If you're head of the Wildenstern clan, you can expect someone'll try to kill you at some point or another. & usually when someone does, it's a member of your own family.

But, right now Berto Wildenstern, & his brother Nate, have more pressing matters on their minds... local women seem to be spontaneously combusting & no one's quite sure why!

Wild mechanical creatures, explosions, deceptions, twists & turns with a host of fantastic otherworldly characters
- imagine The Godfather meets Philip Reeve & you have Wisdom of Dead Men.




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If you're head of the Wildenstern clan, you can expect someone'll try to kill you at some point or another. & usually when someone does, it's a member of your own family.

But, right now Berto Wildenstern, & his brother Nate, have more pressing matters on their minds... local women seem to be spontaneously combusting & no one's quite sure why!

Wild mechanical creatures, explosions, deceptions, twists & turns with a host of fantastic otherworldly characters
- imagine The Godfather meets Philip Reeve & you have Wisdom of Dead Men.




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In this fascinating book, Alan Watts explores man's quest for psychological security, examining our efforts to find spiritual & intellectual certainty in the realms of religion & philosophy. The Wisdom of Insecurity underlines the importance of our search for stability in an age where human life seems particularly vulnerable & uncertain. Watts argues our insecurity is the consequence of trying to be secure & that, ironically, salvation & sanity lie in the recognition that we have no way of saving ourselves. ...

Very few of us know much about the machinery & workings of our bodies. In an era when most educated people are up-to-date on such questions as gene research, or the male contraceptive pill, the depth of familiarity with our own organs (their structure & function) is surprisingly thin. Where is your spleen? & what does it do? & so forth. Sherwin Nuland's book explains the basic equipment of our body & shows how the human organism constructs its own strategies for survival. But Nuland goes much further than conventional biology. In writing the book, he became preoccupied by a question: what is the human spirit, & how does the structure & functioning of our physicals body explain it? He argues that the human spirit is as inseparable from the body as the mind is inseperable from the brain & results from the adaptive biological mechanisms that protect our species & perpetuate our existence. Written with the warmth, wit & intelligence that distinguished HOW WE DIE, Nuland's new book will became essential book for anyone who wants to understand how life keeps going. ...

A richly comic tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families, the hazards & chances, Angela Carter's witty & bawdy newnovel is populated with as many sets of twins, & mistaken identitiesas any Shakespeare comedy, & celebrates the magic of over a century of show business. ...

Georgie: gorgeous, glamorous & successful. But her bank balance is a molehill & her credit card bill a mountain. Lin: the gap between her dreams & reality is as wide as the Grand Canyon -- not ideal when you're a single mother. Cookie: smart & sassy, but all too aware that fairy tales don't happen for those not heroine-shaped. For these three women life just isn't turning out as planned. Working in publishing -- the parties, book launches & long lunches -- isn't nearly as glamorous as it sounds. & each is aware of something missing in their lives. So when the opportunity comes for them to wish for something, they jump at the chance. For where there's a wish, there's a way, especially with a little help from your friends.. . ...