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It started the moment she passed out in my arms. Seduction. Vile. Depraved. Desire. She couldn't remember her past but looked to me like I was her future. My walls were built. My heart was cold. My emotions vacant. After being alone for five years with only my motorcycle club at my side, she was who I had been searching for. The one I had needed all along to light up the darkness surrounding my life. Just when I thought I had her, just when I thought I could finally allow myself that happiness I didn't think I deserved, she was ripped from my hands.

A brisk introduction to the basic problems of ethics, this work consists of sharp, deep answers to foundational questions. Rigorous yet approachable, this work is an ideal introduction to analytic ethics and value theory.

Listeners are loving this cozy mystery series with its two indomitable dog sleuths. Zack, Jillian and the corgis, Sherlock and Watson, are at it again in this delightful series that pulls you right in. Zack, Jillian, and the corgis find themselves in the midst of a new mystery with a Thanksgiving twist. Just as they are planning a big holiday dinner, there are no cranberries to be found in the shops. In cozy Pomme Valley and other nearby towns, someone is breaking in and stealing only the cranberries! What's up with that?

Fly-by-the-seat-of-her-pants Ellie has been living off her father’s fortune for years. Learning he has cancer pushes her into a career change despite being in her 30s. When her first night shift on the palliative care floor ends in disaster, she finds herself alone and feeling lost. Will meeting the love of her life change this? As she starts over, her patients help her find her purpose and Asher helps her find herself again. Will the secrets she keeps destroy it all?

Kelly is a people pleaser and enjoys working as a nurse on the medical surgical floor of the hospital. She's also an avid Wildcat football fan. On opening day, she agrees to work rather than go to the game, in an attempt to forget what happened last year. When her charge nurse asks her to take on a new patient, she's unable to say no and finds herself in a new and exciting predicament.

Lisa is on a train 20 miles from home when the United Kingdom is hit by a terrifying bioterrorist attack and a national emergency is declared. After she was separated from her husband, Neil, in the hours following the September 11 attack, she made him promise that, in the event of a similar crisis, their priority should be to go home and wait for each other there. Keeping her promise and trusting Neil to keep his, she sets out on what she believes will be a quick and easy journey. But the world she once knew has changed forever and has become deadly and unpredictable.

The widespread belief that the mind is a computer embodies a failure to distinguish between computers and information-processing systems. Minds are information-processing systems, but they are not computers.

In the first part of this two-part work, the economics of higher education are explained. It is made clear how a university’s business model differs from that of a company that has to compete on the open market.

It is made clear what knowledge is and how we acquire it. It is also explained how we can have knowledge of the future, the past, the possible, the imperceptible, and the non-existent. The Gettier problem is solved, and it is proved that we have a prior knowledge, as well as knowledge of non-trivial but purely analytic truths.

In this audiobook, it is shown that moral integrity is necessary for psychological integrity and, therefore, that it is not possible to live well without living ethically. In the process of establishing this profound truth, Dr. Kuczynski explains what right and wrong are and how we know the difference between the two.

She is all set to spend the weekend with her boyfriend at his father's house. But suddenly, her boyfriend is called away for business. While left alone with her boyfriend's father, she finds him leering at her. Little does she know that he will help her realize her secret dreams.

It is said: What laws are.

According to David Hume (1743), for an event series to be a causal series is simply for that series to instantiate a regularity. According to Carl Hempel (1945), to explain an event is simply to identify a regularity of which that event is the final component. Both analyses are wrong but philosophers have failed in their attempts to identify the flaws in those arguments and, more importantly, in their attempts to produce viable alternative analyses. Here, the flaws in those arguments are identified and viable analyses of causation and explanation are put forth.

There are many reasons to behave immorally, but, so it seems, very few reasons to behave morally. In this short work, it is shown that all genuinely self-interested behavior embodies a certain morality. It is also shown that no viable ethical system requires its adherents to deny their self-interest.

When one lord owes a heavy debt to another and cannot pay, what is he to do? He sells one of his virginal slaves as "entertainment". This is the situation Cymbeline finds herself in as she is delivered to Lord Kasimir's manor and is told she is expected to do whatever her new master desires.

Carmen is very excited to be babysitting for her college professor. She is infatuated with him and thinks she might be in love with him. But when the time comes to seduce him, she isn't sure she can go through with it. However, she soon discovers that her professor has very similar feelings to her own, and he acts on them very strongly. She discovers he isn't quite who she thought he was, but she might not even care as long as he loves her back.

Sixty-eight years pass. On September 15th, 2015, an incident involving the Roswell wreckage escalates into a massive nuclear exchange between Russia and the United States, leaving five billion dead. Another eighty-three years have passed. It's 2098, and project T.I.T.O.R. is a reality. Hop machines are created by top quantum physicists Ephraim Caine, Jeff Waldron, and Rose Rios. These complex crafts are designed to do one thing: penetrate the time barrier. Time is short.

The grounds for inductive inference, and therewith for all forms epistemic realism, are identified. Skepticism concerning induction is shown to be incompatible with the datum that our experiences are temporally collocated and otherwise cohesive. Skepticism concerning the veridicality of our senses is shown to fail for the same reason.

Platonism is the doctrine which says that the spatiotemporal must be understood in terms of the non-spatiotemporal.

The great warrior Bran has been called home from the battlefield to his mother's deathbed, where he vows to solve the strange mystery surrounding what fatally attacked her in the night. He travels to the Crossroads, seeking the wise counsel of Talhaiarn, high priest and advisor to his clan, where he learns similar attacks have been reported by clans to the north and east.