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When Women Were Warriors Book I: The Warrior's Path

When Women Were Warriors, #1

by Catherine Wilson ...

Series Book 1 - When Women Were Warriors
Winner, 2010 EPIC Ebook Award for fiction in the Mainstream category."Breathtakingly gorgeous writing … a multi-layered tale of such depth, breadth and insight that it was very nearly a spiritual experience…"--from a review by T. T. Thomas on Amazon.com"…reminds me of Le Guin, of Cecelia Holland, and something of Rosemary Sutcliff… It made me feel as I did when I was a child reading authors like ... Read more

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Winner, 2010 EPIC Ebook Award for fiction in the Mainstream category."Breathtakingly gorgeous writing … a multi-layered tale of such depth, breadth and insight that it was very nearly a spiritual experience…"--from a review by T. T. Thomas on Amazon.com"…reminds me of Le Guin, of Cecelia Holland, and something of Rosemary Sutcliff… It made me feel as I did when I was a child reading authors like
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Epicureanism

A Very Short Introduction

by Catherine Wilson ...

Series series Very Short Introductions
Epicureanism is commonly associated with a carefree view of life and the pursuit of pleasures, particularly the pleasures of the table. However it was a complex and distinctive system of philosophy that emphasized simplicity and moderation, and considered nature to consist of atoms and the void. Epicureanism is a school of thought whose legacy continues to reverberate today. In this Very Short ... Read more

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Epicureanism is commonly associated with a carefree view of life and the pursuit of pleasures, particularly the pleasures of the table. However it was a complex and distinctive system of philosophy that emphasized simplicity and moderation, and considered nature to consist of atoms and the void. Epicureanism is a school of thought whose legacy continues to reverberate today. In this Very Short
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When Women Were Warriors Book II: A Journey of the Heart

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by Catherine Wilson ...

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"A Journey of the Heart [Book II] shows the same strong storytelling ability of the first book. The language is still almost musical and wraps its sweet spell around you.… Storylines that were just starting to grow in the first book are also very well developed here. Intrigue and conflict are fleshed out and take some surprising twists. All that I had hoped for, reading the first book, begins to ... Read more

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"A Journey of the Heart [Book II] shows the same strong storytelling ability of the first book. The language is still almost musical and wraps its sweet spell around you.… Storylines that were just starting to grow in the first book are also very well developed here. Intrigue and conflict are fleshed out and take some surprising twists. All that I had hoped for, reading the first book, begins to
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When Women Were Warriors Book III: A Hero's Tale

When Women Were Warriors, #3

by Catherine Wilson ...

Series Book 3 - When Women Were Warriors
"In Book II, Tamras moved from her home into the lands beyond its border. In Book three, the stage widens further: she deals with the struggles of whole peoples. Caught up in intrigues that would once have been far above her, the heroine risks everything unless she can not only learn to swim in treacherous waters, but to master them. The heroine's inner journey continues to match her outer one. ... Read more

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"In Book II, Tamras moved from her home into the lands beyond its border. In Book three, the stage widens further: she deals with the struggles of whole peoples. Caught up in intrigues that would once have been far above her, the heroine risks everything unless she can not only learn to swim in treacherous waters, but to master them. The heroine's inner journey continues to match her outer one.
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How to Be an Epicurean

The Ancient Art of Living Well

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A leading philosopher shows that if the pursuit of happiness is the question, Epicureanism is the answerEpicureanism has a reputation problem, bringing to mind gluttons with gout or an admonition to eat, drink, and be merry. In How to Be an Epicurean, philosopher Catherine Wilson shows that Epicureanism isn't an excuse for having a good time: it's a means to live a good life. Although modern ... Read more

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A leading philosopher shows that if the pursuit of happiness is the question, Epicureanism is the answerEpicureanism has a reputation problem, bringing to mind gluttons with gout or an admonition to eat, drink, and be merry. In How to Be an Epicurean, philosopher Catherine Wilson shows that Epicureanism isn't an excuse for having a good time: it's a means to live a good life. Although modern
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Russia's War and Europe's Revival

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Author and independent journalist, Catherine Wilson, journeyed across eastern and central Europe from Romania, Bulgaria, and North Macedonia to Hungary from late 2024 to the early months of 2025. Along the way she explored the many questions she had about how Europe was changing and evolving around the Ukraine war that had been raging for three years. The resulting e-book comprises six chapters ... Read more

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Author and independent journalist, Catherine Wilson, journeyed across eastern and central Europe from Romania, Bulgaria, and North Macedonia to Hungary from late 2024 to the early months of 2025. Along the way she explored the many questions she had about how Europe was changing and evolving around the Ukraine war that had been raging for three years. The resulting e-book comprises six chapters
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The Invisible World

