Basil: 239 books

An endearing tale of a boy overcoming his bedtime fears with a little help from Dad — and the promise of wormcake in the morning. Features an audio read-along! Hamilton Squidlegger is fearless! Well, almost. During the day he can best all the frackensnappers, skelecragons, and bracklesneeds...

An outstanding tale by Basil King, of a man who, upon wakening on a ship, has no idea where he is, who is, or why he is going where he is going. He meets a woman, falls in love, and still has no idea who he is, or how he lost his memory. Then....well, we don't want to ruin it for you. Quite a thrilling, entralling tale of love and mystery.

First World War espionage was a fascinating and dangerous affair, spawning widespread paranoia in its clandestine wake. The hysteria of the age, stoked by those within the British establishment who sought to manipulate popular panic, meant there was no shortage of suspects. Exaggerated claims were...

The practice of prayer and meditation in modern Western Christianity is rooted in the Eastern tradition of early Church prayer as well as the wisdom of early Church fathers. In Centering Prayer, M. Basil Pennington, the author of the highly acclaimed Daily We Touch Him, returns to these roots, offering...

Aino Folk-Tales by Basil Hall Chamberlain This is a collection of Ainu folktales, by the translator of the Kojiki. "The Ainu are an ethnic minority in Japan, living primarily on the northernmost Japanese island of Hokkaido, although there were also small populations of Ainu living...

Part of the acclaimed Makers of the Nineteenth Century series, Basil Williams’s biography of Cecil John Rhodes (1853–1902) examines the life, personality, and work of the financier, statesman, and empire builder of British South Africa. Ambitious and controversial during his lifetime, Rhodes left an enduring legacy in the form of the prestigious Rhodes scholarship.

The African Genius presents the ideas, social systems, religions, moral values, arts, and metaphysics of a range of African peoples. Basil Davidson points toward the Africa that might emerge from an ancient civilization that was overlaid and battered by colonialism, then torn apart by the upheaval...

Basil King was a late 19th and early 20th century author best known for his spiritually and religiously themed works, such as The Discovery of God.

Heritage preservation is a broad term that can include the protection of a wide range of human-mediated material and cultural processes ranging from specific artifacts, ancient rock art, and features of the built environment and modified landscapes. As a region of multiple independent nations and...

Since, Basil Valentine, by Religious Vows am bound according to the Order of St. Benedict, and that requires another manner of Spirit of Holiness, then the common State of Mortals exercised in the prophane business of this World; I thought it my duty before all things, in the beginning of this little...

Offering reflections based on Scripture on each of the twenty mysteries--the newest, the Mysteries of Light, are included--Father M. Basil Pennington brings to those who pray the rosary a deeper experience of the mysteries and their many treasures. For those new to the rosary, this book includes the...

In his Foreword, Professor Jones writes 'Mr Collier takes the opportunity to review the contributions of all forms of Intelligence, and the use and misuse that was made of them, in all the major phases of World War II. His task has required very wide reading of the great volume of original documents...

'Early Dutch and English Voyages' translated into English, for the first time, by Basil H. Soulsby, F.S.A., of the British Museum; Segersz's text translated into English, for the first time, by J. A. J. de Villiers, of the British Museum. Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by Sir W. Martin Conway,...

Basil King was a late 19th and early 20th century author best known for his spiritually and religiously themed works, such as The Discovery of God.