The Strange, Paperback

Ethological attachment theory is a landmark of 20th century social and behavioral sciences theory and research. This new paradigm for understanding...

Water is the most valuable resource and the most passionately contested. Drought has become an increasingly extreme problem in many parts of the wo...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

This biographical history follows the iconoclastic career of John R. Friedeberg Seeley, pre-eminent "Pop Sociologist" and Mental Health Activist of...

Reducere. DescriptionThe figure of the mammy occupies a central place in the lore of the Old South and has long been used to ullustrate distinct social pheno...

Reducere. The modern novel, so the story goes, thinks poorly of mere description--what Virginia Woolf called "that ugly, that clumsy, that incongruous tool."...

Reducere. Exotic, seductive, and doomed: the antebellum mixed-race free woman of color has long operated as a metaphor for New Orleans. Commonly known as a "...

Publisher: Marvel ComicsAuthor(s): Don McGregorIllustration(s): 4 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 504Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 1...

This is the first book in English on the seventeenth-century Chinese masterpiece Liaozhai's Records of the Strange (Liaozhai zhiyi) by Pu Songling,...

Reducere. From Lovecraft to Borges to Gaiman, a century of intrepid literary experimentation has created a corpus of dark and strange stories that transcend ...

Traces the educational policies and their underlying rationales, from Stephen F Austin's proposal in the 1830s to ""Mexicanize"" Anglo children by ...

Reducere. When Mikhail Baryshnikov defected in Toronto in 1974, he admitted that he knew only three things about Canada: It had great hockey teams, a lot of ...

Reducere. At the beginning of the twentieth century England's empire spanned the globe, its economy was strong, and its political system seemed immune to the...

The return of the vampires! Doctor Strange once wiped bloodsuckers from the face of the Earth -- but now they rise again...beginning with one very ...

Photographs of one hundred objects from Cornwall's Museum of Witchcraft and Magic, accopanied by informative texts from Sara Hannant and Museum dir...

DescriptionDid American racism originate in the liberal North? An inquiry into the system of institutionalized racism created by Northern Jim Crow ...

Reducere. The third novel in an imaginative Victorian series narrated by the young Arthur Conan Doyle. As the inspirational model for Sherlock Holmes, the br...

Reducere. Fairies might be good or bad, and encounters with them funny or fatal. They can take on the form of people or animals, or they may have no form at ...

Reducere. An omnibus collection featuring some of the finest works of a master of weird fiction One of the preeminent writers of weird fiction, Robert Aickma...

Reducere. "The Strange Case of Dr. H.H. Holmes" contains three fully illustrated, unabridged primary source books, plus Holmes' published confession as origi...

Black and white / 710 pages / Adult content and strong language (to read Comments click on 'See all Reviews') To look at the world of the past thro...

Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigIllustration(s): 90 colourNumber of pages: 180Collection: n.b.k. BerlinPublication date: 2022Dimens...

Reducere. Since prehistory, humans have used a range of psychedelic drugs for communion with the gods, connection with nature, or for the pure pleasure and w...

Reducere. This book about Somerset County and the surrounding region traces the course of racism and society in a tidewater county in Maryland's Chesapeake B...

Reducere. THIS IS THE ONLY FULLY AUTHORIZED -- COMPLETE -- EDITION OF THIS RARE MANUSCRIPT THAT HAS BEEN UPDATED AND CONTAINS ALL MISSING TEXT AND ILLUSTRATI...

Pop culture phenomenon Emily the Strange returns Emily is not your ordinary thirteen-year-old girl--she's got a razor-sharp wit as dark as her jet-...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Joseph DardaNumber of pages: 300Collection: Post*45Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 151 x 229 x 21C...

Three plays by playwright and novelist Caryl Phillips, written in the 1980s and collected here for the first time: Strange Fruit, Where There is Da...

A devastating critique of the Modernist Movement: from the Bauhaus and Le Corbusier, through destructive Modernism-inspired urban planning of the p...

Reducere. A STRANGE SAGA OF SAUCERS, SPACE BROTHERS, SECRET AGENTS AND ALIEN ASTRONAUTS THROUGHOUT ANTIQUITY George Hunt Williamson - known as "Brother Phili...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Marjorie Muir WorthingtonLiterary Nonfiction. This is an intimate, stunning look at the torturous relationship of two write...

Reducere. The fascinating story of an intriguing -- and little understood -- religious figure in nineteenth-century America Calvinist Baptist preacher Willia...

Publisher: Strange Attractor PressAuthor(s): Catriona McaraIllustration(s): 20 colour illustrations, 40 black and white illustrationsNumber of page...

Reducere. The complete history of one of the most long-lived and legendary bands in rock history, written by its official historian and publicist-a must-have...

