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  Binding Tenancy

  Elizabeth Coldwell

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  Every summer, Neil rents his guest room to a performer in the summer show in the small seaside town where he lives. His rates are cheap, he enjoys the company and he’s usually left alone to get on with his work as an illustrator. But he’s never had a tenant like PJ.  
  PJ is a handsome, talented magician with a decidedly dominant streak who stirs unexpected feelings in Neil. He thinks Neil might be the ideal person to help him perfect his new trick - and when he brings out the ropes and the St Andrew’s cross, Neil is bound to enjoy what comes next...

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  The Wisdom of the Torah

  Philosophical Library

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   Celebrate one of the world’s greatest collections of pure literature In Hebrew, the word Torah means instruction, and throughout thousands of years this collection of writing has offered just that—instruction in the central beliefs of three world religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. But by observing the Torah, or the Hebrew Bible, as a collected work of multiple authors spanning generations, the modern reader can look beyond its fundamental instruction. The Wisdom of the Torah concentrates on the Hebrew Bible as a book of philosophy and literature and offers some of its most powerful and poetic passages, including “The Poems of King David,” “The Parables of King Solomon,” and “The Love Songs of King Solomon.” In these works, readers find many lyrical and timeless reflections on what it means to have faith and to be a member of the human race. This ebook features a new introduction, image gallery, timeline of the Torah and Judaic history, and index of the Books of the Torah. 
   

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  Misquoting Muhammad - The...

  Jonathan A.C. Brown

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  Sometimes rumor, sometimes based on fact and often misunderstood, the tenets of Islamic law and dogma were not set in the religion's founding moments. They were developed, like in other world religions, over centuries by the clerical class of Muslim scholars. 
  Misquoting Muhammad takes listeners back in time through Islamic civilization and traces how and why such controversies developed, offering an inside view into how key and controversial aspects of Islam took shape. Misquoting Muhammad lays out how Muslim intellectuals have sought to balance reason and revelation, weigh science and religion, and negotiate the eternal truths of scripture amid shifting values.

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  Martyrdom of Man

  William Winwood Reade

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  William Winwood Reade (1838 - 1875) was a British historian, explorer, and philosopher.His most famous work, the Martyrdom of Man (1872)—whose summary running head reads "From Nebula to Nation"—is a secular, "universal" history of the Western world. Structurally, it is divided into four "chapters" of approximately 150 pages each: the first chapter, "War", discusses the imprisonment of men's bodies, the second, "Religion", that of their minds, the third, "Liberty", is the closest thing to a conventional European political and intellectual history, and the fourth, "Intellect", which discusses the cosmogony characteristic of a "universal history"Cecil Rhodes, an English-born South African politician and businessman, said that the book "made me what I am".  Other admirers of The Martyrdom of Man included H. G. Wells, Winston Churchill,  Harry Johnston, George Orwell, Susan Isaacs, A. A. Milne and his son Christopher Robin,  and Michael Foot.  A laudatory reference is made to the book by Sherlock Holmes  in the Sign of the Four. - Summary by Wikipedia

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  Bletchley Park and D-Day - The...

  David Kenyon

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  “Demonstrates that the intelligence division . . . had a more significant role in WWII . . . making indispensable contributions to the invasion at Normandy.” (Publishers Weekly) The untold story of Bletchley Park's key role in the success of the Normandy campaign Since the secret of Bletchley Park was revealed in the 1970s, the work of its codebreakers has become one of the most famous stories of the Second World War. But cracking the Nazis’ codes was only the start of the process. Thousands of secret intelligence workers were then involved in making crucial information available to the Allied leaders and commanders who desperately needed it. Using previously classified documents, David Kenyon casts the work of Bletchley Park in a new light, as not just a codebreaking establishment, but as a fully developed intelligence agency. He shows how preparations for the war’s turning point—the Normandy Landings in 1944—had started at Bletchley years earlier, in 1942, with the careful collation of information extracted from enemy signals traffic. This account reveals the true character of Bletchley's vital contribution to success in Normandy, and ultimately, Allied victory.  

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  Dwight Swain: Master Writing...

  Dwight Swain

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  Dwight Swain, author of Techniques of the Selling Writer,  has mentored thousands of writers. Now you can hear this legendary teacher's own voice with priceless advice on 1) Story Structure, and 2) Building Strong Characters.

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