Benedict: 397 books

Lonely Planet: The world’s leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Los Angeles, San Diego & Southern California is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Cruise the slow lanes of the Pacific Coast Highway,...

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Pocket Las Vegas is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Join the classy crew at Bellagio, the landmark Strip resort, hike the trails of mile-high...

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet New England is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Swim, fish or surf the 5000-mile coastline, devour pancakes drenched in maple syrup, or...

Branna's life is torn apart when her tribe is defeated by the hated Romans, her betrothed beaten to death before her eyes, and she is taken as the spoils of war. From the slave markets her path takes her from innocence to unbridled depravity. Can she survive, or will she become just one more sexual sacrifice on the altar of Roman decadence?

Paid-off from her teaching post, Cassie is reduced to finding a job with a respectable escort agency in order to pay the rent - only to discover that the agency is a cover for something darker and more sinister. She finds herself in a depraved world of BDSM where young men and women are bought and...

Rescued from the horrors of a Victorian slum, Maggie Carter is happy with her new position as a maid - until she is seduced by the son of the house, abused by his father and then cast out and sold into a house of shame. Will she survive - or be defeated by the violence and depravity of her new existence?

Born after William the Bastard's invasion of England, Lynet Goodrich has known nothing but the peace - and boredom - of her rural village. When news comes that they are to have a new Norman overlord, her first reaction is excitement - but excitement swiftly turns to terror as Ranulf le Ferrier...

England is under the rule of Oliver Cromwell, and young Lucinda Carstairs, daughter of a Royalist family, is in a state of limbo as her betrothed, James Happington, is in exile in Europe with Charles Stuart. Lucinda unwittingly attracts the eye of their elderly neighbour, Ezekiel Watkins, a...

After Francie Wolcott’s parents die in a carriage crash, leaving her and her genius younger brother, Rooney, penniless, she intends to tour the world with the fortunetelling automaton he built. But first she must bring Rooney to their uncle in San Francisco, where he will have a place to happily...

This volume of essays brings together a selection of the most significant and representative writings on Mendelssohn from the last fifty years. Divided into four main subject areas, it makes available twenty-two essays which have transformed scholarly awareness of this crucial and ever-popular nineteenth-century...

An examination of the new technological mediations between the human sensorium and the planetary media network and of the aesthetic as an enabler of new modes of knowledge. This series of interventions on the ramifications of Speculative Realism for aesthetics ranges from contemporary art's...

A fascinating look at the religion of the second king of Rome, Numa Pompilius, who claimed direct contact with several gods in the Roman pantheon. Also included are 4 other essays on ancient Roman religion.

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Baruch Spinoza places freedom as the ultimate aim and central value of the life well lived. His philosophy is marked by the most thorough going naturalism of any of its period, so much so that a number of its central...