Early Modern Philosophy and the Invention of the Microscope

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Series series Studies in Intellectual History and the History of Philosophy
In the seventeenth century the microscope opened up a new world of observation, and, according to Catherine Wilson, profoundly revised the thinking of scientists and philosophers alike. The interior of nature, once closed off to both sympathetic intuition and direct perception, was now accessible with the help of optical instruments. The microscope led to a conception of science as an objective, ... Read more

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In the seventeenth century the microscope opened up a new world of observation, and, according to Catherine Wilson, profoundly revised the thinking of scientists and philosophers alike. The interior of nature, once closed off to both sympathetic intuition and direct perception, was now accessible with the help of optical instruments. The microscope led to a conception of science as an objective,
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The Spokane Serial Killer: Robert Lee Yates Jr. and the Geography of Justice

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The Spokane Serial Killer: Robert Lee Yates Jr. and the Geography of JusticeBetween 1975 and 2000, decorated U.S. Army helicopter pilot Robert Lee Yates Jr. murdered at least fifteen women while maintaining an impeccable facade as a family man and military veteran. Operating primarily in Spokane, Washington, Yates targeted vulnerable sex workers, driven by severe paraphilic disorder including ... Read more

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The Spokane Serial Killer: Robert Lee Yates Jr. and the Geography of JusticeBetween 1975 and 2000, decorated U.S. Army helicopter pilot Robert Lee Yates Jr. murdered at least fifteen women while maintaining an impeccable facade as a family man and military veteran. Operating primarily in Spokane, Washington, Yates targeted vulnerable sex workers, driven by severe paraphilic disorder including
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The Vesterbro Baby Burner: Murder, Reform, and the Making of the Welfare State

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The Vesterbro Baby Burner: Murder, Reform, and the Making of the Welfare StateBetween 1913 and 1920, Dagmar Overbye murdered at least nine infants in Copenhagen, operating as an "Angel Maker" who accepted illegitimate children from desperate unwed mothers before strangling and cremating them in her apartment's masonry heater. This meticulously researched historical account traces how one woman's ... Read more

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The Vesterbro Baby Burner: Murder, Reform, and the Making of the Welfare StateBetween 1913 and 1920, Dagmar Overbye murdered at least nine infants in Copenhagen, operating as an "Angel Maker" who accepted illegitimate children from desperate unwed mothers before strangling and cremating them in her apartment's masonry heater. This meticulously researched historical account traces how one woman's
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Epicureanism

A Very Short Introduction

by Catherine Wilson ...

Series series Very Short Introductions
Epicureanism is commonly associated with a carefree view of life and the pursuit of pleasures, particularly the pleasures of the table. However it was a complex and distinctive system of philosophy that emphasized simplicity and moderation, and considered nature to consist of atoms and the void. Epicureanism is a school of thought whose legacy continues to reverberate today. In this Very Short ... Read more

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Epicureanism is commonly associated with a carefree view of life and the pursuit of pleasures, particularly the pleasures of the table. However it was a complex and distinctive system of philosophy that emphasized simplicity and moderation, and considered nature to consist of atoms and the void. Epicureanism is a school of thought whose legacy continues to reverberate today. In this Very Short
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Kant and the Naturalistic Turn of 18th Century Philosophy

by Catherine Wilson ...

Kant's philosophy is usually treated according to 'internalist' textual methodology rather than contextually according to 'externalist' methodology. Kant and the Naturalistic Turn of 18th Century Philosophy presents transcendental idealism, the metaphysics of morals, and other Kantian innovations in philosophy as a reaction to 18th century developments in the life and human sciences. It interprets ... Read more

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Kant's philosophy is usually treated according to 'internalist' textual methodology rather than contextually according to 'externalist' methodology. Kant and the Naturalistic Turn of 18th Century Philosophy presents transcendental idealism, the metaphysics of morals, and other Kantian innovations in philosophy as a reaction to 18th century developments in the life and human sciences. It interprets
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Epicureanism at the Origins of Modernity

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This landmark study examines the role played by the rediscovery of the writings of the ancient atomists, Epicurus and Lucretius, in the articulation of the major philosophical systems of the seventeenth century, and, more broadly, their influence on the evolution of natural science and moral and political philosophy. The target of sustained and trenchant philosophical criticism by Cicero, and of ... Read more

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This landmark study examines the role played by the rediscovery of the writings of the ancient atomists, Epicurus and Lucretius, in the articulation of the major philosophical systems of the seventeenth century, and, more broadly, their influence on the evolution of natural science and moral and political philosophy. The target of sustained and trenchant philosophical criticism by Cicero, and of
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