The Stone Arrow Richard Herley http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2261 en 1978 Novels Adventure When the men of Burh, settlers from continental Europe, fall upon the sleeping nomad tribe in the depths of the forest amid the Downs of southern England, Tagart is the only survivor, escaping by sheer chance after his wife and young son have been massacred. Twenty-five and heir to the chiefdom of the roving hunters, he sees his only inheritance now to be an overwhelming urge for merciless revenge - of his family, his tribe and indeed of a way of life which in the England of 5,000 years ago is steadily being eroded by these tillers of the soil. (1978 Winner of the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize.) Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2261.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2261.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2261.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2261.mobi The Shadow out of Time Howard Phillips Lovecraft http://www.feedbooks.com/book/29 urn:isbn:0967321530 en 1934 Short Fiction Science Fiction Horror "The Shadow Out of Time" indirectly tells of the Great Race of Yith, an extraterrestrial species with the ability to travel through space and time. The Yithians accomplish this by switching bodies with hosts from the intended spatial or temporal destination. The story implies that the effect when seen from the outside is similar to spiritual possession. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/29.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/29.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/29.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/29.mobi The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas http://www.feedbooks.com/book/398 urn:isbn:0670037796 en 1844 Novels History Romance Adventure The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves home to become a musketeer. D'Artagnan is not one of the musketeers of the title; those are his friends Athos, Porthos, and Aramis—inseparable friends who live by the motto, "One for all, and all for one". The story of d'Artagnan is continued in Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne. Those three novels by Dumas are together known as the D'Artagnan Romances. The Three Musketeers was first published in serial form in the magazine Le Siècle between March and July 1844. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/398.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/398.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/398.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/398.mobi Password Incorrect Nick Name http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3127 en 2008 Short Fiction Collections 25 short, sometimes funny and sometimes mean stories ideal to rediscover the joy of reading a book as shiny and beautiful as a brand new cell phone. A look from a distance at the absurdity of our present day lives: fights with the less and less comprehensible equipment, pursuit of the latest technological news, pitfalls of our modern lifestyle, useless inventions and issues racing in all directions at a breakneck speed. A lot of entertainment and a little food for thought. Just perfect for the moment when you're finally bored with exploring the alarm settings on your new iPhone. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3127.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3127.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3127.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3127.mobi Common Sense Thomas Paine http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2850 urn:isbn:0486296024 en 1776 Non-Fiction Essay Politics Enormously popular and widely read pamphlet, first published in January of 1776, clearly and persuasively argues for American separation from Great Britain and paves the way for the Declaration of Independence. This highly influential landmark document attacks the monarchy, cites the evils of government and combines idealism with practical economic concerns. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2850.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2850.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2850.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2850.mobi The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind James Boyle http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3471 urn:isbn:0300137400 en 2008 Non-Fiction Essay In this enlightening book James Boyle describes what he calls the range wars of the information age—today’s heated battles over intellectual property. Boyle argues that just as every informed citizen needs to know at least something about the environment or civil rights, every citizen should also understand intellectual property law. Why? Because intellectual property rights mark out the ground rules of the information society, and today’s policies are unbalanced, unsupported by evidence, and often detrimental to cultural access, free speech, digital creativity, and scientific innovation. Boyle identifies as a major problem the widespread failure to understand the importance of the public domain—the realm of material that everyone is free to use and share without permission or fee. The public domain is as vital to innovation and culture as the realm of material protected by intellectual property rights, he asserts, and he calls for a movement akin to the environmental movement to preserve it. With a clear analysis of issues ranging from Jefferson’s philosophy of innovation to musical sampling, synthetic biology and Internet file sharing, this timely book brings a positive new perspective to important cultural and legal debates. If we continue to enclose the “commons of the mind,” Boyle argues, we will all be the poorer. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3471.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3471.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3471.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3471.mobi Predictive Planning Norkay http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3008 en 2009 A computer program that predicts accurately the time of one's death may be useful for planning but has unintended consequences fiction short story Norkay http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3008.