A small ancient world introduces the reader to the adventure of evil and good in nature. A life-long adventure where the dying lord of evil Аtundash is helped by good. The story tells about the main character who can not forgive his brother Sumur, the lord of good, for having roused good in all living creatures in the distant past. Before his death, he did not forget about the evil brother Atundash and bequeathed him a bucket of milk, a tree in the steppe and a stone-spring. He asked an old traveller (old age) to give those things to his brother. But evil Atundash, seeing the old age at the threshold of his house, tries to overcome it and chases it away. He spills milk on the ground, rips out a tree in the steppe and breaks a stone. But after a few years, evil Atundash begins to realize that every year hunger overcomes him. And there are not enough forces for evil. Then he thinks that life would be better if he did not spill milk, kept the tree and did not break the stone. And how to get it all back now? Wanderings of evil Atundash is not only a journey of a lifetime, but also an adventure In which good helps the main character to get the valuable treasure of life – harmony with nature.

Evil and the Problem of Jesus approaches age-old questions about God's relationship with evil (theodicy) from an entirely fresh angle. Rather than tweaking airy abstractions, it makes Jesus' interactions with evil our primary source for thinking about theodicy. This Christ-centered approach reveals the failure of traditional theodicy to be intellectually convincing or spiritually satisfying. Unlike that fossilized intellectual heritage, Christodicy (evil-and-Jesus) provides original insights into divine power, presence, and love that help us reengage the God Jesus reveals and the evil Jesus challenges. Presenting Jesus as a model for how to be fully human, it crafts new ways to envision our own multidimensional relationships with God and with evil. Written with both breadth and focus, the book includes pastoral experiences of tragedy, suffering, and evil; retraces philosophical, multifaith, and biblical insights; and explores the ways the Gospels describe Jesus' complex interactions with evil. Evil and the Problem of Jesus asks pointed questions and offers thoughtful conceptual frameworks to help people live more faithfully, compassionately, wisely, and justly in response to the evils around us, among us, and within us.

The martial arts world was never a peaceful place. Using the name of the martial arts world as proof of the great changes in the martial arts world and the rivers and seas could never stop. There were people who failed, and there were people who succeeded. In the current martial arts world, Shaolin and Wudang had long since lost their momentum. Instead, it was replaced by "One Sect, Two Families, Seven Great Families" and "Golden Blade, Evil Sword, Dark Claw, Mysterious Sky Pill Phoenix".The news of the demonic sect annihilating the entire sect in one night quickly spread to Wu Lin. However, no one dared to bring it up. It was a mistake that made everyone ashamed and not want to bring it up until fifteen years later.The struggle in the official arena had tempered his evil, and the gentle and loving wife had allowed him to recognize his conscience once again. She had brought him out of the darkness and made him into a powerful figure, and the women in the martial arts world had pulled his conscience back, allowing him to change the way he lived and become the true godfather of the martial arts world.

"Even if you fall on a mountain and rely on the water to dry up and heaven and earth to test your parents, it's still not as safe as relying on your own abilities."Du Jinsi thought he wasn't very smart, but he was still just barely self-reliant.The only thing was that the heavens were unfair. It was unfair to let a little girl like her survive in the midst of a great struggle for power.There was no use complaining, she could just sit there and complain.It was a pity that complaining could not solve the problem.See how she twists and turns among the princes with their own ulterior motives, play with imperial power, despise imperial power, and step on all those who look down on her."

"Qingyou, my Queen, admit defeat!" Sikong Xuan narrowed his eyes and smiled gracefully at the woman who had a pale face and messy hair. The lips of the once most stubborn girl quivered. She was now in a miserable state and her legs were weak as she knelt on the ground."If I had known earlier, why would I have done what I did today, Qingyou!"Sikong Xuan's mocking heart was practically at its limit. This cold, stubborn woman kneeling down and submitting in front of him, was such a satisfying thing!"The Consort is a toothless animal kept in captivity by the emperor. I beg the emperor to release Qingmu!"Qing You gritted her teeth as she stood up. Her hands trembled as she pulled down her clothes. Her bright and pure body was like that of a newborn baby! What he wanted was only mediocre.A naked woman was kneeling on the ground in the Second Palace. When her head knocked against Sikong Xuan's toes ..."Scram ...!" Furious, Sikong Xuan kicked the lowly woman who was kneeling on the ground!He flicked his sleeve and left. However, he had forgotten that there was a lady lying at the corner of the wall like a rag, with traces of Yan Hong flowing between her legs. However, the corner of her mouth was free of that bewitching smile. Not a virgin Yan Hong, so miserable!

Tomas Sedlacek has shaken the study of economics as few ever have. Named one of the "Young Guns" and one of the "five hot minds in economics" by the Yale Economic Review, he serves on the National Economic Council in Prague, where his provocative writing has achieved bestseller status. How has he done it? By arguing a simple, almost heretical proposition: economics is ultimately about good and evil. In The Economics of Good and Evil, Sedlacek radically rethinks his field, challenging our assumptions about the world. Economics is touted as a science, a value-free mathematical inquiry, he writes, but it's actually a cultural phenomenon, a product of our civilization. It began within philosophy--Adam Smith himself not only wrote The Wealth of Nations, but also The Theory of Moral Sentiments--and economics, as Sedlacek shows, is woven out of history, myth, religion, and ethics. "Even the most sophisticated mathematical model," Sedlacek writes, "is, de facto, a story, a parable, our effort to (rationally) grasp the world around us." Economics not only describes the world, but establishes normative standards, identifying ideal conditions. Science, he claims, is a system of beliefs to which we are committed. To grasp the beliefs underlying economics, he breaks out of the field's confines with a tour de force exploration of economic thinking, broadly defined, over the millennia. He ranges from the epic of Gilgamesh and the Old Testament to the emergence of Christianity, from Descartes and Adam Smith to the consumerism in Fight Club. Throughout, he asks searching meta-economic questions: What is the meaning and the point of economics? Can we do ethically all that we can do technically? Does it pay to be good? Placing the wisdom of philosophers and poets over strict mathematical models of human behavior, Sedlacek's groundbreaking work promises to change the way we calculate economic value.

Was the serial killer, Jeffrey Dahmer an evil man responsible for his murders? Or was he an innocent victim of psychiatric illness? Lawrie Reznek addresses these questions and more in his controve rsial investigation of the insanity defence.

In the early morning hours of December 31, 2010, Dr. Cornelius H. Evans and his wife received a terrible phone call: their son, Bryant, had been shot and killed. The agonizing days that followed brought Evans face-to-face with the realization that evil had touched his familys life, sending him on a quest to try to understand the role evil plays in our world. Deeply emotional and heartfelt, Surviving Evil in a Depraved Society offers insight into how Evans dealt with the loss of his son by analyzing the root of violence in Americaevil. He examines various theories on evil and its origin, its effects on mankind, and how, according to the Christian belief, evil will remain a part of our society until Christ returns. Evans also challenges ideologies, philosophical beliefs, and theologies on whether one can avoid evil elements. He demonstrates that we can be on our guard against inviting evil into our lives by spiritually guarding ourselves and raising our children with a strong moral foundation. An eye-opening look at the face of evil, Surviving Evil in a Depraved Society offers hope for living in todays world.