Arcturus imprint: 479 books
by Martin Marix Evans
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2002
At the outset of 1918 Germany faced certain defeat as a result of Allied technical innovation in tanks and aircraft, and the American entry into the war. Victory could only be gained by the immediate application of overwhelming force in new tactical form; the 'fire-waltz' artillery barrage and the storm-trooper...
Gestapo
Hitler’s Secret Terror Police
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
The names Klaus Barbie, Adolf Eichmann, Hermann Goering, Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler and Ernst Kaltenbrunner struck terror into law-abiding citizens let alone those who resisted Adolf Hitler. These men were leaders of the Gestapo, the secret police during the times of the Nazis. This book outlines...
The Nuremberg Trials
The Nazis brought to justice
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Involving over a hundred defendants, the Nuremberg Trials took place between 1945 and 1945 and broke new ground. Twenty-one Nazi leaders were charged with crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity - and with having a common plan or conspiracy to commit those crimes. It was the first...
Cybercrime and the Darknet
Revealing the hidden underworld of the internet
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
With the emergence of the internet new forms of crime became possible. From harassment and grooming to fraud and identity theft the anonymity provided by the internet has created a new world of crime of which we all must be aware. The threat of hackers reaches beyond the individual, threatening businesses...
Mafia Boss Sam Giancana
The Rise and Fall of a Chicago Mobster
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2015
Sent to Reformatory at the age of 10, Sicilian-American Sam Giancana lived a gilded life as mobster and mob boss at a pivotal point in history when the mafia decided who ruled America, who lived and who died.
Born in 1908, in The Patch, Chicago, Giancana joined the Forty-Two gang of lawless...
by Charlotte Greig
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
Thinking big and thinking bad, fifty of the world's most notorious criminal masterminds have lied, cheated, murdered and swindled their way onto the pages of this book. Many of these miscreants had the brains and charisma to be successful in legitimate walks of life, yet they chose to take a different...
by Tara Ward
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Packed with stimulating and mind expanding exercises, this book will help put you in touch with a hitherto inaccessible world. It shows you how to transcend the mundane and yet remain in touch with life's essentials. Wherever you are right now in life, the contents of this book and its exercises can...
by Charlotte Greig
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
From perverse acts of cannibalism and dark sexual fantasies to vicious acts motivated by greed and a simple lust for blood, this book reveals the methods and motivations of some of the world's most notorious serial killers, including Juan Corona, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, Pee Wee Gaskins, and Ivan...
UFOs: A History of Alien Activity from Sightings to Abductions to Global Threat
A History of Alien Activity from Sightings to Abductions to Global Threat
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
Is Earth undergoing an alien invasion? In this thrilling examination of the UFO phenomenon, author Rupert Matthews assesses the growing threat of alien reconnaissance on Earth. From the earliest recorded sightings to the most recent encounters and abductions, the book sifts through the evidence and asks...
Alien Encounters
True-Life Stories of Aliens, UFOs and Other Extra-Terrestrial Phenomena
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2007
In this compelling and revealing examination, author Rupert Matthews looks afresh at key episodes of alien activity on earth, and sheds light on the many mysterious phenomena associated with it. From Roswell to Taizé, the book dissects fascinating eyewitness accounts of communication and contact with...
by Sir John Dermot Turing
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
'I do not see why it [the machine] should not enter any one of the fields normally covered by the human intellect, and eventually compete on equal terms.'
Alan Turing, 1949
Today computers shape every aspect of our lives. In our pockets, we carry mobile phones with computing power that was...
Keeping Chickens and Other Poultry
Looking After Hens, Ducks, Geese and Turkeys
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
More and more people are enjoying the benefits of keeping poultry, and chickens are perhaps the most rewarding of all. This book provides a practical guide to chicken husbandry, from hatching your first chicks to cooking with produce that you know has come from happy, free-range birds.There are clear...
Science
100 Scientists Who Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2003
This is the fully illustrated edition of the new Popular Reference title, 'Quantum Leaps', ISBN: 9781784040925. To be alive today is to be confronted by the products of science - from aspirin, refrigeration, electric light and the telephone, to the airplane and the computer - to name just a few. In addition...
The Great Scientists
From Euclid to Stephen Hawking
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2005
From skyscrapers to jet aircraft, from mobile phones to computers, the products of modern science surround us on all sides. Perhaps the most significant product of science, however, is not the microwave, or the space station or the widescreen TV; it is the scientific method itself. Those societies that...