THIS IS NOT A FAIRY TALE. THIS IS A NIGHTMARE. A scifi fantasy dark comedy romp through the afterlife with three Clans of immortal antiheroes. Kayn is with Clan Ankh, and Kevin is with Triad. She's lost everything. It's time to dust off the cobwebs of despair and meet with destiny. You've survived your Correction and signed up for a fun-filled afterlife as a sacrificial lamb for the greater good. You now belong to Clan Ankh, Clan Trinity or Clan...

The past is only forgotten until it invades your present.For Kaiden Darcy, duty is everything. As True-named protector, he's tasked with the safety of his home and Rianthe Royan, the prophesied one designated to save Earth from surrendering to the darkness.Except Rianthe's powers are stifled by some unknown cause. She needs help, so she follows a cryptic clue seeking insight. As she struggles to master her magic, the brother she raised from a babe...

Award-winning author, Brian McCullough, does it again! On the Edge of Now: Book VI-Enlightenment, brings the Travelers to their most critical and dangerous challenge-one which places everything on the line. Transported to a world whose society fractures itself by distinguishing population classes, Tag, Rose, Claire, and Devin strive to help underground residents establish their independence, knowing they will instigate a civil war. The down-trodden...

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"Like A.S. Byatt's Possession, Enlightenment is a baroque, genre-bending novel of ideas, ghosts and hidden histories. A richly layered epic....a heartfelt paean to the consolations of the sublime, where religion and science meet." — Telegraph

"Read it, then read it again. This is a book full of unexpected wonders." — Literary Review

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How did the universe work? How did the human mind learn? What kind of government was best? These are some of the questions that people asked during the Age of Ideas, or the Enlightenment. Readers will learn about some of the most important aspects, ideas, and people of this time, including John Locke, David Hume, Voltaire, Copernicus, and Romanticism. Through intriguing facts and engaging sidebars, readers will discover the incredible outcomes of...

In October 2005, only a few months after her Turkish husband and five-year-old son are detained by U.S. border patrol, Jeannie Wakefield disappears. She leaves behind in Istanbul a 53-page letter revealing a convoluted tale of political intrigue, intelligence operatives and Turkish teenage radicals, of a grisly murder and a dismembered body in a trunk. It is a grim and heartbreaking history of first loves shattered and best friends betrayed. Can Jeannie...

A magisterial history that recasts the Enlightenment as a period not solely consumed with rationale and reason, but rather as a pursuit of practical means to achieve greater human happiness. One of the formative periods of European and world history, the Enlightenment is the fountainhead of modern secular Western values: religious tolerance, freedom of thought, speech and the press, of rationality and evidence-based argument. Yet why, over three hundred...

This book is oriented to those people who are trying to learn what enlightenment is all about, and want to better understand what it is, and how to get there. It is oriented towards beginners who haven't studied previously on the subject. Issues are discussed such as what is enlightenment, how does one achieve it, and what are some of the pitfalls in the process.An introduction to the subject of enlightenment for the average person.Book demystifies...

Sankar Muthu is Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton University. In the late eighteenth century, an array of European political thinkers attacked the very foundations of imperialism, arguing passionately that empire-building was not only unworkable, costly, and dangerous, but manifestly unjust. Enlightenment against Empire is the first book devoted to the anti-imperialist political philosophies of an age often regarded as affirming imperial...