Crime and Punishment

The prequel to the hilarious Barney Conroy Trilogy, this collection of short stories will make you laugh, cringe, and face-palm all at the same time! Barney's an average guy in his mid-thirties with questionable social skills and progressive germophobia. He likes routine. He likes to keep his head down. He's trying to live an average life. He's just not as good at it as the rest of us. Laugh along with (or at!) Barney as he struggles with everyday social conventions in this collection of hilarious, bite-sized short stories. Download now if you're ready for plenty of awkward laughter!????

Cat's used to moving, to never quite fitting in. But when her family moves to Valleyview, she's not expecting what happens next. A serious accident, a coma, then the real strangeness began. Cat is faced with an entirely new set of powers as well as an ancient evil packaged as the high school hero. And if that wasn't?enough, she'll also discover that her family is far more than what she's been told. Grade 10 just got a lot more challenging.

A fascinating account of the separation of George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron and his wife Anne Isabella Noel Byron, 11th Baroness Wentworth and Baroness Byron, defending her role in the controversy.Lord Byron is best known as a poet, as well as being the father of the world's first computer programmer, Ada Countess of Lovelace.

In part two of this incredibly erotic series, Misha, Lydia’s new shemale lover has moved in with Lydia and her cuckold husband, Chris. Together, they take full advantage of the basement play dungeon that Lydia had had Chris build. The hot wife and the shemale take turns to play with Chris and the dungeon equipment, using his sissy cuckold body for their own pleasures – a turn of events that Chris is more than delighted with, although they keep his manhood confined for much of the time. EXPLICIT: this story contains 6,400 words of highly erotic t-girl, hot wife and cuckold BDSM action!

How well do you know your noughties music? Do you think you can recognize a song from a single line of lyrics? If so, then this is the book for you! This eBook features 120 questions ranging from basic ones (to get you into the swing of things) all the way through to those that will have you scratching your head saying 'I KNOW this one!'. Perfect for all the family, this book is great fun for any occasion.

　　《人鼠之间》讲述了二十世纪30年代美国经济大萧条时期，两个一贫如洗却又相依为命的美国流动农业工人佐治和李奈从怀揣梦想、追逐梦想、近梦想到梦想破灭的悲惨故事，艺术地展现了田园牧歌式的农庄生活和残酷的社会现实的冲突，反映了人对生存条件的真切感受。

      关于人类自己，我们有着太多的好奇。为什么人会有欲望？是什么动机促使我们挑战这样或是那样的困难？动机总是一个一个，好像无休无止，自我实现真的可以被满足吗？甚至，我们还会想知道，我们可以成为什么，我们想要成为什么？      这些对自我行为与心理的探索，对内在人性的疑问和剖析，在这本《动机与人格》里已经行了充分的表述。当代伟大的心理学家、人本心理学的奠基人马斯洛在书中提出了许多精彩的观，详细探讨了自我实现这个概念，创造性地提出了人本心理学科学观的理论、需要层次论、元动机理论、心理治疗理论、高峰体验理论等重要观，以解答我们对人性的疑问，帮助我们从心理动机的角度，了解个人自我实现的需求。      实现内在动机的关键，在于认清内心自我实现的需求，抵御外部力量的裹挟。简单来说，就是只要你想，你就可以活出你自己想要成为的样子。

　　弗莱德里克不顾兄弟情谊，篡夺同胞兄弟的公爵头衔，把公爵赶走，使他被迫流亡在森林里。不久公爵的女儿罗瑟琳也被驱逐到森林，遇到了受兄长奥列佛虐待的奥兰多，两人相爱。奥兰多宽恕了奥列佛，使奥列佛悔过，并与罗瑟琳的堂妹西莉娅产生了爱情。他们一起生活在森林里，罗瑟琳终于在森林里找到了父亲，弗莱德里克受隐士拨，对自己的行为十分懊悔，将权位归还给了胞兄，奥兰多与罗瑟琳、奥列佛与西莉娅、牧人西尔维斯与牧女菲必、小丑试金石与村姑奥德雷四对恋人喜结良缘，收获了大团圆的结局。

