Author: Colin Milton
Publisher: AB Discovery
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 77
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Beware of generous and unexpected offers that sound amazing... and free. Good advice, right? For Simon, the unexpected chance for a 4 week holiday in a lovely country estate was wonderful. But there was a secret agenda and Simon found that his room was... a nursery. From the Colin Milton book: Tales From The Nursery Vol 4
Author: Jostein Gaarder
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466804270
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 599
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A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
Author: Ben Pathen
Publisher: AB Discovery
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 171
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In Ben Pathen's 16th ABDL book we travel to Germany and discover a wealthy single woman, Franka who desperately wants to have a relationship with a man of her own design - a baby man. A man she can love, control, spend her life with and be... his mother. And she wants an English Man - an English Baby. With the help of an esteemed psychiatrist, Dr Marie, she takes 50-year-old Ethan on a trip down memory lane back to his younger years and finally, to his infancy. And there he stays. Franka and her new Nanny take Ethan on a wonderful and refreshing journey of absolute dependence, total love, and complete infancy. The tortured and lonely adult evaporates and the new person - baby Ethan is born. He is less of a man, but more complete as an individual as he allows infancy to be his destination and his new life. A baby is born and his mother is ecstatic!
Author: Steven Pinker
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062032526
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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"A brilliant, witty, and altogether satisfying book." — New York Times Book Review The classic work on the development of human language by the world’s leading expert on language and the mind In The Language Instinct, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution. The Language Instinct received the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association and the Public Interest Award from the Linguistics Society of America. This edition includes an update on advances in the science of language since The Language Instinct was first published.
Author: Ben Pathen
Publisher: AB Discovery
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Some dreams come true. Some books foretell a future. For 57-year-old Noah, his life was misery. He desperately wanted to be a baby - nappies and all. But being single and alone made that an impossibility. The one thing a baby simply had to have was... a parent. Noah wanted a mummy. Recent Ph.D. graduate, Lisa has been offered the chance to study regression along with the possibility of going even further and perhaps reducing the physical size of an adult baby until they are an actual baby. Can she do it? And what part does a years-old amateur manuscript play in the drama that unfolds? A story of wishful thinking and the reality of infancy that comes back again.
Author: Ben Pathen
Publisher: AB Discovery
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 203
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Sebastian has a serious problem. His smoking is out of control and threatens to shorten his life. He is single, alone and desperately wants a relationship and knows that heavy smoking is not exactly an attraction to a smart, attractive and sexy woman like Alicia. But Alicia isn't a friend. She is his hypnotherapist. While secretly admiring her and even more secretly lusting after her when she wears leather, Sebastian decides to get rid of his smoking addiction and spent some quality time with the woman he lusts after. She gets rid of his smoking alright... But something else happens to him that will alter the trajectory of his entire life... for the better. Sebastian starts to feel like he is a baby again. Will it last? Will it get deeper? Read on to find out.
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061804819
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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New York Times Bestseller • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • An Oprah's Book Club Selection “Powerful . . . [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands worked the prickly threads of religion, politics, race, sin and redemption into a thing of terrible beauty.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review The Poisonwood Bible, now celebrating its 25th anniversary, established Barbara Kingsolver as one of the most thoughtful and daring of modern writers. Taking its place alongside the classic works of postcolonial literature, it is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in Africa. The story is told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it—from garden seeds to Scripture—is calamitously transformed on African soil. The novel is set against one of the most dramatic political chronicles of the twentieth century: the Congo's fight for independence from Belgium, the murder of its first elected prime minister, the CIA coup to install his replacement, and the insidious progress of a world economic order that robs the fledgling African nation of its autonomy. Against this backdrop, Orleanna Price reconstructs the story of her evangelist husband's part in the Western assault on Africa, a tale indelibly darkened by her own losses and unanswerable questions about her own culpability. Also narrating the story, by turns, are her four daughters—the teenaged Rachel; adolescent twins Leah and Adah; and Ruth May, a prescient five-year-old. These sharply observant girls, who arrive in the Congo with racial preconceptions forged in 1950s Georgia, will be marked in surprisingly different ways by their father's intractable mission, and by Africa itself. Ultimately each must strike her own separate path to salvation. Their passionately intertwined stories become a compelling exploration of moral risk and personal responsibility.
Author: The Reluctant Baby
Publisher: AB Discovery
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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For some adult babies, bedwetting was the ‘gateway drug’ that got them started on diapers and eventually baby things. The endless wet sheets almost demanded nappies. And for some parents or carers, the same thing happened. Wet beds demanded protection and the only real protection was nappies and some years ago, those nappies were cloth and covered in plastic pants. Baby pants. Baby diapers. Is it any wonder some grew to want to be a baby? But what if the parent or carer knew the effect it would have and did it anyway? What if they wanted their charge to become dependent on nappies and to being to crave infancy? What if they had a plan? Janet had such a plan – a fourteen step to revert Nathan back to infancy. Step one: Nappies and Plastic pants for bedtime. Step two: Nappies and Plastic pants 24/7. Step three: Baby clothing. Step four: Dummy and feeding from a bottle. Step five: A nursery and sleeping in a cot. Step six: Being fed in a highchair. Step seven: Calling her mummy. Step eight: More baby clothing. Step nine: Playing with baby toys. Step ten: Babysitter. Step eleven: Breast Feeding Step twelve: Baby Acceptance Step thirteen: Conclusion Step fourteen: Future He was… The Reluctant Baby
Author: Colleen McCullough
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061990477
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 689
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One of the most beloved novels of all time, Colleen McCullough's magnificent saga of dreams, struggles, dark passions, and forbidden love in the Australian outback has enthralled readers the world over. The Thorn Birds is a chronicle of three generations of Clearys—an indomitable clan of ranchers carving lives from a beautiful, hard land while contending with the bitterness, frailty, and secrets that penetrate their family. It is a poignant love story, a powerful epic of struggle and sacrifice, a celebration of individuality and spirit. Most of all, it is the story of the Clearys' only daughter, Meggie, and the haunted priest, Father Ralph de Bricassart—and the intense joining of two hearts and souls over a lifetime, a relationship that dangerously oversteps sacred boundaries of ethics and dogma.
Author: John McKeown
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1783740523
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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The human population's annual total consumption is not sustainable by one planet. This unprecedented situation calls for a reform of religious cultures that promote a large ideal family size. Many observers assume that Christianity is inevitably part of this problem because it promotes "family values" and statistically, in America and elsewhere, has a higher birthrate than nonreligious people. This book explores diverse ideas about human reproduction in the church past and present. It investigates an extreme fringe of U.S. Protestantism, including the Quiverfull movement, that use Old Testament "fruitful" verses to support natalist ideas explicitly promoting higher fecundity. It also challenges the claim by some natalists that Martin Luther in the 16th century advocated similar ideas. This book argues that natalism is inappropriate as a Christian application of Scripture, especially since rich populations’ total footprints are detrimental to biodiversity and to human welfare. It explores the ancient cultural context of the Bible verses quoted by natalists. Challenging the assumption that religion normally promotes fecundity, the book finds surprising exceptions among early Christians (with a special focus on Saint Augustine) since they advocated spiritual fecundity in preference to biological fecundity. Finally the book uses a hermeneutic lens derived from Genesis 1, and prioritising the modern problem of biodiversity, to provide ecological interpretations of the Bible's "fruitful" verses.
