![]() ![]() ![]() In riveting prose, These Truths tells the story of America, beginning in 1492, to ask whether the course of events has proven the nation's founding truths or belied them. ![]() And it rests, too, "n a dedication to inquiry, fearless and unflinching", writes Jill Lepore in a groundbreaking investigation into the American past that places truth itself at the center of the nation's history. The American experiment rests on three ideas - "these truths", Jefferson called them - political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Buchanan's learned and engaging introduction. In this monumental work of moral and political philosophy, Plato sought to answer some of the worlds most formidable questions: What does it mean to be. How you have felt, O men of Athens, at hearing the speeches of my accusers, I cannot tell but I know that their persuasive words almost made me forget who I was - such was the effect of them and yet they have. Writing in the fourth century B.C., in an Athens that had suffered a humiliating defeat in the Peloponnesian War, Plato formulated questions that have haunted the moral, religious, and political imagination of the West for more than 2,000 years: what is virtue? How should we love? What constitutes a good society? Is there a soul that outlasts the body and a truth that transcends appearance? What do we know and how do we know it? Plato's inquiries were all the more resonant because he couched them in the form of dramatic and often highly comic dialogues, whose principal personage was the ironic, teasing, and relentlessly searching philosopher Socrates.In this splendid collection, Scott Buchanan brings together the most important of Plato's dialogues, including Protagoras, The Symposium, with its barbed conjectures about the relation between love and madness, Phaedo and The Republic, his monumental work of political philosophy. Download: A 58k text-only version is available for download. ![]() ![]() tara road, maeve binchy OR breathing lessons, anne tylerĦ. the road less traveled, scott peck (i'm assuming i'd get depressed being stuck on this island, so i'd need something kinda self-help-ish)ĥ. lewis OR the prydain chronicles, lloyd alexander (by that i mean i'd be sneaky and bring the one that has like all books in one volume)ģ. i guess i just ended up listing the books i tend to read the most, except numbers 3 and 6.ġ. ![]() i think i'm thinking too deeply about this. ![]() then if i were alone, i probably wouldn't want to bring books that are all about love and relationships (family, friends, SO), because those would make me feel lonely. i might actually try to bring a few books i haven't read, to provide me with a few days' worth of novelty. my favorite books (the ones i'd miss the most) tend not to be that long, so i might actually get sick of them if those were all i had to read. gotta have some type of survival guide for that kinda environment. ![]() Haha probably something like that for me too. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Mafia Chic (Red Dress Ink Novels). Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Surviving on Uncharted Islands: For Dummies? Mafia Chic (Red Dress Ink Novels) - Kindle edition by Orloff, Erica. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the film, Katniss Everdeen (Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (Hutcherson) are forced to compete in the Hunger Games, an elaborate televised fight to the death consisting of adolescent contestants from the 12 Districts of Panem.ĭevelopment of a film adaptation of Collins' original novel began in March 2009 when Lionsgate entered into a co-production agreement with Color Force, which had acquired the rights a few weeks earlier. The film stars Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Lenny Kravitz, Stanley Tucci, and Donald Sutherland. It is the first installment in The Hunger Games film series. The Hunger Games is a 2012 American dystopian action film directed by Gary Ross, who co-wrote the screenplay with Suzanne Collins and Billy Ray, based on the 2008 novel of the same name by Collins. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lilah has lived in Sunshine all her life, and though Brady is just passing through, he has her abandoning her instincts and giving in to a primal desire. But, she doesn’t find it hard to focus on the sexy, gorgeous stranger she’s collided with. Well, maybe not for man, as pilot-for-hire Brady Miller discovers when his truck is rear-ended by what appears to be Noah’s Ark.Īs the co-owner of the town’s only kennel, Lilah Young has good reason to be distracted behind the wheel-there are puppies, a piglet, and a duck in her Jeep. Sunshine, Idaho, is a small and sunny town-the perfect home for man and beast. A womans world is turned upside down by one nights torrid fling in this Animal Magnetism romance from New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis. ![]() MediaType eBook shortDescription FIRST IN THE ANIMAL MAGNETISM SERIES! The Animal Magnetism book series by Jill Shalvis includes books Animal Magnetism, Animal Attraction, Rescue My Heart, and several more. IsPublicPerformanceAllowed False languages ![]() OverDrive Product Record readingOrder 1 images ![]() ![]() The club continued for six decades, and authors made famous by the list included Philip MacDonald, Freeman Wills Crofts, John Rhode, and New Zealander Ngaio Marsh. ![]() Members received quarterly newsletters that listed the best new releases as selected by a panel of experts, and within a year the club had 20,000 subscribers. When an up-and-coming author named Agatha Christie published her first Collins novel, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, in 1926, a flood of bestsellers followed that positioned her as “the acknowledged queen of crime fiction the world over.”