Stanley: 2315 books

2122 ember él egy többgenerációs csillaghajón, amely a haldokló Földtől 11,9 fényévre lévő Tau Ceti felé tart egy új otthon felfedezésének reményében. A hajó két gyűrűből...

When the cruel captain of the airship Petty Snark gets strangled by his own cat-o-nine-tails, the crew wants to dismiss it as an unfortunate accident. But Lt. Aubrianna Chellbamber, Special Investigator of Perplexing Incidents for the Royal Foglandian Air Corps, smells murder. As she investigates...

A sexy Sixty-ish spy spoof about a time-traveling bionic babe named Tacita Pruval who tangles with a cast of characters including Emperor Caligula, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Jack the Ripper, and a special guest appearance by the Spitfire pilots of the Royal Air Force and a cameo by the Marquis de...

There is a dark power stirring in Torea. Buried deep underground for eons, the tendrils of its sinister influence have reached the surface and are ready to act. Saul and his companions are oblivious to the looming horror that awaits them; luring them in, beckoning them closer. While...

Contains Never-Reprinted Hugo Nominee Novelette! This first-ever collection of novelettes by 1950s pulp master Stanley Mullen's science fiction contains his 1959 Hugo nominee, "Space to Swing a Cat." It also contains a rare treat for all aficionados of science fantasy: five novelettes sharing...

Stefan Mlynarczyk took refuge in Lowe Road workhouse. An impromptu concert amongst the men of his dormitory causes extraordinary pain to a dying woman. When the warden, intervenes to quell the disturbance, Stefan turns a proud face towards authority - and everyone gets more than they bargained for.A...

Rolling Thunder’s life and wisdom in his own words and from interviews with those who knew him well • Contains never-before-released talks by Rolling Thunder preserved by the Grateful Dead’s Mickey Hart as well as accounts of remarkable healings and weather magic from famous personalities...

Although Johann Sebastian Bach did not write any music for the guitar, transcriptions of his unaccompanied string music and music for lute have long been a part of the guitar repertoire. Despite the respect that this music commands among musicians and audiences debate still exists as to what constitutes...

Dante Alighieri cited the Bible extensively in his Commedia, but also used his epic poem to meditate on the meaning of the Scriptures as a 'true' text. The Biblical Dante provides close readings of passages from the Commedia to explore how Dante's concept of Biblical truth differs sharply from modern...

From Booker-Prize winning novelist Stanley Middleton. Thomas Harris is on the cusp of success as a classical composer with a growing reputation. When his father, a coal miner, dies Thomas decides to write a requiem for him which is also a thinly veiled attack on the powerful elite. In...

Episodes in the history of data, from early modern math problems to today's inescapable “dataveillance,” that demonstrate the dependence of data on culture. We live in the era of Big Data, with storage and transmission capacity measured not just in terabytes but in petabytes (where peta-...

In Stanley Corngold’s view, the themes and strategies of Kafka’s fiction are generated by a tension between his concern for writing and his growing sense of its arbitrary character. Analyzing Kafka’s work in light of "the necessity of form," which is also a merely formal necessity, Corngold...

“This is a definitive account of the United Nations for a general audience, told by a master.” —Jim Hoagland, The Washington Post United Nations: A History begins with its creation in 1945. Although the organization was created to prevent war, many conflicts have arisen, ranging from...

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Vistas in Sicily. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Arthur Stanley...