Do you want to know what makes kids tick? Would you like to learn the secret to teaching kids and having fun?Zembo's Guide for Teaching Kids to Ski and Snowboard is just that: It's a step-by-step guide to teaching kids.Zembo's Guide for Teaching Kids to Ski and Snowboard will take you on a journey into the imagination and minds of children. You will see the world through their eyes. This guide touches on the basics of developmental psychology and physiolog...

Rule them. Win. Become Grand High.My name is Hector Briar, and I live for revenge. It's been eighteen years since Witch Hunters murdered my parents, and still, the night haunts me. A part of me died that night when six-year-old me was forced to listen to their brutal murder. Since then, I've gone from prey to predator. I spend my nights stalking Oxford's streets for those who'd see me slaughtered for being what I am. A witch. And more than that, the son of the last...

How to Sell a Haunted House meets The Haunting of Hill House in this split timeline queer romance, set against the backdrop of a haunted English manor from #1 bestselling author Ben Alderson.William Thorn had his life all planned out… until he discovered his long-term boyfriend Archie in bed with another man. Distraught, William kicks him out of their home, where tragedy strikes when Archie is killed instantly in a car accident.Riddled wit...

This essay was originally written for the Literary Society with the intention of proving that ghosts do indeed exist and that they are natural rather than preternatural in origin. The author bases his theory upon cases which he claims were all capable of being authenticated by contemporary members of the Literary Society. Contents include: "Universal Belief in Ghosts-Addison; his Opinions-Luther; his Ideas of Madmen, and of Idiots", "Statement of Facts upon which the Hypothesis is meant to...

What role should the police have in an industrial dispute? How were they led into a partisan role in assisting the defeat of the 1984-5 miners' strike? Widespread concern over police road-blocks, allegations of police and picket violence, and the huge numbers of police used to maintain order and access to work led the National Council for Civil Liberties to set up an inquiry into the policing. The Inquiry Panel produced an interim report – but the NCCL disowned it, because of its acknowled...

Hector Briar may have walked away from the Witch Trials alive, but not whole.His failure handed the Witch Hunters a weapon capable of shattering Witch-kind—and placed the ancient demon Bahmet firmly in their grasp. Now the Hunters are poised to burn magic out of the mortal world forever.Arwyn Hopkin spent years living a lie. Meeting Hector changed that. Manipulation got him so far, until his success during The Witch Trials bound him to Bahmet, a demon who w...

Published in association with Save the ChildrenPriscilla Alderson examines the often overlooked issue of the rights of young children, starting with the question of how the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child applies to the youngest children, from birth to eight years of age. The question of finding a balance between young children's rights to protection, to provision (resources and services) and to participation (expressing their views, being responsible) is discussed. T...

First published in 1845, ‘The Raven’ is a narrative poem by Edgar Allan Poe, an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, specifically his tales of mystery and the macabre. The poem is often commented on for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven's mystifying visit to an agitated lover, tracing the man's slow fall into madness. The lover, often identified as being a student, i...

Twice-Told Tales is a short story collection in two volumes by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The first was published in the spring of 1837, and the second in 1842. The stories had all been previously published in magazines and annuals, hence the name.

It was on one of the last days in July, at ten o'clock in the evening, when the participants in that banquet assembled together. Date and year I have forgotten; indeed this would be interesting only to one's memory of details: and not to one's recollection of the contents of what experience. The spirit of the occasion and whatever impressions are recorded in one's mind under that heading, concerns only one's recollections; and just as generous wine gains in flavor by passing the Equator, b...

"Every great man is a unique".R.W Emerson told us that Self-confidence is always about independence :"What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is...

This is an essay on dreams, dream interpretation, divination with dreams and dreams as prophecy.