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This bundle provides you with first-hand knowledge of the cultures and practices that make up the world’s major religions and helps you develop a more meaningful and significant understanding of your religion and others. Embark on an exciting journey through history’s greatest religions and mythologies! From the pharaohs of Egypt and their worship of the sun to the magnificence and splendor of the Greek gods, history will come alive!

Although werewolves are a classic monster standard, The Horror Zine’s Book of Werewolf Stories breathes fresh, terrifying life into the horrifying concept of human-to-wolf transformations. Packed with original, never-before published stories of unique and contemporary takes on lycanthropy, this spine-chilling anthology presents exciting, refreshing new ideas that won’t fail to impress even the most jaded horror fans. Brought to you by the established, award-winning ezine and print magazine, only the best and most suspenseful tales can be found here.

Nikola Tesla was a true visionary, far ahead of his contemporaries in the field of scientific and technological development. His inventions and creations have literally transformed the world we live in today, as they possessed technology that was far in advance of his time. Quantum physicists are just now catching up with Tesla. His conceptions of wireless telecommunications, lasers, x-rays, radio wave broadcasting, a/c poly phase current, free energy, and weather manipulation stagger the mind.

The impact of goal setting is a powerful tool in changing your future. By creating small, simple and clear goals, using the S.M.A.R.T. approach, we will lay out the foundational groundwork in a step-by-step plan, to move from A to Z. You can change your future. With this book, you will be able to take a look at where your life is today, and create steps to change your tomorrow, your next year, out to ten years or more. You will thank yourself that you have taken the necessary steps today to go through the process.

Yellowstone National Park looks like a pristine western landscape populated by its wild inhabitants: bison, grizzly bears, and wolves. But the bison do not always range freely, snowmobile noise intrudes upon the park's profound winter silence, and some tourist villages are located in prime grizzly-bear habitat. Despite these problems, the National Park Service has succeeded in reintroducing wolves, allowing wildfires to play their natural role in park forests, and prohibiting a gold mine that would be present in other more typical western landscapes.

Being an unwanted twin in the Imperial line of succession, Farilane became a scholar, adventurer, and in a time when reading was once more forbidden—a book hunter. Her singular obsession is finding the mythical Book of Brin, a tome not just lost but intentionally buried. Respected and beloved by the Teshlor Knights, not even their legendary skills can protect her for what she finds is more dangerous than what she sought.

The man who became known as Esrahaddon is reported to have destroyed the world’s greatest empire—but there are those who believe he saved it. Few individuals are as divisive, but all agree on three facts: He was exiled to the wilderness, hunted by a goblin priestess, and sentenced to death by a god—all before the age of eight. How he managed to survive and why people continued to fear his name a thousand years later has always been a mystery...until now.

Biosocial criminology—and biosocial criminologists—focuses on both the environmental and biological factors that contribute to antisocial behavior. Importantly, these two domains are not separate parts of an equation but pieces of the same puzzle that fit together for a complete picture of the causes of crime/antisocial behavior.

When Michael J. Ellis saw how cancer was ravaging his father’s body, he was desperate to find something—anything—that would help ease the dying man’s suffering. It just so happened that Ellis discovered such a method in herbal remedies. But in a fateful twist, his research inadvertently uncovered a secret that would also impact American society: a weight loss product that actually worked!

There has been a renaissance in Masonic writings over the last quarter century. The academic world has rediscovered Freemasonry’s historical influence on civil society’s last 300 years. Now, you, too, can discover more about the mysteries of Masonry and the Masonic rituals. The world’s oldest fraternity is receiving considerable new attention.

Was geschieht, wenn du herausfindest, dass deine Götter sterblich sind? In den Ländern der Rhune leben die Menschen im Schatten ihrer Götter: Die Fhrey wohnen in kunstvoll angelegten Städten, verfügen über Magie und Schmiedekunst, altern nicht und scheinen unsterblich zu sein, während die Rhune unter rauen Bedingungen in kleinen Dörfern und Gemeinschaften unter primitiven Bedingungen hausen.

