Rick Spears is a man of many skills and interests. An avid outdoorsman who loves camping, hunting, and writing, he has challenged himself to the ultimate adventure: a solo trek into the Alaskan wilderness, the home of countless predators who will have no fear of him. In the past, he had traveled in relative safety on hunting trips. Accompanied by just a few members from his hunt club and a photographer, they had encountered little danger. But now, hes going it alone in regions where he can...

DANGER ON THE AMAZON leads Rick and his friends from Alaska to Hawaii, and then to the Amazon River in Brazil. Here the canoeing begins at a tributary running from the mountains. Swift waters with dangerous rocks and whirlpools challenge the canoers. Uncivilized natives, hostile to strangers are encountered. As they proceed they fish and hunt for their food. They make friends with some natives, but others attack them. This 30 day adventure canoeing portrays an exciting view of the life and...

Without question, the most famous battle of the Civil War took place outside of the small town of Gettysburg from July 1-3, 1863. Over those three days, nearly 8,000 would die, over 30,000 would be casualties, and the most famous attack of the war, Picketts Charge, would fail Robert E. Lees Army of Northern Virginia. The South would go on to lose the war, and when it did, the importance of Gettysburg as one of the high tide marks of the Confederacy became apparent, making the battle all the m...

A broad selection of ghost stories both classic and obscure.Contents:"The Phantom Coach" by Amelia B. EdwardsA man becomes lost on the moors during a snow storm."Blind Man's Buff" by H. R. WakefieldA cheap piece of real estate..."The Third Coach" by H. R. WakefieldA strange train crash."That Time of the Night" by Ian GordonThat peculiar period...

Comparative effectiveness research has become essential for shaping regulatory policy, informing economic evaluations, and guiding treatment standardization across healthcare systems worldwide. While traditional randomized controlled trials remain the cornerstone of evidence generation, they have important limitations when treatment effects are heterogeneous. In practice, patients often respond differently to the same intervention due to differences in demographics, genetics, comorbidities...

Lost Sci-Fi Books 211 thru 220- Ten Lost Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1930s, 40s, 50s and 60sIn the Walls of Eryx by H. P. Lovecraft and Kenneth SterlingDance of the Dead by Richard MathesonNever Trust A Thief! by Robert SilverbergHey Ma, Where's Willie? by I. M. BuksteinRing Around The Sun by Isaac AsimovNever on Mars by John WyndhamDeath-Wish by Ray BradburyAtomic Station by Frank Belknap Long

A Road to Prosperity—Ultimate Collection assembles a remarkably broad archive of reflections on wealth, discipline, aspiration, and the moral uses of success. Its selections range from classical Stoic meditation and Taoist aphorism to Enlightenment pragmatism, Gilded Age social criticism, New Thought affirmation, and the energetic rhetoric of American self-help. Philosophical counsels on self-command stand beside practical discussions of enterprise, persuasion, habit, imagination, and publ...

Vintage Sci-Fi 19 - 19 Science Fiction Short Stories from Philip K. Dick, H. P. Lovecraft, Arthur C. Clarke, Jack London, Theodore Sturgeon and moreThe Father Thing by Philip K. DickThe Crystal Egg by H. G. WellsMicrocosmic God by Theodore SturgeonEight Million Dollars From Mars! by Winston MarksLake of Fire by Frank Belknap LongThe Coming of the Ice by G. Peyton WertenbakerForever vy Robert SheckleyMan–Hun...

Strange Worlds of Weird Tales brings together 18 remarkable stories from the pages of one of the most influential magazines in fantastic fiction. Across decades, Weird Tales gave readers strange cities, forbidden experiments, unexplained transformations, otherworldly creatures, haunted places, and encounters with things that refused to fit comfortably into the known world.This collection reaches from Edgar Allan Poe’s unforgettable The Tell-Tale He...

Robert Long and his family - wife Catherine, and children Christan (17) and Robin (14) - live in complete isolation, in a hut two days' walk south of Haast in South Westland. Robert has lived there for nearly 30 years; Catherine for 20 and the kids all their lives. Their only contact with the outside world is a helicopter or plane once a month, and two trips a year to the 'outside world'. This is the story of how and why Robert - known locally as 'Beansprout' - came to live at Gorge River,...

A poetry anthology by writers living and working on the South Fork of Long Island.

This is the second volume of 45 new and delightful fables, which involve animals, insects, people, and objects, and touch on a variety of social, moral and even political themes that are particularly relevant to this time. The fables, which have been written for third and fourth grade levels, will appeal to both young and old.