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Tales of Mystery boasts an eclectic menagerie of twisted tales, from classic pot boilers, to cozy whodunits, to alien nightmares that leave you gasping. Vampires seeking a high-tech upgrade. Witches who cook. Toys that hold court. Monsters just looking for a midnight snack. Detectives and scientists who are clearly in over their heads. A mystery lover's veritable buffet. This new anthology includes twelve original stories that are sure to please.

This comprehensive book is aimed at all those railway modellers who wish to create a realistic model of a branch line. First of all it examines the origins, developments and future of branch lines in Britain and then provides useful insights into how to select a suitable branch line to model. It discusses in detail how to create scenic realism and an appropriate setting for the model, with reference to the landscape, the infrastructure, the lineside and the use of authentic colour. Detaile...

Live More by Choosing LessOur lives are full of stuff. Our world encourages both buying and holding onto things. We seem to have this obsession with possessing things. And, sadly, we are reluctant to let go of what we already own. This leads to clutter, hoarding, and the unhealthy thinking that goes with it.Thanks to clever advertising and eager sellers we’ve become accustomed to wanting more, bigger, improved faster, more efficient products. We can’t get e...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHORS OF YESTERDAY'S GONE AND WHITESPACE COMES A NEW THRILLER — 12.At 6 p.m. on a Wednesday in October, a gunman will enter Goldman's Diner and commit one of the worst massacres the small coastal town of Palm Isles, Florida has ever seen.Twelve hours earlier: twelve lives are on borrowed time, unaware that death is coming, or that their paths will collide in one tragic moment.A young waitress and mot...

"An amazing book." – Dan Lepard"The rich and fascinating story of bread." – Lily Vanilli"A brilliant, timely and important book full of compassion." – Olia Hercules"A fascinating exploration of our universal love of bread. David traces the past, present, and future of bread through his personal lens as a third generation baker." – Edd KimberDiscove...

English Romantic poetry from its beginnings and its flowering to the first signs of its decadence. Nearly all the famous piéces de résistance will be found here - 'Intimations of Immortality', 'The Ancient Mariner', 'The Tyger', excerpts from 'Don Juan' - as well as some less familiar poems. As far as possible the poets are arranged in chronological order, and their poems in order of composition, beginning with eighteenth-century precurs...

Have you ever felt like a quiet forest trail existing in a world of noisy highways? You're not alone. In Introverts Hate Small Talk, David M. Wright unpacks the introverted experience with depth, humor, and unapologetic honesty. This book is not just a guide—it’s a celebration of the quiet strengths that introverts bring to relationships, workplaces, and society.Discover the science behind introversion, explore how cultural norms shape personality dynamics, and gain practical tips ...

Natural toxins are commonly used to subdue or incapacitate potential prey organisms but may also act as a defence against predators or parasites. Additionally, these compounds may act to give their producers an advantage when competing for food and other natural resources. Competing organisms may also deploy their own counteractive chemical measures in a form of biological warfare.Because of their enormous range of bioactive properties, many natural toxins have been isolated and re...

This Element's contribution explores the historiography of madness in the Modern era, including landmark publications in the overlapping fields of the history of psychiatry and the history of lunatic asylums. As this examination of almost 200 academic works will demonstrate, the field is vast and highly contested, with researchers sometimes disagreeing about the basic terms of analysis. Nevertheless, from Foucault to Fanon, from Goffman to Gilman, these debates about social and medical res...

This fascinating book is aimed at all those modellers who wish to create a model railway set in an urban landscape. It covers the selection and the construction of a wide range of urban buildings, and presents many detailed photographs of real buildings from which the modeller can gain ideas, identify specific features and draw inspiration. Special attention is paid to modelling architectural details and to the effects of weathering. Scratch-building techniques and materials, as well as re...

For 150 years, Down's Syndrome has constituted the archetypal mental disability, easily recognisable by distinct facial anomalies and physical stigmata. In a narrow medical sense, Down's syndrome is a common disorder caused by the presence of all or part of an extra 21st chromosome. It is named after John Langdon Down, the British asylum medical superintendent who described the syndrome as Mongolism in a series of lectures in 1866. In 1959, the disorder was identified as a chromosome 21 tr...

The less is more philosophy is central to the minimalism movement today, and it’s where it resonates with veganism. If minimalism is concerned with living with less for your spiritual wellbeing, then that extends to the impact you have on the environment as well.Minimalists consume less and buy less, meaning that their eco-footprints are lighter; but eliminating your consumption of animal-derived products is one of the most significant ways of reducing your eco-footprint, as animal...