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The Liber Gomorrhianus ('Book of Gomorrah') is a book authored and published by the Benedictine monk Peter Damian during the Gregorian Reformation circa AD 1051. [1] It is a treatise regarding various vices of the clergy, and the consequent need for reform.
The works of Theopompus were chiefly historical, and are much quoted by later writers. They included an Epitome of Herodotus's Histories (whether this work is actually his is debated), [5] the Hellenica (Ἑλληνικά), the History of Philip, and several panegyrics and hortatory addresses, the chief of which was the Letter to Alexander.
All Our Wrong Todays is a 2017 science fiction novel by Canadian writer Elan Mastai.It is Mastai's debut novel and was first published in February 2017 in the United States by Dutton, in Canada by Doubleday Canada, and in the United Kingdom in March 2017 by Michael Joseph.
He is believed to have found and decoded the everchanging book of Abraham the Mage, and found a spell for immortality, along with his wife, Perenelle Flamel. Count of St. Germain. Myths, legends, and speculations about St. Germain began to be widespread in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and continue today.
The next week, the book was the 6th sold among fiction novels on Amazon. [10] It debuted at No. 5 on the USA Today bestseller list. [11] On The Wall Street Journal fiction bestseller list, the book debuted at No. 2. [12] In the first week of release, The Trials of Apollo series was No. 2 on The New York Times bestseller list. [13]
George Lippard's most notorious book, The Quaker City, or The Monks of Monk Hall (1845), is a lurid and thickly plotted exposé of city life in antebellum Philadelphia. Highly anti-capitalistic in its message, Lippard aimed to expose the hypocrisy of the Philadelphia elite, as well as the darker underside of American capitalism and urbanization.
Three of a Kind is a collection of three novellas by James M. Cain, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1943. Each originally appeared as serials in magazines during the 1930s. [1] [2] [3] The collection includes Double Indemnity, first published in 1936 as a serial for Liberty magazine; [4] [5] Career in C Major, originally entitled "Two Can Sing" when it appeared in The American Magazine in 1938 ...
One may be incapable of breeding with the other, and may by consequence of lower physical health and ability, be considered of a lower moral standing than the other. [ 88 ] Nick Bostrom has said that transhumanism advocates for the wellbeing of all sentient beings, including non-human animals , extraterrestrials , and artificial forms of life ...