This training guide is a truly unique and informative book which is full of reliable and time tested information - written for the admirers and owners of this wonderful breed. Easy-to-read and in-depth in its nature - you will thoroughly enjoy your experience with this training guide. A wealth of reliable methods and procedures, alongside detailed advice for current or soon-to-be-owners is contained within. Contributed to by a series of specialist dog trainers, this book is certainly a mus...

This guide is a truly unique and informative book which is full of reliable and time tested information - written for the admirers and owners of this wonderful breed. Easy-to-read and in-depth in its nature - you will thoroughly enjoy your experience with this training guide. A wealth of reliable methods and procedures, alongside detailed advice for current or soon-to-be-owners is contained within. Contributed to by a series of specialist dog trainers, this book is certainly a must have ad...

The Law and the Lady (1875) refashions sensation fiction as a coolly argued case study in marriage and proof. Newlywed Valeria Woodville learns that her husband, Eustace, once stood trial in Scotland for his first wife's death and was released under the disquieting verdict "Not Proven." Rejecting that limbo, she undertakes her own inquiry, moving from parlors to archives, interrogating witnesses, and weighing medical testimony. Mixing first-person narration with documents and the eerie fig...

The Hope of the Gospel gathers meditative sermons in which George MacDonald reads Jesus' words with uncompromising moral clarity. Salvation, he insists, is deliverance from sin into filial obedience under the Father's purifying love. In lucid, lyrical homiletic prose, he expounds parables and the Sermon on the Mount, blending close biblical exegesis with Victorian essayistic earnestness and a Romantic, humane imagination. A Scottish Congregational minister turned novelist and theologian, M...

The Kuzari is a philosophical dialogue in which the Khazar king questions a philosopher, a Christian, a Muslim, and finally a rabbi, seeking a faith to live, not merely contemplate. Halevi critiques Aristotelian and kalām reason, privileging Sinai's public revelation, embodied mitzvot, Hebrew, and the bond of people, land, and God. Written in Judeo‑Arabic and framed by the Khazar conversion legend, its supple, courtly prose carries liturgical cadences, situating the work within, yet agains...

Across three volumes, The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic charts the union of Castile and Aragon, the fall of Granada, the Inquisition, and the first Atlantic expeditions. Prescott blends high politics, institutional reform, and court drama in a stately, source-driven narrative dense with notes. Composed within nineteenth‑century Anglo-American historiography, it marries Romantic color to a budding critical method, placing the Catholic Monarchs at the shift from...

Published in 1902, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus traces Claus's orphaned infancy in Burzee under Necile and the great Ak to his move to the Laughing Valley, the making of toys, stockings, chimneys, and reindeer, and the battle with the Awgwas, ending with the Council of Immortals' Mantle. Baum's lucid, gently humorous, mythopoeic prose builds a benevolently secular Christmas lore. Baum—journalist, showman, and creator of Oz—pursued modern fairy tales free of Old World piety. His w...

The Kabbalah Unveiled offers Mathers's influential English mediation of Zoharic texts via Knorr von Rosenroth's Latin Kabbala Denudata. Assembling the Book of the Concealed Mystery, the Greater Holy Assembly, and the Lesser Holy Assembly, it expounds sefirotic emanation, Adam Kadmon, macroprosopus and microprosopus, and the play of divine names. In a Victorian, syncretic register, Mathers balances literal rendering with copious notes, glossaries, and schematic correspondences. Framed by th...

A Lifeline in the Darkness: A Guide for Families Navigating Childhood and Adolescent DepressionImagine being a lighthouse guiding your child through the stormy seas of depression. Bright Minds, Dark Days: Overcoming Depression in Children and Adolescents offers precisely that–a beacon of hope and practical wisdom for families grappling with this often-overwhelming struggle.Have you ever felt the sheer helplessness of watching your child suffer? You're not alone; countless f...

The Kybalion distills modern Hermeticism into seven principles—Mentalism, Correspondence, Vibration, Polarity, Rhythm, Cause and Effect, and Gender—presented as tools for mental transmutation. Its lapidary, aphoristic prose alternates didactic exposition with catechetical recap, claiming descent from Hermes Trismegistus yet epitomizing the early twentieth-century occult revival. Relying on maxims like as above, so below, it elaborates crisp analogies and quasi-scientific metaphors, blendin...

Hide and Seek interweaves lost identity with a tender study of disability. At its center stands the deaf heroine, Madonna, adopted by the idealistic painter Valentine Blyth; their orbit spans the London studio and the traveling circus from which she was rescued, as a buried scandal surfaces. Collins blends domestic realism with investigative plotting and theatrical set pieces, moving from comic bustle to menace. An early 1850s work, it anticipates sensation fiction by using secrets, misrec...

In The Legends of the Jews (Vol. 1–4), Louis Ginzberg weaves a continuous epic of the Hebrew Bible—from Creation into the Persian era—by integrating thousands of aggadic motifs. Drawing on Talmud, Midrash, Targums, apocrypha, pseudepigrapha, and medieval compilations, he restores the imaginative surround of Scripture in supple prose, harmonizing variants while situating the narrative within the modern Wissenschaft ethos. Ginzberg—an Eastern European–born Talmudist and longtime professor at...