Author : R. G. Robertson
Publisher : Caxton Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 20,93 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0870044974
The smallpox epidemic of 1837-1838 forever changed the tribes of the Northern Plains.a Before it ran out of human fuel, the disease claimed 20,000 souls.a R.G. Robertson tells the story of this deadly virus with modern implications. "
Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,88 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674011304
Giovanni Boccaccio devoted the last decades of his life to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is this text, the first collection of biographies in Western literature devoted to women.
Author : Mark Osborne
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,87 MB
Release : 2017-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 024496839X
The Raven's Inn- was a four-hundred-year-old guest house, that welcomed travellers and locals alike. The inn was on an island called Lance- just off the coast of England, and was favoured for its fine food and accommodation. But, the island also had a darker side. Within its midst-were, a crew of fishermen who went by the name of the Anchormen. They were secretive and cruel and kidnapped travellers who came to the island. Once taken, they were sold to Europe and America as slaves, and personal treasures were looted to sustain their evil empire. One day, an eccentric, Jamaican born gentleman, Johnson Brown arrives at the island and soon disappears. The locals begin to talk, while the Anchormen harbour their deceitful secret. Left to die underground. The visitor not only brings a fatal disease to the island-he also curses Raven's Inn.
Author : Daniel R. Headrick
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 34,40 MB
Release : 2012-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0691154325
In this work, Daniel Headrick traces the evolution of Western technologies and sheds light on the environmental and social factors that have brought victory in some cases and unforeseen defeat in others.
Author : Kyle William Bishop
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 12,74 MB
Release : 2010-01-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0786448067
Zombie stories are peculiarly American, as the creature was born in the New World and functions as a reminder of the atrocities of colonialism and slavery. The voodoo-based zombie films of the 1930s and '40s reveal deep-seated racist attitudes and imperialist paranoia, but the contagious, cannibalistic zombie horde invasion narrative established by George A. Romero has even greater singularity. This book provides a cultural and critical analysis of the cinematic zombie tradition, starting with its origins in Haitian folklore and tracking the development of the subgenre into the twenty-first century. Closely examining such influential works as Victor Halperin's White Zombie, Jacques Tourneur's I Walked with a Zombie, Lucio Fulci's Zombi 2, Dan O'Bannon's The Return of the Living Dead, Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later, and, of course, Romero's entire "Dead" series, it establishes the place of zombies in the Gothic tradition. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author : John Stokes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 36,20 MB
Release : 1996-03-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521475372
Stokes offers studies of Wilde's place in the Romantic tradition, and of his relationships with such legendary figures of the fin de siecle as Aubrey Beardsley, Alfred Jarry, and Arthur Symons. And always, as part of the process of historical inquiry, Stokes considers those who came after: humanitarian disciples who kept Wilde's memory sacred, performers in his plays, actors who impersonated the man himself.
Author : James Patterson
Publisher : jimmy patterson
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 32,95 MB
Release : 2011-12-05
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0316194646
Join Whit and Wisty on a magical quest to defeat the villain, once and for all, who has devastated their world. Whit and Wisty Allgood have sacrificed everything to lead the resistance against the merciless totalitarian regime that governs their world. Its supreme leader, The One Who Is The One, has banned everything they hold dear: books, music, art, and imagination. But the growing strength of the siblings' magic hasn't been enough to stop The One's evil rampage, and now he's executed the only family they had left. Wisty knows that the time has finally come for her to face The One. But her fight and her fire only channel more power to this already invincible being. How can she and Whit possibly prepare for a showdown with the ruthless villain that devastated their world-before he can truly become all-powerful? In this stunning third installment of the epic, bestselling Witch & Wizard series, the stakes have never been higher-and the consequences will change everything.
Author : Lois H. Gresh
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 35,2 MB
Release : 2017-07-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1785652095
THE SHAPE OF ANCIENT EVIL A series of grisly murders rocks London. At each location, only a jumble of bones remains of the deceased, along with a bizarre sphere covered in strange symbols. The son of the latest victim seeks the help of Sherlock Holmes and his former partner, Dr. John Watson. They discover the common thread tying together the murders. Bizarre geometries, based on ancient schematics, enable otherworldly creatures to enter our dimension, seeking to wreak havoc and destruction. The persons responsible are gaining so much power that even Holmes’s greatest enemy fears them—to the point that he seeks an unholy alliance.
Author : Edgar Rice Burroughs
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 19,35 MB
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 2021102211
Jungle Tales of Tarzan is a collection of twelve loosely connected short stories by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, comprising the sixth book in order of publication in his series of twenty-four books about the title character Tarzan. Chronologically the events recounted in it occur within Chapter 11 of the first Tarzan novel, Tarzan of the Apes, between Tarzan's avenging of his ape foster mother's death and his becoming leader of his ape tribe. The stories ran monthly in Blue Book magazine, September 1916 through August 1917 before book publication in 1919.
Author : Megat Ishak
Publisher : Buku Fixi (Fixi Novo)
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,93 MB
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9670374723
Megat Ishak takes us on more journeys to destinations that are not for the squeamish. WARNING: This collection of 13 stories contains graphic scenes of torture, book-reading, dismemberment, coffee-drinking, cannibalism, nocturnal driving and other forms of depravity. Oh yes, there's also a villain named Mr. Ice Balls. The stories: Grotto Cloud Sparkle I Can Only See You At Night Respect Fork The Lake Ghost Girl Signature Chocolate The Mover Paradise Lost The Contract with Mr.Cadeer Paula Mr. Bolero (Buku Fixi)