Immer auswegloser erscheint der Aufstand der Menschen gegen ihre falschen Götter, die Fhrey: Zu mächtig sind die magischen Waffen des Feindes, zu zerstritten die Clans der Menschen. Da fasst der junge Revolutionsführer Raithe einen verzweifelten Plan: Er schickt drei seiner wichtigsten Verbündeten, unter ihnen die seherisch begabte Suri, auf eine gefährliche Reise. Sie sollen die Hilfe eines Volkes erbitten, das wie kein zweites die Kunst des Waffenschmiedens beherrscht.

Andy Boyd thinks he is the luckiest man alive. Widowed with a young child after his wife dies in childbirth, he is certain that he will never again experience true love. Then he meets Anna. Feisty, fun and beautiful, she's his perfect match.... And she loves his son, too. When Andy ends up in the hospital on his wedding night, he receives his first clue that Anna is not all that she seems. He ignores it; a dangerous mistake that could cost him everything.

Kenny O'Neill, a villain with a conscience, returns in a hard-hitting thriller of exploitation, corruption and criminal gangs. When Kenny's cousin, Ian, comes to the aid of a fellow ex-squaddie in a heap of trouble, he gets caught up in the vicious underground fight scene, where callous criminals prey on the vulnerable, damaged and homeless. With Ian in too deep to escape, Kenny has no option other than to infiltrate the gang for the sake of his family.

Jason Davies was looking forward to graduation, when his dreams of being a veterinarian in Southern California would soon become a reality. However, a decision made years earlier changes his career path and his life. When he finds himself in Birdie, Oklahoma, Jason must contend with the weathered and outspoken Dr. Keating who he’s been sent to assist as well as the hilarious cast of townsfolk who keep him guessing at every turn.

In Heroic Conservatism, Gerson uses his own experiences in the upper tier of the Bush White House to show why America needs a conservatism that is heroic in its aspirations, including "compassionate conservative" proposals to confront global AIDS, combat poverty in America, and promote human rights and dignity abroad - initiatives that Gerson fought for during his time in government.

The moving story of an Irish immigrant's life from a poverty-stricken childhood in Ireland to becoming a captain of industry, After the Roof Caved In is a powerful, poignant look at how hard work and education enabled one young man to change his life and circumstances completely.

Selbstlos, mutig und verliebt in Celaena - all das war Chaol Westfall, Anführer der königlichen Leibgarde. Doch diese Zeiten sind vorbei. Das gläserne Schloss liegt in Schutt und Asche, Celaena ist nun Aelin Ashryver, rechtmäßige Königin von Terrasen, und Chaol selbst so schwer verletzt, dass er für immer gezeichnet sein wird. Seine einzige Chance auf Heilung liegt in Antica, der mächtigen Hauptstadt des südlichen Kontinents und Sitz der berühmten Schule für Heilerinnen. Während Aelin sich gegen den drohenden Krieg mit dem dunklen König wappnet, bricht Chaol nach Antica auf.

Aelin wird von der Dunklen Königin gefangen gehalten; eingesperrt in einem Käfig an einem geheimen Ort scheint die Flucht unmöglich zu sein. Während Prinz Rowan die halbe Welt nach seiner verlorenen Liebe absucht, versuchen Aedion und Gestaltenwandlerin Lysandra, ihre Heimat - nun ohne die Macht und den Schutz ihrer Königin - mit allen Mitteln zu verteidigen. Alte Bündnisse werden gebrochen, neue geschmiedet und vertieft, wobei alles auf die letzte große Schlacht hinausläuft, die Aelin Feuerherz und ihre Gefährten für sich entscheiden müssen, um Erilea vor der Herrschaft der Dämonen zu bewahren.

Celaena ist in ihre Heimat zurückgekehrt, aber nicht mehr als Celaena Sardothien, sondern als Aelin Galathynius. Das ist ihr wahrer Name, der Name der rechtmäßigen Königin von Terrasen. Doch der Weg auf den Thron ist noch lang, denn von allen Seiten nahen Feinde heran. Aelin muss sich nicht nur gegen den dunklen Valg-König Erawan, der ihre Welt erobern und versklaven will, behaupten, sondern auch gegen die Königin der Fae, die unsterbliche Maeve. Es wird zu einem Kampf kommen und Aelin muss sich fragen, was - oder wen - sie bereit ist zu opfern, um ihre Welt zu retten.