychotherapist, Blaise Gavender, sometimes wishes he could divide himself in two. Instead, he lets loose misery and confusion...

The Museum of Unconditional Surrender―by the renowned Yugoslavian writer Dubravka Ugresic―begins in the Berlin Zoo, with the contents of Roland the Walrus's stomach displayed beside his pool (Roland died in August, 1961). These objects―a cigarette lighter, lollipop sticks, a beer-bottle opener, etc.―like the fictional...

In the future, the human race has ceased to progress. Granted endless leisure by widespread automation, the masses devote themselves solely to the pleasures of the here and now, to drugs that dull their senses and electronic bliss that disconnects them from reality. Theirs...

The heroes and the villains blur in "Misadventure", a kind of neo-Romance set in a desperate and remote Andalusia, at the same time unreal and authentic, mythical and wild, full of extreme characters: quinquis, sorceresses, hunters, demons that move over the radio waves, good-hearted...

The Fox and Dr. Shimamura toothsomely encompasses East and West, memory and reality, fox-possession myths, and psychiatric mythmaking. As an outstanding young Japanese medical student at the end of the nineteenth century, Dr. Shimamura is sent―to his dismay―to the provinces: he is asked to cure...

Shirley Perrigny, the heroine of A Fairly Good Time, is an original. Derided by the Parisians she lives among and chided by her fellow Canadians, this young widow—recently remarried to a French journalist named Philippe—is fond of quoting Jane Austen and Kingsley Amis and of...