Yuri: 188 books

Ghost of Japan is a collection with the most horrifying stories, this book is the most comprehensive compilation with the most gruesome paranormals events in the Japanese history. If you like the short stories or if you enjoy reading good horror stories you need to had this book in your collection, many of these stories are completely unknown to the people in Europe and America, Enjoy it.

«El gran tema secreto de la literatura chilena es ese abismo entre lo que se dice y lo que se escribe. Así somos en Chile» escribe Alejandro Zambra con una visión casi antropológica, «desconfiamos de la fluidez, de la facilidad de palabra». Es quizá por esa desconfianza que esta antología...

Yuri Leving's Keys to The Gift: A Guide to Vladimir Nabokov's Novel is a new systematization of the main available data on Nabokov's most complex Russian novel, The Gift (19341939). From notes in Nabokov's private correspondence to scholarly articles accumulated during the seventy years since the novels...

Nove racconti per un piccolo esperimento di narrativa erotica firmata da sole donne, di un’intensità tale da scatenare i sensi e da mostrarci, pagina dopo pagina, come, di fronte alla libertà di scrivere senza filtri, le donne rivelino un immaginario erotico esplicito quanto quello degli uomini. Racconti...

First contact. For the first time, humans will be meeting members of another intelligent species. One man has a question: why now? The answer will be more surprising than he could have imagined.

Literature is not only about aesthetics, but also almost equally about economics. The successful marketing of an author and his literary works is more dependent on the activities of cultural merchants than on the particular words and phrases found in the author’s prose. Marketing Literature and...

Chess: An Historical Perspective Chess � the �Royal Game” � is an ancient board game, perhaps fifteen hundred years old. There are many legends about how chess came to be. Most of them are folk tales and are far from reality. Arguably more books have been written about chess than...

This fascinating book explores the evolution of religious dualism, the doctrine that man and cosmos are constant battlegrounds between forces of good and evil. It traces this evolution from late Egyptian religion and the revelations of Zoroaster and the Orphics in antiquity through the Dead Sea Scrolls,...

Step 1: Log in. Step 2: connect with your old college love you haven't seen in ages. Step 3: find out he's married. Step 4: agree to meet for dinner. Step 5: hear that he's bringing his wife along and realize that you're single. Step 5: Cry help and ask a coworker to pretend to be your husband for one evening. Step 6: Find out it is not as easy as it sounds.

The handstand is one of the most simple, yet one of the most humbling, skills in the span of the physical arts. It seems so simple, yet it can be an incredibly frustrating skill to learn. Because of this, many people think that handstands are reserved for gymnasts and circus performers. Let me say,...

For over five hundred years the Russians wondered what kind of people their Arctic and sub-Arctic subjects were. "They have mouths between their shoulders and eyes in their chests," reported a fifteenth-century tale. "They rove around, live of their own free will, and beat the Russian people," complained...

Learn how to attack in the sharpest lines of the most widely played chess opening! Against most Sicilian variations, White’s sharpest and often best weapon is queenside castling, a strategy that frequently leads to spectacular fireworks. Regrettably, these powerful charges have never been properly...

It's Christmas time in Yakutsk, the coldest city on the Earth, and Captain Tsoi of the Moscow police is looking forward to visiting his parents. On the night of his arrival, the city is sent into a blackout and a deep freeze by a gang trying to get away with an unprecedented bounty of diamonds. (Fifty Below. A Winter's Tale).

Material objects persist through time and survive change. How do they manage to do so? What are the underlying facts of persistence? Do objects persist by being "wholly present" at all moments of time at which they exist? Or do they persist by having distinct "temporal segments"...