Ashton: 495 books

Book cover of More From the Deed Box of John H Watson, MD
by Hugh Ashton
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012

Book cover of Without My Boswell

Without My Boswell

Five Early Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

by Hugh Ashton
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2014

“I am lost without my Boswell,” declares Sherlock Holmes in “A Scandal in Bohemia”. Indeed, the interplay between the solid ex-Army doctor, and the more mercurial purveyor of “ineffable twaddle” forms a large part of the appeal of the adventures which Watson caused to be published, and...
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The Practice of Silviculture

Applied Forest Ecology

by Mark S. Ashton, Matthew J. Kelty
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018

The most up-to-date, comprehensive resource on silviculture that covers the range of topics and issues facing today’s foresters and resource professionals The tenth edition of the classic work, The Practice of Silviculture: Applied Forest Ecology, includes the most current information and...
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Sales for Non-Salespeople

How to sell yourself and your ideas, and succeed at work

by Robert Ashton
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014

If you know how to sell, you know how to succeed. Selling is the most important, and perhaps the most misunderstood workplace skill. Once you understand how to sell you will become more persuasive, naturally and confidently. This book has four sections, enabling the reader to focus on their...
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When Did the Statue of Liberty Turn Green?

And 101 Other Questions About New York City

by The Staff of the New-York Historical Society Library, Nina Nazionale, Jean Ashton
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010

For years, the librarians at the New-York Historical Society have kept a record of the questions posed to them by curious New Yorkers and visitors to the city. Who was the first woman to run for mayor of New York? Why are beavers featured on the city's official seal? Is it true that a nineteenth-century...
Book cover of Under a Tin-Grey Sari
by Wayne Ashton
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010

A sensual love story set in 1967 in the bustling city of Chittagong, East Pakistan. It is a time of boom and ferment. A time when a household cook may dream of fame and fortune, a bearer brazenly spit in the drinks of oblivious sahibs, an ayah sublimely seduce a minisahib, and a letterwriter link the dead with the living.
Book cover of Secrets from the Deed Box of John H. Watson M.D.: Four Untold Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
by Hugh Ashton
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018

The deed box of Dr. Watson, presented to me some time ago by a friend who rescued it from the archives of a London bank, continues to produce treasures. The stories in this collection, which I have entitled Secrets from the Deed Box of John H Watson MD, all represent some aspect of Holmes and his...
Book cover of The Last Notes From the Dispatch-box of John H. Watson M.D.
by Hugh Ashton
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018

The first , “The Russian Bear”, involves the British Government, as represented by Mycroft Holmes. The circumstances surrounding it are mentioned in “The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax”, where Holmes mentions to Watson that it would be impossible for him to leave London while “old...
Book cover of The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 5 (30 short stories)
by Henry James, M. R. James, E. F. Benson
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2018

If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal...
Book cover of The History of Gambling in England
by John Ashton
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

Before going into the history, &c., of playing cards, it may be as well to note the serious application that was made of them by some persons: and first, we will glance at the two sermons of Latimer’s on cards, which he delivered in St Edward’s Church, Cambridge, on the Sunday before Christmas Day...
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Captured by Pirates

22 Firsthand Accounts of Murder and Mayhem on the High Seas

by John Richard Stephens, Captain Sabins, Aaron Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013

Pirates are primarily known for their swashbuckling attitudes, their freebooting lifestyle, their high-seas adventures and their stolen treasure, but their victims tend to be forgotten. These are the innocent and not-so-innocent voyagers who find themselves suddenly snatched up, brutalized, and franticly...
Book cover of The Ghost of Mohammed Din
by Clark Ashton Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2016

It was late in the afternoon, and we were seated on the veranda of my friend’s bungalow in the Begum suburb at Hyderabad. Our conversation had turned to ghosts, on which subject I was, at the time, rather skeptical, and Nicholson, after relating a number of blood-curdling stories, had finished by...
Book cover of Studies in Victorian and Modern Literature

Studies in Victorian and Modern Literature

A Tribute to John Sutherland

by Rosemary Ashton, Tony Bareham, Michael Caines
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015

This book examines the vast range of human experience with British and American literature, from the publishing industry to film adaptations to literary puzzles. Our experience with literature is more than what we read; it is also how we read, how literature is produced and the eternal puzzles it creates.
Book cover of The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 6 (30 short stories)
by E. F. Benson, W. F. Harvey, Bram Stoker
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2018

If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal...
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