Benedict: 397 books

Arena of Sorcery is the second book in a series of fantasy gamebooks. These books allow the reader to be a part of the story and to decide what happens next. The victory scenario may be the ideal but how you get there will depend very much on how you play the game and make the choices!

Mage Alex Verus is hanging on by a thread in the ninth urban fantasy novel from the national bestselling author of Burned. When Mage Alex Verus ends up with a position on the Light Council, no one is happy, least of all him. But Alex is starting to realize that if he wants to protect his friends,...

Step through the portal and enter the world of Faerie. What if you followed a path through a city park, and found yourself in another land? What if the archway you just passed is really a portal to Faerie? What if the guardian of an opening into our world has perished, and left the doorway...

Lonely Planet: The world’s leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet USA is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Gaze into the mile-deep chasm of the Grand Canyon, hang 10 on an iconic Hawaiian wave, or let...

Lonely Planet: The world’s number one travel guide publisher* Lonely Planet**’s Switzerland** is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Ogle the glowing Matterhorn and enjoy après-ski in Zermatt, stroll Geneva’s...

There was once a time, nearly four thousand years ago, when the tall towers of a city called Troy reached gleaming into the sky; when its proud king fought against an invading army in a desperate siege. The Tale of Troy was so important to the ancient Greeks that its author, Homer, became a kind of hero....

WPaD presents: Strange Adventures in a Deviant Universe… - A scientist struggles to find a cure for Alzheimer's before the disease takes his mind… - Dolphins and whales work with their human trainers to terraform a new planet… - Artificial intelligence backfires on humanity...

The warped minds of WPaD are proud to present this tribute to the bizarre: - People who eat Tide Pods turn into detergent-craving zombies - A gift of a fishing bobber turns deadly - A woman lost in the desert makes friends with an ancient creature - A hole inside a closet...

Founded in the mid-17th century, Rationalism was philosophy's first step into the modern era. This volume contains the essential statements of Rationalism's three greatest figures: Descartes, who began it; Spinoza, who epitomized it; and Leibniz, who gave it its last serious expression.

After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the objects of my fears contained in themselves anything either good or bad, except in so far as the mind is affected by them, I finally resolved to inquire whether there might be...

One of the masterpieces that encapsulate the essence of pure philosophy Spinoza has elucidated his ideas in this work. His monistic philosophies find complete expression here. Nature is understood as an infinite and fully deterministic system that embodies God his creatures and all creation. Engrossing!

DEFINITIONS. I. By body I mean a mode which expresses in a certain determinate manner the essence of God, in so far as he is considered as an extended thing. (See Pt. i., Prop. xxv. Coroll.) II. I consider as belonging to the essence of a thing that, which being given, the thing is necessarily given...

Finalist for the National Book Award: A sassy, cynical professional woman’s notions of love—and its apparent impossibility—are thrown into question by a man who challenges everything she thought she knew Though a talented young immigration lawyer, Lexi Steiner is in trouble. The legal...