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3008.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3008.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3008.mobi Star Maker's Apprentice: A Novel Exploration into Higher Dimensions & the Nature of the Gods Francis Louis Szot http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2988 en 2007 Staking his life and his sanity upon a relentless compulsion that only a half-mad man would entertain as possible, a social interloper sets for himself the task of searching for the abode of Divinity, and unexpectedly succeeds. Imagine a combination of W. Olaf Stapledon’s "Star Maker", Hunter Thompson’s "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", a Terence McKenna lecture, a Noam Chomsky political pamphlet, throw in a touch of Dante's "Divine Comedy", and you might have a good idea about the ambiance and message of the unique "Star Maker’s Apprentice". politics science philosophy religion drugs Spirituality psychology psychedelic mythology God heaven Higher dimensions Psychonaut Shaman Consciousness Goddess Divinity Creation Autobiography http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2988.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2988.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2988.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2988.mobi The God Chord: String Theory In The Landscape of the Heart Robert L. Schrag, Ph.D. http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/624 en 2008 String theory [ST] is a relatively recent development in theoretical physics that reveals the fundamental, irreducible building block of the universe to be an inconceivably tiny vibrating string. Everything is built of these strings. Hence, ST posits a universe made of music. This work examines the implications of ST in a landscape seen as remote from physics, the human heart. As such it is an exploration of ST in the harmonic nature of life, existence, love, God and the universe. healing Zen Spirituality theoretical physics string theory metaphysics nature of the universe super string theory brane theory peace of mind universe theory of everything harmony meaning http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/624.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/624.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/624.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/624.mobi The Choices Michael Graeme http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2974 en 2006 A fifteen minute read: I am sitting here in the lounge-bar of the McKinley Arms Hotel, by the shores of Loch Lomond, and I am staring out into the twilight at my choices. I have been this way before many times and I always seem to go wrong at this point, so you must forgive what must seem like fastidious caution, but I simply have to get it right this time! fiction meaning short story speculative metaphysical http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2974.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2974.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2974.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2974.mobi Pandemic Jesse Franklin Bone http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2748 en 1962 Short Fiction Science Fiction Generally, human beings don't do totally useless things consistently and widely. So--maybe there is something to it-- Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2748.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2748.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2748.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2748.mobi Magic for Beginners Kelly Link http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3187 en 2005 Short Fiction Science Fiction Fantasy Collections Link's engaging and funny second collection -- call it kitchen-sink magical realism -- riffs on haunted convenience stores, husbands and wives, rabbits, zombies, weekly apocalyptic poker parties, witches, superheroes, marriage, and cannons -- and includes several new stories. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3187.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3187.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3187.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3187.mobi Refuge Richard Herley http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3025 en 2008 Novels Science Fiction Thriller Like The Penal Colony, this is a thriller set in the near future. It is twelve years on from a global plague. John Suter believes himself the sole survivor. He has gradually come to terms with his fate and has settled into a steady and self-reliant daily routine. One morning he finds a mutilated body in the river near his house. In his terror, Suter knows he has no choice but to investigate. What he discovers upstream stretches his endurance to its limits and forces him to reassess not only his own humanity, but also his place within the human family he had once believed extinct. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3025.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3025.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3025.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3025.mobi CONTENT: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright and the Future of the Future Cory Doctorow http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2883 urn:isbn:1892391813 en 2008 Non-Fiction Essay Collections Hailed by Bruce Sterling as “a political activist, gizmo freak, junk collector, programmer, entrepreneur, and all-around Renaissance geek,” the Internet’s favorite high-tech culture maven is celebrated with the first collection of his infamous articles, essays, and polemics. Irreverently championing free speech and universal access to information—even if it's just a free download of the newest Britney Spears MP3—he leads off with a mutinous talk given at Microsoft on digital rights management, insisting that they stop treating their customers as criminals. Readers will discover how America chose Happy Meal toys over copyright, why Facebook is taking a faceplant, how the Internet is basically just a giant Xerox machine, why Wikipedia is a poor cousin of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, and how to enjoy free e-books. Practicing what he preaches, all of the author's books, including this one, are simultaneously released in print and on the Internet under Creative Commons licenses that encourage their reuse and sharing. He argues persuasively that this practice has considerably increased his sales by enlisting readers to promote his work. Accessible to geeks and nontechies alike, this is a timely collection from an author who effortlessly surfs the zeitgeist while always generating his own wave. