An officially licensed, richly illustrated inside look at the case files of Mulder and Scully’s encounters with extraterrestrial activity and the SyndicateFollowing the revelations of the cases declassified in The X-Files: The Official Archives: Cryptids, Biological Anomalies, and Parapsychic Phenomena comes this vital second volume of top-secret X-files.The X-Files: The Official Archives: Volume II: Extraterrestrial Activity and the Syndicate

Slave Narrative Six Pack 7 presents six more essential texts:My Life in the South by Jacob Stroyer.The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N.C. by Lunsford Lane.Army Life in a Black Regiment by Thomas Wentworth Higginson.A Plea for Captain John Brown by Henry David Thoreau.An Anti-Slavery Crusade: A Chronicle of the Gathering Storm by Jesse Macy.Henry Ward Beec...

“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.”- Socrates.Two centuries before the Stoics lived The Sophists, star philosophers who roamed Athens during the fifth century B.C. commanding large fees for speaking and private lessons. They offered practical education, speculation on the nature of the universe and knowledge in the art of life and politics. The most famous were Protagoras, Gorgias, Prodicus, Hippias, Thrasymachus, Callicles, Lycophron, Antiphon...

The Book of Revelation, often known simply as Revelation or the Apocalypse, is the final book of the Bible and is the only purely apocalyptic book in the New Testament. The author of the work identifies himself in the text as "John" and says that he was on Patmos, an island in the Aegean, when he was instructed by a heavenly figure to write down the contents of a vision. Most modern scholars believe it was written around AD 95, with some believing it dates from around AD 70. The book spans...

“It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.”- Epicurus.Founded in the fourth century BC, Epicureanism was the main alternative philosophy to Stoicism. Based upon the teachings of Greek philosopher Epicurus, the philosophy propounded an ethic of individual pleasure as the sole or chief good in life. Epicurus advocated living in such a way as to derive the greatest amount of pleasure possible during one's lifetime, ...

Saga Six Pack 4 presents a sizzling sextet of Scandinavian super-sagas:In the Days of Giants - A Book of Norse Tales by Abbie Farwell BrownSaga of Halfdan the Black by Snorri SturlusonTrue and Untrue by George Webbe DasentSaga of Sigurd the Crusader and his Brothers Eystein and Olaf by Snorri SturlusonKing Alfred's Viking - A Story of the First English Fleet by Charles W. Whistler

Military buffs and penologists are in for a treat with this awesome anthology of famous skirmishes and prison escapes from the American Civil War, which includes a look at the events surrounding Morgan’s Raid and the notorious Libby Prison Escape (which saw over 100 Union POW’s break out of a Confederate Army camp). There is also War Diary of a Union Woman in the South, The Locomotive Chase in Georgia by William Pittenger, Mosby’s ‘Partizan Rangers’ by A. E. Rich...

US Military in WW2: The Submarines presents three classic first-hand accounts of life aboard a US Navy submarine during World War 2.Rendezvous by Submarine - The Story of Charles Parsons and the Guerrilla-Soldiers in the Philippines by Travis Ingham tells how American-led guerrilla forces in the Philippines paved the way for US forces to re-take the Japanese held islands.U.S.S. Seawolf: Submarine Raider of the Pacific by ...

“No blessing, no good, can follow in the path trodden by slavery.”- Dorothea Dix.Slave Narrative Six Pack 6 presents six more essential texts:Is Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible? by Isaac Allen.Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave, Written by Himself by Henry Bibb.Portuguese Slavery in the 20th Century by Evelyn Baring.The Iron Furnace; or, Slavery and Secession by John H. Aughey.The Slave Preacher by Charle...

“Give me liberty or give me death!”- Patrick Henry.Strategy Six Pack 13 includes Thomas De Quincey’s classic study of Rome’s first leaders, The Caesars, two essays by Elbert Hubbard (on Patrick Henry and Anne Hutchinson), Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar by Emily Ruete and two American history classics, My Sixty Years on the Plains - Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting by William Thomas Hamilton and...

Long before Sherlock Holmes, six sleuths on either side of the Atlantic thrilled readers of early crime fiction - Inspector Bucket, C. Augustine Dupin, Amelia Butterworth, Sergeant Cuff, Loveday Brooke and Lady Molly of Scotland Yard.Here they all are, together in one impressive collection of 24 novellas, two novels and 190 original illustrations. Six crime fighters who paved the way for Holmes, Watson et al.An extraordinary anthology from six Masters of Mystery including E...

Civil War Four Pack presents four key primary texts for Civil War buffs and historians:Andersonville - A Story of Rebel Military Prisons - Fifteen months a guest of the so-called Southern Confederacy - A private soldier’s experience in Richmond, Andersonville, Savannah, Millen, Blackshear and Florence by John McElroy.Co. Aytch - A Side Show of the Big Show by Samuel R. Watkins.Army Life in a Black Regiment by Thomas Wentworth Higgin...