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  The Tempest

  William Shakespeare

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  What happens when revenge gives way to mercy?
  
  The Tempest is one of William Shakespeare's most enchanting and thought-provoking plays. Set on a mysterious island after a violent storm, the story follows Prospero, a wronged duke who wields magical power to control fate, enemies, and even nature itself.
  
  As shipwrecked nobles confront betrayal, ambition, and illusion, Shakespeare weaves a tale rich with magic, music, and wonder. Through unforgettable characters such as Ariel and Caliban, the play explores themes of authority, freedom, colonization, forgiveness, and the healing power of compassion.
  
  Often considered Shakespeare's farewell to the stage, The Tempest blends fantasy with deep human insight, offering a hopeful vision of reconciliation and renewal.
  
  Inside this eBook, you'll experience:
  
  A magical island world filled with wonder and mystery
  
  Themes of power, forgiveness, and transformation
  
  Lyrical language and unforgettable characters
  
  One of Shakespeare's most imaginative and symbolic plays
  
  Widely studied and performed across the world, The Tempest remains essential reading for anyone interested in classic literature, theater, and the power of imagination.
  
  Enter the storm, and discover the calm beyond it. Buy now and experience one of Shakespeare's most visionary masterpieces.

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  On the Ends of Good and Evil -...

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

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  Cicero sets out the three major Greek philosophies: Epicureanism, Stoicism and Aristotelianism (or Peripateticism), by recounting his conversations with Lucius Torquatus, Marcus Cato and Piso. 
  He then provides his commentary and criticisms of each. 
  The volume was written in the summer of the year 45 BC a few years before Cicero's assassination at the hands of Mark Antony's men.  
  It is made up of five books: 
  Book 1 - Exposition of Epicureanism 
  Book 2 - Cicero's Arguments Against Epicureanism 
  Book 3  - Cicero's Exposition of Stoicism 
  Book 4 - Arguments Against Stoicism 
  Book 5 - The New Academy and Cicero's View 
  Narrated by Robin Homer of Vox Stoica.  
  Translation by H. Harris Rackham.

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  The Guru Bagman and the Sceptic...

  Seamus O'Mahony

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  A brilliantly witty book about the intertwined lives of psychoanalyst Ernest Jones, surgeon Wilfred Trotter and the guru of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud. 
   
  Welsh-born psychoanalyst Ernest Jones was Sigmund Freud's closest associate and most fervent disciple. Clever, self-confident and intensely ambitious, Jones promoted psychoanalysis as a kind of secular religion. Meanwhile, his intimate friend Wilfred Trotter - a celebrated surgeon who saved the life of George V, and who took on Freud as a patient during his London exile - refused to yield to the seductions of the new Freudianism. A quintessentially English figure, Trotter was unimpressed by slick medical careerists, distrusted grand theories and lacked pomposity and self-regard. 
   
  From the first psychoanalytic congress in Salzburg in 1908 to the illness of King George in the late 1920s and the meeting of Freud and Trotter in 1939, Seamus O'Mahony tells the story of these three figures and their intertwined lives with his customary wit and erudition. Not only the story of the development of psychoanalysis, this is a book about the sexual obsessions of intellectual and bohemian circles in London, Cambridge and Vienna, of Bloomsbury, of doctors in pursuit of wealth and fame. It covers a pivotal thirty years in European history, and reveals how and why the writings of a failed neurologist from Vienna became so influential.

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  Crécy and Agincourt: The History...

  Editors Charles River

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  Although it ended over 550 years ago, the Hundred Years’ War still looms large in the historical consciousness of England and France, even if the name of the famous war is a misnomer. The war was more of a series of separate conflicts between the English and French monarchies, interspersed with periods of peace, and its reputation remains an odd one, in part because its origins were based on royal claims that dated back centuries. Furthermore, the English and French remained adversaries for nearly 400 years after it ended.  
  	That said, the war was transformative in many respects, and the impact it had on the geopolitical situation of Europe cannot be overstated. While some might think of the war as being a continuation of the feudal tradition of knights and peasants, the Hundred Years’ War revolutionized European warfare, and it truly helped to usher in the concept of nationalism on the continent. In England, it is remembered as a period of grandeur and success, even though the English lost the war and huge swathes of territory with it, while the French remember it as a strategic victory that ensured the continued independence of France and the denial of English hegemony. The legacy of the war has lived on ever since, helping determine how England became politically severed from the continent, how the knightly chivalric tradition slid into irrelevance, and how battlefield dominance can still leave a nation a loser in war.  
  Indeed, nothing characterized that dominance quite like the campaign that culminated with the Battle of Crécy, where the English used their diverse forces to maximum effect to defeat the French, a victory that allowed the English to eventually take and hold Calais. Agincourt was a hard-fought battle, and Henry V at one point ordered prisoners executed to avoid allowing them to be rescued. In the end the English won a decisive victory, taking 1,500 prisoners and marching on safely to Calais. 

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  3-Minute Japanese - Everyday...

  Innovative Language Learning

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  Want to learn Japanese with easy 3-minute lessons? 
   
  Want to be able to greet others, introduce yourself, make small talk and ask basic questions in Japanese? Then this 25-Lesson Audiobook is for you. 
   
  You learn the most common and useful Japanese questions, answers and phrases that are used in daily conversations. Perfect for Beginners that want to start speaking Japanese. 
   
  Here's a sneak peek at the first 5 lessons:Self IntroductionGreetings and FarewellsMannersAsking How Someone IsMaking Apologies 
   
  With the "3-Minute Japanese," you get...25 Fast & Easy Audio Lessons 
   
  Wait! You also get a bonus Audiobook: You get the "Everyday Japanese for Beginners - 400 Actions & Activities" Audiobook for free. Learn how to talk about your day - from morning to night - and massively improve your Japanese.  
   
  Learn 400+ phrases for daily activities through 10 easy chapters. 
   
  Download the PDF and read along: 
  https://bit.ly/4eMbCkN

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  Coxsackie - The Life and Death...

  Joseph F. Spillane

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  Should prisons attempt reform and uplift inmates or, by means of principled punishment, deter them from further wrongdoing? This debate has raged in Western Europe and in the United States at least since the late eighteenth century. Joseph F. Spillane examines the failure of progressive reform in New York State by focusing on Coxsackie, a New Deal reformatory built for young male offenders. Opened in 1935 to serve "adolescents adrift," Coxsackie instead became an unstable and brutalizing prison. From the start, the liberal impulse underpinning the prison's mission was overwhelmed by challenges it was unequipped or unwilling to face—drugs, gangs, and racial conflict.Spillane draws on detailed prison records to reconstruct a life behind bars in which "ungovernable" young men posed constant challenges to racial and cultural order. The New Deal order of the prison was unstable from the start; the politics of punishment quickly became the politics of race and social exclusion, and efforts to save liberal reform in postwar New York only deepened its failures. In 1977, inmates took hostages to focus attention on their grievances. The result was stricter discipline and an end to any pretense that Coxsackie was a reform institution.Why did the prison fail? For answers, Spillane immerses readers in the changing culture and racial makeup of the U.S. prison system and borrows from studies of colonial prisons, which emblematized efforts by an exploitative regime to impose cultural and racial restraint on others.In today's era of mass incarceration, prisons have become conflict-ridden warehouses and powerful symbols of racism and inequality. This account challenges the conventional wisdom that America's prison crisis is of comparatively recent vintage, showing instead how a racial and punitive system of control emerged from the ashes of a progressive ideal.

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