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Deception and Pride--Bassanio, a Venetian nobleman, wishes to woo the beautiful and wealthy Portia, but he is short on funds. So he turns to his friend Antonio, a wealthy merchant. Antonio agrees to help, but currently he is cash strapped as all of his ships are at sea. He agrees instead to guarantee a loan for Bassanio. Bassanio turns to Antonio's rival and enemy Shylock for the loan.

Honor and Glory--King Henry V has put aside the indiscretion of youth and taken the throne upon his father's death. Faced with insurrection and a war with France, Henry must become a strong king or perish.

Set sail for adventure. Out of this past the pirate emerges as a romantic, even at times heroic, figure. This final niche, despite his crimes, cannot altogether be denied him. A hero he is and will remain so long as tales of the sea are told. So, have at him, in these pages! Here are seventeen tails of swashbuckling adventure full of courage and danger!

Collected Here are four of Niccolò Machiavelli most important works. The Prince It was Niccolò Machiavelli who essentially removed ethics from government. He did it with this book, when he asserted that The Prince (president, dictator, prime minister, etc.) does not have to be concerned with ethics, as long as their motivation is to protect the state. It is this questionable belief that in many ways had lead to the modern world as we know it.

William James believed that events could not be catalogued simply as a series of facts, but had to be considered through the lens of experience. Thus each person affects and modifies their own reality based on their own unique experiences and points of view. Ultimately you can quantify facts, but only if you understand how the person looking at these facts will affect and change them.

Collected in one omnibus edition here are the five most important poetic works on Heaven and Hell ever written.In Paradise Lost Milton tells the story of the fall of man, which encompasses a battle that rages across Heaven between God and Satan. Here are passion and innocence, victory and defeat, hope and despair. This is without a doubt the greatest epic poem ever written in the English language. Paradise Regained is often thought of as the companion to Milton's Epic Paradise Lost.

The Economic Consequences of the Peace was written and published by John Maynard Keynes. After World War I, Keynes attended the Versailles Conference as a delegate of the British Treasury and argued for a much more generous peace. It was a best seller throughout the world and was critical in establishing a general opinion that the Versailles Treaty was a "Carthaginian peace." It helped to consolidate American public opinion against the treaty and involvement in the League of Nations.

The study reported in this volume grew out of some theoretical work, one phase of which bore specifically on the behavior of individuals in social movements that made specific (and unfulfilled) prophecies. We had been forced to depend chiefly on historical records to judge the adequacy of our theoretical ideas until we by chance discovered the social movement that we report in this book.

The Upanishads are early philosophical texts of the Hindu religion. The Upanishads represent the loftiest heights of ancient Indo-Aryan thought and culture and are regarded as direct revelations of God. Because these teachings were usually given in the stillness of some distant retreat, where the noises of the world could not disturb the tranquillity of the contemplative life, they are known also as Aranyakas, Forest Books.

Friendship and Greed!--Timon is a wealthy and generous man. Over the length of the play we watch as he slowly gives away his entire fortune. Then we witness the tragedy of a man who comes to realize that he has no friends now that he has no money.

Blood and Revenge--Titus Andronicus is by far Shakespeare's most violent play. Set in the later days of the Roman empire it follows a fictional succession to the throne. The play follows Titus, a great Roman general, who is thrown into one bad situation after another. Much blood flows and a cycle of revenge ensues and tragedy abounds.

Pride and Defeat--Troilus and Cressida takes place in the seventh year of the Trojan War. The Trojan prince Troilus falls in love with Calchas' daughter Cressida. The two secretly marry, and predictably, tragedy quickly follows.

Harry Harrison was recognized as a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writer's of America. He was best known for his Deathworld and Stainless Steel Rat series. He was nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and Sideways Awards. He was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2004. This omnibus edition of his work includes four complete novels and six short stories. Both of his best known series Deathworld and The Stainless Steel Rat are represented herein. If you enjoyed this book, you'll want to search on "Positronic Publishing Super Pack" and check out all our other exciting Super Packs!

Mowgli: Tales from the Jungle Book collects all of the Mowgli stories from both the first and second Jungle Books and places the stories in the order in which they happened, making for a much more cohesive reading experience. Join Mowgli on his many adventures and thrill with Mowgli and his best friends Baloo the the bear, Bagheera the panther, and Hathi the elephant as they struggle against the evil tiger Shere Khan and the fiendish Bandar-log monkeys.

