20 Must-Read Supernatural Mysteries surveys the fertile borderland where detective logic encounters haunting, prophecy, occult knowledge, and the inexplicable. Its selections range from Gothic terror and fin-de-siècle decadence to adventure tale, psychological suspense, ghost story, and proto-weird fiction, demonstrating how mystery conventions can both contain and intensify supernatural disturbance. Standout encounters with cursed objects, spectral visitations, hidden identities, and unca...

In 'Masterworks on Psychic Power & The Astral Realm – 3 Pioneering Metaphysical Studies,' readers encounter an enlightening array of metaphysical discourses that span mystical explorations and intellectual vigor. The collection deftly navigates themes of psychic phenomena and astral experiences, weaving through diverse literary styles and offering fresh insights into the esoteric unknown. It brings together works characterized by innovative thought and spiritual inquiry, showcasing landmar...

Open Land, Open Heart: 33 Classic Ranching Storybooks to Love gathers ranching tales in which labor, landscape, animal companionship, and frontier adventure become vehicles for moral and imaginative discovery. Its range extends from brisk juvenile adventures and episodic series fiction to regional realism, romance, humor, and wilderness narrative. Cattle drives, homesteads, riding schools, ranch families, and encounters with the open range furnish memorable set pieces while revealing how p...

The Hudson Review has always had an international focus. Travel and reports from abroad have figured prominently in the journal, including essays on exotic and picturesque locales, as well as accounts from war-torn areas and the experiences of exiles. Many of these are pilgrimages; others are harrowing memoirs. What unites even the most devastating of these accounts are intellectual curiosity and a spirit of adventure.Places Lost and Found is a treasury of distinc...

Aristotle's works shaped centuries of philosophy from Late Antiquity through the Renaissance, and even today continue to be studied with keen interest.Aristotle left a great body of work, perhaps numbering as many as two-hundred treatises, from which approximately thirty-one survive.His writings cover many subjects including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theatre, music, rhetoric, psychology, linguistics, economics, politics, meteor...

The Big Book of Ghost Stories: 140 Horror Novels & Short Story Collections maps the ghostly imagination across the Gothic, Romantic, Victorian, Edwardian, and modern traditions. Its capacious selection ranges from ancestral curses, haunted houses, doubles, revenants, and spectral revenge to psychologically ambiguous apparitions and folkloric visitations. Novels and short fiction mingle with fairy-tale, sensation, decadent, imperial, and supernatural-investigation modes, revealing how the g...

Tales of Lost Souls: 400+ Ghost Stories in One Collection maps the extraordinary breadth of supernatural fiction from Gothic romance to psychological horror, antiquarian terror, folkloric fantasy, and modern ghostly unease. Its vast assembly moves through ruined estates, cursed objects, spectral visitations, doubles, revenants, and haunted domestic spaces, demonstrating how the ghost story continually adapts to changing fears. Alongside classic Gothic atmospheres, readers encounter tales o...

Jean Webster's Just Patty is a spirited collection of linked school stories set at St. Ursula's, where the irrepressible Patty Wyatt turns boarding-school routine into a theatre of wit, rebellion, and moral experiment. Written in a crisp, comic, and conversational style, the book belongs to the early twentieth-century tradition of girls' school fiction, yet it distinguishes itself through its sharp social observation and sympathy for youthful independence. Webster treats pranks, friendship...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster is a heartwarming and witty epistolary novel that traces the journey of Jerusha “Judy” Abbott, a spirited orphan whose life is transformed when an anonymous benefactor offers to fund her college education. The only condition? She must write him monthly letters, addressing him as “Daddy-Long-Legs,” a nickname inspired by a fleeting glimpse of his tall shadow.Through her letters, Judy blossoms from ...

Specially written for amateurs, beginners, cottagers and others who are desirous of keeping two or three hives of bees so as to yield the best results. This complete guide to bee-keeping provides information on hive constructions and management, the natural history of bees, harvesting, swarming, and all other related aspects. Highly accessible and full useful tips, “The Book of Bee-Keeping” will be of considerable utility to the modern reader with an interest in keeping bees, and would mak...

American Rage argues that anger is the central emotion governing contemporary US politics, with powerful, deleterious effects. Tracing the developments that have given rise to a culture of anger in the mass public, the book sheds new light on both public opinion and voting behavior. Steven W. Webster skillfully uses a combination of novel datasets, new measures of anger, and a series of experiments to show how anger causes citizens to lose trust in the national government and weaken in the...

This digital update to Reducing Gun Violence in America presents new evidence and developments in the effort to address the staggering toll of gun violence in the United States.In 2013—in the wake of the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School—Johns Hopkins University Press published Reducing Gun Violence in America, a collection of essays written by the world’s leading experts on gun violence. Updated Evidence and Policy Developments ...