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On the evening of January 28, 1922, several hundred people fought their way through the greatest snowstorm in Washington’s history to see a show at the Knickerbocker Theater, the city’s largest and most modern moving picture theater of the time. Unbeknownst to the theater patrons, the Knickerbocker...

"The Damned Thing" is written in four parts, each with a comical subtitle. The story begins in Hugh Morgan's cabin, where local men have gathered around the battered corpse of Hugh Morgan to hold an inquest concerning his death. William Harker, a witness to the death, enters and is sworn...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. Ever since the earliest days of the great conquest of the air, first by the dirigible balloon and then by the aeroplane, their use in time of war has been a fruitful theme for discussion. But their arrival was...

A short story that speculates on what it is to be intelligent and when artificial intelligence becomes to powerful.

Healing the Downsized Organization is for managers and employees who must make sense of dramatically changed workplaces after reengineering, restructuring, or downsizing. Here are "best practices" from those who are successfully reinventing their organizations and re-creating healthy workplaces. Documented...

Preface .. 7 1. Introduction .. 9 2. (a) Sanjay Kumar Biswas (1945–2013) . 17 (b) Professor Sanjay Biswas–An Intellectual–A Crusader . 23 (c) A Tribute to Dr Sanjay Kumar Biswas (1945 to 2013) . 27 3. For New Age: Marxism and Science . 31 4. Nuclear Future of India . 45 5. Poverty and Health...

Urban Process and Power has two chief aims. Firstly, it analyses and explains a century of the production and reproduction of the urban environment in which most of us live. Secondly, the book focuses on recent changes in the control of these processes and the ideology that has brought these changes...

The strange tale of a frontier town and the horrible goings on that haunt the residents.

In San Francisco, three physicians discuss man’s hereditary, and superstitious, fear of the dead. Dr. Mancher wonders if it is, indeed, universal. Dr. Helberson says it is; it is all a matter of circumstance. And what would happen if a man were locked up with a corpse overnight? HarperPerennial...

On the evening of January 28, 1922, several hundred people fought their way through the greatest snowstorm in Washington's history to see a show at the Knickerbocker Theater, the city's largest and most modern moving picture theater of the time. Unbeknownst to the theater patrons, the Knickerbocker Theater's...

Wunderbare Autoren klassischer Gespenstergeschichten vereinen sich hier in einem Taschenbuch, darunter E. T. A. Hoffmanns "Eine Spukgeschichte", F. Marion Crawfords "Die obere Koje", H. R. Wakefields "Das Gespensterschloss", Graham Greenes "Das Hinterhaus unweit...

This 1892 novella is translated loosely from a German folktale and masterfully retold by Bierce. Set in the Bavarian mountains, it tells the story of a young Franciscan monk who becomes obsessed and eventually tormented by his feelings for a young girl who has been socially ostracized because her father is the local hangman.     

The writer of these pages is not foolish enough to suppose that he can escape strong and bitter condemnation for his utterances. On this score he is not disposed to be greatly troubled; and for these reasons: Firstly—he feels that he is performing a duty; secondly—he is certain that his sentiments...

Moral injury: a state of mind or being caused by a serious confrontation of consciousness. Typically, the morally injured person perceives a cloud of unknowing before birth and after death that threatens to overwhelm the only knowable portion of the spectrum, one’s life and the lives of other people...