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2883.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2883.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2883.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2883.mobi Julius Caesar William Shakespeare http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2942 urn:isbn:0174435908 en 1599 Plays Julius Caesar is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1599. It portrays the conspiracy against the Roman dictator of the same name, his assassination and its aftermath. It is one of several Roman plays that he wrote, based on true events from Roman history, which also include Coriolanus and Antony and Cleopatra. Although the title of the play is Julius Caesar, Caesar is not the central character in its action; he appears in only three scenes, and is killed at the beginning of the third act. The protagonist of the play is Marcus Brutus, and the central psychological drama is his struggle between the conflicting demands of honour, patriotism, and friendship. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2942.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2942.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2942.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2942.mobi The Outsider Howard Phillips Lovecraft http://www.feedbooks.com/book/30 urn:isbn:034542204X en 1926 Short Fiction Horror "The Outsider" is a short story by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written between March and August 1921, it was first published in Weird Tales, April 1926. It is about a mysterious individual who awakens to find himself completely alone and what happens when he attempts to make contact with others. "The Outsider" combines fantasy and horror into an atmospheric, surrealistic, and nightmarish tale. It is one of Lovecraft's few tales that uses human emotion as an important part of the story. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/30.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/30.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/30.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/30.mobi Metropolis Thea von Harbou http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1123 urn:isbn:1592249787 en 1927 Novels Science Fiction This is Metropolis, the novel that the film's screenwriter -- Thea von Harbou, who was director Fritz Lang's wife, and a collaborator in the creation of the film -- this is the novel that Harbou wrote from her own notes. It contains bits of the story that got lost on the cutting-room floor; in a very real way it is the only way to understand the film. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1123.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1123.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1123.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1123.mobi The Prophet Kahlil Gibran http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2843 urn:isbn:0394404289 en 1923 Poetry The Prophet is a book of 26 poetic essays written in English in 1923 by the Lebanese-American artist, philosopher and writer Khalil Gibran. In the book, the prophet Almustafa who has lived in the foreign city of Orphalese for 12 years is about to board a ship which will carry him home. He is stopped by a group of people, with whom he discusses many issues of life and the human condition. The book is divided into chapters dealing with love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, houses, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2843.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2843.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2843.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2843.mobi Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque Edgar Allan Poe http://www.feedbooks.com/book/40 en 1840 Short Fiction Horror Collections Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is a collection of previously-published short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1840. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/40.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/40.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/40.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/40.mobi Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift http://www.feedbooks.com/book/159 urn:isbn:0451527321 en 1726 Novels Humor/Satire Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships, is a novel by Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travellers' tales" literary sub-genre. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/159.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/159.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/159.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/159.mobi Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson http://www.feedbooks.com/book/95 urn:isbn:1593081316 en 1886 Novels Horror Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson and first published in 1886. It is about a London lawyer who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and the misanthropic Edward Hyde. The work is known for its vivid portrayal of a split personality, split in the sense that within the same person there is both an apparently good and an evil personality each being quite distinct from each other; in mainstream culture the very phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" has come to mean a person who is vastly different in moral character from one situation to the next. This is different from multiple personality disorder where the different personalities do not necessarily differ in any moral sense. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was an immediate success and one of Stevenson's best-selling works. Stage adaptations began in Boston and London within a year of its publication and it has gone on to inspire scores of major film and stage performances. