Strange Fascination

Reducere. A revolutionary book about mnemonic techniques, and their relation to culture as a whole, which is itself hard to forget. The ancient Greeks, to wh...

Reducere. The Sunday Times bestseller. David Bowie was arguably the most influential artist of his time, reinventing himself again and again, transforming mu...

The centuries-old grave marker of a notorious witch is moved by developers, which leads to the discovery of a severed head, and the locals storming...

Reducere. Children's fascination with buildings is a natural outgrowth of their curiosity about anything strange or huge or complex. This unique book brings ...

Reducere. After World War II, suburbs proliferated around California cities as returning soldiers traded in their uniforms for business suits. After-hours le...

Reducere. DescriptionAfter World War II, suburbs proliferated around California cities as returning soldiers traded in their uniforms for business suits. Aft...

Reducere. A memoir that is at once fascinating, compelling, and heartbreaking, STRANGE TRIBE reveals the peculiar dynamics between Ernest Hemingway and his y...

Reducere. For centuries, the strange and beautiful tarot cards have been an endless source of mystery and fascination. One of the foremost authorities in the...

Reducere. DescriptionThroughout his entire career, Taro Yoko has always felt disheartened by the image of humanity reflected in most big-budget video games, ...

Reducere. 1. Why Can't I Be You? (3: 14) 2. Catch (2: 46) 3. Just Like Heaven (3: 32) 4. Hot Hot Hot!!! (3: 35) 5. Lullaby (4: 10) 6. Fascination Street (4: ...

First published in 1776, the nine gothic tales in this collection are Japan's finest and most celebrated examples of the literature of the occult. ...

Reducere. New England is renowned for its quaint towns, beautiful landscapes, and busy ports. But it is also infamous as the setting for unexplained deaths, ...

Reducere. Edogawa Ranpo (1894-1965) was a great admirer of Edgar Allan Poe and like Poe drew on his penchant for the grotesque and the bizarre to explore the...

Reducere. DescriptionTraumatized by the events of We Take Me Apart, the unlikely heroine of Desire: A Haunting leads a silent life in the cottage that has be...

Reducere. Cadel Piggott has a genius IQ and a fascination with systems of all kinds. At seven, he was illegally hacking into computers. Now he's fourteen and...

Everyone loves a good road trip, so why not combine your fascination with the paranormal with your love of travel? Book 1 of America's Most Haunted...

Reducere. Never look at a grave the same way again Admit it: You're fascinated by cemeteries. We all die, and for most of us, a cemetery is our final resting...

Reducere. What is the strange fascination of the Mystery-Religions for the ancient world and today, some 2, 000 years later, for moderns? Why are these color...

Reducere. Everything you need to know to assess, understand, and improve a hangover is here: dozens of comforting recipes, very clever graphic tests for anal...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Nicola DaviesIllustrator: Emily SuttonIn a remarkable collaboration, Nicola Davies and Emily Sutton celebrate the sea in al...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Craig Klein DexempleIntroducing the people and culture of Venezuela, El Silbon (The Whistler) is an intriguing novelette th...

The world's most iconic buildings are made accessible and exciting for young readers in this colorful introduction to architecture that changed the...

DescriptionCat traces the relationship between humans and the cat from its original domestication in ancient Egypt circa 2000 BC, through centuries...

Contributor(s): Author: Gregor Von RezzoriIntroduction by: Deborah EisenbergThe elusive narrator of this beautifully written, complex, and powerful...

DescriptionLord Baltimore's quest for vengeance against the Red King escalates in the second half of the Baltimore saga, which includes a new bonus...

Reducere. Butterflies have always served as a metaphor for resurrection and transformation, but as Sharman Apt Russell points out in this lyrical meditation,...

From Carlos Fonseca comes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic epic of art, politics, and hidden realitiesJust before the dawn of the new millennium, a curato...

"Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man."-W.H. Auden "The common experience of Kafka's readers is one of...

The Little Book of Suffolk is a repository of intriguing, fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts and trivia about one of England's mo...

An incisive, witty, and tender debut novel about love and commitment, celebrity and obsession, poetry and reality TV. "A fantastically original chr...

May 1968. Parisian streets are awash with violence and public unrest. In a small cinema, a surreal vampire film causes a riot: The audience smashes...

Reducere. DVD 1: Curætion-25: From There To Here | From Here To ThereFrom There To Here1. Three Imaginary Boys2. At Night3. Other Voices4. A Strange Day5. Ba...

DescriptionMilo leads a lonely childhood marked by the absence of his mother, about whom he knows next to nothing. His father has gone to work in t...

With the World War II raging, Hellboy's future guardian Trevor Bruttenholm enlists with Britain's Military Intelligence, where he uncovers a collec...

DescriptionMr. Higgins was just the beginning Follow Professor J.T. Meinhardt and Mr. Knox as they continue their pursuit of ne'er-do-well creature...

Reducere. DescriptionBecome an Egyptologist Our fascination with ancient Egypt actually extends back to the dynastic periods itself. Royal family members and...

Reducere. Thoth, the ibis-headed god of wisdom, inventor of the art of writing; Osiris, the dead god who arose and set the pattern for death-and-resurrection...

DescriptionThe new novel by NBA All-Star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, starring brothers Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes. It is 1872, and a series of gruesome m...

Reducere. "One of the funniest voices in the inspirational genre."--Booklist Lucetta Plum is an actress on the rise in New York City, but is forced to abando...

Reducere. DescriptionWhy STEM books for babies? In short, to help them love STEM But to delve a little deeper, science is such an integral part of modern lif...

Reducere. DescriptionThe enigmatic and richly illustrative tarot deck reveals a host of strange and iconic mages, such as The Tower, The Wheel of Fortune, Th...

Step past the flashing lights into the true scene of the crime with this frank, unflinching, and unforgettable account of life as a crime scene inv...

Even when Big Red was little, he had no shortage of daring adventures. Join Hellboy creator Mike Mignola as he teams with writer Tom Sniegoski, art...