This is the fantasy anthology you've been looking for. Two hundred thousands words that will sweep you away to realms you've never imagined by some of the greatest writers the fantasy field has ever known. Pygmalion's Spectacles by Stanley Weinbaum Lean Times in Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber The Tree of Life by C. L. Moore The Hunt by Steve Rasnic Tem Beyond the Door by Philip K. Dick The Wild One Marion Zimmer Bradley Second Sight Alan E. Nourse Visitors' Night at Joey Chicago's by Mike Resnick The Lost Gods by Dorothy Quick Beyond the Black River Robert E. Howard Show of Shows by Gene Mederos Dream World by R. A. Lafferty The Trader by Nicole Givens Kurtz Subject to Change Ron Goulart Storm over Warlock Andre Norton Witch of the Demon Seas Poul Anderson The Laminated Woman by Evelyn E. Smith The Hunt by Brea Viragh The Salem Horror by Henry Kuttner Shatter the Wall by Sydney Van Scyoc Wizard by Laurence Janifer Famous Dead People by Warren Lapine Warm by Robert Sheckley How the Bells Came from Yang to Hubei by Brenda Clough

DNA Publications, one of the most remarkable publishing companies in the history of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror fields, has long maintained a tradition of excellence in short fiction. This long-awaited collection assembles some of the finest works from the DNA Publications line of magazines, which include Weird Tales, Fantastic Stories, Absolute Magnitude, and Dreams of Decadence. Contributors include Kelly McCullough, Warren Lapine, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller, Jamie Wild, Sarah A. Hoyt.

The continuing Adventures of Plupy, Beany, and Pewt. "Sequil" is indeed the sequel to Henry A. Shutes beloved Diary of a Real Boy. Henry A. Shute was widely considered the Mark Twain of New England during his life time. Transport yourself to a simpler time and laugh along with our heros as they navigate through the trials and tribulations of boyhood in the late 1800's.

Thomas Troward was an early New Thought writer who had an immense impact on those who would follow. Ernest Holmes, Frederick Bailes, Joseph Murphy, and Emmett Fox cited him as a major influence, and Genevieve Behrend was his student. It is impossible to over estimate his importance to the New Thought movement. His intense fusion of Eastern and Western philosophy is unmatched.

I should say first of all that the only emotions I propose expressly to consider here are those that have a distinct bodily expression. That there are feelings of pleasure and displeasure, of interest and excitement, bound up with mental operations, but having no obvious bodily expression for their consequence, would, I suppose, be held true by most readers.

Here in one binding are the two most important books ever written on the power of the mind.

James Allen was one of our finest thinkers. In this 4 - in - 1 omnibus edition Allen show's you the power of positive thinking and a path to prosperity with dignity. These teachings are as timeless today as they were when they were written. Many of today's best sellers, such as The Power of Positive Thinking, Laws of Attraction, and The Science of Success, and The Secret owe a deep and abiding debt to these great works. Now you can read the words of the master.

Who better than Helen Keller to write about optimism? Helen Keller became blind when she was nineteen months old. At the time children who were deaf and blind were simply given up on. But Helen's mother read that a deaf blind person had been educated and decided to explore that possibility for her daughter. As a result of this Helen Keller was the first deaf blind person to earn a bachelor of Arts degree and she went on to be one of the most celebrated women of the twentieth century.

Ragged Dick is a children's novel by Horatio Alger, about a poor bootblack and his rise to middle-class comfort and respectability through good moral behavior, clean living, and determination.

The Immortal Tragedies--Collected here are all twelve of Shakespeare's unforgettable tragedies

The man was from the world beyond the ridges, and his carefully tailored clothing looked strangely out of place in the mountain wilderness. His form stooped a little in the shoulders, perhaps with weariness, but he carried himself with the unconscious air of one long used to a position of conspicuous power and influence; and, while his well-kept hair and beard were strongly touched with white, the brown, clear lighted eyes, that looked from under their shaggy brows, told of an intellect unclouded by the shadows of many years. The people of the Ozarks called him The Shepherd of The Hills and only he can heal a division in the community that no one else is even aware of.

Comedy and Tragedy--Collected here in one binding are All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, and The History of Troilus and Cressida. Collectively they are known as Shakespeare's Problem Plays. While the first two are usually placed with the comedies and the later with the tragedies none of them fit neatly into either classification.

Sublime Comedies -- Collected here are all sixteen of Shakespeare's brilliant comedies. Including The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew, The Comedy of Errors, Love's Labour's Lost, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado About Nothing, As You like it, Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will, Measure for Measure, All's Well That Ends Well, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest, and The Two Noble Kinsmen.

Pageantry and Royalty--Collected here are all ten of Shakespeare's powerful history plays including King Henry IV, Part 1; King Henry IV, Part 2; The Life of King Henry V; King Henry VI, Part 1; King Henry VI, Part 2; King Henry VI, Part 3; King Henry VIII; King John; King Richard II; and King Richard III.

In reprinting these orations the editor has endeavored to present them here as nearly as possible in their original form. No effort has been made to improve the English. Published in this form, then, these orations will be of value not only to persons studying the development of the Negro in his use of a modern idiom but also in the study of the history of the race. It is in this spirit that these messages are again given to the public.