Will: 1593 books

Taken captive by a vampire, Davis is stripped of his clothes and chained to a basement wall, As he begins to fear no one will even try to find him, a new hope arrives in the form of a second captive. Will she lead Davis to his freedom or an even worse fate?

On a windy spring day, Bear sniffs the air.  Could it be. . . Kite day?   Rushing home he tells Mole, and the two fast friends get to work building a kite of their own. They study, and collect, and measure, and construct—and soon, their kite is flying high above the meadow.   But when a storm...

Film and music are the language of modern culture. What messages are being conveyed in the movies and songs we love? An Unexpected Journal explores the truths embedded within popular media. Contributors "Serenity and the Theodicy of Joss Whedon" by C.M. Alvarez: An exploration...

American Hanley Martin is troubled by his success. A wealthy aerospace industrialist, he was taught he should help others as a means of balancing the scales for his good fortune. He searches for ways to give back that will comfort his soul. A trip to the Paris Air Show in 1999 changes the course...

The Coate-Duffel family dynasty had been founded on the wealth generated by their button factory over the last three hundred years.Now, owing to the cheap import of buttons from the East, the family business is in jeopardy, and Frederick Coate-Duffel has to find an urgent solution.With the help of Reginald...

Es regnet, es blitzt und donnert, der Herbstwind treibt Blätter durch die nächtlichen Straßen. Und auf einmal liegt ein ganzer Stadtteil im Dunkeln. Ob wir in die Wohnungen schauen, in die Büros oder in die Wäschekeller - die Auswirkungen der plötzlichen, unerwarteten Dunkelheit sind sehr aufregend....

"Eine Frau in Schlabbershirt und Latzhose kann mehr Dominanz ausüben als eine im Ledermini und mit Stiefeln bis zum Arsch." Carola weiß, wovon sie spricht. Die erfolgreiche Unternehmerin hat sich aus dem offiziellen Wirtschaftsleben zurückgezogen und produziert anspruchsvolle Pornofilme,...

While hiding from the limelight, Banksy has made himself into one of the world's best-known living artists. His pieces have fetched millions of dollars at prestigious auction houses. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his film Exit Through the Gift Shop. Once viewed as vandalism, his work is...

Frank Sinatra was the greatest entertainer of his age, invigorating American popular song with innovative phrasing and a mastery of drama and emotion. Drawing upon interviews with hundreds of his collaborators as well as with "The Voice" himself, this book chronicles, critiques, and celebrates...

A brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the great philosophers—Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell, Santayana, James, and Dewey—The Story of Philosophy is one of the great books of our time. Few write for...

Shortlisted for the 2015 Plutarch Award for Best Biography, “the most humanizing portrait of the Nixons we’re likely to have” (Douglas Brinkley) is a sweeping depiction of the turbulent fifty-three-year marriage of Richard and Pat Nixon. When Americans remember the controversial Nixons,...

Marie Antoinette has remained atop the popular cultural landscape for centuries for the daring in style and fashion that she brought to 18th century France. For the better part of the queen’s reign, one man was entrusted with the sole responsibility of ensuring that her coiffure was at its most...

This compelling book begins on the 2nd of August 1793, the day Marie Antoinette was torn from her family’s arms and escorted from the Temple to the Conciergerie, a thick-walled fortress turned prison. It was also known as the “waiting room for the guillotine” because prisoners only spent a day...

The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.​ Using the examples of the Intervale Foundation and Gardener's Supply, both of which Will Raap founded, he demostrates that economic gain...