《冥途》集荟萃了内田百?f1917—1921年发表的十八篇短篇作品。作者继承并发展了其师夏目漱石的《梦十夜》《永日小品》的创造风格，并加以地方风土气息和德国浪漫主义文学要素，使其作品充满梦幻色彩。这些小品文发表之后，受到了以芥川龙之介、森田草平、佐藤春夫为代表的同时代文人的高度评价。

《East of Eden》为诺贝尔文学奖得主约翰·斯坦贝克长篇小说代表作。 “我似乎永远在写这本书。我一辈子都在写这本书。早期的作品只是习作：准备写这本书的习作。也就是这个缘故，我要这本书写得好，因为它是居于首位的。” 《伊甸园东》确实是史坦贝克所有作品中*具分量的一本书。一九六三年诺贝尔文学奖的授奖词盛赞扬他的作品：“既写实且富于想象力，同时兼具社会性的洞察力与幽默。”《伊甸园东》是斯坦贝克文学生命的顶点，在世界文学史中亦占一席之地。

《The Screwtape Letters》是《纳尼亚传奇》作者C.S.刘易斯另一代表作。 在两个“魔鬼”之间幽默而敏锐的书信交流中，C. S. 刘易斯深入探讨了善与恶、诱惑、悔改等问题。通过这个精彩的故事，作者对人性进行深度挖掘，讽刺了虚假与喧嚣。

《Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories 》为英国著名女作家弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫早期短篇小说集。在这部作品里，传统的情节和人物概念被抛弃了，取而代之的是一种意识流的、近乎梦幻的实验性叙事。该部作品各篇小说篇幅较短，有利于读者较为容易地接触所谓的“意识流”小说。

Peter Pan (also known as Peter Pan and Wendy or Peter and Wendy) was written by J.M. Barrie (1860 - 1937) and was first published as a novel in 1911. The story follows a young boy who can fly and never grows old. He lives on an island called Neverland with a group of friends called The Lost Boys and fights with the fearsome pirate - Captain Hook. Other friends include fairies, mermaids and of course, children outside of Neverland.This digital edition is beautifully formatted with an active Table of Contents that goes directly to each chapter of the story. Mermaids Classics, an imprint of Mermaids Publishing brings the very best of old classic literature to a modern era of digital reading by producing high quality books in ebook format. All of the Mermaids Classics epublications are reproductions of classic antique books that were originally published in print format, mostly over a century ago and are now republished in digital format as ebooks. Begin to build your collection of digital books by looking for more literary gems from Mermaids Classics.

《死屋手记》是陀思妥耶夫斯基基于流放经历创作的纪实小说，以冷静笔触再现沙俄监狱的野蛮，刻画囚犯群像，探究专制制度下的犯罪根源。

《卡拉马佐夫兄弟》是俄国作家陀思妥耶夫斯基的*之作，也是世界文学*伟大的长篇小说之一。 小说由一桩真实的弑父案改编，围绕老卡拉马佐夫与他的三个儿子——德米特里、伊万、阿辽沙，以及私生子斯乜尔加科夫之间的激烈冲突展开。 老卡拉马佐夫荒淫贪婪，占有了妻子留给孩子们的遗产，又与长子德米特里为争夺风流女子格露莘卡而反目成仇。某夜，德米特里在狂怒中闯入父亲家中，将其击伤后仓皇逃离。而真正的凶手——躲在暗处的私生子斯乜尔加科夫，在"一切皆允许"的思想驱使下，残忍地杀害了老卡拉马佐夫。由此引发了一桩扑朔迷离的血案与一场震撼人心的法庭审判。 小说表面是一桩弑父案，深层则是一场关于信仰、理性、自由意志与道德的灵魂角力。三兄弟分别代表了人性的不同维度：德米特里是情欲与冲动的化身，伊万是理性与质疑的代言人，阿辽沙则是信仰与仁爱的象征。弗洛伊德曾盛赞此书为"*伟大的小说"。

Agatha Christie’s world-famous mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Ten strangers, apparently with little in common, are lured to an island mansion off the coast of Devon by the mysterious U.N.Owen. Over dinner, a record begins to play, and the voice of an unseen host accuses each person of hiding a guilty secret. That evening, former reckless driver Tony Marston is found murdered by a deadly dose of cyanide. The tension escalates as the survivors realise the killer is not only among them but is preparing to strike again… and again…

