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Nearly every major city in the world has them: hidden underground seduction lairs where men gather to trade the most devastatingly effective techniques ever invented to seduce women. This is not fiction. For two years, bestselling author Neil Strauss lived among these men. Using the pseudonym...

An intimate, surprising look at man's best friend and what the leading philosophies of dog training teach us about ourselves. Years back, Melissa Holbrook Pierson brought home a border collie named Mercy, without a clue of how to get her to behave. Stunned after hiring a trainer whose immediate rapport with Mercy seemed magical, Pierson began delving into the techniques of positive reinforcement.

Past antidrug campaigns actually encouraged drug use. A few years ago, America stopped dropping acid altogether. The meth epidemic peaked a long, long time ago. NAFTA opened the border and created a bonanza for cocaine and meth traffickers just as President Clinton knew it would. President Reagan may have inadvertently caused the crack epidemic. Kids today are doing fewer illegal drugs than kids from any time in the recent past, and for a surprising reason.

In Secret Battle, we follow Harry Penrose, a young soldier who enters the military with grand dreams of glory and heroism. However, as he finds himself stationed at Gallipoli, the brutal reality of war begins to take a heavy toll on his body and mind. This poignant story, narrated by a fellow soldier, delves deep into the harrowing experiences of the Gallipoli campaign, vividly recounting the authors personal encounters. As Penrose rises through the ranks, he grapples with his growing self-doubt and the increasingly harsh demands of his commanding officer. Struggling to maintain his spirit ...

Our current exile is confusing and dark, but redemption beckons at every corner. The great, prolific 18th-century sage, Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, wrote what was to be Ma’amar HaGeulah as a letter to his students, at the age of twenty-three, revealing to them the nature of the process of redemption. Today, we are blessed with the illuminating commentary and translation of Rabbi Mordechai Nissim, whose words transform the Ramchal’s esoteric, often cryptic ideas into practical life lessons. Every reader cannot help but be astonished at the prescience of the Ramchal, and riveted by the ...