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The most enduring and popular theme of poems and poets is that of love. Love changes; its rhythms pause and pulse on the tiniest of things and the biggest of thrills. Within its shades all other feelings, all other emotions, gently reside, waiting for their moment. In these 50 poems, the many, many shades of love reveal themselves.

Starting a business isn't easy. In fact, it can be scary, exhausting and demoralising. When it finally takes off, even though you're fulfilling a lifelong dream, it can be a struggle to keep up with the rest of your life. How can you cope with the inevitable stresses and strains along the way? In The Business Survival Kit, serial entrepreneurs Byron Cole and Bianca Miller-Cole prepare you for the ride of your life.

The Octarine Tree. A podcast exploring the meaning of ecology, spirit and human relationship. Hosted by Western Australian agro-ecologist Byron Joel.

Hot Mic is a bi-weekly podcast where hosts Byron, Shaun and Adam talk about life, liberty and the pursuit of ridiculous situations and altercations. Any topic is on the table along with our beverages.

"The Siege of Corinth" is a tragic narrative poem first published in 1816. It was inspired by the Ottoman siege of the Venetian-held Acrocorinth in 1715.

I’m in the game. I don’t know how I got here, but I know I have a purpose. From what I understand, you’re going to try to stop me. If I were you, I would do the same thing. Because I am coming for you. And I'm going to kill you.

Count Lara returns home after a long absence abroad. He is accompanied by a single page, the faithful Kaled. In his youth, prior to his travels, Lara had led a dissolute life. On his return he is much changed - haughty, reserved, and world-weary. Nothing is known of his life in the interim. During an evening function given by the Count Otho, a local magnate, the host's cousin, Sir Ezzelin, angrily confronts Lara with accusations of unnamed crimes abroad. Otho intervenes and an appointment is made for the following day for the local nobles to hear and judge the accusations.

Conrad, the Corsair, is the chieftain of a pirate band, and plans to attack the Pacha, Seyd, and seize his possessions. Conrad's wife, Medora, prevails upon her husband to abandon his plan and remain at home. Confident in his plan and assured of his safe return, Conrad and his pirate crew set sail for the Pacha's island.

Full of endearing characters, vivid worlds, and thrilling adventures, this anthology is also a touching examination of what these celebrated authors consider their best work.

In this narrative poem, the Pacha, Giaffir, has decreed that his beautiful daughter, Zuleika, is to be married to the rich and elderly Bey of Carasman. She confesses her grief to Selim, her beloved half-brother. Selim entreats Zuleika to meet him in a grotto later that night, where he appears in pirate garb. He declares that they are not brother and sister, but cousins and reveals that Giaffir murdered his father, Abdallah.

At 29 years old, Mary and her newlywed husband embark at a two-year diplomatic assignment to South Africa. A continued campaign of economic sanctions from the international community has pressured President De Klerk to negotiate with recently-freed Nelson Mandela to end apartheid with the end goal of democratic government. Uncertainty about the future hangs like a cloud cover over the South African heat.

The Radical Declaration offers a timely series of thought-provoking essays that challenges the nation to look beyond contemporary political orthodoxies in order to recapture the ideals of the nation’s founding creed. Rev. Williams is one of the leading public theologians in the nation. He is a columnist, author, and the former pastor of the Resurrection Community Church in Berkeley, CA. His weekly column appears in the popular Huffington Post along with selected publications in North Carolina and California.

A son learns that his estranged mother is dying from stage four cancer and reluctantly moves her into his home after a past of aggressive nurturing. They attempt to salvage the time she has left while he tries to repair his struggling marriage and cultivate his three teenage sons. Witness this young Black man maneuver his way through their creative and edgy relationship. His father walks with him through this chaotic door and continues to build his character as a son and a man. But will it prepare him for what lies ahead with his mother?

The elements of passion and peace, sadness and loss, fear and gratitude, as well as harmony, exist for everyone. Yet, all too often, the shadows of everyday life dampen those emotions. Sands of Centuries Swirl by My Side is a selection of poetry penned about an ethereal image of pure, perfect, tortuous, enduring love, and separately, ascension or dissension from death to heaven, or hell.

Fresh off victories against both Amerigo’s enemies and his own father, Izzy Asorian receives his long-cherished dream. Admitted into the Amerigo Magical Academy, he rekindles a friendship with his comrade-in-arms Selvo as they become new students. Yet without a magical affinity, Izzy’s progress is glacially slow. Added to that are the tensions from the caste system dividing commoners from the nobility.

Tiré de l'ouvrage "Simple récits de l'histoire de France" du pédagogue Gustave Ducoudray, cette Histoire de France est conçue comme un manuel destiné aux néophytes. Ce cinquièmevolume traite de Louis XVI, de la Révolution, de Napoléon et l'Empire.

Tiré de l’ouvrage "Simple récits de l'histoire de France" du pédagogue Gustave Ducoudray, cette "Histoire de France" est conçue comme un manuel destiné aux néophytes. Ce quatrième volume traite de Louis XIII et Richelieu, Louis XIV et ses ministres, ainsi que de Louis XV.

Tiré de l'ouvrage "Simple récits de l'histoire de France" du pédagogue Gustave Ducoudray, cette "Histoire de France" est conçue comme un manuel destiné aux néophytes. Ce troisième volume traite de Jeanne d'Arc, de François 1er et des Guerres de Religion.

Resurrected in the body of his distant descendent, Uz’Riel intends to restore his dynasty back to greatness. Once he had been a hero, a Great Sage who unified humanity against the Demon King. But now the world has fallen back into its petty ways, losing its understanding of magic even as technology based on magical engines roar into existence.

Tiré de l'ouvrage Simple récits de l'histoire de France du pédagogue Gustave Ducoudray, cette Histoire de France est conçue comme un manuel destiné aux néophytes. Ce second volume traite de Charlemagne, de la féodalité et des croisades.