Ĭapitalizing on this, Collins established the Crime Club imprint in 1930. William Collins and Sons published its first crime fiction title in 1919-Bernard Capes’s The Skeleton Key. ![]() ![]() By the early twentieth century, increased urbanization in America and Europe, coupled with growing demand for accounts of real-life crime, led to the evolution of crime fiction into a distinct genre. In 1860, Harper & Brothers had paid Wilkie Collins £750 for The Woman in White, which heralded the publisher’s entry into the crime and mystery genre. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you've ever wondered if humans are going back to the Moon, who will benefit from exploration or what space wars might look like, the answers are here. From physical territory and resources to satellites, weaponry and strategic choke points, geopolitics is as important in the skies above us as it is down below. China, the USA and Russia are leading the way. We're heading up and out, and we're taking our power struggles with us. Now, it is the latest arena for human exploration, exploitation - and, possibly, conquest. It is already central to communication, economics, military strategy and international relations on Earth. Space: the new frontier, a wild and lawless place. ![]() We're entering a new space race - and it could revolutionise life on Earth. ![]() Marshall has done it again!' Professor Lewis Dartnell, author of Being Human Space: the biggest geopolitical story of the coming century - new from the multi-million-copy international bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography Spy satellites orbiting the Moon. AN INSTANT #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A fascinating and crucial insight into how, even as humanity moves upwards into the final frontier, we'll be influenced by the geographies of space. ![]() ![]() Memorable and interesting quotes from great books. You Slay Me by Katie MacAlister About BookQuotersīookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, ― Alice McDermott, quote from Charming Billy Those of us who claim exclusivity in love do so with a liar's courage: there are a hundred opportunities, thousands over the years, for a sense of falsehood to seep in, for all that we imagine as inevitable to become arbitrary, for our history together to reveal itself as only a matter of chance and happenstance, nothing irrepeatable, or irreplaceable, the circumstantial mingling of just one of the so many million with just one more.” It might have been Cody or John in the car with your father, that day on Long Island. My mother's first fiancé would have married her gladly if he hadn't been kept too long overseas by the Navy, if my father hadn't beaten him home, on points, a full year before. ![]() Irish Mary, Eva's sister, would have been happy enough to accept my father's ring, I suppose, had Eva not chosen to stay in Ireland and marry Tom. ![]() ![]() “In the arc of an unremarkable life, a life whose triumphs are small and personal, whose trials are ordinary enough, as tempered in their pain as in their resolution of pain, the claim of exclusivity in love requires both a certain kind of courage and a good dose of delusion. ![]() ![]() ![]() But when Mei crosses paths with an ex–CIA operative on a shadowy mission of his own, her personal quest takes a jarring turn into political and industrial espionage that pits both agents against the highest ranks of communism and capitalism. Despite strict orders and threats from superiors, Mei knows she can not turn away.īreaking protocol, Mei undertakes a covert search for the truth about the mystery woman’s death-and life-by following in her footsteps from a factory plagued by worker suicides to a luxury hotel dealing in high-end escorts to an American home haunted by tragedy. ![]() ![]() But that changes when she arrives on the scene of a grim police investigation and is confronted with a crime-and a victim-impossible to ignore. All she could see was a woman with the same nose, the same eyes, and the same face.Īs an up-and-coming agent of the Commission for Discipline Inspection, Song Mei probes political corruption, not mysterious deaths. Then she knew, and everything else receded to nothingness. The corpse’s shape was hers-same length, same curves. ![]() In the tradition of Gorky Park, John Gapper ’s new thriller takes readers inside the secretive and dangerous world of modern China, as a young woman makes a haunting discovery-one that forces her to choose between duty to her government and a desperate desire to learn the truth about herself. ![]() ![]() ![]() In The Pull of the Stars, Emma Donoghue once again finds the light in the darkness in this new classic of hope and survival against all odds. With tireless tenderness and humanity, carers and mothers alike somehow do their impossible work. ![]() They lose patients to this baffling pandemic, but they also shepherd new life into a fearful world. In the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over three days, these women change each other's lives in unexpected ways. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders - Doctor Kathleen Lynn, a rumoured Rebel on the run from the police, and a young volunteer helper, Bridie Sweeney. In Dublin, 1918, a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu is a small world of work, risk, death, and unlooked-for love, in "Donoghue's best novel since Room " ( Kirkus Reviews ) In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new Flu are quarantined together. ![]() |