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/95.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/95.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/95.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/95.mobi Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe http://www.feedbooks.com/book/102 urn:isbn:0375757325 en 1719 Novels Adventure The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (of York, Mariner Who lived Eight and Twenty Years all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, where in all the Men perished but Himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates) is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719 and sometimes regarded as the first novel in English. The book is a fictional autobiography of the title character, an English castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela, encountering Native Americans, captives, and mutineers before being rescued. This device, presenting an account of supposedly factual events, is known as a "false document" and gives a realistic frame story. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/102.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/102.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/102.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/102.mobi 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne http://www.feedbooks.com/book/182 urn:isbn:0812550927 en 1870 Novels Science Fiction Adventure Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (French: Vingt mille lieues sous les mers) is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne, published in 1870. It is about the fictional Captain Nemo and his submarine, Nautilus, as seen by one of his passengers, Professor Pierre Aronnax. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/182.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/182.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/182.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/182.mobi The Island of Dr. Moreau H. G. Wells http://www.feedbooks.com/book/33 urn:isbn:0553214322 en 1896 Novels Science Fiction Edward Prendick is shipwrecked in the Pacific. Rescued by Doctor Moreau's assistant he is taken to the doctor's island home where he discovers the doctor has been experimenting on the animal inhabitants of the island, creating bizarre proto-humans... This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/33.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/33.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/33.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/33.mobi The Time Machine H. G. Wells http://www.feedbooks.com/book/32 urn:isbn:0812505042 en 1895 Novels Science Fiction The book's protagonist is an amateur inventor or scientist living in London who is never named; he is identified simply as The Time Traveller. Having demonstrated to friends using a miniature model that time is a fourth dimension, and that a suitable apparatus can move back and forth in this fourth dimension, he builds a full-scale model capable of carrying himself. He sets off on a journey into the future. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/32.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/32.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/32.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/32.mobi The Invisible Man H. G. Wells http://www.feedbooks.com/book/34 urn:isbn:0451528522 en 1897 Novels Science Fiction The Invisible Man is an 1897 science fiction novella by H.G. Wells. Wells' novel was originally serialised in Pearson's Magazine in 1897, and published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man of the title is Griffin, a scientist who theorises that if a person's refractive index is changed to exactly that of air and his body does not absorb or reflect light, then he will be invisible. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but cannot become visible again, becoming mentally unstable as a result. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/34.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/34.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/34.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/34.mobi The Book of Tea Kakuzo Okakura http://www.feedbooks.com/book/991 urn:isbn:1933330171 en 1906 Non-Fiction Philosophy The Book of Tea was written by Okakura Kakuzo in the early 20th century. It was first published in 1906, and has since been republished many times. In the book, Kakuzo introduces the term Teaism and how Tea has affected nearly every aspect of Japanese culture, thought, and life. The book is accessibile to Western audiences because Kakuzo was taught at a young age to speak English; and spoke it all his life, becoming proficient at communicating his thoughts to the Western Mind. In his book, he discusses such topics as Zen and Taoism, but also the secular aspects of Tea and Japanese life. The book emphasises how Teaism taught the Japanese many things; most importantly, simplicity. Kakuzo argues that this tea-induced simplicity affected art and architecture, and he was a long-time student of the visual arts. He ends the book with a chapter on Tea Masters, and spends some time talking about Sen no Rikyu and his contribution to the Japanese Tea Ceremony. According to Tomonobu Imamichi, Heidegger's concept of Dasein in Sein und Zeit was inspired — although Heidegger remains silent on this — by Okakura Kakuzo's concept of das-in-dem-Welt-sein (to be in the being of the world) expressed in The Book of Tea to describe Zhuangzi's philosophy, which Imamichi's teacher had offerred to Heidegger in 1919, after having followed lessons with him the year before. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/991.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/991.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/991.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/991.mobi The Damned Thing Ambrose Bierce http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2835 urn:isbn:1406595918 en 1898 Short Fiction Horror This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2835.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2835.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2835.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2835.mobi