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This fun true mystery involving princes and kings and politicians and early explorers and sailing ships, a military coup and a court marshal and a secret royal wedding, fell into my lap inviting me to follow the clues wherever they would lead. All due to the sudden appearance of a ghost with a secret. I uncovered some remarkable information which I reveal here for the first time - lost documents, a rare limited edition book with crucial eviden...

Why are we here? What are we meant to be doing with our lives? How are we to live? And most important of all, how are we to survive in the everyday day-to-day struggle to live a decent life. I've done it all from nothing, I mean nothing. And I now know a lot that I didn't know then. Here in one book is what I've learned about real life from the ultimate failure, bankruptcy, to the ultimate survival in life, to be living my ideal lifestyle in a...

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From Neil Smith, author of the award-winning, internationally acclaimed story collection Bang Crunch, comes a dark but whimsical debut novel about starting over in the afterlife in the vein of Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones.

This unique book provides an introductory overview of modern theoretical linguistics which manages to be both accessible and humorous without sacrificing either scholarship of insight. In a series of magisterial vignettes Smith emphasizes the perennial necessity of appealing to linguistic theory if we are to gain any real understanding of the phenomena of language. However profound or however trivial the questions we raise and try answer - Wha...

Savants are people who are mentally and often physically impaired but who have one dazzling talent. Cases of savants, like Christopher who is described here, are not unheard of, but have never been reported before. Despite being unable to look after himself because he has difficulty with everyday tasks, Christopher can read, write, translate and communicate in fifteen to twenty different languages. In this original, detailed and wide-ranging s...

The recent American invasion of Iraq represents the "endgame" of America's decades-old effort to impose its vision of globalization-a system dominated by multinational firms and buttressed by the liberalism of John Locke and Adam Smith. Whereas the war surely ended Saddam Hussein's regime, the storm of countervailing forces it unleashed points to another end: that of America's latest global project.This is not the first time that the US has tr...

Language, Bananas, and Bonobos" presents a series of engaging reflections on concerns such as our knowledge and use of language, political correctness, and the linguistic abilities of chimpanzees. In doing so, this volume provides new insights into linguistics that are of universal interest.

Do you ever wonder, dear Mother and Father, what kind of toothpaste angels use in heaven? I will tell you. . . . This book I am writing to you about my afterlife will be your nitty-gritty. One day I hope to discover a way to deliver my story to you.It is the first week of school in 1979, and Oliver "Boo" Dalrymple-ghostly pale eighth grader, aspiring scientist, social pariah-is standing next to his locker, reciting the periodic table. The next...

Impressively Imagined" -Kirkus Reviews **** Earth is ruled by three mighty empires: The Saracen-Jewish Empire led by the Caliph of Rome, the Mughal-Arab Empire, ferocious in its determination to destroy its neighbor, and the great Sino-Aztec's Crystal Empire, led by a living God. **** Little is known about the Crystal Empire, which spans most of western America. But it is the most powerful force surviving on Earth and its might is unchal...

He robbed from the rich to give to the poor, or so the legend goes. But who was the outlaw known as Robin Hood? How did his legend develop and how has it changed over the passing centuries? This book explores how the legend grew, and how famous names such as Little John, Friar Tuck, Maid Marian, and Alan-a-Dale became associated with Robin Hood.

Noam Chomsky continues to be one of the most influential intellectual figures of modern times. His wide-ranging contributions to the fields of linguistics, psychology, philosophy and politics have revolutionised our view of language, the mind and human nature. Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics, this book explores Chomsky's key theories, especially recent developments in his Minimalist Program, addressing issues such as: how do we know...

Ein Buch - elf Cover! Oliver »Boo« Dalrymple ist dreizehn Jahre alt, hochbegabt, wenig beliebt und vor allem tot. Gerade noch hat er an seinem Schulspind gestanden, in das Periodensystem vertieft, da findet er sich im Wiedergeburtsraum eines seltsamen Jenseits wieder. Dort begrüßt ihn Thelma, ein schwarzes Mädchen, das in den sechziger Jahren gelyncht wurde, und erklärt ihm, was es damit auf sich hat: In einer von Mauern umgebenen Stadt leben...

*** 2010 Nominee for the Prometheus Award ***In the 22nd century people have spread into the Solar System. Born and raised in a twentieth of Earth's gravity on the asteroid Pallas, young skater Llyra Ngu is grimly determined to compete and win on mankind's homeworld-an ambition that many say will cripple or kill her. ** Her older brother Wilson is equally set on quitting his job as a surveyor's apprentice to become an asteroid hunter, a callin...

Do you ever read the Bible and wonder why your life isn't like the people you are reading about? Have you ever desired to walk in the same power and authority as the men and women in the New Testament? You can! In fact, God wants you to, and He wants you to start today! Many people who love God with all of their hearts are living defeated lives, walking around with their heads down and their hearts broken. The answer is learning to Live Largel...

Ex U.S. Senator Gibson Altman rules the prison colony where everyone is expected to live by rules that govern every aspect of their lives. ** The inhabitants of the experimental colony survive in a society plagued by crime, corruption and despair, toiling endlessly at tasks they are appointed to. Altman lives a life of luxury, ruling the lives of the souls trapped within his experiment and brooking no opposition to mandate. ** However, Pallas,...

For the price of one, you get three Lando Calrissian novels: LANDO CALRISSSIAN AND THE MINDHARP OF SHARU, LANDO CLARISSIAN AND THE FLAMEWIND OF OSEON, and LANDO CALRISSIAN AND THE STARCAVE OF THONBOKA. You know him as a gambler, rogue, and con-artist, Lando's always on the frontier scanning his sensors for easy credits and looking for action in galaxies near and far.

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Offers the theory of uneven geographical development, expanding on established ideas regarding space and nature and combining these with a critique of capitalist economics.

HOW TO FIX AMERICA The "land of the free" is in deep trouble-the deepest since the War Between the States-not just economically, but politically and every other way. Her greatest institutions are crumbling all around us. In Down With Power, the acclaimed libertarian writer and thinker L. Neil Smith, author of over 30 liberty-related books and 50-year veteran of the freedom movement, strips this crisis to its essentials, offering solutions-so...