The background to "Legacy Of The Sphinx" is an ancient mystery – perhaps one of the greatest mysteries of them all: what happened to Ark of the Covenant after the reign of Solomon, a thousand years before Christ?It is however, a lot more than just another biblical mystery, taking into account some of the latest cuting edge developments in the physical sciences; and including the forbidden love between a disillusioned, former Jesuit priest and a young girl who was transferred into a...

"The long-awaited follow-up to Legacy of the Sphinx -'And I looked, and behold a pale horse:and he that sat upon him, his name was death.And hell followed with him.' Revelations Chapter 6, Verse 8Connor Tremayne, having found the love of his life, begins to plan his lifearound her. His profession however, leads directly to her death when sheis savagely murdered by hired assassins. Angel of Death is the story ofhis revenge and of how he mee...

The long-awaited third story featuring Connor Tremayne. He is instructed to find a location said to have been left by our predecessors for the human race to discover when we have evolved sufficiently as a species to understand and use the knowledge they have bequeathed to us. Such a place has been speculated to exist for many years, and has become popularly known and written about as the fabled 'Hall Of Records'. And to find it, Connor must go beneath the Giza Plateau in Egypt. upon which ...

Available again after years out of print. Surrealism and the Cinema (1976), was an iconoclastic work of both film theory and art criticism, with its insightful readings of the films of Bunuel, Hitchcock, von Sternberg and Samuel Fuller and references to popular culture (comic book art), alongside discussions of major surrealist artists like Magritte, Dali and Max Ernst. It broke from academic conventions with its use of emotion and humor and found a place in film ...

Whether your family is growing or you're moving down so that you can enjoy your retirement years, selling your home can be a stressful time. You've made memories there, you've made improvements, and you want to get the most possible out of selling your home.Sometimes it can seems like a lot to think about -- getting your house ready to show, deciding to list it or go the for sale by owner route, wondering if you should fix something or not. Inside this book, you'll find the answers...

A story about a single mother about to turn 40 who falls in love with someone unexpected. She just wanted to escape her abusive past and start over back in her hometown in Indiana. All she hoped for was to give her and her kids a better life. She never imagined it would end up the way it did, a drama-filled romance for the ages, packed with secrets, lies, and devastation.

International media coverage in the 1960s and early 1970s represented the Biafran War, in which the state of Biafra attempted to secede from the Nigerian Federation, as a grand humanitarian disaster, characterised by sustained conflict, starvation and genocide. Using interviews and newly-released archival material, Michael Gould questions this depiction, examining the role of foreign parties in the conflict and the impact of propaganda upon its international reception both during and after...

A story about a single mother about to turn 40 who falls in love with someone unexpected. She just wanted to escape her abusive past and start over back in her hometown of Indiana. All she hoped for was to give her and her kids a better life. She never imagined it would end up the way it did, a drama filled romance of the ages, packed with secrets, lies and devastation.

"This sparkling book romps over the range of science and anti-science." --Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and SteelRevised and Expanded Edition.In this age of supposed scientific enlightenment, many people still believe in mind reading, past-life regression theory, New Age hokum, and alien abduction. A no-holds-barred assault on popular superstitions and prejudices, with more than 80,000 copies in print, Why People Believe ...

For a century Bram Stoker’s Dracula has reigned supreme as the undisputed masterpiece of horror writing. We have all grown up under the shadow of the elegant Count, at once an attractive, brutal and erotic creature of the night. In 1897 Bram Stoker wrote a story expressing the most persistent nightmare of the human condition. Take this opportunity to dream again…

Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism explores a new mode of philosophizing through a comparative study of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology and philosophies of major Buddhist thinkers such as Nagarjuna, Chinul, Dogen, Shinran, and Nishida Kitaro. Challenging the dualistic paradigm of existing philosophical traditions, Merleau-Ponty proposes a philosophy in which the traditional opposites are encountered through mutual penetration. Likewise, a Buddhist worldview is articulated in the the...

Brought to you by Penguin.Why was Marx so successful as a thinker? Did he have a system and if so, what does it consist of? How did Marxism develop in the twentieth century and what does it mean today?Karl Marx remains the most influential and controversial political thinker in history. The movements associated with his name have lent hope to many victims of tyranny and aggression but have also proven disastrous in practice and resulted in the unnecessary d...