Bedridden Inspector Alan Grant turns from contemporary crime to the enigma of Richard III, testing a policeman's instincts against biased chronicles and the seductions of portraiture. With a young researcher, he sifts Thomas More, Mancini, and Tudor propaganda, assembling a case that marries armchair detection to historiography. Published in 1951 at a moment of postwar reassessment, The Daughter of Time—its title from Bacon's maxim that truth is time's daughter—uses lucid prose, dry wit, a...

First published in 1929, The Man in the Queue launches Inspector Alan Grant with a murder born of urban anonymity: a man stabbed while waiting outside the Woffington Theatre to see the American star Ray Marcable. Grant's chase from London's playhouses to Scotland is less a puzzle-box than a study in faces, chance, and the perils of eyewitness certainty. Tey's lucid, lightly ironic prose and theatrical milieu place the novel within the Golden Age while privileging psychology and atmosphere ...

John Macnab is an interwar Highland caper: three distinguished but jaded friends, adopting the collective pseudonym "John Macnab," challenge nearby estates to stop them as they sportingly poach a stag or salmon under self-imposed rules of fair play. Buchan turns his shocker's pace to pastoral-comic ends, mixing hillcraft and fly-water with courtroom wit and country-house intrigue. Crisp prose, dry understatement, and exact topographical sense frame themes of honor, sportsmanship, class obl...

On a quest for enlightenment, Benjamin Shalva journeyed through the wilds of Tibet and took a pilgrimage to a white-walled monastery in Rhode Island. He wrestled with demons, danced with temptresses, and sang with hundreds of voices under the stars. Now, using the lessons and techniques gained through years of religious exploration and inward reflection, Shalva offers simple and powerful ways to connect with your spiritual self, whether it be in a place of worship or the yoga studio, or ev...

Who doesn't love a perfect wedding?James "The Wedding Wrecker" Carter. That's who.His mission is to expose cheaters, liars, and frauds before they can say "I do." And he's frustratingly good at his job.And me? I'm Emma Marshall, wedding planner extraordinaire who happens to believe in things like happily ever afters, love, and the power of a perfect wedding. Or at least I did until a certain wedding wrecker gave me the best night of my life, then wr...

This work provides an authoritative overview of the composition of public opinion in America, the methodologies by which public opinion is measured, and the importance of polling to U.S. politics, policy, and culture.This revised edition is a comprehensive resource for understanding all aspects of public opinion polling in the United States, including major and emerging theories and concepts; historical and current methodologies; political, journalistic, and corpor...

Your credit score shapes countless aspects of your financial life, from loan approvals to job prospects, yet many people don't fully grasp its influence. Benjamin Foster's audiobook delves into the nuances of credit scoring, offering listeners practical insights to strengthen their financial position.The narrative explores how FICO scoring actually works, breaking down the five key elements that influence your creditworthiness. Foster shares strategies tailored to various situation...

What animal has a funny smile, feathery gills, lives underwater, and can regenerate parts of its body?The axolotl!The Axolotl Fact Book for Kids takes young readers on an exciting journey into the fascinating world of one of nature's most unusual amphibians.Inside this fun and educational book, kids will discover where axolotls come from, what they look like, how they breathe, what they eat, how they hunt, and what life is like in their natural habitat. They'll also...

In Civilizations of Ancient Iraq, Benjamin and Karen Foster tell the fascinating story of ancient Mesopotamia from the earliest settlements ten thousand years ago to the Arab conquest in the seventh century. Accessible and concise, this is the most up-to-date and authoritative book on the subject. With illustrations of important works of art and architecture in every chapter, the narrative traces the rise and fall of successive civilizations and peoples in Iraq over the course of ...

Last and First Men is a panoramic 'future history' charting eighteen successive human species across two billion years. Told as a telepathic testament from our descendants to the present, its essayistic, starkly impersonal prose fuses speculative anthropology with metaphysical reflection. Stapledon anatomizes cycles of civilizational ascent and collapse, genetic and social engineering, collective minds, planetary migration—including humanity's tragic relocation to Venus—and ultimately the ...

Sirius (1944), subtitled A Fantasy of Love and Discord, imagines a dog endowed with human intelligence by experimental breeding and raised beside his human companion, Plaxy. The quasi-biographical narrative follows his schooling, farm labor on the Welsh border, wartime suspicion, and a piercing musical and religious sensibility. Stapledon fuses realist reportage with essayistic speculation, probing mind, language, scent, law, and the ethics of species difference. A philosopher-novelist wit...

In The Man in the Queue (1929), a man is stabbed while waiting outside a West End theater, and Inspector Alan Grant unpicks a web of rumor, theatrical glamour, and urban anonymity. Tey's spare prose, dry wit, and acute social observation shape an early police procedural within the British Golden Age, privileging motive and psychology over gadgetry. From the glittering queue for star Ray Marcable to back rooms and border country, a stiletto, a vanished killer, and unreliable witnesses prope...