Burton: 1487 books

Nada podría desestabilizar más la vida de Tara Lincoln que comenzar una relación con el famoso quarterback de los San Francisco Sabers, Mick Riley. Después de una noche de loca pasión, sabe que aquel hombre que vive para el deporte, la fama y tiene una chica diferente en cada ciudad ha calado...

Die meisten Menschen halten sich an Spielregeln – doch Liz und Gavin sind nicht wie die meisten Menschen. Elizabeth Darnell hat sich ihren Status als erfolgreiche Sportagentin in einer von Männern dominierten Domäne hart erkämpft, wie alles in ihrem Leben. Sie hat sich geschworen, sich niemals...

In a futuristic, fascistic Rome, a brilliant, unstable scientist proves that she can transcend the human body's limitations. The test subject? Her own daughter. A mother-daughter mad scientist story, THE DESTROYER asks how far we'll go to secure our own legacies -- and how far we'll run to escape...

A mysterious and scientifically advanced society lives a sequestered and pampered life in the brutal bronze age on a hidden archipelago of islands in the central Mediterranean Sea. Atlantea is this xenophobic Steam Punk empire, where science rules and steam and electricity are in ascendance. Their...

The year is 2047 and the fate of the Earth hangs in the balance. Commander Tarakia Sol, a warrior-princess with the blood of a celestial coursing through her, leads a special team called Talon Squad in a fight to save humanity from a coming invasion by a race of beings in the Orion Constellation...beings...

An intimate history of the Getty Museum from its early relatively modest days until it unexpectedly received the endowment that made it the worlds wealthiest museum and eventually a private foundation of worldwide influence. Following the death of Getty in 1976 it was necessary to adapt the...

In this book, the focus has been on the things that individuals had to experience daily. When the individuals experiences were evaluated for the positive and negative day-to-day challenges, it was amazing how one would become impressed with the humanistic beliefs of the peoples valued time was spent...

All history is, perforce, a merciless abridgment, and yet too much can never be written concerning any nation, any people— since each contribution must have a definite value. In the offering of this compendium of history and biography, the publishers lay claim not to any amplification of data in...

This volume brings into dialogue the ancient wisdom of Augustine of Hippo, a bishop of the early Christian Church of the fourth and fifth centuries, with contemporary theologians and ethicists on the topic of social justice. Each essay mines the major themes present in Augustine's extensive corpus...

Buddhism, in its diverse forms and throughout its long history, has had a profound influence on Asian cultures and the lives of countless individuals. In recent times, it has also attracted great interest among people in other parts of the world, including philosophers. Buddhist traditions often deal...

Emptiness means that all entities are empty of, or lack, inherent existence - entities have a merely conceptual, constructed existence. Though Nagarjuna advocates the Middle Way, his philosophy of emptiness nevertheless entails nihilism, and his critiques of the Nyaya theory of knowledge are shown to be unconvincing.

When a young English nobleman was thwarted in love, he abandoned the court, retired to his estate near Manchester, and built a canal to serve his coalmines. The Bridgewater Canal was the sensation of the age and led others to follow the example of the enterprising Duke of Bridgewater. Over the next...

A RECONSTRUCTION BOYHOOD The earliest recollections of any man have great biographical interest, and this is especially the case with Walter Page, for not the least dramatic aspect of his life was that it spanned the two greatest wars in history. Page spent his last weeks in England, at Sandwich, on...