Stanley: 2315 books

This book highlights how, and why, torture is such a compelling tool for states and other powerful actors. While torture has a short-term use value for perpetrators, it also creates a devastating legacy for victims, their families and communities. In exposing such repercussions, this book addresses...

From the 1950s to the 1980s, the New Zealand government took more than 100,000 children from experiences of strife, neglect, poverty or family violence and placed them under state care in residential facilities. In homes like Epuni and Kingslea, Kohitere and Allendale, the state took over as parent....

The purpose of this textbook is to enable a Neuroscientist to discuss the structure and functions of the brain at a level appropriate for students at many levels of study including undergraduate, graduate, dental or medical school level. It is truer in neurology than in any other system of medicine...

First published in 1961, this book provides a contemporary definition of race, the distinction between geographical, local and micro-races, as well as consideration of the major evolutionary mechanisms of race formation in man. Author Professor Stanley M. Garn was and remains a pivotal figure...

Bygone Beliefs by Herbert Stanley Redgrove Originally published in 1920. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.

Sometimes, a seemingly trivial turn of events can spiral into a huge mess. That's exactly what happens in Stanley J. Weyman's story "The Snowball," in which a casually tossed clod of ice and snow sets off an international incident. Packed with political intrigue from start to finish, fans of fast-paced historical fiction will thoroughly enjoy it.

‘If Lancashire playwrights will send their plays to me I shall pledge myself to read them through. Let them not write as one dramatist does, about Countesses and Duchesses and society existing in imaginations, but about their friends and enemies - about real life.’ Annie Horniman In...

Jeanie sat in her office dreaming of changes to her life. The mundane existence had dragged her down to a point that nothing except routine existed. Her father’s death had provided the perfect excuse for her to hide away and after a family emergency and a chance meeting with an old flame Jeanie...

A tapestry of entangled tales from exotic neverlands, wandering capriciously through your mind, borne on poems flung from the tongues of the Djinn, translated by an Exalted Master of the Holy Order of Thulchulu.

When Acrem VII commands Napasha to dance for him, she tries her best. But the performance ends in disaster, and Acrem subjects her to dreadful punishments -- until she displays another talent that satisfies her lusty king. But with the help of a magical cat, Napasha shall treat her monarch to one...

A tale of sword and sorcery, cast in the classic 'Pulp' style of original masters like Clark Ashton Smith, C.L. Moore, and R.E.Howard. The heroes are brawny and forceful, the women beautiful, and the perils hideous and abhuman.With snakes, lots of big snakes.In an antediluvian...

A compilation of five masterful long short stories: "A Lodging for the Night" by Robert Louis Stevenson, "A Leaf in the Storm" by Ouida, "A Terribly Strange Bed" by Wilkie Collins, "Michael Lorio's Cross" by Hesba Stretton, and "A Perilous Amour" by Stanley J. Weyman.     

"A literary knockout with the loudest of beating hearts." John Corey Whaley, Printz Award winner of Where Things Come Back Olivia has spent her whole life struggling to escape her dead mother’s shadow. But when her father can’t even look at her because Olivia reminds him of her mother,...

Horror mega-pack. Three terrifying tales of nasty chicks who don't take crap off any man. You'll laugh, you'll scream, you'll wake up in a cold sweat. Or is that something else soaking your sheets? You get "Napasha's Passionate Punishment," "The Combustible Cocksman" and "Nasty...