Passion ignites culture clash in this provocative coming-of-age story, based on the best-selling novel by Philip Roth. Marcus, a student from New Jersey arrives at a small conservative college in Ohio. He becomes infatuated with his class mate Olivia. The mutual attraction sparks a torried encounter with consequences no one ever could have imagined. He puts his family's best-laid plans and his own beliefs to the ultimate test.

A road trip through a landscape of a consciousness, both reflective and outlandish, chronicling a seeker of experience, adventures, and justice; a thrill-seeking ride through memory, awareness, reminiscent of an odyssey, often heroic, on a journey to make sense of and experience in a profound way this world we live in.

The Evolution of Tactics that led to Victory in World War One! When the men of the Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery went to war in 1914, they lacked training, had insufficient guns and ammunition, and clung to a strategy that emphasized manoeuvre and direct-fire engagements. When the opening phases of the Great War came to an end and the conflict became static siege warfare, Canadian gunners had to grow and adapt. By the spring of 1917, the weapons,...

MERE ANARCHY

A new six-part epic covering thirty years of Star Trek ® history, continuing with an adventure that takes place during the "lost years" following the historic five-year mission!

Book 3: SHADOWS OF THE INDIGNANT

As Admiral James T. Kirk adjusts to life at Starfleet Operations on Earth, he discovers some shipping irregularities centered around Mestiko. Authorized to go on a fact-finding tour...

A must-listen new Regency romance novel from the author of Fate's Intervention and Something More Substantial.

L'histoire résume les causes et les conséquences de la création de l'être humain et de la liberté. Après avoir créé le monde, Dieu créa l'homme pour le soumettre. Puis il créa la femme; mais la femme refusa la soumission. Elle transgressa la loi de Dieu et l'homme devint son complice. Après avoir été expulsés du paradis, l'homme s'est emparé du pouvoir pour reproduire l'autorité. Cependant, il exclut la femme de ses projets de recherche...

From one of our most imaginative and inventive writers, a crystalline collection of perfectly modulated, sometimes harrowing and often hilarious investigations into the multifaceted ways in which human beings perceive each other and themselves. A couple suspects their friends think them boring; a woman resolves to see herself as nothing but then concludes she's set too high a goal; and a funeral home receives a letter rebuking it for linguistic errors....

Douglas Mao is Russ Family Professor in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Fateful Beauty: Aesthetic Environments, Juvenile Development, and Literature, 1860–1960 and Solid Objects: Modernism and the Test of Production (both Princeton). A wide-ranging reevaluation of utopian literature and philosophy, from Plato to Chang-Rae Lee Examining literary and philosophical writing about ideal societies from Greek antiquity...

Can the teachings of Judaism provide a sacred framework for repairing the world? In this groundbreaking volume, leading rabbis, intellectuals, and activists explore the relationship between Judaism and social justice, drawing on ancient and modern sources of wisdom. The contributors argue that American Jewry must move beyond "mitzvah days" and other occasional service programs, and dedicate itself to systemic change in the United States, Israel, and...

Une analyse linguistique du célèbre texte de Stéphane Hessel Les indignations sélectives de la nouvelle icne médiatique qu'est devenu Stéphane Hessel se sont répandues sans contrle ni vérification. En véritable saint du militantisme à la mode, il profère ses anathèmes, et pour ses adeptes, chacune de ses imprécations se transforme en une vérité révélée. L'indignation impérative devient alors un commandement pour tous. Contrevérités,...