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"Something is murdering my men."
Thus reads the message received from a Nazi commander stationed in
a small castle high in the remote Transylvanian Alps. Invisible and
silent, the enemy selects one victim per night, leaving the
bloodless and mutilated corpses behind to terrify its future
victims.
When an elite SS extermination squad is dispatched to solve the
problem, the men find something that's both powerful and
terrifying. Panicked, the Nazis bring in a local expert on
folklore--who just happens to be Jewish--to shed some light on the
mysterious happenings. And unbeknownst to anyone, there is another
visitor on his way--a man who awoke from a nightmare and
immediately set out to meet his destiny.
The battle has begun: On one side, the ultimate evil created by
man, and on the other...the unthinkable, unstoppable, unknowing
terror that man has inevitably awakened
For nearly two decades, the US and its allies have prosecuted
war and aggression in Iraq. "Erasing Iraq "shows in unparalleled
detail the devastating human cost.
Western governments and the mainstream media continue to ignore
or play down the human costs of the war on Iraqi citizens This has
allowed them to present their role as the benign guardians of Iraqi
interests. The authors deconstruct this narrative by presenting a
portrait of the total carnage in Iraq today as told by Iraqis and
other witnesses who experienced it first hand.
Featuring in-depth interviews with Iraqi refugees in Syria,
Jordan and from Western countries, ""Erasing Iraq ""is a
comprehensive and moving account of the Iraqi people's tragedy.
*OVER TWO MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE* Bestselling author and
'Guru of calm', Paul Wilson, has written the ultimate pocket-sized
guide to harnessing daily calm and serenity in your life. How can
we find calm during life's most difficult moments? Carry the
bestselling The Little Book of Calm with you wherever you go for
comfort and practical advice. This book is the perfect antidote to
a global stress epidemic. If you can feel your stress or anxiety
levels increasing and are searching for a way to regain balance,
this book is the pocket guide to turn to in times of need. Paul
Wilson's expert advice is guaranteed to help you rediscover a sense
of calm even in the most difficult moments. Providing accessible
advice, tips and inspirational thoughts, such as: * Sip a
peppermint herbal tea to find calm * Be captivated by your breath
and discover peace * Seek the best in everything - people and
situations * Concentrate on the present, worry when the time comes
* Pretend you're human and leave it to others to be perfect The
Little Book of Calm is designed to always be by your side to help
you steal moments of peace and tranquillity - open on any page, at
any time, in any place. __________________________ 'His mixture of
traditional meditation, alternative therapy, positive thinking and
common sense has not only enabled him to maintain an impressive
degree of calm but has persuaded millions to buy into his
philosophy' Financial Times
In a comic masterpiece following the misadventures of a simple but
hugely ambitious waiter in pre-World War II Prague, who rises to
wealth only to lose everything with the onset of Communism, Bohumil
Hrabal takes us on a tremendously funny and satirical trip through
20th-century Czechoslovakia.
First published in 1971 in a typewritten edition, then finally
printed in book form in 1989, "I Served the King of England" is "an
extraordinary and subtly tragicomic novel" ("The New York Times"),
telling the tale of Ditie, a hugely ambitious but simple waiter in
a deluxe Prague hotel in the years before World War II. Ditie is
called upon to serve not the King of England, but Haile Selassie.
It is one of the great moments in his life. Eventually, he falls in
love with a Nazi woman athlete as the Germans are invading
Czechoslovakia. After the war, through the sale of valuable stamps
confiscated from the Jews, he reaches the heights of his ambition,
building a hotel. He becomes a millionaire, but with the
institution of communism, he loses everything and is sent to
inspect mountain roads. Living in dreary circumstances, Ditie comes
to terms with the inevitability of his death, and with his place in
history.
Since 1994, as the ruling party in South Africa, the ANC have
become synonymous with and indivisible from the fight against
apartheid rule. This has left little space for competing accounts,
visions, and political projects to find their appropriate place in
the historical narrative. In this innovative book, Toivo Asheeke
moves beyond these well-trodden histories, to tell the previously
neglected story of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM), a
militant revolutionary nationalist wing of the anti-colonial
struggle. Using archival sources from four countries and interviews
with former veterans of the movement, Asheeke explores the BCM's
engagement with guerrilla warfare, community feminism and Black
Internationalism. Uncovering the personal and political histories
of those who have previously received scant scholarly attention,
Asheeke both illuminates the history of Africa's decolonization
struggle and that of the wider Cold War.
A team of experts in each of the ten major Pulp genres, from action
Pulps to spicy Pulps and more, chart for the first time the
complete history of Pulp magazines-the stories and their writers,
the graphics and their artists, and, of course, the publishers,
their market, and readers. Each chapter in the book, which is
illustrated with more than 400 examples of the best Pulp graphics
(many from the Editors' collections-among the world's largest) is
organized in a clear and accessible way, starting with an
introductory overview of the genre, followed by a selection of the
best covers and interior graphics, organized chronologically
through the chapter. All images are fully captioned (many are in
essence "nutshell" histories in themselves). Two special features
in each chapter focus on topics of particular interest (such as
extended profiles of Daisy Bacon, Pulp author and editor of Love
Story, the hugely successful romance Pulp, and of Harry Steeger,
co-founder of Popular Publications in 1930 and originator of the
"Shudder Pulp" genre). With an overall Introduction on "The Birth
of the Pulps" by Doug Ellis, and with two additional chapters
focusing on the great Pulp writers and the great Pulp artists, The
Art of the Pulps covers every aspect of this fascinating genre; it
is the first definitive visual history of the Pulps.
This volume of intellectual biography takes the Italian economist,
sociologist, political scientist Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923) from
his disillusionment with liberal and pacifist activism, to the
original development of pure economics and the composition of his
Treatise on General Sociology and the test of this latter on the
war and post-war events.
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Rx Mayhem (Paperback)
F. Paul Wilson, Nina Abbott
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R385
Discovery Miles 3 850
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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This volume of intellectual biography takes the Italian economist,
sociologist, political scientist Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923) from
his disillusionment with liberal and pacifist activism, to the
original development of pure economics and the composition of his
Treatise on General Sociology and the test of this latter on the
war and post-war events.
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