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by Henry James, M. R. James, E. F. Benson
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2018
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...
War over the Steppes
The air campaigns on the Eastern Front 1941–45
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
The air war over the Steppes was more than a brutal clash in which might alone triumphed. It was a conflict that saw tactical and technological innovation as the Soviet air force faced off against Herman Göring's Luftwaffe. As Germany and the Soviet Union battled for victory on the Eastern Front...
by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Contents
THE PROPHETIC PICTURES
By Nathaniel Hawthorne
THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
By Washington Irving
THE GOLD-BUG
By Edgar Allan Poe
CORPORAL FLINT'S MURDER (From "The Oak Openings")
By J. Fenimore Cooper
UNCLE JIM...
by Alastair Gunn, William Mudford, John Yonge Akerman
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2018
Twenty ghost stories from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age. Wimbourne Books presents the ninth in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 9 in the series contains stories published between 1841 and 1899,...
by George Alecusan, John E. Alvis, Donald R. Brand
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to what the most thoughtful Americans have said about the American experience from the colonial period to the present. The book examines the political thought of the most important American statesmen, activists,...
by E. R. Yatscoff
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2011
The first in a series of true short stories by the author as he makes his way through life. Some are funny, some sad, and many are about the jobs he's held over the years.
The Future of Biblical Interpretation
Responsible Plurality in Biblical Hermeneutics
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
How should we expect multiple interpretations of the Bible to be kept in check? Each of the contributors, experts in the field, considers one parameter of responsibility, which may act as a constraint on the validity of competing biblical interpretations. Stanley E. Porter considers theological resposibility;...
Early Greek Science
Thales to Aristotle
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
In this new series leading classical scholars interpret afresh the ancient world for the modern reader. They stress those questions and institutions that most concern us today: the interplay between economic factors and politics, the struggle to find a balance between the state and the individual,...
Who Killed the Constitution?
The Fate of American Liberty from World War I to George W. Bush
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
“Let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.”
—Thomas Jefferson
The United States Constitution—the bedrock of our country, the foundation of our federal republic—is . . . dead.
You won’t hear that from the...
Medieval Robots
Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
A thousand years before Isaac Asimov set down his Three Laws of Robotics, real and imagined automata appeared in European courts, liturgies, and literary texts. Medieval robots took such forms as talking statues, mechanical animals, and silent metal guardians; some served to entertain or instruct...
by E.R. Carpenter
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2013
Ever wonder why you don’t get what you want in life? Have you started a business but don’t know how to get customers? Are you in sales and have the need to book more meetings and close more deals? Or maybe you just need help in finding a job, asking for a raise, or finding a mentor. There’s...
Transforming Undergraduate Education
Theory that Compels and Practices that Succeed
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
For those ready to participate in making transformative changes, Transforming Undergraduate Education provides evidence and case studies that suggest how steps can be taken and progress made. For those who are currently leading their campuses through a change in culture, this book offers support and...
Greening the Maple
Canadian Ecocriticism in Context
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Ecocriticism can be described in very general terms as the investigation of the many ways in which culture and the environment are interrelated and conceptualized. Ecocriticism aspires to understand and often to celebrate the natural world, yet it does so indirectly by focusing primarily on written...
Managerial Communication
Strategies and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2018
A Practical, Strategic Approach to Managerial Communication
Managerial Communication: Strategies and Applications focuses on communication skills and strategies that managers need to be successful in today’s workplace. Known for its holistic overview of communication, solid research base,...