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    Foundations of Fiction, The - Paranormal Detective

    Hear the stories that gave birth to the modern genre craze

    by William Hope Hodgson, Rudyard Kipling, Algernon Blackwood, Gertrude Minnie Robins, L T Meade and Robert Eustace, Rose Champion de Crespigny, Aleister Crowley, Arabella Kenealy, Sheridan Le Fanu, Allen Upward, Eric Purves, Kate and Hesketh Pritchard, Harold Begbie ...
    Narrated by Mark Rice-Oxley, Robert Maskell, Robbie McNab ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 36 min

    In this series we turn the pages of classic short stories to put together the literary building blocks of how a particular genre or theme began, how it built its foundations to become the well-loved and well-worn genre that it is today.Do authors have the same ideas at more or less the same time? Or can they sniff out an opportunity as to which way the tastes of an audience are moving.Success ... Read more

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  • A Comprehensive Compendium of 42 Books on Social Pathology

    Classic Investigations of Poverty, Crime, Slums, Vagrancy, Vice, and Social Reform

    by Harry Best, Jacob A. Riis, W. T. Stead, Eugene S. Talbot, Lillian William Betts, John E. Gunckel, Mrs. Sophie Van Elkan Lyons Burke, Guy Thorne, Bernard Mandeville, Samuel Merwin, Arthur Lawrence Hayward, James Harold Romain, Clifton R. Wooldridge, William Booth, L. O. Curon, Mary Higgs, George M. White, Sigmund Engel, Margaret Wynne Nevinson, John Josiah Munro, Caroline H. Woods, Nels Anderson, Charles Kingston, Josiah Flynt, Charles Gustavus Mutzenberg, V. M. Masten, Hans Kurella, R. M. Algie, A-No. 1, Louis Albert Banks, Samuel Paynter Wilson, W. A. Chapple, Roland Burnham Molineux, Carlo de Fornaro, John Thomas Smith, Roy K. Anderson, Jacobus X, Wellington Scott ...
    A Comprehensive Compendium of 42 Books on Social Pathology gathers a far-reaching body of writing on poverty, homelessness, crime, vice, institutional life, urban reform, and the social consequences of industrial modernity. Its materials span investigative reportage, sociological observation, reformist argument, case study, memoir, moral commentary, and popular exposé. The collection's breadth is ... Read more

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  • The Blossoming Bookshelf: 43 Classic Books on Gardens and Plants

    A Treasury of Historic Garden Design, Plant Science, Flowers, Fruits, and Cultivation

    by W. Robinson, Gertrude Jekyll, J. G. Wood, E. T. Cook, R. M. Kellogg Co., Arthur William Knapp, F. M. Hexamer, L. H. Bailey, F. A. Waugh, H. Harold Hume, Albert H. Benson, Rose Georgina Kingsley, Rosalind Northcote, Thomas Shaw, Edith A. Browne, Carl Weschcke, Samuel Arnott, James O'Brien, Australia. Department of External Affairs, M. G. Kains, H. S. Adams, H. S. Coe, George Howard Alford, U. P. Hedrick, Luke Joseph Doogue, D. A. Compton, Edward Money, Alphonse de Candolle, Matthew Crawford, Henry H. Saylor, Cyril G. Hopkins, Gustavus A. Eisen, Bernice Brilmayer, Frederick Boyle, B. W. Jones, Edward Payson Roe, F. F. Rockwell, William Keane, M. C. Burritt ...
    The Blossoming Bookshelf gathers forty-three classic texts into a capacious history of gardening, botany, horticulture, and the cultural imagination of plants. Its range extends from practical manuals on cultivation, soils, orchards, and landscape design to reflective nature writing, botanical inquiry, travel-inflected observation, and accounts of public and domestic gardens. The volume's ... Read more

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  • Fueling Mechanics: 6 Classic Books on Gas, Oil, and Petrol Engines

    Classic Technical Guides to Ignition, Carburetion, Lubrication, and Engine Design

    by Rodolphe Edgard Mathot, H. de Graffigny, Walter C. Runciman, John B. Rathbun, Harold Whiting Slauson, Francis John Kean ...
    Fueling Mechanics gathers six classic technical studies of gas, oil, and petrol engines into a compact history of combustion-driven power. Across explanatory prose, engineering instruction, design analysis, and practical troubleshooting, the volume charts the transition from abstract mechanical principles to the applied problems of ignition, fuel delivery, lubrication, efficiency, and operation. ... Read more

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  • The Ultimate Military Literature Compendium: 40 Must-Reads

