Hughes: 1804 books

"Hughes serves up equal measures of wit, intrigue, and seat-of-the-pants action and even dabbles a little in Jungian psychology...Irresistibly good reading."--Booklist Boro Harkless has devoted his life to the service of the Archonite Bureau of Security, the force tasked with keeping...

The Iron Wolf, the Iron Wolf Stands on the world with jagged fur. The rusty Moon rolls through the sky. The iron river cannot stir. The iron wind leaks out a cry Animals of air, land and sea are brilliantly imagined in this perfect introduction for young readers to the work of Ted Hughes....

As an early-twentieth-century English artist with an interest in historical subjects, Talbot Hughes began collecting clothing for accuracy in his paintings—and the pursuit grew into a labor of love. His magnificent costume collection was eventually displayed in Harrod's and has become a permanent...

Chuck Hughes is the star of Chuck’s Day Off, a Food Network Canada and Cooking Channel (U.S.) show featuring the charismatic chef cooking for friends and family on his day off at one of his Montreal restaurants, Garde-Manger. Fabulously energetic, fun and a skilled chef, Chuck definitely has star...

“This is a book about autism. Specifically, it is about my autism, which is both like and unlike other people’s autism. But just as much, it is a story about how I emerged from the darkness of it into the beauty of it.” In this elegant and thought-provoking memoir, Dawn Prince-Hughes...

During Paul's ministry, Corinth was a newly rebuilt, bustling, important city in the Roman Empire. It was a place full of pride, individualism, wealth, and religious pluralism. No wonder its inhabitants held little regard for Paul's message! Sound familiar? Our contemporary culture has much...

Received opinion imagines Judaism and Islam as two distinct religions interacting in the centuries following the death of Muhammad in the early seventh century. Tradition describes the relations between the two groups using such tropes as "symbiosis." In this revisionist work, Aaron W. Hughes instead...

  Start programming robots NOW!   Learn hands-on, through easy examples, visuals, and code   This is a unique introduction to programming robots to execute tasks autonomously. Drawing on years of experience in artificial intelligence and robot programming, Cameron...

Governments and social agencies tackle the toughest social problems their citizens face -- poverty, homelessness, mental and physical illness, violence, abuse, and more. Yet these problems persist in Canada -- in many cases, they are worsening -- and the costs of the social safety net continue to...

Stuck in a rut? Know what you want but don’t know how to get it? Feel like life is passing you by? Sick of getting mediocre results? Then enter the wonderful world of Liquid Thinking… A practical, jargon-free and easily accessible self-help book drawing on a diverse range of experiences...

A quartet of celestial stories about the troubles and triumphs of the planets, moons, stars and galaxies, all of which turn out to be sentient and sensitive living beings. Yes, the heavenly objects have feelings too and they find life just as bewildering as human beings do. When Pluto is officially...

Join cult writer Rhys Hughes on a series of inventive adventures among a cast of peculiar characters, including the completely unfeasible Hogwash & Bum Note, somewhere under the rainbow way down low... Here you will find stories about incompetent explorers in strange places; knights, goddesses...

A revised edition of a collection of stories totalling 100,000 words of fiction that span the entirety of the career of cult author Rhys Hughes.... Ghosts, vampires, mythological beings, eccentrics, mad inventors, demons and other strange beings can be found cavorting here, sometimes seriously, sometimes...

What happens when apeman good meets marshmallow evil? That's the alarming question posed by this novella, which is a double sequel to two obscure and unlikely books, namely The Abnormalities of Stringent Strange by Rhys Hughes and The Fangs of Suet Pudding by Adams Farr... In a forgotten corner...