Chronicles four French Jewish families’ art, businesses, and survival during Nazi Occupation of France.Looted! Is a history of the lives and art collections of four French Jewish families, whose art was looted, and whose businesses were confiscated during the Nazi Occupation of France (1940-44). The story is of their lives, their businesses and art collections, and the journeys of their paintings during wartime and beyond.The four Protagonist families all m...

A vintage British sci-fi serial involving the tracking of mysterious signals from space.‘A glimpse across a weird threshold, on the rim of space where there should be nothing but eternal, frozen darkness. Yet where there was something more...’Reporter Tom Lambert decides to reinvestigate the bizarre events of a decade earlier concerning the ‘cosmic noise’. Believing the whole truth was never revealed, he tracks down the one man who knows it: retire...

Dickie Gordon, lucky to escape the Japanese Invading Burma in April,1941, is re-instated as a district officer in Bengal, India. He struggles to maintain the integrity of the Civil Service beseiged by ambitious politicians, corruption, and ruthless terrorists, a mix that hastens the disintegration of the Raj.Beatrice, his decisive wife, is disenchanted with him and has an affair with Oxford educated Ravi Das, an ambitious colleague who becomes an influential politician. Co-incident...

Ceremonies Explained for Servers may well be called the "mother of all servers' manuals". This is the most detailed guide available for servers and those who train and supervise them at the altar.In accessible language, Ceremonies covers the roles of servers in a wide range of Catholic liturgical celebrations. These are described in full, such as: the Mass in both the Ordinary and Extraordinary forms, the seven sacraments, the ceremonies of Holy Week, the Liturgy ...

The church today is in many places "on the nose." For many people, it stinks. It has passed its "use-by" date and should be relegated to the dustbins of history, and the sooner, the better. Nevertheless, the contributors to this volume believe that the church, in spite of its somewhat checkered history and its many present failures, remains an integral part of God's redemptive purposes being worked out in the world, and that God's call to the church is now what it has always been: to be th...

The ax-man murders of 1912 in Louisiana and Texas leave a bloody trail of evidence that points to the largest, unsolved serial killing in history of the United States. It's a tale of ritual murder, voodoo mayhem, and wholesale killings that leads the reader on a shocking train ride across two states and into the chapters of a real American horror story. The fiendish slayings of 10 sleeping families nestled in their beds is only the beginning of the terrifying account of a true crime that r...

"Elliott's absorbing account will make readers think again about the ways that science shapes our personal identities."—American ScientistAmericans have always been the world's most anxiously enthusiastic consumers of "enhancement technologies." Prozac, Viagra, and Botox injections are only the latest manifestations of a familiar pattern: enthusiastic adoption, public hand-wringing, an occasional congressional hearing, and calls for self-reliance.I...

These stories are taken from the original black-and-white Ivor the Engine television series, first broadcast between 1959 and 1962. Preserved from the original recordings, the audio reflects the production methods of the time and includes some natural variation in sound quality. This is part of the character and authenticity of these early episodes, offering a rare opportunity to hear Ivor and his world as they were first experienced. In The Birds, Jones and Ivor discover a nest on the lin...

These stories are taken from the original black-and-white Ivor the Engine television series, first broadcast between 1959 and 1962. Preserved from the original recordings, the audio reflects the production methods of the time and includes some natural variation in sound quality. This is part of the character and authenticity of these early episodes, offering a rare opportunity to hear Ivor and his world as they were first experienced. In Smoke Hill, Smoke Hill has been dormant for years, b...

These stories are taken from the original black-and-white Ivor the Engine television series, first broadcast between 1959 and 1962. Preserved from the original recordings, the audio reflects the production methods of the time and includes some natural variation in sound quality. This is part of the character and authenticity of these early episodes, offering a rare opportunity to hear Ivor and his world as they were first experienced. In The Cold Hill, Smoke Hill suddenly goes cold, and fo...

These stories are taken from the original black-and-white Ivor the Engine television series, first broadcast between 1959 and 1962. Preserved from the original recordings, the audio reflects the production methods of the time and includes some natural variation in sound quality. This is part of the character and authenticity of these early episodes, offering a rare opportunity to hear Ivor and his world as they were first experienced. In The Retreat, the dragons disappear just as the Antiq...

This classic children's audiobook, read by Oliver Postgate, presents one of Ivor the Engine's original black-and-white adventures from the top left-hand corner of Wales. Created by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin for Smallfilms, these timeless stories follow Ivor, Jones the Steam and the friends of the Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited as they carry choir members, deliver supplies and stumble into gentle comic adventures across the Welsh valleys. Warm, musical and fu...