This FREE eBook contains 10 full chapters from 10 bestselling Brilliant books - that's around 240 brilliant pages to help you develop your business skills, pursue the career you love or live the life you really want to live. With quick tips and advice, the Brilliant series makes complex topics simple and easy to apply in the real world.PART 1: LifeOur life titles cover all kinds of personal development topics to help you feel inspired and motivated to achie...

In this latest edition of THE WORLD'S LONGEST-RUNNING ANNUAL SHOWCASE OF HORROR AND DARK FANTASY you will find cutting-edge stories by such authors as Ramsey Campbell, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Alison Littlewood, Jonathan Carroll, Michael Marshall Smith, Angela Slatter, Reggie Oliver and Richard Christian Matheson, amongst many others. You'll also find the usual Introduction: Horror in 2019 and Necrology of those who have left us.

'A sensation ... you'll be stimulated, provoked and entertained. Of how many books can that be said?' Sunday Telegraph'Prepare to be dazzled' Malcolm GladwellWITH A NEW FOREWORD CELEBRATING 20 YEARS SINCE PUBLICATIONAssume nothing, question everything.This is the message at the heart of Freakonomics, Levitt and Dubner's rule-breaking, iconoclastic book about crack dealers, cheating teachers...

From Washington Square Park and the Gaslight Café to WNYC Radio and Folkways Records, New York City's cultural, artistic, and commercial assets helped to shape a distinctively urban breeding ground for the folk music revival of the 1950s and 60s. Folk City explores New York's central role in fueling the nationwide craze for folk music in postwar America. It involves the efforts of record company producers and executives, club owners, concert promoters, festival organizers, musicol...

If it were not for the media of religions, the television and movies, the fantasies and illusions given to us, would we imagine and create? Would we, each of us, be potential visionaries?Was Jesus a creative person? I believe him to be very human, very human indeed, much like such phenomenal people, like Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein, of our time. Was also, of his person and story, a situation and circumstance ripe to expound upon and exploit?Like the message whispered ...

Discover dark rituals, eldritch creatures, and monstrous secrets in this masterfully frightening horror anthology of 17 short stories inspired by the iconic works of legendary writer H. P. Lovecraft, curated by award-winning anthologist Stephen Jones.Featuring some of the biggest names in horror fiction, including Ramsey Campbell, Kim Newman, Brian Stableford, and many more. This newly redesigned edition also includes a revised and updated Introduction and ...

How you can support survivors with the hope of Christ.Chances are that you know someone who has experienced trauma--or you've experienced it yourself. So how can you respond wisely, carefully, and helpfully?In How Can We Help Victims of Trauma and Abuse?, Stephen N. Williams and Susan L. Williams draw on their expertise in theology and counseling to equip you. Ignorant helpfulness can be damaging; a truly fruitful response must be informed, not jus...

Christmas is coming—break out the eggnog and candy canes! But for church communicators, this isn’t always a season of peace on earth and goodwill toward men. Christmas often means pulling out all the stops—adorable pageants, packed pews, beloved music. Not to mention planning it all on a very limited budget.For many communicators, planning your Christmas services often starts too late and never seems to end. Just when you think you’ve unraveled that last knot of Christmas lights, s...

THE FIRST IN A SPECTACULAR NEW SERIESOF TIME TRAVEL ADVENTURES EVOLVINGFROM THE WORK OF RAY BRADBURY,AUTHOR OF THE MARTIAN CHRONICLEST I M E S A F A R I, I N C.SAFARIS TO ANY YEAR IN THE PAST.YOU NAME THE ANIMAL. WE TAKE YOU THERE. YOU SHOOT IT.The sign said it all, but the hunters soon became the hunted.Their safari took them to the age of dinosaurs, but the hunt went terribly wrong, sending ripples of change through...

This much-needed study of the British Empire Exhibition reveals durable, persistent connections between empire and domestic society in Britain during the interwar years. It demonstrates that the Exhibition was a marker of how by 1924, imperial relations were increasingly likely to be shaped by forces located on the colonial periphery.

The public appetite for spies, both real and fictional, seems inexhaustible. But where and when did spying begin and how has the art and craft of espionage developed over the centuries? Spies in History is a collection of portraits of some of the most famous spies we know, but it also includes some lesser known and more surprising names. A remarkable line-up of distinguished historians, scholars and writers examine the evolution of intelligence and counter-intelligence – from anci...

Edgar G. Ulmer: Detour on Poverty Row illuminates the work of this under-appreciated film auteur through 21 new essays penned by a range of scholars from around the globe. Ulmer, an immigrant to Hollywood who fell from grace in Tinseltown after only one studio film, became one of the reigning directors of Poverty Row B-movies.Structured in four sections, Part I examines various contexts important to Ulmer's career, such as his work at the Producers Releasing Corpo...