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What does it mean to be cosmopolitan? Typically, cosmopolitanism is understood as a broad moral orientation, involving some kind of commitment to global moral equality. On this understanding, to be cosmopolitan is simply to evidence that moral orientation oneself. By contrast, Being Cosmopolitan takes up a thoroughly political approach. The focus is on what it might mean, and what it is like, to be political in a distinctly cosmopolitan form.

Monsters aren’t real. As reasonable adults, we know this. But we also know that, while fake, the monsters of fairy tales, movies, and Netflix series embody our very real fears. Large, powerful beings that hunt us in the dark make us feel small, weak, vulnerable. When characters in these stories run away, they temporarily feel safe, but it’s not until the monster is faced head on that the story can have a happy ending - and, more importantly, the hero can become all he or she was created to be.

Each business day, some 35,000 executives, scientists, consultants, and lawyers pass through the nation's airports to destinations across the globe. They carry, along with proprietary documents and computer files, the latest in personal electronic gear. However, carefully watching most of those travelers beginning the moment they arrive at the airport and often sooner are an uncounted number of espionage operatives. These individuals work for foreign intelligence services and economic concerns and seek to separate international business travelers from their trade secrets.

In this taboo bundle / box set, a spoiled rotten princess makes this older man in her life really work for it. He's not your typical alpha male, but he's strong and patient. And in the end, everyone wins. Contains all 3 books in the Cruel Princess series: Getting Her Way Hardening Him Up Locking it Down **For readers over the age of 18 years only.

The Dead have conquered the Earth, devouring and destroying everything in their path as mankind is brought to the edge of extinction. After battling their way out of Baghdad, across the Middle East and into Europe, Marcus and what is left of his team are close to reaching their final objective. Now, they must continue their struggle against the hordes of rotting corpses that stand in their way as they travel the wasteland that had once been their home.

In a city that lost its magic, an angel falls in a downtown street. His wings are feathered, whole - undeniably magical - the man clearly flew, for all that he plummeted to his downfall moments after. The mystery will set Fetch - in his quest to bring magic back to his beloved city - on a journey involving necromancers, genies and shadowy secret societies. Fetch will search Sunder's wildest forests and dingiest dive bars for the answer, and when he finds it, nothing will ever be the same again.

Fifteen-year-old Charlotte is restlessly coming of age in early twentieth-century Basra, Iraq. The daughter of a Seattle doctor and missionary, Charlotte craves an adventure of her own making. Just the thought of the steppes, hills, valleys, and the winding river stirs Charlotte’s imagination and sends her compass of flight dancing. So, preferring the wondrous unknown to solicitude, Charlotte packs up copies of her father’s Gospels and a statue of the Baby Jesus and runs away.

When newlyweds Jim and Victoria return from their Vegas wedding, Victoria dives full swing back into her sex therapy practice. With the addition of a new, let's call him, unique client along with a couple of old surprise visitors, there is never a dull moment in the naughty professional's home office. While Brian and Jillian are in full expectant parent mode, and with twins no less, Jillian's movie opens to great success.

Professor Luke O’Neill has become one of the most well-known and trusted voices of Ireland’s COVID-19 pandemic. A world-renowned immunologist, he was thrust into the spotlight as the media and public desperately grappled to make sense of a crisis that saw the country grind to a halt. In these high-octane diaries, Professor Luke reveals what life was like behind the scenes.

Have you stopped pursuing the life of your dreams? Did someone or something steal the passions that made your heart beat fast? It's possible - for the first time or once again - to become that wide-eyed, visionary dream-chaser! It starts by realizing that God has specific, amazing plans for you. Once you discover what drives you at the deepest level, you'll overcome any barrier that stands between you and your new reality.

