During the Second World War, Allied airmen bailing out over occupied Europe carried highly detailed escape maps printed on parachute silk. These maps were rustle-free, waterproof, and easy to hide, but they possessed a far more classified secondary function. British intelligence utilized the biological mechanics of mycology to turn these everyday survival tools into analog hard drives for encrypted data. Operatives embedded specific, dormant fungal spores directly into the chemical dyes us...

In this highly illustrated survey, art historian and critic James Hall brilliantly maps the history of self-portraiture, from the earliest myths of Narcissus to the prolific self-image-making of contemporary artists.This intelligent and vivid account shows how artists' depictions of themselves have been part of a continuing tradition that reaches back for centuries. It reveals the importance of the medieval 'mirror craze'; the explosion of the genre during the Renaissance; the confe...

The understanding and enjoyment of a work of art depends as much on the story it depicts as on the artist's execution of it. But what were once biblical or classical commonplaces are not so readily recognizable today. This book relates in a succinct and readable way the themes, sacred and secular, on which the repertoire of Western art is based. Combined here in a single volume are religious, classical, and historical themes, figures of moral allegory, and characters from romantic poetry t...

Ray Lillibridge age 15 was forced to leave his family in the Dakotas and move to Delavan, Illinois with cousins he does not know. His initiation by the boys takes an unusual turn during a fishing trip when Ray meets local legend Hog Wallace. Even Casey Jones driving engine 638 of the Illinois Central Railroad does his part. A Ray Lillibridge Story.

A tale of love, murder and obsession in the early days of recorded sound.Set in the murky backstage world of late Victorian theatreland, The Industry of Human Happiness is about the obsessive characters who dreamed of bringing recorded music to the masses.Max and his younger cousin Rusty have a vision of launching the gramophone industry from a Covent Garden basement. But a renowned opera singer is brutally murdered in his hotel bed and they are thrust into...

Readers of previous four books in the Millennial Hospitality series, will be surprised, as one advance reader was, to see Millennial Hospitality V, The Grays, is about a totally different group of Extraterrestrials. In this latest book, Charles will walk you through his two separate TDYs (temporary duty) in the valley of the Grays. Charles also lays out what he believes actually happened during the events surrounding the 1947 Roswell Crash. There is also a short section of credible updates...

Millennial Hospitality is not like any other book you may have read about aliens. You will find out many new things such as, the answer to the question, "where do the children of aliens play?" This book is about friendship, romance, terror and is based on the true life experiences of the author, who claims he is not an alien.

Millennial Hospitality II is an etiquette book for the 21 Century. It suggests how we might interact with aliens and answers many questions the readers had after reading Millennial Hospitality.

This book is an expansion on Hall Photon Theory, first presented in 1998. Recent observations by Hubble support HPT, & nothing has come about against it.

“Victoria Michaels understood power. A Fortune 500 CEO before thirty-three, she commanded boardrooms with laser focus. But now, someone is hunting her—and this isn’t just about murder. It’s personal. Her life—dismantled piece by piece, and the predator closing in doesn’t want her gone… he wants her broken. Officer Blaine Johnson thought he’d seen it all—until he watched a woman die in a crash that would haunt him forever. Now, he’s tasked to protect a stranger with a familiar face and a da...

In 1787 prisoners are shipped from Newgate Jail to found a new penal colony in Botany Bay, New South Wales. Amongst them is Hugh Tallant, an American medical student who had been wrongly imprisoned. During the sea journey he begins to clash with the villainous Captain Gilbert and is soon plotting a full-scale mutiny against him. A great companion read with Mutiny on the Bounty!

Returning from the horrors of World War I James Hall and Charles Nordhoff follow a dream to tour the South Pacific. They had a highly successful literary partnership that lasted nearly 30 year and produced several worldwide bestsellers.The authors of the "Mutiny on the Bounty" trilogy present a travelogue look at French Polynesia in the 1920's. Although non-fiction, it relates the stories and lifestyles of natives, scalawags, and (yes) imperialists in a very readable and highly ente...