Product Description: Haunted houses dont only exist on Halloween, some people think there are houses that are haunted by ghosts and spirits all year long. These spooky houses exist all over the world, and this book explores some of the craziest and most unexplained haunted houses on Earth...read more

Product Description: This fascinating volume explores the strangest, and spookiest, mysteries found around the world. From Stonehenge in England to the Great Pyramid in Egypt, this book examines the many explanations and remaining questions associated with these amazing creations...read more

Product Description: Since we are just one planet in a huge galaxy that is part of a possibly infinite universe, its easy to wonder if there is intelligent life in the universe outside of Earth. Many people believe in the existence of UFOs and think that not only is there intelligent life out there, but that it has made contact...read more

Product Description: Sometimes known as Sasquatch, this ape-like behemoth supposedly stalks the forest of the Pacific Northwest. There are many followers who firmly believe in Bigfoots existence, but many scientists believe all sightings are a hoax. This fascinating series explores the multitude of encounters with the mythical beast...read more

Product Description: The legendary island of Atlantis was first mentioned in Platos dialogues, but what happened to this mysterious place? The sunken city of Atlantis is a popular myth, and is just one of the many myths of lost worlds featured in this enthralling volume...read more

Product Description: Volcanic eruptions are among the most violent and spectacular natural events on Earth. Accompanied by red-hot rivers of lava, towering clouds of ash, and thick flows of mud, they can devastate the landscape along with people's lives...read more

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Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-84) is regarded as one of the outstanding figures of English literature, as a poet, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. This collected edition of his works - commissioned by the publisher within hours of Johnson's death, such was his celebrity - was published in 1787 in eleven volumes, edited by his literary executor, the musicologist Sir John Hawkins. Volume 3 contains the second part of his Lives of the Poets, his last major work. This was a commission to provide short accounts of over fifty poets of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and it set a new standard for English literary biography. Although not all of the subjects have been regarded as eminent by posterity, and Johnson was criticised for brusque treatment of well-connected courtier poets now largely forgotten, the work was a great success.

Sir John Hawkins (1719-1789), lawyer, friend of Samuel Johnson and member of the Academy of Ancient Music, published his pioneering five-volume history in 1776 just after the first volume of Burney's. Hawkins' work suffered badly in the resulting competition between the two, partly because of his difficult personality, partly because of the scholarly style of the writing contrasting with Burney's more engaging approach. However, it is Hawkins' accuracy and attention to detail, his appreciation of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century music and his account of London music society in the early eighteenth century, supported by his painstaking research, which makes the History of indispensable value to music scholars. Whilst there are neither contents list nor chapter headings, there is an index, and each volume includes generous illustrations and musical examples. Volume 4 covers the seventeenth century, including portraits of Gibbons, Lully and Purcell, and discusses of Mersenne's Harmonie Universelle.

Product Description: Sir John Malcolm (1769-1833) was a diplomat and administrator in India. He arrived there in 1783 as a cadet in the East India Company, was quickly promoted, and soon moved into political and diplomatic roles where his linguistic skills proved extremely useful...read more

Product Description: Sketches of Persia, although published anonymously in 1827, is attributed to Sir John Malcolm (1769-1833). Malcolm was a diplomat and administrator in India: arriving at the age of fourteen in 1783 to work for the East India Company, he was known during his long career as 'Boy' Malcolm...read more

Product Description: Between 1922 and 1967, up to 10,000 children, many as young as six, were literally plucked off the streets in Britain—taken from orphanages or snatched from the arms of single mothers or foster parents, and sent to Australia to help boost population...read more

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Product Description: Josef,young flautist,discovers his spiritual life when he meets with Vera,who ignores her role of inspiring muse towards his journey into the inner centre of himself.Thanks to Vera,he experiences the Supreme Love,the universal strength that resides in every creature,but that is freed only with the magic union between man and woman...read more

Product Description: Josef, giovane flautista, si risveglia alla Vita interiore grazie all'incontro con Vera, ignara ispiratrice di un viaggio verso il centro di s_ stesso. Grazie a lei sperimenta l'Amore Supremo, la Forza universale che risiede in ogni creatura...read more

Product Description: With a dedication to the poem To An Athlete Dying Young by A.E. Housman, A Stiller Man examines the life of Russell Drummond, who grew up on a mountain in southeast Tennessee during WWII. Russell learned life lessons from his parents, his church, and through playing golf as he generally struggled through childhood trying to understand the world and its meanings...read more

Product Description: Have you ever thought of running your own business? This comprehensive book, written on the basis of personal experience, is aimed at all those who want to become their own boss. Here, John Hawkins explores the joys, pitfall, and practicalities of setting and launching a new business, or of going freelance...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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