"There were two words I uttered when I finished this book, "what" & "nnnnnnnoooooo". This book was a page turner, can't put it down, oh my goodness what next." -- Milja Saldarriaga Book 3 of the Legacy Chronicles. Society has fallen, crumbling amid the failed plans of a man named Hope. Beasts from Hell run rampant upon the green hills once denied to them, feasting upon life, awaiting their time of dominance. The time when the Fallen, led by Lucifer, achieve utter victory. That time draws near. But Jake battles on. He holds plans of his own, a tenuous strategy which will determine the future...

In this book, Luke Goss goes to the desert - not a long adventure or expedition, but a simple camping trip - to check in with himself. Four days and nights alone isn't long, but long enough to stop and listen without distraction. Questions about love, faith, God, war, consumption, and more, this book is to reach out and to share a few thoughts and philosophies accompanied by images taken by Luke in the hope to give the reader a moment shared. With images of sunsets and a midnight campfire, you're invited to a Desert Conversation.

France, April 1940. Polly Hartford has been sent across oceans to her Aunt Marjorie, known only from letters. When Marjorie dies in suspicious circumstances, Polly is left with her aunt’s loaded pistol in a beautiful Hermès handbag...and to the care of Marjorie’s three friends: an elegant Comtesse, a gutter-born film star and a big-hearted American heiress....

When two very different couples, one who's just getting started and one who's apparently just getting finished, meet on a cruise, the better halves become fast friends. While Victoria Wilde is sexually adventurous and getting back on track in her quest of living life to the fullest, Jillian Grayson is reserved and struggling to hold on to a nearly 20-year marriage that's hanging on by a thread. But when Victoria offers Jillian advice on how to get the spark back between the sheets...things don't exactly go as planned.

Rob Coates feels like he's won the lottery of life. There is Anna, his incredible wife, their London townhouse, and, most precious of all, Jack, their son, who makes every day an extraordinary adventure. But when a devastating illness befalls his family, Rob's world begins to unravel. Suddenly finding himself alone, Rob seeks solace in photographing the skyscrapers and clifftops he and his son, Jack, used to visit. And just when it seems that all hope is lost, Rob embarks on the most unforgettable of journeys to find his way back to life and forgiveness.

This is the book of Revelation reiterated and explained in plain English - All the metaphorical language is translated. All the informative interludes are clarified. And every who, what, where, when and why, is answered. Christ says that this trial, trouble and judgement will come upon the world abruptly, all of a sudden, without warning. Be informed, so that you can be prepared. Whether you are a church leader, a Bible believer, or a person yet in search of the Truth, God’s Guide to the End Times will once and for all resolve any ignorance, misunderstanding, or curiosity, that you may have concerning God’s plan for the end times.

As Jillian and Brian's destination wedding date nears, Jillian's just-released novel's complicated success threatens to destroy their big day. While Rob's new job grows extraordinarily more mysterious, Brian's becomes infinitely more unfulfilling, and both struggle to find the answers. Victoria finds it more and more difficult to hide her secrets, and when they are finally exposed there is no shortage of collateral damage. When thoughts are revealed, will the wedding be ruined?

Do you have a hard time understanding your Bible? In this podcast Pastor Luke will briefly explain each book of the Bible. If you are a new believer, or just need some help understanding God's Word, this podcast is the place to start.

The Artisan presents itself as a fictional memoir written in the early 1990s by Timo Tomi to his American son, who has just joined Doctors Without Borders to assist during the conflict in Yugoslavia. Timo, a finish carpenter drafted into the Royal Yugoslav Army in May 1940, is taken prisoner when Yugoslavia collapses. Transported to Germany, he longs to return to his family farm, where his partially disabled father, mother, wife, and new daughter must struggle to manage without him. Only by accepting work can he hope to get enough food to survive.

For detective Johan DeGraaf, the morning of April 29th, 1904 began with a foreboding gale wind, a kidnapping, and a homicide - all before arriving at the station house. The search for the abductee, a young H.P. Lovecraft, leads DeGraaf on the trail of a mysterious Prince Khan, a bizarre crystal, and a clandestine underworld of intrigue and debauchery centered around an ancient alien evil older than humanity itself.