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There is a war going on behind things, beneath them."Paul had been a forensic psychologist. But after his daughter's funeral, he hit the rock bottom of a spiraling addiction. When the spirits of the dead started rasping their wishes in his ears, he fled New York for withering Oceanrest-a flat-broke city barnacled to Maine's coast. There, he's spent the last five years scraping by, trying to shake off the burdens of his past, pretending to be a...

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A new collection of poems from C S Hughes, that tell tales barbarous and strange. Of water witches and dead roads, kings of owls and beggarly crows, dubious merchants, three time losers, lost sailors and lost souls, the drunk the brazen and the brave, and much else besides. Poems that tell tales, tales that tell poems. Whimsical, cruel, grim, surprising and strange.

C S Hughes combines the naive with the wonderful to create a book of poems full of charm, wit, laughter and magic. With the cadence of nursery rhyme, the conviction of prayer, the strangeness of myth and spell, it weaves a peculiar but charming magic. Peopled throughout with a sometimes amusing, sometimes obsessional, sometimes curious array of birds, cats, bears and stranger creatures.

The Book Of Whimsies is a collection of gossamer thin poems in which you will find summer days and winter nights, dragonflies and storm borne kites, buttered scones and rusting tin, lost ships and weary hearts, green hills and untied shoes, cups of tea and sleepless nights, and floating above a benign and melancholy moon. The poems are whimsical, light, mysterious as whispers, sometimes sad, sometimes high, but nearly always told with the poig...

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Successful outcomes in armed conflict require confronting illicit networks. The case studies contained within this illustrated text that confront illicit power requires coping with political and human dynamics in complex, uncertain environments. It touches upon America's strategic relationships for capacity building with world partners to combat terrorism and destabilizing forms of corruption throughout the world. Chapter topics covered includ...

Il capitale nel XXI secolo" di Thomas Piketty è il libro più influente di questi ultimi anni. Ha fatto discutere e ha prodotto un acceso confronto fra economisti e studiosi. Secondo Piketty, le differenze di reddito tra ricchi e poveri tendono inesorabilmente a crescere in un'economia capitalista, che per questa ragione avrebbe bisogno di forti "correzioni", ovvero di un robusto intervento pubblico. I saggi raccolti in questo volume - opera di...

This unique reference integrates knowledge culled from fifteen years of US deployments to create an action plan for supporting military and veteran families during future conflicts. Its innovative ideas stretch beyond designated governmental agencies (e.g., Department of Defense, VA) to include participation from, and possible collaborations with, the business/corporate, academic, advocacy, and philanthropic sectors. Contributors identify ongo...

Not money, not even violence, but greed. Man's bottomless well to satisfy the self and to grab more power begets all the evils in this world. Greed, the primal root of sin, triggers man's ruthlessness and selfishness to consume him, screwing his morals and virtues and blinding him from the righteous path he once knew.With this, author Pierre S. Hughes pens an indelible and impactful story of selfish ambitions and broken dreams. What becomes of...

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Not money, not even violence, but greed. Man's bottomless well to satisfy the self and to grab more power begets all the evils in this world. Greed, the primal root of sin, triggers man's ruthlessness and selfishness to consume him, screwing his morals and virtues and blinding him from the righteous path he once knew.With this, author Pierre S. Hughes pens an indelible and impactful story of selfish ambitions and broken dreams. What becomes of...

Excerpt from Narrative of the Loss of the Ship Poland: Letter From Christopher Hughes to the Hon. Joseph R. Ingersoll, an Offering to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine ArtsIf there be a Man, Whom I honour and venerate - Thou art the Man. Let this be my testimonial.If there be a Man - entitled to the Love and Gratitude of his Country' Thou art the Man. Let who may gainsay it.Remember - you have promised me a Visit. I shall never forget - tha...

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...