"A collection of outstanding ghost stories" from a Scottish historian who "tell[s] a beautifully chilling story" ( Undiscovered Scotland).Dark Encounters is a collection of classic and elegantly unsettling ghost stories first published in 1963. A spine-tingling collection, these tales are set in the brooding landscape of Scotland with an air of historic authenticity—often referring to real events, objects, and people. From a demonic text that leav...

Bringing together the results of sixty years of research in typology and universals, this textbook presents a comprehensive survey of Morphosyntax - the combined study of syntax and morphology. Languages employ extremely diverse morphosyntactic strategies for expressing functions, and Croft provides a comprehensive functional framework to account for the full range of these constructions in the world's languages. The book explains analytical concepts that serve as a basis for cross-linguis...

The most valuable companies in the world today—from Uber to Airbnb and Visa—own remarkably few physical assets. Instead, they master the economics of multi-sided platforms. They act as invisible matchmakers, connecting distinct groups of users and extracting massive wealth simply by facilitating the transaction. This strategic playbook breaks down the complex architecture behind platform capitalism. It explains the critical challenge of the "chicken-and-egg" problem: how to attract buyers ...

In 1945, the new Labour government in Britain had two choices in pursuit of their programme of social change. They could use government orders and coercion, an extension of wartime siege economy; or they could try to persuade the people that their way was best for Britain. Morale-boosting propaganda directed towards the British public had been tried in the two wars against Germany, but this was the first time that the techniques were used in peacetime. First published in 1989, Coercion...

In 1980, Professor Robert Smyth, a man who carries an unearthly secret, is teaching pathology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His lecture makes clear to his students that the practice of treating the energy-based human body with pharmaceuticals has proliferated within the last one hundred years and is now the leading cause of death in society. What’s more, the use of pesticides has brought an additional load of poisons to the human and animal body. Continual use of these chemicals ...

Millionaire Success Habits: Discover the Secrets of How Millionaires Set and Achieve Their Goals to Reach SuccessDepending on where you live, becoming a millionaire is the standard for being comfortable and wealthy. It is feasible to amass this level of money. It does, however, necessitate a strong dedication, hard work, deferred gratification, and a rich mind-set. If you want to succeed, you must develop a millionaire mind-set and thinking. This can be achieved by changing one's w...

Success Habits of High Achievers Bundle, 2 in 1 Bundle: Millionaire Success Habits and The Power of Self DisciplineDepending on where you live, becoming a millionaire is the standard for being comfortable and wealthy. It is feasible to amass this level of money. It does, however, necessitate a strong dedication, hard work, deferred gratification, and a rich mind-set. If you want to succeed, you must develop a millionaire mindset and thinking. This can be achieved by changing one's w...

Shirley Jackson Award Finalist: "The stories in this collection range from unsettling to downright chilling, but are uniformly intelligent . . . and memorable." —Karen Joy Fowler, New York Times–bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside OurselvesThis collection of nine stories, suffused with apocalyptic anxiety and stubborn hope, comes from an author widely acclaimed for his mix of the fantastic, the menacing, and the melancholy—and includ...

"Lyrical, philosophical, empathetic... perfect for fans of Usman Malik and Gautam Bhatia."In the city of Sirvassa, where petals are currency and flowers are magic, the Caretaker tends to the Garden of Delights. He imparts temporary magical abilities to the citizens of Sirvassa, while battling a curse of eternal old age. No Delight could uplift his curse, and so he must seek out a mythical figure. A god.When a Delight allows a young girl an ability to change...

A mysterious vigilante meets Scheherazade in high-tech Ancient Atlantis, set against the backdrop of an impending global apocalypse.On the last day of Atlantis,When it sank beneath the waters,Sons and Daughters of AtlantisSailed their ships toward the stars.Earth, 10,504 B.C.E.A deadly asteroid sent by alien gods is about to strike Ancient Atlantis.In the high-tech ...

Fifteen chilling ghost stories from two centuries of great Scottish writers.Tales for Twilight offers a spine-tingling selection of unnerving tales by writers from James Hogg in the early eighteenth century to James Robertson, very much alive in the twenty-first. Scottish authors have proved to be exceptionally good at writing ghost stories.Perhaps it's because of the tradition of oral storytelling that has stretched over centuries, including poems a...

A corrupt corporation crosses swords with a man possessing uncanny superpowers in this sci-fi thriller from New York Times–bestselling author Alan Dean Foster.Old Jake Pickett is an unusual man whose mind-over-matter abilities can reduce bullets and buildings to dust and rubble. But he prefers using his "magic" to entertain the poor kids in his neighborhood near the chemical dumpsite, and to communicate telepathically with his disabled niece, Amanda.