Wells: 2848 books

If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal...

According to Wikipedia: "Wells's first non-fiction bestseller was Anticipations (1901).[15] When originally serialised in a magazine it was subtitled, "An Experiment in Prophecy", and is considered his most explicitly futuristic work. Anticipating what the world would be like in the year 2000, the...

Spanning the origins of the Earth to the outcome of the First World War, this is a brilliantly compelling account of the evolution of life and the development of the human race. Along the way, Wells considers such diverse subjects as the Neolithic era, the rise of Judaism, the Golden Age of Athens,...

H. G. Wells (1866-1946) "Je demeurai affalé sur l’un des bancs de rameurs du petit canot pendant je ne sais combien de temps, songeant que, si j’en avais seulement la force, je boirais de l’eau de mer pour devenir fou et mourir plus vite. Tandis que j’étais ainsi étendu, je...

Outstanding! Obviouly, the book is dated and now some items have proven to be incorrect, but much of it is both timeless and insightful, if not inciteful. It reads more like a novel than the history texts we are used to. Wells also injects his own insights and critiques, and is quite philosophic on many topics.

*Contains Jack London's The Iron Heel, H.G. Wells' The Sleeper Awakes, and Robert Hugh Benson's Lord of the World, three dystopian novels that were published within ten years of each other and ushered in the genre. *Contains an introduction by Luke Hartwell *A perfect gift for yourself or your friends...

Sixty years ago this summer, the most severe polio epidemic on record claimed more than 8,000 victims across the country. About a quarter of those stricken with so-called infantile paralysis were in Ontario. Three-year-old Davie Onley, who would grow up to be the province's lieutenant-governor, was one....

Few medical treatments are as fraught with fear, misunderstanding and controversy as electroshock, or electroconvulsive therapy. Most of us consider it a treatment of the 1950s and 60s, an option medicine and society have left behind. Yet ECT is experiencing a startling resurgence and is seen as especially...

Travel backward through time from today's scattered billions to the handful of early humans who lived in Africa 60,000 years ago and are ancestors to us all. In Deep Ancestry, scientist and National Geographic explorer Spencer Wells shows how tiny genetic changes add up over time into a fascinating...

Until now there has been no single, comprehensive resource on the status of North America's most threatened birds and what people can do to help protect them. Birder's Conservation Handbook is the only book of its kind, written specifically to help birders and researchers understand the threats while...

Together in one indispensable volume, The Time Machine and The Invisible Man are masterpieces of irony and imaginative vision from H. G. Wells, the father of science fiction. The Time Machine conveys the Time Traveller into the distant future and an extraordinary world. There, stranded on a...

THE CONE by H.G. Wells The story takes place in a smithy in Stoke-on-Trent, in Staffordshire. An artist is there to represent the industrial landscape; the manager of the hardware store discovers his adventure with his wife and takes him to tour the factory, where there are dangerous characteristics

TW Writers have joined forces with the Electric Lantern Festival with a new take on the conventional museum audio-tour. Imagine any English town as a kind of museum or a series of strange artworks. What if you could take an audio-tour of the buildings and places? These twenty pieces will take you...

The appeal of games and puzzles is timeless and universal. In this unique book, David Wells explores the fascinating connections between games and mathematics, proving that mathematics is not just about tedious calculation but imagination, insight and intuition. The first part of the book introduces...