The books altered the course of history; the lives behind them have the dark fascination of fiction.The subject of The Anti-Communist Manifestos is four influential books that informed the great political struggle known as the Cold War: Darkness at Noon (1940), by Arthur Koestler, a Hungarian journalist and polymath intellectual; Out of the Night (1941), by Jan Valtin, a German sailor and labor agitator; I Chose Freedom (1946), b...

Hamas, Hezbollah, and Houthis: The History, Myths, Facts, and Impacts of the Three H's of the Middle EastIf you're tired of sifting through biased sources to understand Middle Eastern conflicts, this book is for you. Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis: The History, Myths, Facts, and Impacts of the Three H's of the Middle East is a comprehensive guide that cuts through the noise, offering an objective, well-researched deep dive into the origins, ideologies, ...

Why spiritual and supernatural yearnings, even investigations into the occult, flourished in the era of rationalist philosophy.In The Dark Side of the Enlightenment, John V. Fleming shows how the impulses of the European Enlightenment—generally associated with great strides in the liberation of human thought from superstition and traditional religion—were challenged by tenacious religious ideas or channeled into the “darker” pursuits of the esoteric and the occult. His eng...

"In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the earth. Soon thereafter, however, the harmonious communion that God intended for mankind to live within was interrupted by a sinister intervention from the enemy. As days turned into years, this ancient agenda of corruption continued to intertwine even more deeply with the human story affecting the very makeup of mankind. And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them. That the so...

The gig economy can be viewed as the fuel that lit the fire of change in economies throughout the world. Flexible work grew out of a cultural shift in how we defined how we wished to work. The gig economy also grew out of a need, a need to earn more to keep pace with the inflation that nullified expected gains in purchasing power as wages increased. We no longer define work as related to the brick and mortar buildings that housed the traditional 9 to 5 job. Perhaps, the office-centric era ...

With a thirty-year run of award-winning, critically acclaimed, and commercially successful plays, from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1967) to The Invention of Love (1997), Tom Stoppard is arguably the preeminent playwright in Britain today. His popularity also extends to the United States, where his plays have won three Tony awards and his screenplay for Shakespeare in Love won the 1998 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.John Fleming offe...

When ‘You Really Got Me’ exploded on Swinging London in 1964, the Kinks forever changed the course of rock ’n’ roll. Ray Davies and Joe Penhall’s Olivier Award-winning Sunny Afternoon (2014) covers the band’s formative years of 1964–7, when four working- class North London lads broke through to become one of the most unlikely and influential rock bands of the 1960s. Mixing the comic adventures of ‘Dave the Rave’ with the touching introspection of Ray’s sometimes fragile psyche, Jo...

To satisfy the needs of the hundreds of thousands of people who pay good money to see stand-up every year, Malcolm Hardee ('the comedian's comedian' WHSmith Online; 'a national monument' The Guardian) presents a comedy club on the page with a bill featuring the glitterati of British stand-up comedy. We let the famous names and new talents alike try out their written humour and their only brief is to make us laugh. We plan to make the book an annual event, and are sure it will soon become t...

THE immense public interest which has been aroused of late years in the subject of telegraphy without connecting wires has undoubtedly been stimulated by the achievements of Mr. Marconi in effecting communication over great distances by means of Hertzian waves. The periodicals and daily journals, which are the chief avenues through which information reaches the public, whilst eager to describe in a sensational manner these wonderful applications of electrical principles, have done little t...

Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy by John Ambrose Fleming is a seminal work that delves into the early principles and practical applications of wireless telegraphy, a revolutionary technology at the turn of the 20th century. The book provides a comprehensive exploration of the scientific foundations laid by Heinrich Hertz, whose experiments with electromagnetic waves paved the way for wireless communication. Fleming meticulously explains the nature of Hertzian waves, their propagation, and...

Waves and Ripples in Water, Air, and Aether by Sir William Henry Bragg is a classic scientific treatise that explores the fascinating phenomena of wave motion in various mediums. Originally published in 1910, this book offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the principles of wave theory, making it suitable for both students and general readers interested in physics and natural science. Bragg, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, skillfully guides readers through the fundamental ...

Sir John Ambrose Fleming (29 November 1849 ? 18 April 1945) was an English electrical engineer and physicist. He is known for inventing the first thermionic valve or vacuum tube, the diode, then called the kenotron in 1904. He is also famous for the left hand rule (for electric motors).Excerpt:The immense public interest which has been aroused of late years in the subject of telegraphy without connecting wires has undoubtedly been stimulated by the achievements of Mr. Marco...