HBO’s hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin’s internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A DANCE WITH DRAGONS: DREAMS AND DUST is the FIRST part of the fifth volume in the series. ‘Richly satisfying and utterly engrossing’ Sunday Times

From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Doris Lessing, a short story about a woman’s gradual drift outside the limits of society. An old woman, with gipsy blood, begins to find the conventions of society stifling – when her husband dies, and her children leave home, she embraces a marginal, unconventional existence, accompanied by her faithful cat. ‘An Old Woman and Her Cat’ brilliantly combines Doris Lessing’s unforgiving examination of our society – and those it cannot accommodate and ulitmately fails – with a wonderful portrait of her favourite animal – the cat. This story also appears in the collection The Temptation of Jack Orkney.

The Stig gets his kit off and reveals how he came to be Top Gear's iconic racing driver and so much more - including what it's like to thrash an Aston Martin DBS, train for the Army and face the terror of Jeremy Clarkson's underwear… When the Black Stig disappeared off the end of an aircraft carrier in 2003, we were introduced to The White Stig. Faster. Stranger. Harder to keep clean. And ever since, millions have wondered – who is The Man in the White Suit? They're about to find out. Ben Collins caught the car the bug young, kicking his dad's boss in the balls for not giving him a company Jag. This was the attitude that eventually led him to spend seven years sharing a cabin with Jeremy Clarkson's underwear, James May's PhD thesis and Richard Hammond's hairspray. Because he is The Stig. Now he tells all about life inside the iconic white helmet. What it's like to guide a blind ex-RAF officer around the Top Gear track; pit a drug dealer's Mitsubishi Evo against a Trojan tank; set a Vauxhall Monara against Chloe the dancing Ninja; and race double-decker Routemasters against bendy buses. Not to mention all the inside stuff on how the show's amazing driving sequences are made. He also reveals how he got to be there – setting a Dunsfold lap time faster than Michael Schumacher's. Breaking records with the best of the best at Daytona and Le Mans. It's an awesome story, told by an amazing man.

Exploit design, deployment, and management of large-scale containers About This Book ? Explore the latest features available in Kubernetes 1.10 ? Ensure that your clusters are always available, scalable, and up to date ? Master the skills of designing and deploying large clusters on various cloud platforms Who This Book Is For Mastering Kubernetes is for you if you are a system administrator or a developer who has an intermediate understanding of Kubernetes and wish to master its advanced features. Basic knowledge of networking would also be helpful. In all, this advanced-level book provides a smooth pathway to mastering Kubernetes. What You Will Learn ? Architect a robust Kubernetes cluster for long-time operation ? Discover the advantages of running Kubernetes on GCE, AWS, Azure, and bare metal ? Understand the identity model of Kubernetes, along with the options for cluster federation ? Monitor and troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters and run a highly available Kubernetes ? Create and configure custom Kubernetes resources and use third-party resources in your automation workflows ? Enjoy the art of running complex stateful applications in your container environment ? Deliver applications as standard packages In Detail Kubernetes is an open source system that is used to automate the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. If you are running more containers or want automated management of your containers, you need Kubernetes at your disposal. To put things into perspective, Mastering Kubernetes walks you through the advanced management of Kubernetes clusters. To start with, you will learn the fundamentals of both Kubernetes architecture and Kubernetes design in detail. You will discover how to run complex stateful microservices on Kubernetes including advanced features such as horizontal pod autoscaling, rolling updates, resource quotas, and persistent storage backend. Using real-world use cases, you will explore the options for network configuration, and understand how to set up, operate, and troubleshoot various Kubernetes networking plugins. In addition to this, you will get to grips with custom resource development and utilization in automation and maintenance workflows. To scale up your knowledge of Kubernetes, you will encounter some additional concepts based on the Kubernetes 1.10 release, such as Promethus, Role-based access control, API aggregation, and more. By the end of this book, you’ll know everything you need to graduate from intermediate to advanced level of understanding Kubernetes. Style and approach Delving into the design of the Kubernetes platform, the reader will be exposed to Kubernetes advanced features and best practices. This advanced-level book will provide a pathway to mastering Kubernetes.