February, 2009, in the midst of Australia’s worst ever bushfire disaster, Jan Graham asked the question: “What can I do to help?” She had no idea that this question would lead her and her husband, John, into three years of intense relief work, helping survivors of the Black Saturday Fires.This is not another bushfire story, though that is the setting. This is a story about how a local church and community responded in the face of crisis, and it asks the question, are there still fi...

February, 2009, in the midst of Australia’s worst ever bushfire disaster, Jan Graham asked the question: “What can I do to help?” She had no idea that this question would lead her and her husband, John, into three years of intense relief work, helping survivors of the Black Saturday Fires.This is not another bushfire story, though that is the setting. This is a story about how a local church and community responded in the face of crisis, and it asks the question, are there still fi...

First English translation of the book that introduced the realm of Hollow Earth.Explores the underground world of Agarttha, sometimes known as Shambhala, a realm that is spiritually and technologically advanced beyond our modern culture.One of the most influential works of 19th-century occultism.Written by the philosopher who influenced Papus, Rene Guénon, and Rudolf Steiner.The underground realm of Agarttha was first introduced to the Western world in 1886 by ...

The Three Voyages of Captain Cook Round the World gathers in seven volumes one of the eighteenth century's most influential bodies of travel writing, combining nautical record, ethnographic observation, natural history, and imperial encounter. Its narratives range from logbook precision to reflective description, charting the Pacific, Antarctic waters, and northwest American coast while recording encounters in Tahiti, New Zealand, Hawai'i, and beyond. Standout episodes—first landfalls, per...

The Essential Gilded Age Omnibus unites three pivotal novels that capture the socioeconomic tensions and cultural shifts of America's Gilded Age. Within its pages, readers encounter a diverse range of literary styles—from incisive realism to astute social commentary—that bring this transformative period to life. This collection delves into the stark contrasts between wealth and poverty, the burgeoning industrial landscape, and the evolving American dream. Works within the Omnibus reflect o...

The Consolation of Philosophy, presented here in three classic English translations by James, Cooper, and Sedgefield, offers a layered encounter with one of late antiquity's most enduring works. Combining philosophical dialogue, prison meditation, and alternating prose and verse, the text ranges across Fortune, providence, free will, suffering, and the highest good. Its literary power lies in the dramatic meeting between the imprisoned thinker and Lady Philosophy, whose arguments transform...

This book contains70 short storiesfrom 10 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the criticAugust Nemo, in a collection that will please theliterature lovers. For more exciting titles, be sure to check out our 7 Best Short Stories and Essential Novelists collections. This book contains: - A. E. W. Mason:The Affair At The Semiramis Hotel The Clock Green Paint Ensign Knightley The Man Of Wheels The Coward Keeper Of The Bishop - Julian Hawthorne:...

This collection presents twenty-seven new essays in Japanese aesthetics by leading experts in the field. Beginning with an extended foreword by the renowned scholar and artist Stephen Addiss and a comprehensive introduction that surveys the history of Japanese aesthetics and the ways in which it is similar to and different from Western aesthetics, this groundbreaking work brings together a large variety of disciplinary perspectives—including philosophy, literature, and cultural politics—to...

This book contains 350 short stories from 50 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. Wisely chosen by the literary critic August Nemo for the book series 7 Best Short Stories, this omnibus contains the stories of the following writers: - Sheridan Le Fanu - H. and E. Heron - Charlotte Riddell - Flora Annie Steel - Amelia B. Edwards - Margaret Oliphant - Edward Bellamy - Arnold Bennett - S. Baring-Gould - Daniil Kharms - E.F. Benson - John Buchan - Ella D'Arcy - Jacques Futrelle - Fra...

*"With laser-like precision, Graham fuses together our collective cultural memory and experience as he captivatingly describes "the contract" so many of us sign. A tacit agreement to don the cloak of cultural invisibility in exchange for the basement keys to the palace." -*Dr. Joy A. DeGruy, author of Post Traumatic Slave SyndromeWritten to speak for those who've been without a voice throughout their professional career, Plantation Theory: The ...

Evil sleeps until the unwary disturb it.On an underdeveloped desert planet, a prospecting expedition unwittingly unearths something that should have stayed buried – something as ancient as it is malevolent.Meanwhile, Colonel Gabriel Thorn has his own demons to wrestle with. The DNI insists on keeping their most capable operative on a tight leash. They already control his past and his present, and it seems they also have a hand in his future.His wife Aster is growing...

The Parts Within Us offers a gentle, accessible introduction to the idea that we all carry different parts within us - parts that protect, criticise, avoid, achieve, numb, fear, hope and long to be understood.Drawing on an IFS-informed approach, John Graham explores how these parts can develop through life experience and how they may continue trying to protect us long after the original danger has passed. Rather than seeing difficult thoughts, feelings or behaviour...