The Seven Sleepers visit Pleasure Island and find that everything is not pleasure there, as a mysterious new friend may have more in mind for them than a vacation.

The Seven Sleepers get to take a much-needed vacation. Traveling to a place called Pleasure Island they find a virtual paradise where games and parties are constantly happening. Gambling is the norm and if some unlucky person loses everything they have, they are forced to work as slaves in the mines. Watch Josh and Sarah and your other Sleeper friends figure out the best way to handle situations involving behavior they know is wrong.

The Seven Sleepers visit Pleasure Island and find that everything is not pleasure there, as a mysterious new friend may have more in mind for them than a vacation.

Pleasure Island explores the tourism industry in Cuba between 1920 and 1960, as international travel ceased to be primarily a privilege of the wealthy, and incorporated the world's growing middle class. Rosalie Schwartz examines tourists' changing ideas of leisure and recreation, as well as the response of a colonial-era Spanish city turned fleshpot and endless cabaret. The tourism industry mushroomed in and around Havana after 1920, as hundreds of thousands of North Americans transformed the city in collaboration with a local business and political elite. The Depression, exacerbated by a bloody revolution in 1933, plunged the tourism industry into a downward spiral; its steady comeback after World War II, and Mafia-influenced 1950s heyday, ended abruptly when Fidel Castro came to power in 1959. The tourist stream was diverted to Cuba's Caribbean neighbors, where it remains. This work is a history of a very idiosyncratic industry, as well as a study of mass tourism's influence on the behavior, attitudes, and cultures of two politically linked but diverse nations. Rosalie Schwartz is a former lecturer in the Department of History at San Diego State University. She is the author of Across the Rio to Freedom and Lawless Liberators: Political Banditry and Cuban Independence, which won the 1990 Hubert B. Herring Book Award of the Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies.

This book examines how virtuous behaviors evolved in humans and other species. The book argues that the key to solving puzzles of morality lies in figuring out what adaptive functions moral traits served in early human environments and how they are influenced by social learning, culture, and strategic social interactions in the modern world. In examining virtuous behaviors that enable individuals to advance their interests and the moral decision-making mechanisms that evolved with them, this book illuminates how "new brain" mechanisms work in conjunction with "old brain" mechanisms as we make moral choices in more emotionally intuitive ways. Survival of the Virtuous is accessibly written for academic, scholarly, and some educated lay readers interested in understanding how we retain the capacity to make mora judgments in primitive ways, via codes of ethics that emerged as a function of survival. Book jacket.

This set includes all seven books of The Lost Chronicles series: The Spell of the Crystal Chair, The Savage Games of Lord Zarak, The Strange Creatures of Dr. Korbo, The City of the Cyborgs, The Temptations of Pleasure Island, The Victims of Nimbo, and The Terrible Beast of Zor. Lost Chronicles of several adventures of the Seven Sleepers have been discovered! Come along with Josh, Sarah, and the gang as they are sent by Goel, their spiritual leader, on dangerous and challenging missions to help thwart the plans of the Dark Lord.

The King of Madria is dying and the armies of Zor have surrounded the kingdom. Some people in the kingdom have even started to follow the Dark Lord. Losing ground, the armies of Madria need a leader. The Prince, who only cares for himself and what makes him happy, is not interested in this role. Goel instructs the Seven Sleepers to try and save Madria by teaching the Prince some of the lessons they have learned, and helping him realize to be a great leader is to be a servant.

The Seven Sleepers agree to help their new friend Rainor rescue his sweetheart from cyborgs. But the city of the cyborgs is totally bizarre. The Sleepers get in, but they can't get out. Watch Josh and Sarah and your other Sleeper friends tackle their rescue mission. And see them get the advice they need from Goel, their good leader, at just the right time.

This set includes all three books of the Max and Me Mysteries series: The Trouble with Max, Danger at Lakeside Farm, and The Secret's of Ghost Island. In The Trouble with Max, Jessie and her best friend, Max, do everything together. Jessie tries to keep Max out of trouble, which is not easy since her friend is wild and adventurous. Soon Jessie begins to notice things Max has tried to keep hidden: like that her stepparents are drug dealers. At the risk of losing their friendship, Jessie decides to confront Max with the truth. In Danger at Lakeside Farm, Max lived with Jessie for a while following her stepparents' arrest. Then she moved in with an elderly neighbor, Amelia, on her farm by the lake. Soon strange things start happening: Amelia's tires are slashed and there is a break-in at the house. Is someone trying to make Amelia leave the farm? What will happen to Max? In The Secret's of Ghost Island, Max and Jessie get involved in a new adventure involving a trio of recently-orphaned children, who set up camp on nearby Ghost Island trying to escape deportation back to Mexico. In the meantime, a series of burglaries in town has police concerned that a gang of professional thieves is involved. When the girls get involved to help the orphans, they stumble upon the thieves' camp and are trapped.

Following her stepparents' arrest, Max lived with Jessie for a while. Then she moved in with an elderly neighbor, Amelia, on her farm by the lake. Soon strange things start happening: Amelia's tires are slashed and there is a break-in at the house. Is someone trying to make Amelia leave the farm? What will happen to Max?