When her elderly mother suffers a stroke, Ivy Lutz leaves her life as a Buddhist nun in Sri Lanka and returns home to northern California. Her sheltered life is blasted apart by a series of murders, which she attempts to solve with the help of a smitten detective. She understands why someone might want to kill her stepfather, who it turns out is a smuggler on the run, but what about her mother? Was she was murdered, too? As Ivy struggles to live by her Buddhist principles and employ her mindfulness skills, she discovers they both hinder and help in her search for the truth.

Presents a mystery and adventure story set in south west Scotland at the time of Robert Burns. This title features sketch maps - including one of Dumfries in 1793. With black and white photographs of places which are important to the story, it also includes a section consisting of detailed notes about people and events which come into the story.

It sounds like the plot for a great novel: A young man turns away from Christ and joins the Army, where he works on helicopters before becoming an assassin for the CIA. For Mitchell Lee, however, this is no fictional plotthis is his life. While he would try rededicating himself to the Lord, he was ostracized from ministry work and became an investigator. Eventually, however, he fled Indiana after corrupt informers tried to frame him for a crime that never occurred. After contacting the FBI to clear his name, the agency commissioned him as a street agent specializing in detecting assassination plots and crime rings. He soon discovered that many criminals working for the government were using their status as informers to further their criminal enterprises As an FBI agent, he prevented unconstitutional stings targeting militias, and after quitting, his former employer tried to kill him. Youll discover that truth is stranger than fiction as well as the shortcomings of American democracy in Jonah, the Federal Sleuth.

Robert Wokler was one of the world's leading experts on Rousseau and the Enlightenment, but some of his best work was published in the form of widely scattered and difficult-to-find essays. This book collects for the first time a representative selection of his most important essays on Rousseau and the legacy of Enlightenment political thought. These essays concern many of the great themes of the age, including liberty, equality and the origins of revolution. But they also address a number of less prominent debates, including those over cosmopolitanism, the nature and social role of music and the origins of the human sciences in the Enlightenment controversy over the relationship between humans and the great apes. These essays also explore Rousseau's relationships to Rameau, Pufendorf, Voltaire and Marx; reflect on the work of important earlier scholars of the Enlightenment, including Ernst Cassirer and Isaiah Berlin; and examine the influence of the Enlightenment on the twentieth century. One of the central themes of the book is a defense of the Enlightenment against the common charge that it bears responsibility for the Terror of the French Revolution, the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth-century and the Holocaust.