"First and Last Things" is a political portray by using the well-known British author H.G. Wells. Wells is going deep into a number of special topics on this series of essays, asking important questions about life, human beings, and the sector. People frequently praise the writer for his work in science fiction, however in this piece, he moves far away from his memories to discover deep and uncertain thoughts. Wells appears at the character of life, evolution, morals, and what the future holds for people. He talks approximately the social results of scientific progress and thinks approximately the position that era and time play in shaping the destiny of humans. The pieces display a number of Wells's dreamy wondering and his concern approximately how development might have an effect on human beings's morals. The title of the book, "First and Last Things," indicates how large it's far: Wells is trying to figure out the maximum critical elements of human lifestyles, from how it all started out to what it could turn out to be. It's clean to spot Wells's wit, intellectual curiosity, and ahead-looking attitude in these writings. H.G. Wells is shown in "First and Last Things" to be now not handiest a superb storyteller however additionally a deep logician who writes about the complicated things human beings go through and the larger questions that have constantly interested thinkers.

This is a book for pacesetters -- church leaders who desire to help their churches break free of the things that turn them in on themselves. It is a masterly mix of biblical principle, objective analysis, and personal experience.

You don't have be an extrovert—or pretend to be one—to succeed: “Finally, a book that recognizes the immense value that introverts bring to the workplace.” —Daniel H. Pink, New York Times-bestselling author of The Power of Regret Business author and international speaker Jennifer Kahnweiler points to Mark Zuckerberg, Arianna Huffington, and Warren Buffett as prime examples of self-identified introverts who have done quite well for themselves. In this new, expanded edition of her pioneering book, she lays out a well-tested four-step strategy introverts can use to build on their quiet strength and make it a source of great power. The book also includes fresh information on: the unique challenges faced by introverted women how leaders can shape a more introvert-friendly workplace customized hiring and coaching strategies for introverts the positive correlation between introverted leadership and company performance

The Guide to Losing -- or Finding -- Your True Soul Mate Did you know: Capricorns are cowards when it comes to public displays of affection? Aries get amorous in unusual places? Leos love to be serviced? Cosmo's Bedside Astrologer, Hazel Dixon-Cooper, reveals all this and more in this sexy, uninhibited guide to love and romance, the follow-up to her hip and hilarious Born on a Rotten Day. In Love on a Rotten Day, Dixon-Cooper walks the wild side of the zodiac, delivering the goods on which sign cheats and who's a manipulator, a bully, a brat, a nutcase, or a nympho. Lovers, would-be lovers, and ex-lovers will rejoice in advice on how to: Safely dump a Scorpio Convince a Virgo to have spontaneous sex Snag a romance-phobic Aquarius An honest and uproarious guide to losing and finding your true soul mate, Love on a Rotten Day is this century's answer to the timeless query "What's your sign?"

The enduring and engaging guide to educating yourself in the classical tradition. Have you lost the art of reading for pleasure? Are there books you know you should read but haven’t because they seem too daunting? In The Well-Educated Mind, Susan Wise Bauer provides a welcome and encouraging antidote to the distractions of our age, electronic and otherwise. Newly expanded and updated to include standout works from the twenty-first century as well as essential readings in science (from the earliest works of Hippocrates to the discovery of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs), The Well-Educated Mind offers brief, entertaining histories of six literary genres—fiction, autobiography, history, drama, poetry, and science—accompanied by detailed instructions on how to read each type. The annotated lists at the end of each chapter—ranging from Cervantes to Cormac McCarthy, Herodotus to Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Aristotle to Stephen Hawking—preview recommended reading and encourage readers to make vital connections between ancient traditions and contemporary writing. The Well-Educated Mind reassures those readers who worry that they read too slowly or with below-average comprehension. If you can understand a daily newspaper, there’s no reason you can’t read and enjoy Shakespeare’s sonnets or Jane Eyre. But no one should attempt to read the “Great Books” without a guide and a plan. Bauer will show you how to allocate time to reading on a regular basis; how to master difficult arguments; how to make personal and literary judgments about what you read; how to appreciate the resonant links among texts within a genre—what does Anna Karenina owe to Madame Bovary?—and also between genres. In her best-selling work on home education, The Well-Trained Mind, the author provided a road map of classical education for parents wishing to home-school their children; that book is now the premier resource for home-schoolers. In The Well-Educated Mind, Bauer takes the same elements and techniques and adapts them to the use of adult readers who want both enjoyment and self-improvement from the time they spend reading. Followed carefully, her advice will restore and expand the pleasure of the written word.

Believing he has psychic abilities, and that he can prove the paranormal, Curio Enchantment is convinced that fame and fortune are just over the horizon. Is he dealing with hostile forces he does not understand or cannot control? ...because ordinary members of the public start committing murder and suicide.

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.