Dancy's Gold


Book Description

A feisty redhead who wants her way. A stern oilman who will keep her in line and safe. Dancy Mason’s life has not turned out as she had hoped. Her dreams had been sidelined, but the betrayal of her wealthy husband had awakened her to a lot of truths. Truth has a way of eating into your soul, and making a person realize the difference between real and fake. Now she wants to rebuild her life and find herself again. Unfortunately, due to her father’s last request, Dancy has to relive and accept her history, and her mistakes. Part of her past is Pake Sutter, her father’s partner. As a teenager, she’d had a crush on him. His response had been to ship her off to a boarding school until she was eighteen. Pake Sutter has devoted his life to being an oilman. He’d apprenticed under the best alive: Digger Mason. Along with Digger came a daughter, who’d been cute as a little girl, but dangerous as an oversexed teenager, who didn’t know how much he was tempted. No one considered Pake a one-woman type. His secret was the only woman he’d wanted had married another man while he’d been waiting for her to grow up. He didn’t know how he was going to handle Dancy, and her father’s last request. He did know he wasn’t going to let her get away again. Publisher’s Note: This contemporary romance contains elements of action, adventure, danger, mystery, suspense, adult themes, sensual scenes and power exchange. If any of these offend you, please do not purchase.




Don't Unplug


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Chris Dancy, the world's most connected person, inspires readers with practical advice to live a happier and healthier life using technology In 2002, Chris Dancy was overweight, unemployed, and addicted to technology. He chain-smoked cigarettes, popped pills, and was angry and depressed. But when he discovered that his mother kept a record of almost every detail of his childhood, an idea began to form. Could knowing the status of every aspect of his body and how his lifestyle affected his health help him learn to take care of himself? By harnessing the story of his life, could he learn to harness his own bad habits? With a little tech know-how combined with a healthy dose of reality, every app, sensor, and data point in Dancy's life was turned upside down and examined. Now he's sharing what he knows. That knowledge includes the fact that changing the color of his credit card helps him to use it less often, and that nostalgia is a trigger for gratitude for him. A modern-day story of rebirth and redemption, Chris' wisdom and insight will show readers how to improve their lives by paying attention to the relationship between how we move, what we eat, who we spend time with, and how it all makes us feel. But Chris has done all the hard work: Don't Unplug shows us how we too can transform our lives.




The Discovery of Things


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Aristotle's Categories can easily seem to be a statement of a naïve, pre-philosophical ontology, centered around ordinary items. Wolfgang-Rainer Mann argues that the treatise, in fact, presents a revolutionary metaphysical picture, one Aristotle arrives at by (implicitly) criticizing Plato and Plato's strange counterparts, the "Late-Learners" of the Sophist. As Mann shows, the Categories reflects Aristotle's discovery that ordinary items are things (objects with properties). Put most starkly, Mann contends that there were no things before Aristotle. The author's argument consists of two main elements. First, a careful investigation of Plato which aims to make sense of the odd-sounding suggestion that things do not show up as things in his ontology. Secondly, an exposition of the theoretical apparatus Aristotle introduces in the Categories--an exposition which shows how Plato's and the Late-Learners' metaphysical pictures cannot help but seem inadequate in light of that apparatus. In doing so, Mann reveals that Aristotle's conception of things--now so engrained in Western thought as to seem a natural expression of common sense--was really a hard-won philosophical achievement. Clear, subtle, and rigorously argued, The Discovery of Things will reshape our understanding of some of Aristotle's--and Plato's--most basic ideas.



















Ricardo's Macroeconomics


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This book describes the contribution of David Ricardo to the development of macroeconomics.