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Settle in for an unsettling listen with this duo of two horror classics: Dracula by Bram Stoker and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. These two books are staples of the Gothic horror genre and are sure to excite, mystify, and maybe even spook listeners.

The reduction of suffering deserves special priority. Many ethical views support this claim, yet so far these have not been presented in a single place. Suffering-Focused Ethics provides the most comprehensive presentation of suffering-focused arguments and views to date, including a moral realist case for minimizing extreme suffering. The book then explores the all-important issue of how we can best reduce suffering in practice, and outlines a coherent and pragmatic path forward.

Revolutionary! Never done before breakthrough definitions of everyday words used in prisons and inner cities. Over 1,000 undocumented slang words and phrases clearly and precisely defined.

In today’s world, people are challenging the old patriarchal and chauvinistic definitions of manhood, and discarding many of them as outdated. In their place, new definitions of manhood are being written, and rightfully so. Yet, during this period of transition, men are struggling to maintain their footing on the paths of masculinity they’re walking today. For those men seeking a more positive and powerful expression of manhood, Triumphant: The Journey to Healthy Manhood is a must-listen.

Bassanio is a man in love, but he does not have much money to his name, and thus is unable to woo the rich heiress Portia. His friend Antonio suggests that they borrow money from Shylock, a Jewish moneylender who has had many dealings with Antonio in the past. Shylock, being of Antonio’s ability to repay, agrees to grant the loan with a difficult condition. If the loan is not repaid in full by the agreed date, Shylock will take a pound of Antonio’s flesh.

Robin Hood is one of the most well-known stories about a well-meaning outlaw. Robin Hood is an outlaw who robs from the rich to feed the poor. He sets about on adventures through the country to recruit people to assist in his robberies, to cause mischief to the royalty seeking to have him captured, and to give money and resources to the poor and needy in society.

Dr. John Dolittle is an esteemed physician, but he finds himself drawn to animal patients more often than humans. In this book, his animal companions convince him to go on a daring voyage around the world to search for a missing friend. Their travels take them through storms and shipwrecks, to bullfighting rings and into courtrooms where animals testify as witnesses. All the while, Dr. Dolittle uses his incredible talent of animal communication to befriend and protect any animal he meets.

This is a Christian's guide to managing money and investing, from a Biblical perspective. This book contains Bible references. Did you know that no matter how much you earn, how old you are, or what job you do, it is really possible to create wealth on any income? You see, it’s not about how much you earn. It’s all about how much you keep - and what you do with it.

The Tempest is a beautiful and sweeping drama by William Shakespeare and is one of the Bard’s last plays. With a role written as a farewell to the theater, this emotional drama is a beautiful testament to Shakespeare’s talents as a storyteller and writer. The play centers around Prospero, a usurped ruler and powerful sorcerer who lives out his days on a remote island with few humans with whom to interact. Prospero seeks his revenge on his brother by causing his ship to wreck on his island, and the adventure of the play begins.

Frank’s years as a peaceful football fan and socialist end abruptly when he turns to hooliganism and British nationalism. In the menacing drinking clubs of Belfast, he takes orders from prominent Loyalist paramilitaries. His crimes escalate, until the media and authorities uncover his secretive and dangerous existence.

For the curious mind, there is perhaps no more intriguing a subject than artificial intelligence in the early 21st century. In Artificial Intelligence: Understanding the Science, Impact, and Future Of AI, Machine Learning, Neural Networks, and the Singularity, author Thien-Nam Dinh draws on his years of experience to tackle the big questions in AI and present them in a way that even a human can understand.

Twenty-first-century America finds itself divided between two fairly extreme ideals - Democrats and Republicans. The two sides find it difficult to agree on much of anything, but one thing that they do agree on is that America is headed down a bad road, although they have difficulty determining a common agreement on what that bad road looks like. In his first political book, Randal Schaffer takes a look at some of the places in America where the nation can improve and strive toward the promise of the founders of becoming "one nation".

Blockchain technology presents an alternative to corrupt and centralized institutions, as well as costly and inefficient middlemen. Whether you’re looking to use it to improve your business, invest in cryptocurrencies, or just learn for curiosity’s sake, this book will help answer your questions and show you why there is so much buzz about blockchain.

What follows if we reject belief in any kind of non-physical soul and instead fully embrace what we know about the world? The main implication, this book argues, is a naturalization of personal identity and ethics. A radically different way of thinking about ourself.

1944, Nazi Germany - The war is in its final hours. Three high-ranking Nazi officers, using secret orders from the desk of Herman Goering, execute a plan to purloin a fortune in confiscated diamonds. Decades later, in a sleepy village near west palm beach, florida, moe green, a retired octogenarian, seeks to determine the value of a German postage stamp he acquired during the war, given to him by a grateful young Holocaust survivor. But when the stamp's existence surfaces on the Internet, blood flows.

He’s a doctor whose patients have a way of dying; a lawyer, who uses his skills to squirm out of criminal convictions. He’s a scholar, but other scholars have no idea what he’s talking about. He’s a family man, but one day, his wife and baby disappear forever. Only two things are clear: Edward Rulloff is a mystery, and everywhere he goes, death and destruction follow. While the criminal justice system has its hands full trying to keep and convict Edward Rulloff, the world will argue whether he’s a genius, a scam artist or a madman. Even Mark Twain has an opinion.

This historical fiction novel gives a riveting account of what life was like before the LGBTQ community had the same civil rights as other citizens - with a twist! In this alternate reality tale, only 10 percent of the population is heterosexual, and the only difference in the course of history over the past 100 years is that the majority of the population is gay, instead of straight. The love story is based in Southern California. Marcus is a 79-year old straight man whom against all odds, finds the woman of his dreams.

Don't turn your back on her. Don't even blink. She may be crazy, but Lizzie Halliday is strong, she moves fast, and she's a stone-cold killer.

First, she predicts your death. Then, you die. Usually, writhing in pain. Is she a fortune-teller or something much, much darker? Nobody tells the police, not for a long time, because, well, nobody in Chicago’s Little Warsaw wants to cross Tillie Klimek. The body count racks up as Jazz Age Chicago’s most notorious female poisoner takes down husband after husband and some other relatives while she’s at it. Few, it seems, can resist Tillie’s cooking. But is this Mrs. Bluebeard working alone?

Occam's razor is a filter for logical arguments. It states that the simplest solution that fits all the facts is usually the correct one. The Occam's Razor series will attempt to apply the razor to some of the arguments that plague our modern world.