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The Nazi Holocaust is one of the most momentous events in human history. Yet, it remains on many levels a baffling and unfathomable mystery. By shunning simplistic 'explanations' Ronnie Landau has set out, in a clear, thought-provoking and enlightened fashion, to mediate betweeen this vast, often...

Uh, oh, Amigo! Grant, Christina, Juan and Rose are in big trouble! The Alamo is under attack! By termites! By ghosts! And by four funny kids determined to solve a mystery that their mystery book-writing grandmother says doesnt exist! Soon they get out of the fajita frying pan and into the chili pepper...

This book presents a systematic account of the role of the personal spiritual ideal of wu-wei--literally "no doing," but better rendered as "effortless action"--in early Chinese thought. Edward Slingerland's analysis shows that wu-wei represents the most general of a set of conceptual...

Alice again enters a fantastical world, this time by climbing through a mirror into the world that she can see beyond it. There she finds that, just like a reflection, everything is reversed. Through the Looking-Glass includes such verses as "Jabberwocky" and "The Walrus and the Carpenter",...

On the morning of June 25, 1876, a force of 700 men from the 7th US Calvary led by General George Armstrong Custer attacked an Indian encampment on the banks of the Little Big Horn River. Unbeknownst to Custer, he faced the combined might of the Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes, led by their greatest...

The only book you will ever need to read by Australia's best-loved marsupial-based cartoonist Join beloved cartoonist First Dog On the Moon in this tender frolic through the looming collapse of civilisation and the demise of everything you ever cared about. Never have so many worked so hard to bring...

Today we are blessed with two extraordinarily successful theories of physics. The first is Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, which describes the large-scale behaviour of matter in a curved spacetime. This theory is the basis for the standard model of big bang cosmology. The discovery...

Part three of this four part series has Joe's ship preventing a mutiny of the transport ship they are escorting from England to the Colonies. After parting company with the transport ship Joe's ship is attacked and his captain is injured. After Joe's ship limps into port and prepares to sail again...

Classic tale of Virginia and the early American colonies, just before and after 1776. Interesting reading for the whole family, though written with younger teen boys in mind.

Jingo Hawks is out of luck when Mrs. Daggatt from the orphan house hires him out as a chimney sweep to the awful General Dirty-Face Scurlock. But it's gypsy luck that puts Jingo into the right chimney and then into the care of the mysterious Mr. Peacock, who claims to know Jingo's scoundrel father....

Charles Kingsley was one of the most influential members of the Church of England during the 19th century, and he wrote a number of Christian books that continue to be read by people of all denominations today.

http://howtheworldreallyworks.info/ ‘Although not present in every New Age group a core belief within the New Age is in channeling. The idea that human beings, sometimes (although not always) in a state of trance, can act “as a channel of information from sources other than their normal selves”....

Fascist Voices contains a unique and uncompromising collection of essays that appeared in Fascist Quarterly (later titled British Union Quarterly) during the turbulent 1930s. This publication was a bold attempt by the British Union of Fascists to counter the influence of the Left Book Club, by providing...

Cast as a fictional memoir of the 1960s, ‘Madame de Gaulle’s Penis’ tells the story of John Sinclair, an ambitious young broadcaster with marital problems whose career nosedives following what should have been a turning-point interview with the recently-retired General de Gaulle. In a beautifully-crafted...