Arcturus Publishing: 479 books

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by Anne Rooney
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017

'The importance of the end in view prompted me to undertake all this work, which seemed to me destined to bring about a revolution in physics and chemistry.' Antoine Lavoisier, 1773 Great advances in human history have often rested on and prompted progress in chemistry. The exploitation of...
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Great Speeches

Words that Shaped the World

by John Boyes
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009

Great Speeches collects over forty of the most powerful and stirring addresses delivered in the English language. It captures the significant historical events of the past 400 years in the words of their participants, from those speeches given in times of war and sorrow, such as Winston Churchill's 'This...
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by Paul Roland
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017

Do you ever get the feeling that you don't quite belong to the present, or that you've lived before? Reincarnation - the belief that we are all reborn many times - lies at the heart of many of the oldest religions, philosophies, and faiths. It is being recognized by more and more people today...
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by Paul Roland
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009

Criminal profiling has been seen more and more in newspapers and on TV. This work explores an area of criminal detection, drawing on the more disturbing areas of psychology.
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Life After the Third Reich

The Struggle to Rise from the Nazi Ruins

by Paul Roland
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018

In 1945, Hitler committed suicide in his bunker as the Third Reich collapsed and the Red Army swamped Berlin. But what was it like to live in Germany after World War II? This is the story of Germany after the Nazis, a time when two separate states rose from the ashes to face each other across...
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The Complete Book of Ghosts

A Fascinating Exploration of the Spirit World from Apparitions to Haunted Places

by Paul Roland
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018

Ghosts and spirits populate the world around us. We just need to be sensitive or psychic enough to hear and see them. In this book, author Paul Roland examines a fascinating assortment of recorded sightings from as far back in history as Roman times. This serious look at ghosts presents them...
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The Nazis

The Rise and Fall of History’s Most Evil Empire

by Paul Roland
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2018

This book traces the history of the Third Reich, from the Nazi movement's beginnings in the beer halls of 1920s Germany to the outcome of the Nuremberg trials, which took place in the aftermath of the Second World War. Masters of manipulation, double standards, and deceit, the Nazis were bent...
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Nazi Women of the Third Reich

Serving the Swastika

by Paul Roland
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018

• Four months pregnant, Vera Wohlauf, wife of a serving SS officer, took sadistic pleasure in rounding up victims for Treblinka. • Like creatures from a Grimms' fairytale, female members of a Nazi 'welfare' organization scoured the towns and villages of Poland and Slovenia, luring blond...
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by Charlotte Greig
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2006

Assassinations are, by their nature, more shocking than most murders, affecting the lives of thousands, sometimes millions, of people. Even if the victim inspires passionate hatred, the act itself must be carried out with the sort of detachment usually associated with the professional hitman. And yet,...
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by Allen Carr
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2010

READ LOSE WEIGHT NOW AND SOLVE YOUR WEIGHT PROBLEM EASILY AND PAINLESSLY. Based on the most successful self-help stop-smoking method of all time, Lose Weight Now is a new, accessible form of the bestselling Easyway method. Updated and set out in a clear, easy-to-read format, this book makes...
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Classical Philosophy in a Nutshell

The complete guide to the founders of western philosophy, including Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Epicurus

by Michael Moore
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019

From Socrates' fascinating discussions of morality and virtue to Pythagoras' attempts to understand the arrangement of the cosmos, the thinkers of the ancient world provided us with an astonishing array of ideas that has helped to shape the modern world. Ranging across Ancient Greek and Roman...
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by Nigel Cawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013

The criminal history of Australia from bushrangers who robbed, raped and murdered their way across the Outback in the late 18th and 19th centuries to today's breed of celebrity villain, from Ned Kelly and Jack the Rammer to Mark Brandon 'Chopper' Read and Alan Bond.
Cover of The Great Philosophers: Sir Karl Popper, Jean-Paul Sartre and Michel Foucault
by Jeremy Stangroom, James Garvey
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015

No matter how you view philosophy, regardless of what you think it is, this series from The Independent will give you a strong sense of the life and work of the very best thinkers in the philosophical neighbourhood, dealing carefully and rationally with the most human of questions, the hardest questions,...
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What Really Happens When You Die?

Cosmology, time and you

by Andrew McLauchlin
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016

What happens to us when we die? It's a question that has exercised humanity's finest minds for thousands of years. Most have sought the answer in religion; others have looked to philosophers, to the supernatural, or, more recently, to evidence from 'near death' experience. But never, it seems, to science....
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