Ludlow: 60 books

Fitz Hugh Ludlow's autobiographical work The Hasheesh Eater contains Ludlow's experiences with hashish. First published in 1857. Includes: Excerpt from the 1843 Dispensatory of the USA, Entry on Cannabis, Excerpt from The Chemistry of Common Life, Chapter on Narcotics, the essay The Apocalypse of...

"My head expanded wider and wider, revolving with inconceivable rapidity, and enlarging in space with every revolution. It filled the room - the house - the city; it became a world, peopled with the shapes of men and monsters. I spun away into its great vortex, and wandered about its expanses...

"My head expanded wider and wider, revolving with inconceivable rapidity, and enlarging in space with every revolution. It filled the room - the house - the city; it became a world, peopled with the shapes of men and monsters. I spun away into its great vortex, and wandered about its expanses as about...

Peter Ludlow shows how word meanings are much more dynamic than we might have supposed, and explores how meanings are modulated (changed) even during the course of our everyday conversations. When we engage with communicative partners we build micro-languages on the fly—languages that may be fleeting,...

First published in 1857, American author Fitz Hugh Ludlow’s The Hasheesh Eater is one of the first examples of addiction literature. The book recounts Ludlow’s initial fascination and subsequent addiction to hasheesh (hashish), and includes many detailed descriptions of the hallucinations he experienced...

As the Guardian of the Crystal of the North, young Susan Sinclair must help restore balance throughout history. But can she survive the incredible adventure awaiting her in ancient Egypt? So begins the next adventure for Susan Sinclair, the young Guardian of the Crystal of the North, who, by...

Too often today it seems we find ourselves communicating from radically different perspectives on the world and we often despair of communication even being possible. Peter Ludlow argues that perspectival content, or what some call indexical content, is ineliminable and ubiquitous, running through...

In A Companion to Your Study of the Doctrine and Covenants, Daniel H. Ludlow brings together his years of experience as a professor of religion at Brigham Young University, the teachings of General Authorities, and other valuable resources to provide a comprehensive, understandable study guide. This...

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Captain of the Janizaries - A story of the times of Scanderberg and the fall of Constantinople. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new...

At a time of alarming global instability, amid shocking terrorist attacks in Europe and mounting tensions between the USA and North Korea, a clear and focused foreign and defence policy is now more critical than ever. Now that departure is under way, what happens next? Against this unpredictable...

“Ludlow Beamish’s famous history of the K.G.L. is undoubtedly one of the rarest and most sought-after contemporary studies of the Napoleonic Wars. Much praised by Sir Charles Oman as ‘a valuable and conscientious’ history, it was largely compiled from eye-witness accounts of serving soldiers....

“Ludlow Beamish’s famous history of the K.G.L. is undoubtedly one of the rarest and most sought-after contemporary studies of the Napoleonic Wars. Much praised by Sir Charles Oman as ‘a valuable and conscientious’ history, it was largely compiled from eye-witness accounts of serving soldiers....

Dando ormai per assodato che le dimensioni cruciali della nostra esistenza – quella lavorativa, affettiva, sociale, artistica – si sono già trasferite online, non resta che prendere atto delle conseguenze che ne derivano: gran parte della vita pubblica, della realtà sociale e politica odierna,...

King Antiochus, self-styled Epiphanes, the Glorious, was in a humor that ill-suited that title. He cursed his scribe who had just read to him a letter, kicked away the cushions where his royal and gouty feet had been resting, and strode about the chamber declaring that, by all the gods! he would make...