Featuring the works of key Scottish painters and sculptors between 1885 and 1965.Publisher: National Galleries of ScotlandAuthor(s): Alice StrangIl...

Reducere. Etidorhpa is an early science fiction novel depicting a man's descent into the bowels of the Earth at the instigation of a mysterious secret societ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: John Oliphant"As Mercury dwelleth near the Sun, so I abide in the heart of my Lord. My feet run upon His errands and by my ...

In Arabs and the Art of Storytelling, the eminent Moroccan literary historian and critic Kilito revisits and reassesses, in a modern critical light...

The first anthology on animal music and communication, with contributions from leading scientists, researchers and musicians.Ever since the acciden...

Reducere. Biography of Texas music legend Bobby Fuller, who was found dead, under mysterious circumstances, in 1966.

Publisher: Strange Attractor PressAuthor(s): Catherine L. HansenIllustration(s): 16 black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 352Publication da...

Reducere. A wealth of evidence for doubters and disbelievers ""Whether it's the latest shark cartilage scam, or some new 'repressed memory' idiocy that beset...

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. A Nordic pagan priestess falls in love with both Merlin and King Arthur and bears their sons. Along with her daughter, she constructs a plan that w...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Michael NollLiterary Nonfiction. THE WRITER'S FIELD GUIDE offers a refreshing approach to the craft of fiction writing. It ...

Reducere. Do you dare to follow along on a haunted jaunt through Western New York's supernatural locations? Move away from the ghost stories around the campf...

Publisher: Panini Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Jason AaronIllustration(s): 296 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 296Publication date: 2022Dime...

Publisher: Strategic Media BooksAuthor(s): Elliott GoldenbergIllustration(s): 25 b/w illusNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 216...

Reducere. Praised by the New York Times Book Review as "fascinating, suspenseful, careful, musically detailed, and insightful, " this is a long-overdue biogr...

Reducere. Crazy Horse, the legendary military leader of the Oglala Sioux whose personal power and social nonconformity contributed to his reputation as being...

Reducere. Spanning a variety of genres--fantasy, science fiction, horror--and time periods, Silvia Moreno-Garcia's exceptional debut collection features shor...

Reducere. ROCKET SCIENTIST KILLED IN PASADENA EXPLOSION screamed the headline of the Los Angeles Times. John Parsons, a maverick rocketeer who helped transfo...

Reducere. As Springfield residents decorated for Halloween in September 1972, the crime rate in the quiet, affluent township was at its lowest in years. That...

The first ever publication of Mark E. Smith's supernatural film treatment, co-authored with Graham Duff. In 2015 Mark E. Smith of The Fall and scre...

Reducere. Readers familiar with Randy Wayne White's "Out There" column in Outside magazine will relish this first collection of his best work; those new to W...

Ordinary Jo had a not so Ordinary Day. There was a baboon, a carrot, some superheroes and some science too. Read Ordinary Joe's story to understand...

Reducere. In early 1968, desperate entrepreneur Donald Crowhurst was trying to sell a nautical navigation device he had developed when he saw that the Sunday...

Reducere. A gripping tale of one of history's most bizarre events, and what it reveals about the strange possibilities of human nature In the searing July he...

An in-depth look at the influence of the Grateful Dead and hippie culture on contemporary fashion and street style by GQ's style-in-the-wild corresp...

"Delivers an enthusiastic introduction to nutritional epidemiology . . . Using simple illustrations and his trademark humor to demystify scientific...

A full-scale investigation of the controversial and often misunderstood science of attachment theory, inspired by the author's own experience as a ...

Reducere. Award NameNational Book Critics Circle AwardAward categoryBiographyDescriptionRead Martha A. Sandweiss's posts on the Penguin Blog The secret doubl...

Reducere. Never has the term mad scientist been more fascinatingly explored than in internationally recognized popular science author Clifford Pickover's ric...

A literary mix tape that explores the entwined boundaries between sound, material culture, landscape and esoteric belief.Trees rigged up to the wir...

Reducere. Mysterious footprints. Eerie screams. For centuries, if not longer, stunned witnesses have reported face-to-face encounters with the bizarre beasts...

DescriptionA uniquely personal yet deeply informed exploration of the hidden history of class in American life From the decks of the Mayflower stra...

Reducere. Birds were "the objects of my greatest delight, " wrote John James Audubon (1785-1851), founder of modern ornithology and one of the world's greate...

Reducere. DescriptionStrange Cures is a turbulent, against-all odds memoir of self-discovery, success, failure, and reinvention, told by one of LA's most int...

Publisher: Strange Attractor PressAuthor(s): Ytasha L. WomackNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 148 x 210 x 26Cover type: Paperb...

Publisher: Prometheus BooksAuthor(s): Robert CourlandIllustration(s): Illustrations, unspecified; Halftones, Black & White including Black & White ...