Mubu's grandfather used his healing herbs to save the life of a young boy in the village. The grateful father gave an elephant to him in pay for his miracle. Mubu had never seen an elephant before. When she inspected every part of the elephant, the elephant inspected her! They liked each other. Mubu named him Goldie, and they became best friends. They went everywhere together, joined by her pet hen and the neighbourhood kids. Goldie learned their games quickly and joined in. But Mubu's lit...

What's a girl to do? Someone like Carolyn Niskanen, whose family escaped Hitler when she was just a baby. Now she's a small town teenager who just wants to grow up and become a veterinarian. But things keep happening in West Palmerton. Evil things. She and her pal, Glenn, discover that the deacon in their church is a pedophile who runs a juvenile detention center. The kids rescue a friend who is a victim. The pedophile gets 14 years in prison.The town bully hates C...

The cataclysm everyone had been fearing finally took place. Not many humans were prepared to survive what occurred all around the planet: earthquakes, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions and every other imaginable disaster.One such person, however, was Dennis Quant, a bright, intuitive book and magazine writer, a survivalist and martial artist living in the New Hampshire wilderness. Building a durable, sustainable underground survival home, he survives the upheaval and manages to rescue ...

Steve Harrah is an active man. A schoolteacher in his twenties. Marries a scintillating and mercurial Japanese beauty who divorced a rich and dangerous banker. Becomes a film editor in his thirties. Engages in a flirtatious relationship with his stepdaughter. Moves from Massachusetts to the Arizona desert when Kiko dies in an auto accident. His younger daughter joins him, while Yvonne, the stepdaughter, disappears from his life for 20 years. Fights off gangbangers at Santa Monica Pier. As ...

A sudden storm with wind, rain, thunder and lightning crashed down around Grandfather. He had been searching for healing plants he used to help his friends in a Northern Thailand village. All at once a tiny creature fell through the trees and landed at his feet. It was a pink, sightless one-week-old spotted owl that had been blown from his nest. Surely, the baby would not last long.This is the story of his granddaughter, Mubu, who came to love the injured bird, to sleep with it, to...

Station Square, a new and massive development set on The Thames is on the one hand a glittering tribute to financial worth but is on the other a subtle front for international money laundering on a vast international scale. But also infused into this development is a killer who makes his gruesome presence known on opening day by killing not one but two office workers in different parts of the complex. As murders rise almost on a weekly basis the level of absenteeism increases dramatically....

Khantida, a spirited young Thai courtesan, once married to a handsome but ruthless police major, finds herself desperately seeking sanctuary in her rural childhood village, Phayu. Wrathful ghosts and angels are drawn to the battle between the former lovers as the village suffers. The fates of Khantida, her 6-year-old daughter, Noi, her sister, Som, and numerous other citizens of northeast Thailand are all played out in one shocking, often horrifying, week. Much of the world undergoes terri...

This is a factually based story about a German woman, Helle Koch, who suddenly arrives at Ardeley, a village deep in the midst of Norfolk on a mission to find the remains of her GrandFather, Luftwaffe Oberleutnant Erich Koch who allegedly crashed his ME160 nearby in April 1943. However no record nor evidence exists whatsoever of his demise.Here she meets Richard Manners a recently retired British Airways long haul pilot who has recently bought a cottage close to Royal Airforce Stati...

Kanthida, born in eastern Thailand to an impoverished family of rice farmers, is sold to a brothel in Bangkok before she is eleven years old. By the time she is 20,she marries a notorious Bangkok policeman known as Duke. She has achieved fame on her own by now. She is resplendent, sexy and indomitable. Stunned to discover that her husband is a vicious paid killer, she tries to desert him by marrying a client and moving to Norway. Duke pursues her, and a bloody war between them begi...

When the Greek Civilisation finally faded in 10 A.D. Artemis, the goddess of the hunt and the Moon, an avowed virgin warrior led her Nymphs to a portal which took them to safety in a parallel universe where they lived happily without aging. Hades maintained his Hell hole under the earth, and Zeus, greatly depressed, dwelled in hideaways on Earth. As Earth began its current self-destruction, Artemis worried about her half-sister, Persephone, who had spent many centuries on Earth, trying to ...

Sensationalism and Scientific Explanation is a critical examination of the view that scientific statements can be understood only in terms of basic ‘atoms’ of experience, also called ‘sensations’.Presenting different extremes of this view, the book considers whether it can provide an adequate account of science as we find it. It explores in detail the sensationalist account of science set out by Ernst Mach in relation to various aspects of scientific investigation and theo...

Originally published in 1969. This book is for undergraduates whether specializing in philosophy or not. It assumes no previous knowledge of logic but aims to show how logical notions arise from, or are abstracted from, everyday discourse, whether technical or non-technical. It sets out a knowledge of principles and, while not historical, gives an account of the reasons for which modern systems have emerged from the traditional syllogistic logic, demonstrating how certain central ideas hav...