**Test your quote IQ! Who said this?“I think, therefore I am.”**A. Marcus AureliusB. Gautama BuddhaC. René DescartesD. Nicolas CageWith hundreds of witticisms, musings, disses, words of inspiration, and canny observations, all wrapped up in the form of an addictive game with different ways to play, Who Said That? Is the most fun you can have while actually getting smarter. Or to put it another way, where else would you find Albert Einst...

"99 Science Fiction Short Stories" brings together some of the finest sci fi short stories ever crafted. Featuring gems from masters of the genre, such as H.G Wells , Robert Barr , PKD, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Norton, and many, many more!

"Atlantic City. Casinos. Freizeitparks. Museen. Und ... das Bauunternehmen der Familie Black, die in dieser Stadt das Ruder in der Hand hält. Genau deshalb hat Owen Black nicht vor, irgendetwas an seinem Leben zu ändern. Er genießt den Reichtum, er mag seinen Platz im Vorstand und liebt es, das Imperium seiner Familie zu leiten und zu lenken. Wohl strukturiert ist jeder seiner Schritte geplant. Diskret genießt er die Freuden des Lebens, schafft es, durch seine vermeintlich arrogante Art, s...

Dieser Band enthält folgende Western: Und dann schlägt dir die Stunde, McQuade (Pete Hackett) Salbeibusch-Justiz (Pete Hackett) Die Rache des Jonathan Randall (Pete Hackett) Todestrail (Pete Hackett) Grainger und die Knochensucher: Western (Frank Maddox) Das rote Halstuch (George Owen Baxter) Im Herzen der Rocky Mountains (G. A. Henty) Jonathan Randall zügelte sein Pferd und starrte auf die Ansammlung von Häusern, Hütten und Schuppen in der Senke, die sich am Fuß des Hügels erstreckte, auf...

This text offers a major reassessment of the life and thought of the distinguished 19th century industrial philanthropist and educational reformer, Robert Owen. In a period when Owen's radical new visions for learning and teaching, adult and vocational pedagogy and social transformation are receiving fresh and global attention, Robert Davis and Frank O'Hagan place Owen's thought right at the heart of the Enlightenment advocacy of popular, democratic mass education. Tracing both the ancestr...

First published in 1938, this is a collection of four Oriental tales, including 'Five Merchants Who Met in a Tea-House,' and 'Doctor Shen Fu,' a tale of a Chinese alchemist who possesses the elixir of life.These beautiful and exotic series of Oriental fantasies, set in a China of the imagination, are brought to life by author Frank Owen's brilliant descriptive passages that embroider his tales.

Hells Angels and fallen televangelist Ted Haggard. Cross-country truckers and suburban mothers. Trailer parks, gay sex clubs, college campuses, and military battlefields. In this fascinating book, Frank Owen traces the spread of methamphetamine—meth—from its origins as a cold and asthma remedy to the stimulant wiring every corner of American culture.Meth is the latest "epidemic" to attract the attention of law enforcement and the media, but like cocaine and heroin its roots are medi...

Dieses Buch enthält folgende Western: Alfred Bekker: Ein Strick für Lee Callahan George Owen Baxter: Das rote Halstuch Jack Raymond: Der Goldsucher von Santamira Frank Austin: Der Sheriff reitet Max Brand: Chip und der Kaktusmann Lee Callahan fühlte den harten Faustschlag an seinem Kinn. Er flog in den Staub und als er dann den Kopf hob, sah er in grimmige, entschlossene Gesichter, sowie eine Revolvermündung. 'Lee!' Das war Madeleine. Sie wollte zu ihm eilen, aber zwei kräftige, hart zupac...

This investigative reporter's six year journey behind the velvet ropes of Manhattan's infamous nightclub scene is "[an] addictive exposé" ( Elle ).In 1995, journalist Frank Owen began researching a story on "Special K," a new designer drug that fueled the after-midnight club scene. He went to buy and sample the drug at the internationally notorious Limelight, a decrepit church converted into a Manhattan disco, where pulse-...

A comprehensive coverage of the physical properties and real-world applications of magnetic nanostructuresThis book discusses how the important properties of materials such as the cohesive energy, and the electronic and vibrational structures are affected when materials have at least one length in the nanometer range. The author uses relatively simple models of the solid state to explain why these changes in the size and dimension in the nanometer regime occur. The...

Wimbourne Books presents the sixteenth in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 16 contains stories published between 1846 and 1901, all set at or around the Christmas period. Readers new to this genre will discover its pleasures; the Victorian quaintness, the sometimes shocking difference in social norms, the almost comical politeness and structured etiquette, the archaic and precise language, but mostly...

Guardian's Book of the Month, 2018'[With] echoes of Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Stephen King's The Stand...' Guardian on SouthIf a virus doesn't kill you, the South will...The USA has been ravaged by Civil War. It's been thirty years since the first wind-borne viruses ended the war between North and South. While the South has been devastated by disease - the North has emerged victorio...