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  • The Thrill of Repulsion

    Excursions into Horror Culture

    by William Burns ...
    A collection of lists, reviews, and interviews about the horror genre in film and beyondIncludes categorical lists and in-depth articles covering horror movies, literature, television, graphic novels, and musicHorror is a dominant form of cultural expression in the 20th/21st centuries ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Seedtime in Kashmir: A Memoir of William Jackson Elmslie

    by Margaret Duncan Elmslie and William Burns Thomson ...
    On the 29th June 1832, the subject of this memoir was born in Aberdeen to James and Barbara Elmslie. Their eldest child, a little girl, had been taken from them shortly before his birth, so the mother called William her "son of consolation," and most tenderly did she cherish this first-born son during the early years of his life. The family was in tolerably comfortable circumstances, as the father ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Buffalo Ways

    The Enduring Story of Buffalo and the First Peoples of North America

    by Deidre Havrelock ...
    Illustrated by William Burns ...
    Series series Books for a Better Earth
    **Imagine millions of buffalo covering the Great Plains.Here’s the story of how they almost became extinct and one man who helped saved them.**For thousands of years, North America had its own animals, its own peoples, and its own way of life. For many of these Indigenous Peoples, especially those who lived on or near the Great Plains, that way of life centered on Buffalo.When respect for Buffalo ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Aerial Guardians

    Drones in the Fight Against Weapons of Mass Destruction

    by William Burns ...
    In Aerial Guardians, William Burns provides a compelling and detailed examination of how drones have become an indispensable tool in modern warfare and counterterrorism efforts. Focusing on their pivotal role in detecting and combating weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), Burns takes readers on a journey through the technological advancements and strategic applications of these aerial marvels.From ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Astrology and Western Society from the First World War to Covid-19

    Edited by William Burns ...
    This book gathers contributions on the topic of astrology in the West during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from 1914–2022. It is the first collection exclusively devoted to a period that has been mostly neglected by historians of astrology, who have mostly devoted themselves to the ancient, medieval and early modern periods. Uninterested in vindicating or debunking astrology, ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Section 16 Secrets

    How Corporate Insiders Amplify Wealth & Buy Back Health

    by William Burns ...
    Would you sign up for an early death just to earn more money?Section 16 officers often earn $1 million or more per year, but a high-stress career along with limited exercise and poor eating habits can take years off your life. What about your financial life? SEC regulations make it difficult to diversify away from your company stock. The leveraged nature of employee stock options could turn a 25 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Knowledge and Power

    Science in World History

    by William Burns ...
    Knowledge and Power presents and explores science not as something specifically for scientists, but as an integral part of human civilization, and traces the development of science through different historical settings from the Middle Ages through to the Cold War.Five case studies are examined within this book: the creation of modern science by Muslims, Christians and Jews in the medieval ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Knowledge and Power

    Science in World History

    by William Burns ...
    Knowledge and Power shows how science has developed in different historical settings by focusing on four episodes in the history of world science from the Middle Ages to the mid-twentieth century.The title of this book comes from a famous saying by the English Renaissance philosopher Francis Bacon: "Knowledge is Power." Through a combination of narrative and primary sources, author William Burns ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Genesis - The Queik Chronicles - Point of Singularity

    by Dr. William Burns ...
    Year, 2084. Time is short for 13 billion humans who face extinction.  Humanity is damned by their masters, the machines, which have made them insignificant.  They find the rudiments of a time portal but it can only expedite the inevitability of this future horror.  An alien entity bargains with a desperate few who trade the ‘flesh and blood’ of humanity for mere ‘essence of life’ contained within ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    by J M Roberts, Odd Arne Westad ...
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  • Reinventing Knowledge

    From Alexandria to the Internet

    by Ian F. McNeely, Lisa Wolverton ...
    A dazzling intellectual history of the West served up with verve and insight by two brilliant young historians.Here is an intellectual entertainment, a sweeping history of the key institutions that have organized knowledge in the West from the classical period onward. With elegance and wit, this exhilarating history alights at the pivotal points of cultural transformation. The motivating question ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Ideas That Matter

    The Concepts That Shape the 21st Century

    by A. C. Grayling ...
    Ideas can, and do, change the world. Just as Marxism, existentialism, and feminism shaped the last century, so fundamentalism, globalization, and bioethics are transforming our world now. In Ideas that Matter, renowned philosopher A.C. Grayling provides a personal dictionary of the ideas that will shape our world in the decades to come. With customary wit, fire, and erudition, Grayling ranges ... Read more

    $10.99 USD