    Forty Essential Works on Strategy, Warfare, Technology, Ethics, and Military Thought

    by J. Duncan Campbell, O. O. Ellis, E. B. Garey, Charles John Ffoulkes, Richard Francis Sir Burton, Aaron A. Warford, Dion Williams, United States. Department of Defense, Anson Mills, John Hewitt, Albert Frederick Calvert, Robert C. Richardson, William H. Waldron, Lionel Decle, R. Coltman Clephan, George Leonard Cheesman, William Llewellyn Adams, César Lecat baron de Bazancourt, Harold L. Peterson, Carl R. Maag, Steve Rohrer, H. G. Wells, National Atomic Museum, William Surtees, Victor Appleton, Plattsburgh Barracks, Thomas Wilhelm, Antoine Henri baron de Jomini, H. W. Halleck, Clough Williams-Ellis, Amabel Williams-Ellis, J. F. C. Fuller, Carl von Clausewitz, E. D. Swinton, Charles Jean Jacques Joseph Ardant du Picq, James Anson Farrer, James P. Wade, Harlan Ullman, Stanley C. Johnson, René-Louis-Jules Radiguet, Leslie Vickers, André Laffargue ...
    The Ultimate Military Literature Compendium: 40 Must-Reads maps the intellectual, technological, and imaginative history of warfare through forty influential texts. Its selection ranges from strategic theory, battlefield observation, and institutional history to memoir, popular fiction, and speculative narrative, revealing military writing as both a practical discipline and a cultural archive. ... Read more

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  • Ethics Explored: 52 Influential Books

    A Cross-Cultural Anthology of Virtue, Duty, Self-Mastery, Social Justice, and Moral Philosophy

    by Booker T. Washington, Richard Baxter, James Harold Romain, Cora May Williams, John Hamilton Moore, Aristotle, John H. Stapleton, Franz Brentano, Margaret Slattery, G. E. Moore, T. De Witt Talmage, Bernard Mandeville, William De Witt Hyde, Lucy Helen Muriel Soulsby, J. M. Judy, Thomas Fowler, M. Valentine, John Dewey, W. R. Sorley, Kenneth Ingram, S. A. D. Tissot, Robert Chenault Givler, James Hayden Tufts, Goldwin Smith, Mabel Anne McKee, Malcolm Guthrie, Maurice Francis Egan, Alfred Russel Wallace, S. M. I. Henry, Rudolf Eucken, Horatio Robinson Storer, Edward Abbott Sir Parry, Epictetus, Emil Edward Kusel, Stephen S. Wise, H. G. Wells, John Bunyan, George Horace Lorimer, Oliver Optic, Horatio Jr. Alger, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Plutarch, Arthur Christopher Benson, Benedictus de Spinoza, Felix Adler, Iamblichus, W. R. Washington Sullivan, Laurence Housman, Upton Sinclair ...
    Ethics Explored: 52 Influential Books assembles a capacious library of moral inquiry, bringing philosophical argument, religious meditation, social criticism, self-culture, political reflection, and popular instruction into sustained conversation. Its range extends from classical accounts of virtue and discipline to modern discussions of conscience, education, reform, labor, peace, and public ... Read more

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  • The Motor Enthusiast's Dream Collection: 6 Interesting Reads

    Six Classic Guides to Motors, Mechanical Power, and Amateur Engineering

    by H. de Graffigny, James Slough Zerbe, Robert B. Meyer, Harold Whiting Slauson, Alfred Powell Morgan, Leonard S. Hobbs ...
    The Motor Enthusiast's Dream Collection assembles six engaging works at the intersection of motoring culture, mechanical instruction, and popular technological imagination. Ranging from practical discussions of engines, maintenance, and roadcraft to broader reflections on the motor vehicle's social possibilities, the volume captures the excitement generated by automotive innovation. Its varied ... Read more

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  • Harold

    by Steven Wright ...
    A uniquely humorous and deeply profound novel from a legendary stand-up comedian that follows the thoughts of a 1960s third grader during a single day at school.Steven Wright is one of the most significant and influential stand-up comedians in history. Rolling Stone ranked him fifteenth on their “50 Best Stand-ups of All Time” list, while the New York Times has written of his enduring legacy: “If ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • On Food and Cooking

    The Science and Lore of the Kitchen

    by Harold McGee ...
    An award-winning kitchen classic for over 35 years, and hailed by Time magazine as "a minor masterpiece" when it first appeared in 1984, On Food and Cooking is the bible which food lovers and professional chefs worldwide turn to for an understanding of where our foods come from, what exactly they're made of, and how cooking transforms them into something new and delicious.For its twentieth ... Read more

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  • Deranged

    The Shocking True Story of America's Most Fiendish Killer

    by Harold Schechter ...
    Harold Schechter brings his expertise to the shocking historical true crime story of early 20th-century serial killer Albert Fish in Deranged, which reveals the life and crimes of a grandfatherly figure who kidnapped and murdered children.“America’s principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers” (The Boston Book Review), Harold Schechter shatters the myth that violent crime is a modern ... Read more

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  • The Carpetbaggers

    by Harold Robbins ...
    A sizzling tale of ambition, lust, and power in the glittering world of old HollywoodJonas Cord coveted his father's fame, fortune, and even his young, beautiful wife. When his father died, Jonas swore to possess them all. But Rina Marlow was the celebrated screen goddess no man could master. Her sensuality inflamed and enthralled millions, but her personal life was no Hollywood fantasy. She ... Read more

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  • The Western Canon

    The Books and School of the Ages

    by Harold Bloom ...
    The literary critic defends the importance of Western literature from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Kafka and Beckett in this acclaimed national bestseller.NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDHarold Bloom's The Western Canon is more than a required reading list—it is a "heroically brave, formidably learned" defense of the great works of literature that comprise the traditional Western ... Read more

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