Gorn: 11 books

In an era that witnessed the rise of celebrity outlaws like Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Bonnie and Clyde, John Dillinger was the most famous and flamboyant of them all. Reports on the man and his misdeeds--spiced with accounts of his swashbuckling bravado and cool daring--provided an America...

"It didn't occur to me until fairly late in the work that I was writing a book about the beginnings of a national celebrity culture. By 1860, a few boxers had become heroes to working-class men, and big fights drew considerable newspaper coverage, most of it quite negative since the whole enterprise...

The world knows the story of young Emmett Till. In August 1955, the fourteen-year-old Chicago boy supposedly flirted with a white woman named Carolyn Bryant, who worked behind the counter of a country store, while visiting family in Mississippi. Three days later, his mangled body was recovered in...

Her rallying cry was famous: "Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living." A century ago, Mother Jones was a celebrated organizer and agitator, the very soul of the modern American labor movement. At coal strikes, steel strikes, railroad, textile, and brewery strikes, Mother Jones...

The Tao Te Ching is a spiritual, inspirational work that guides us through life, helping us to live within each moment and find the beauty that is all around each of us. Simple, beautiful, and life changing. The Tao Te Ching is fundamental to the Taoist school of Chinese philosophy (Dàojia), and...

A comprehensive history with descriptions of the world's most significant aircraft employed as "eyes in the sky." For as long as there has been sustained heavier-than-air human flight, airplanes have been used to gather information about our adversaries. Less than a decade after the...

CHAPTER I.* - A POSTULATE* **CHAPTER II. **- QUALIFICATIONS CHAPTER III. - PRELIMINARIES CHAPTER IV. - THE VISION CHAPTER V. - DIFFICULTIES CHAPTER VI. - SYMBOLS CHAPTER VII. - SOME EXPERIENCES CHAPTER VIII. - DIRECTIONS FOR USING THE OVOIDS AND SHPERES FOR CRYSTAL OR MIRROR VISION CHAPTER IX. - CONCISE DICTIONARY OF ASTROLOGICAL TERMS

Die Autorin erarbeitet eine für den juristischen Sprachgebrauch einheitliche Definition häuslicher Gewalt. Neben rechtsgeschichtlichen und sozialwissenschaftlichen Ansätzen untersucht sie dazu auch Kriterien aus wissenschaftstheoretischer Perspektive. Die verschiedenen polizeilichen Verweisungsmaßnahmen...

Clairvoyance means clear seeing, into the future, into the past, into other dimensions and beyond the physical eye range. We all possess clairvoyant powers, but the modern busy world means that we do not often use them and so we may miss opportunities and hazards. But you can easily learn to use these...

Emma, Marco e Andrea sono appena ragazzini ma già sono costretti a vivere per strada. Sono tre amici accomunati da un tragico passato e scampati fortunosamente a un futuro ancora più cupo. Sono anche tre cavie da laboratorio, (i numeri 30, 31 e 32), fuggiti in seguito a una misteriosa esplosione...

Anno 2116. L'asteroide 2007-BA minaccia la Terra, si teme l'estinzione totale della razza umana. Visto il tremendo impatto stimato l'unica via di scampo non è nello spazio bensì nel tempo, in quanto, a differenza dei viaggi intergalattici rimasti pura utopia, il viaggio nel tempo è possibile. Un...