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An astonishing mix of hot newcomers, heavy hitters and superstars in this second edition of The Best British Fantasy. “More good news come our way from Salt Publishing, it seems that they will not only release a series of year’s best British fantasy, but also starting from next year a series...

A collection of short stories about creatures which will warm the heart.

This collection of classic and contemporary essays in philosophy of language offers a concise introduction to the field for students in graduate and upper-division undergraduate courses. It contains some of the most important basic sources in philosophy of language, including a number of classic essays...

At the close of a summer's day, sometime near the end of the fourteenth century, a party of young knights, seven in number, were returning to their several countries from attending a great tournament held in the lists of the Moorish palace of the Alhambra, then occupied by John, king of Castile....

The Penny Farthing Stories is a collection of fantasy stories in poetic form, containing tales of colourful animal characters with human attributes. The stories are all set in the nineteenth century.

A fascinating discussion on the different theories of Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud, the once friends would go on to become enemies, and champions of their own opposing schools of psychological thought.

How is it, this text asks, that given such good intentions among education professionals, things in schools can go so very wrong? The problem, Hinchey and Konkol posit, is that unspoken and misleading assumptions result in choices, decisions and policies with disastrous consequences for kids....

The Man-eaters of Tsavo is a book written by John Henry Patterson in 1907 that recounts his experiences while overseeing the construction of a railroad bridge in what would become Kenya. It is titled after a pair of lions which killed his workers, and which he eventually killed. Following the death...

There was always something about John Vane that commanded attention. The strong, stern, well-featured face, almost swarthy in complexion, the straight line of black eyebrows overshadowing bright and piercing black eyes—it was a face that compelled regard, that aroused a feeling of respect in the...

Issue framing is the way that people, especially politicians, get other people to view a particular problem or issue. By framing the issue in a particular way, the goal is to get people to think about the issue, to believe that an action is required and, most importantly, to believe that a particular...

The King Country; or, Explorations in New Zealand is an account of an explorer in New Zealand in 1884, and his interactions with the Maori.

The Pious Sex strives to enlighten the reader with respect to the relationship between women and religion. The notion that there is a special relationship between women and piety may call to mind the worst of the prejudices associated with women over the ages: the characterization of women as superstitious...

The first five volumes of the Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham contain over 1,300 letters written both to and from Bentham over a 50-year period, beginning in 1752 (aged three) with his earliest surviving letter to his grandmother, and ending in 1797 with correspondence concerning his attempts to...

Rourke Monroe has a problem: he’s in love with his best friend’s fiancée, and to make things worse, he’s also his best friend’s best man. He knows what a terrible idea this wedding is, but no one is willing to listen… Eve just wants everyone to be happy, but one person seems determined...