Albert Jack: 79 books

From the best selling author of Red Herrings & White Elephants, Pop Goes the Weasel, Ten Minute Mysteries and many more... The Mysterious Death of God’s Own Banker - Did Roberto Calvi, head of a bank with close connections to the Vatican, take his own life or was there a more sinister...

From the Author of the Internationally Bestselling English Language Books - Red Herrings & White Elephants and Shaggy Dogs & Black Sheep How To Speak English Like a Native The English language is perhaps the richest and most expressive in the world. One of the reasons for this...

This is a wonderful collection of stories revealing the origins of some of the world’s best-known brand names and how they became a part of our language and the world we live in today. Landislas Biro Charles Goodyear Willis Carrier The Earl of Sandwich King C Gillette Henry Ford Walt Disney George...

Hoisted by their own Petard. Ten Inventors who were killed by their creations. This volume is dedicated to all those whose died whilst pursuing the idea that they could make the world a better place for the rest of us. Curiosity will eventually lead to innovation. Fortunately we are...

Try to See It from My Angle: The Bermuda Triangle What is it about this infamous stretch of ocean (and sky) that causes ships and planes to vanish without a trace? At ten past two in the afternoon of 5 December 1945, five US Navy Avenger torpedo bombers took off from the naval air station...

‘If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying, ‘It can’t be done.’ – Peter Ustinov Introduction Curiosity will eventually lead to innovation. Fortunately we are an imaginative species who does a lot of wondering. Way back to when...

From the bestselling author of Red Herrings & White Elephants, Shaggy Dogs, Pop Goes the Weasel, They Laughed at Galileo and many more.. Introduction We all love a good mystery don’t we? And by all, I mean each and every one of us are, or will be, captivated at one time or another...

Edgar Allan Poe was a master of the macabre. He wrote horror stories, mysteries, poems, fiction and non-fiction. He was a master of suspense and the father of the modern detective stories. He had the likes of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie copying his format to create their own stories...

From the Author of the Internationally Bestselling Books - Red Herrings & White Elephants, What Caesar did for My Salad, Shaggy Dogs, Pop Goes the Weasel, They Laughed at Galileo: We all love a good mystery, don’t we? And by all, I mean each and every one of us are, or will be, captivated...

From the Author of the Internationally Bestselling Books - Red Herrings & White Elephants, What Caesar did for My Salad, Shaggy Dogs, Pop Goes the Weasel, They Laughed at Galileo & Mysterious World. We all love a good mystery don’t we? And by all, I mean each and every one of us  are,...

We all love a good mystery, don’t we? And by all, I mean each and every one of us are, or will be, captivated at one time or another by a decent, real-life mystery; either one of the world’s best, or something on a smaller scale such. But writing a book on just one of these would have been...

A humorous account of great inventors and their critics who predicted failure. They Laughed at Galileo takes a humorous and reflective look at one thousand years of the development of humankind: those who dreamt, those who taught, those who opposed, and those who, ultimately, did. At...

Der Ratgeber für ein Auslandsschuljahr Down Under – Aktualisierte Neuausgabe! Auslandsaufenthalt für Schüler Wie man als Schüler nach Neuseeland kommt, was berücksichtigt werden muss, wer einem hilft und welche Kosten auf einen zukommen, wird in diesem aktuellen Buch erläutert. Das Handbuch...

Captain Jack White (1879-1946). Any study of anarchism anywhere in Ireland would be amiss if it did not include mention of the first organiser of the Irish Citizen Army: republican, communist and then anarchist, Captain Jack White. Born at Whitehall, near Broughshane in County Antrim Jack White spent...