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Earl Nightingale was America's key motivational speaker and "The Strangest Secret" was his most successful work. This is a transcript of the original classic 1956 motivational speech. The text was later revised into a print version which Economist Terry Savage calls "One of the great motivational books of all time."

The 1940s is a lost decade in horror cinema, undervalued and written out of most horror scholarship. This collection revises, reframes, and deconstructs persistent critical binaries that have been put in place by scholarly discourse to label 1940s horror as somehow inferior to a “classical” period...

Christmas is the most famous holiday of the year, and the word itself evokes images of Santa Claus, reindeer, snow, Christmas trees, egg nog and more. At the same time, it represents Christianity's most important event, the birth of the baby Jesus. Instantly, well known Christmas carols ring in your...

The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In, a short novel by Charles Dickens, was written and published in 1844, one year after A Christmas Carol and one year before The Cricket on the Hearth. It is the second in his series of "Christmas books":...

John Peerybingle, a carrier, lives with his young wife Dot, their baby boy and their nanny Tilly Slowboy. A cricket chirps on the hearth and acts as a guardian angel to the family. One day a mysterious elderly stranger comes to visit and takes up lodging at Peerybingle's house for a few days. The...

The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain, A Fancy for Christmas-Time (better known as The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain or simply as The Haunted Man) is a novella by Charles Dickens first published in 1848. It is the fifth and last of Dickens's Christmas novellas. The story is more about the...

Existentialist Thought in African American Literature Before 1940 is the first collection of its kind to break new ground in arguing that long before its classification by Jean-Paul Sartre, African American literature embodied existentialist thought. To make its case, this daring book dissects eight...

In the life of a child, every day unfolds a series of adventures. Every child has a truly vivid imagination driven by discovery and curiosity. The excitement of newly discovered imagined friends merged with a loving quality in the fascination of the moon and the stars. Bubble over with excitement...

First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Disney theme park Imagineers think up hundreds of ideas for rides and attractions that never get used. But no Imagineer has created more terrible and rejected ideas than Dipp Disney. Walt's cousin was a sloppy drunk, a complete idiot, and a lovable showman, whose 7000 attraction ideas never saw the light...

The young Tsar had just ascended the throne. For five weeks he had worked without ceasing, in the way that Tsars are accustomed to work. He had been attending to reports, signing papers, receiving ambassadors and high officials who came to be presented to him, and reviewing troops. He was tired, and...

Los Watson es un esbozo de novela entre las que Jane Austen dejó inconclusas a su muerte. Apenas son unas escenas de lo que debiera haberse desarrollado como una de las encantadoras novelas de la autora inglesa, pero en ellas es posible reconocer no solo su genio, sino también los temas que siempre interesaron a Austen.

From the late 1950's and especially after the election of President John F. Kennedy in 1960, US involvement in Vietnam had steadily increased. In 1963, most of the American troops in South Vietnam were Army Special Forces (better known then as the “Green Berets”). By 1965, events both military...

Who Done It. The former Chief of Investigations of the Army Criminal Investigation Division, CID, is Colonel Daniel Jorgensen. He is teaching at the Knoxville College on the west slope of the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.Where ever he goes, he is involved in a murder investigation which involves treason...