Keep you brain active with a few different sorts of puzzles, with many original one interspersed with the odd quiz questions (to keep your memory muscle amused), lateral thinking puzzles and wordy interludes and few of the better known puzzles and riddles from history with a little background to their origins.Want to try a puzzle? Here's an intriguing word search.How many concealed countries from around the world are you able to uncover in the following story? There are 27 ...

This series of biographies presents the great composers against the background of their times. Each draws on personal letters and recollections, engravings, paintings and, when they exist, photographs, to present a complete picture of the composer's life.

Lavishly illustrated throughout, this fascinating biography sets Debussy's musical revolution in the context of his times. It will be invaluable to musicians and concert-goers alike.

A new and fascinating biography of the most outstanding composers in musical history, setting Debussy's musical revolution in the context of his times.Lavishly illustrated throughout with artefacts, reproductions of engravings and portraits, as well as being accompanied by a selection of his musical pieces, The New Illustrated Lives of Great Composers' Debussy installment recreates the era in which he flourished in sparkling detail.

First published in 1993, The Inner World Outside has become a classic in its field. Paul Holmes walks the reader through the ‘inner world’ of object relationships and the corresponding ‘outside world’ shared by others in which real relationships exist. Trained as a psychotherapist in both psychoanalytical and psychodramatic methods, Paul Holmes has written a well informed, clear introduction to Object Relations Theory and its relation to psychodrama. He explores the links between ...

What marvelous poems these are, and how complete a collection. Like a circus aerialist who makes us gasp one moment and laugh the next, the poet takes us from her immigrant father’s Macedonian roots to her own maturity, to the life of a woman who is smart and well-read yet knows her way around a Coney Island hot dog and finds the attentions of a drunk cowboy oddly flattering. There are so many good poems here that it’s hard to pick a favorite, but I’ll put my money on “Confessions of an Ug...

The ghost of Sherlock Holmes is dead, but who will solve his murder?The Great Detective's ghost has walked London's streets for an age, given shape by people's memories. Now someone's put a ceremonial dagger through his chest. But what's the motive? And who – or what – could kill a ghost?When policing London's supernatural underworld, eliminating the impossible is not an option. DI James Quill and his detectives have learnt this the hard way. Gifte...

A real-life murder mystery in turn-of-the-century London, and Scotland Yard's "greatest detective of all time" who was determined to discover whodunit.By 1919, Det. Chief Inspector Fred Wensley was already a legend, having investigated the Jack the Ripper slayings, busted crime syndicates, and risked his life at the notorious Siege of Sidney Street. But the brutal murder of kindly fifty-four-year-old widow and shopkeeper Elizabeth Ridgley was an unexpected challeng...

Holmes, Watson, Lupin rassemblés pour de nouvelles aventures par deux admirateurs de Conan Doyle et de Maurice Leblanc, Arcachon et la Côte d’argent à la Belle époque : un voyage qui ne se refuse pas.On meurt et on disparaît beaucoup à Arcachon et dans ses environs, en cet été 1913, pendant qu’y villégiaturent paisiblement diverses célébrités parisiennes, dont Arsène Lupin, en charmante compagnie, et qui prétend n’être là que pour distraire sa jeune amie. Difficile...

L’intégrale de la saga « Le défi Holmes » !Dans « Le défi Holmes contre Rouletabille », Sherlock Holmes, escorté de son fidèle Watson, rencontre pour la première fois Rouletabille. Les héros de Sir Conan Doyle et Gaston Leroux se retrouvent associés dans une aventure aussi mouvementée qu’inattendue.Mon premier a quitté Londres pour Paris où il visite l’Exposition universelle de 1900. Lors d’une enquête qui le retient malgré...

Although Sherlock Holmes had always refused to accept the potential influences of the supernatural upon the many cases with which he had been presented, there had certainly been a few which had sowed a seed of doubt within the mind of his friend and colleague, Dr. Watson. Obviously, The Hound of the Baskervilles and "The Sussex Vampire" are prime examples of these, but they are not the only ones! The apparition of a lady dressed in white and long thought dead, a deadly and shadowy form tha...

Sherlock et Lupin réunis !Août 1911. À l’invitation de ses cousins Vernet qui ont loué une villa sur la côte, Sherlock Holmes remet le pied sur le sol français. Accompagné de son fidèle Watson et d’Harriett Cooper, amie et suffragette enragée, ils apprennent que Jenny Bradpick, la richissime héritière de l’empire Bradpick, portera, à sa prochaine sortie, une parure de diamants ayant appartenu à la Du Barry.Holmes comprend rapidement la raison de la présence d...