How To Speak English Like a NativeThe English language is perhaps the richest and most expressive in the world. One of the reasons for this is that we have so many weird and wonderful ways of describing exactly the same thing: we can be as colourful or as plain with our language as we choose. That is why it is so difficult to learn and how this book will help you so much.Living in a foreign country, as I do, it is obvious to me that even the most fluent of ...

IntroductionAmerican History is the second 'best of' collection of best-selling books that reveal the origins and history of just about everything we can think of. (Money for Old Rope is the first in the series) In fact, as one wise man suggested, it is the history of everything you didn't realise you wanted to know about, until you found out about it. A must have for dinner conversations and pub chat the world over, this book of history will help to make you feel clever.In...

IntroductionCuriosity will eventually lead to innovation. Fortunately we are an imaginative species who does a lot of wondering. Way back to when man first learned to walk upright and began communicating with each other, by pointing and shouting, we can find the earliest examples. Somebody once thought, 'I know, we can move that heavy rock, or dead buffalo, by rolling it along on tree trunks because it is easier than dragging it over the ground.'This, of course, led to the ...

IntroductionCuriosity will eventually lead to innovation. Fortunately we are an imaginative species who does a lot of wondering.Way back to when man first learned to walk upright and began communicating with each other, by pointing and shouting, we can find the earliest examples. Somebody once thought, ‘I know, we can move that heavy rock, or dead buffalo, by rolling it along on tree trunks because it is easier than dragging it over the gro...

Albert Jack is a internationally bestselling author who has been successfully tackling some of the great World Mysteries for over twenty years.Using Occam's Razor he manages to shave away the theories, the improbable and the hysteria, hype and sensational to reveal only the known, probable facts. From what's left, he argues, the truth of everything can be found, despite how unlikely it seems in some cases.In 9/11 Conspiracy Jack ignores all the conspiracy t...

Does Bigfoot Exist?In 1924, a group of miners working in the Cascade Mountain Range in the state of Washington were startled to see a huge simian creature staring at them from behind a tree. Panic-stricken, one of the men fired at it and although the bullet appeared to hit the giant ape in the head, the beast ran off, apparently unharmed.Soon afterwards another of the miners, Fred Beck, spotted it again on the edge of a canyon and again fired, this time hitting the creature...

The fun and fascinating follow-up to the international bestseller Red Herrings and White ElephantsWhy do people put their "skeletons in a closet," "have a hunch," "get the cold shoulder," "get dressed up to the nines," or "call a spade a spade?" These phrases are used every day, yet most people have little or no idea where most of them come from. In Black Sheep and Lame Ducks, Albert Jack takes readers on a journey through the curious- and often b...

IntroductionThe subject of urban myths and legends is one I have been interested in for a couple of years now. It occurred to me, one day at lunch with friends on the Isle of Dogs, that many long rambling conversations (and ours are certainly long and always rambling) will include a tall tale or two.One person will then be reminded of a story he or she once heard which is then presented as near or actual fact. The story will be introduced like this: 'That reminds me of a st...

'Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction. Was Sir Winston Churchill really a Druid? Did Charlie Chaplin lose a lookalike competition? Did The Who's drummer Keith Moon drive his Rolls Royce into a swimming pool? The man with the answers is Albert Jack...' - Daily ExpressFrom Walt Disney's frozen head to the kidnap of JFK's brain, Albert Jack gathers together all the strangest, sickest, funniest and most unforgettable urban legends and recounts them with his usu...

Extract;Humpty DumptyHumpty Dumpty sat on the wall,Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;All the king's horses and all the king's menCouldn't put Humpty together again.The real Humpty Dumpty was a powerful cannon used by the Royalist forces during the English Civil War of 1642 to 1651. Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle led the king's men and overpowered the Parliament stronghold of Colchester early in 1648.They grimly held on to it while th...

**FOOLED BY FABLES? LED ON BY LEGENDS? MYTH-GUIDED?WONDER NO MORE, MYSTERY-PHILES: THE TRUTH IS IN HERE!**What in the world (or out of it) made those giant crop circles? Did skydiving skyjacker D. B. Cooper really get away with it? Is Bigfoot a big fake? Are ETs just BS?If you're tired of scratching your head over persistent puzzlers like these, mystery-buster Albert Jack has the cure for your quizzical itch. He's gone hunting for the truth behind more than thirty o...

From the Author of the Internationally Bestselling Books - Red Herrings & White Elephants, What Caesar did for my Salad, Shaggy Dogs, Pop Goes the Weasel, They Laughed at Galileo:Over the years I have often been asked, by unpublished writers, how they should go about finding a publisher. I am also often asked the question, ‘what should I write about.’And, whilst that is irritating; the chief reason being, ‘That’s your job,’ it is still a good question. (The...