John K : 448 books

Sensations of hunger, thirst, sexual attraction, and love can dominate our thoughts to the exclusion of almost everything else, but until the last 10 years or so, the precise reasons why these passions arise have not been understood very well. We now know that these, and other drives like the urge...

Temporal Bone Dissection Guide elucidates the key concepts of otologic surgery in a user-friendly manner that is refreshingly accessible to beginning surgeons. Users are provided with only the most relevant information to ensure they are not distracted from the mail goal -- to hone their surgical skills...

After yet another decade of leaming, experimenting, and inves­ tigating since my first book, Arterial System Dynamics, the many new medical breakthroughs and technological advances have inspired me to write this book to bridge the gap between basic research and clinical applications. The application...

In 1871, did a curtsy and the drop of a hat ruin Yale Law Schools reputation? Perhaps. What do a babysitter and a Confederate spy have in common? Or is that who? Did the Colorado Territory agree to blackmail for statehood? Possibly. For the answers to these and many other questions, read Shes law,...

The Adventures of the Carbide Kid is based on actual events that were exaggerated through many years of storytelling. Growing up on a farm and hunting with a large family, the author and the Carbide Kid had many hunting experiences and mischievous adventures. There was no telling from day to day what these southern boys would be getting into.

Harlan Ellison, one of the Grand Masters of science fiction and a multiple Hugo-, Nebula-, and Edgar Award-winner, returns to his roots with the graphic novel, Phoenix Without Ashes. The year is 2785, and Devon, a farmer banished for challenging his community's Elders, discovers a secret that changes...

This publication consists of a series of short notes I previously posted on Facebook. It follows my earlier book "On the Way: Growth and Transcendence of Personal Consciousness". On the Way describes the stages of mental development we grow through during our lives, whereas this work focuses more on the insights we acquire toward the end of life.

The story begins in 1497, with the marriage and death on the same day of Jeffrey Thurston; dead by the hand of his wife. Following that, the story moves on almost 450 years, briefly to China and then to a girls boarding school in northern England just after the Second World War. The story involves...

Bridging the gap between modern differential geometry and the mathematical physics of general relativity, this text, in its second edition, includes new and expanded material on topics such as the instability of both geodesic completeness and geodesic incompleteness for general space-times, geodesic...

The Scultptress is about a prominent woman plastic surgeon who thinks she's God and finds out she's not. Goaded by a reporter into doing pro bono work, she selects, as her patient, a homeless, scarred man. A terrible mistake.From the moment she meets him, to the moment she falls in love with him,...

Movies You Haven't Seen . . .Yet ! is a compilation of five treatments for comedy motion pictures each in story form. The Romantic Comedy - Snowbound is about two strangers forced to be together for three months by a blizzard, The Satire - Arnie's Bermuda Caper is a take-off on film noir. Family Comedy...

The second edition of this indispensable guide provides a step-by-step approach to learning the anatomy and principal procedures of temporal bone dissection starting with mastoidectomy and including approaches to the internal auditory canal and jugular foramen. The renowned authors share their collective...

From the illustrious George Washington and the infamous J. Edgar Hoover to brilliant imaginer Walt Disney and bad boy of baseball Ty Cobb, Freemasons have influenced every aspect of American life. Yet this secret society remains as controversial and mysterious as ever. In this book, you'll learn the...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.