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"The native American Voltaire, the enemy of all puritans, the heretic in the Sunday school, the one-man demolition crew of the genteel tradition." —Alistair Cooke   Fiercely intelligent, scathingly honest, and hysterically funny, H.L. Mencken’s coverage of the Scopes Monkey Trial so...

In his second book of poetry, the winner of the 2000 T. S. Eliot Prize, H. L. Hix uses two contrasting poetic sequences. "Orders of Magnitude" defies rationality in favor of invention in the musical sense: producing a short composition that works out a single idea. As in music, the whole composition...

This volume contains the complete text of seven books. Six of them, Damn! A Book Of Calumny, A Book Of Prefaces, A Book Of Burlesques, The American Credo, In Defense Of Women, and Europe After 8:15 were written by H. L. Mencken.

A seventh book, The Antichrist, was written by F. W. Nietzsche...

A revolution in American medicine is in full swing, with the race from fee-for-service to fee-for-value at the front line in an epic battle that will transform healthcare delivery for decades to come. In America’s Healthcare Transformation, eminent physician leader Robert A. Phillips brings together...

“The sooner we finish setting up the outpost,” the Commander told him as they patrolled the perimeter, “the sooner we can make the final advance.” Entente, The Zoo & Inferno - three short science fiction stories by H. L. Moore.

Quickfic Anthology 3 from Digital Fiction Shorter-Short Speculative Fiction 42 more speculative fiction shorter-short stories in horror, fantasy, and science fiction. Top fiction authors present stories that grab you in 3,499 words or less. Includes the following terrific stories: A...

A cautionary tale of the horrors that can ensue when man experiments with nature, from the father of science fiction, H.G. Wells. A lonely island in the Pacific. The sinister scientist who rules it. And the strange beings who dwell there… This is the scenario for H. G. Wells’s haunting...

THE BEST SHORT STORY - 5 AUTHORS Jack London Guy de Maupassant Edgar Allan Poe Mark Twain H.H. Munro (SAKI) Ambrose Bierce L. Frank Baum Charlotte M. Yonge Anton Chekhov Nathaniel Hawthorne EDITED BY Ahmet Ünal ÇAM Aloha Oe by Jack London ________________________________________ Never...

A. E. van Vogt: Science Fantasy's Icon presents a study of select works by van Vogt and some limited biographical data. The main thrust of this book is to explain how, and why, van Vogt's various real life interests were often included in his fiction and nonfiction. Van Vogt went to work immediately...

This book is intended as an historical reader, an elementary text-book in the history of our country, or as an introduction or supplement to any of the excellent text-books on the history of the United States now in use.

This book opens a new frontier in understanding nonviolence. Discussions of peace and nonviolence usually focus on either moral theory or practical dimensions of applying nonviolence in conflict situations. Teaching Peace carries the discussion of nonviolence beyond ethics and into the rest of the...

Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Through a Glass Darkly is a collection of essays by scholars who argue that Baptists are frequently misrepresented, by outsiders as well as insiders, as members of an unchanging monolithic sect.   In contemporary discussions of...

The Diener by H.L. Riviere   The embalming machine pumped fluid into her and blood flowed red from the vein. Gradually, the venous blood became a lighter color. Her heart stopped but the machine pumped on. Soon the fluid flowing from the groin incision was almost colorless,...

Une sélection de fabliaux, dans une édition annotée et commentée pour les 6e. Un « petit classique numérique » pour les 6e. L’anthologie • Douze fabliaux qui mettent en scène la société du Moyen Âge dans sa diversité : seigneurs et vilains, prêtres, marchands et brigands, maris...