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This story about airline drug testing shows how an innocent person falls prey to corporate insensitivity and government rules. A random drug test shows traces of cocaine. There is a mistake, putting at risk a man's reputation, career and dreams.

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In this uniquely brilliant and insightful book, acclaimed essayist and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips meditates on the notion of escape in our society and in ourselves.No one can escape the desire and need to escape. By analyzing four examples of escape artists—a young girl who hides from others by closing her eyes, a grown man incapable of a relationship, Emily Dickinson, recluse extraordinaire, and Harry Houdini, the quintessential master of es...

For nearly a century, the Indians on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming have been battling their white farmer neighbors over the rights to the Wind River. What You See in Clear Water tells the story of this epic struggle, shedding light on the ongoing conflict over water rights in the American West, one of the most divisive and essential issues in America today. While lawyers argued this landmark case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, ...

In this deeply touching tear-jerker, Michelle Cole tells the unforgettable, moving story, of avibrant, courageous young girl, who helps change another young girl's life, forever. Lilla Belle the First Stages, isn't just great fiction, it is an important piece of life!

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Weapons of mass destruction are the greatest threat to national security in the 21st century: this book explains what it takes for a rogue state or terrorist group to obtain and use them.

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Set in the projects of Los Angeles, California, Edgewater Angels chronicles the adolescence of Sunny Toomer, a streetwise young man endlessly sandwiched between the right and wrong thing to do. In a neighborhood where an absentminded stare might be mistaken for a silent challenge for turf, and asking someone if they have a problem may cost you your life, Sunny ekes out survival amidst an incomparable cast of characters, including a husbandless...

Martial, the father of the epigram, was one of the brilliant provincial poets who made their literary mark on first-century Rome. His Epigrams can be affectionate or cruel, elegiac or playful, they target every element of Roman society, from slaves to schoolmasters to, above all, the aristocratic elite. With wit and wisdom, Martial evokes not "the grandeur that was Rome, ” but rather the timeless themes of urban life and society.

Originally published in 1942 and now rediscovered to international acclaim, this taut and exquisitely structured novel by the Hungarian master Sandor Marai conjures the melancholy glamour of a decaying empire and the disillusioned wisdom of its last heirs. In a secluded woodland castle an old General prepares to receive a rare visitor, a man who was once his closest friend but who he has not seen in forty-one years. Over the ensuing hours host...

Gather any group of actresses, from students to stars, and someone will inevitably ask, "Where are all the great roles for women?" The roles are right here, in this magnificently diverse collection of plays-full-lenghts, one-acts, and monologues--with mainly female casts, which represent the answer to any actress's prayer.The editors of the groundbreaking anthology "Plays for Actresses have once again gathered an abundance of strong female rol...

Maps and guideposts are helpful when we undertake a journey. The ten Ox-Herding Pictures, the accompanying ancient poems, and a modern commentary by John Daido Loori, sketch the spiritual path encountered in Zen training, a path of exhaustive study of the self and the realization of the ultimate nature of reality. The Ox-Herding Pictures can be our companion on the Way of self-discovery, our compass and perspective when we need one. They are a...

With her trademark humor and warmth, the beloved author of The Ladies' Man and The Inn at Lake Devine explores going home again, about finding light in the dark corners of one's inhospitable past, about love, golf, and DNA. Everyone in King George, New Hampshire, loved Margaret Batten, part-time amateur actress, full-time wallflower, and single mother to a now-distant daughter, Sunny. But accidents happen. The death of Margaret, side by side w...

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Originally published at the beginning of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, a time when rationalist criticism of religious belief was perhas at its peak, William Law's A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life succeeded in inspiring the most cynical men of the age with its arguments in favor of a spiritual life. More than simply articulating a set of rules to live by, Law's book examines what it means to lead a Christian life and criticizes ...

During the 1970s and 80s telemarketing companies had a free rein to rape and pillage businesses from coast to coast. This is the uncensored odyssey of a man of conscience, seduced by this unconscionable industry, to regain his self-respect.

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