A virgin's progress amid orgy and seduction. When attractive little Jenny Bunn comes south to teach, she falls in with Patrick Standish, a schoolmaster, and all the rakes and rogues of a provincial "Hell Fire Club"....

This is the first volume of memoirs from Barry Letts, producer of "Doctor Who" from 1970 to 1974, executive producer in 1980, and later producer of the BBC's Classic Serials strand. Barry's career started as an actor, and he switched to directing in the 1960s...

These lectures on mythology and contemporary society, first presented between 1962 and 1967, have never before been published. Background hiss and microphone pops create a "live" atmosphere, in which Joseph Campbell, best known for THE HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES, comes to life, joking, telling stories and recounting myths...

PORTABLE PROFESSOR is a series of exciting and informative lectures recorded by some of today's most renowned university and college professors. Each course introduces listeners to fascinating, and sometimes startling, insights into the intellectual forces that shape our understanding of the world. Each package includes 14 riveting lectures presented by notable professors as well as a book-length course guide...

Eighteenth-century Europe saw a flowering of ideas that shook the social and political order of the day. Voltaire, Locke, Diderot, and Kant and other great thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment, as this period would come to be known, sought to rid society of the shackles of superstition and ignorance by promoting such then-radical ideas as the inalienable rights of the individual, religious toleration, and the power of reason and science to better mankind...

The study of the past is supposed to help us make sense of our place in history and inform the choices we make every day. But what if the lessons we were taught in American History class were not true?...

How can people with different preferences agree on a common course of action? How can self-interested individuals be persuaded to cooperate rather than fight? Questions such as these have been addressed by concerned thinkers since the days of ancient Greece, and they are no less relevant today...

The act of distinguishing between right and wrong, and to act accordingly—that is, the pursuit of a thoughtful life, well-lived-is a core component of the human experience. "The unavoidability of ethics," as Professor Peter Kreeft puts it, forms the basis of this intriguing set of lectures, which explores the history of moral thought and ethics by examining millennia of relevant philosophical and religious texts...

Typically, advice on investing comes in the form of tips regarding a particular stock or portfolio, but the stock market-like everything in the global community-is profoundly affected by large-scale events. In this remarkable series of lectures, best-selling author and business professor Peter Navarro shows how an awareness of macroeconomic forces is absolutely essential for the savvy investor...

Portable Professor is a series of exciting and informative lectures recorded by some of today's most renowned university professors. This course includes 14 lectures on the Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans in 8 CD's...

Disciplined Minds is a book by physicist Jeff Schmidt,[1] published in the year 2000. The book describes how professionals are made; the methods of professional and graduate schools that turn eager entering students into disciplined managerial and intellectual workers that correctly perceive and apply the employer's doctrine and outlook. Schmidt uses the examples of law, medicine, and physics, and describes methods that students and professional workers can use to preserve their personalities and independent thought...

Have you found yourself full of fear at the thought of speaking in public? ...

A provocative and enlightening look at spiritual unease and its contribution to the void in modern civilization...

Adyashanti asks us to let go of our struggles with life and open to the full promise of spiritual awakening: the end of delusion and the discovery and expression of our essential being. After 15 years as a spiritual teacher, Adyashanti has found that the simpler the teaching, the greater its power to initiate this awakening...

Patrick Neate's second novel, Twelve Bar Blues, is a bouncy, ebullient book, "populated" (as one of its cast reflects midway through), "by absurd characters, dead ends and half truths" that tumbles "toward a punch-line that would seem inevitable with hindsight". It positively brims with outlandish, hilarious and moving (if occasionally hokey) tales...