'[A] fine and essential work' Wall Street Journal'Insightful and droll' Financial TimesWhen Jeremy Grantham entered the investment business in the 1960s, he brought the thrifty Yorkshire values he had been raised with. While other money managers focused on blue chip stocks, he studied stock market history and constructed the first indices for small-cap and value stocks. Charting their ebb and flow, he saw the powerful force...

Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder"Tired of newspaper headlines that accuse cops of malfeasance or worse? Veteran editor Edwards has the perfect antidote: 15 reprints of stories from 1908 to 1966 showing English police officers at (generally) their most sterling." — Kirkus ReviewsIn classic British crime fiction, dazzling detective work is often the province of a brilliant amateur—whereas the humble police de...

Edward II's murder at Berkeley Castle in 1327 is one of the most famous and lurid tales in all of English history. But is it true? For over five centuries, few people questioned it, but with the discovery in a Montpellier archive of a remarkable document, an alternative narrative has presented itself: that Edward escaped from Berkeley Castle and made his way to an Italian hermitage.In Long Live the King, medieval historian Kathryn Warner explores in detail...

Born and brought up in the appalling deprivation of the workhouse, the orphaned Oliver escapes and heads for London, only to fall into the hands of the notorious Fagin and his gang of child thieves. But Oliver is an innocent at heart, and the attempts by Fagin and the impudently witty Artful Dodger to teach him the tricks of the pick-pocket's trade lead only to his almost immediate capture. His subsequent rescue, by the kindly Mr Brownlow, is only the beginning of a series of adventures th...

A broad selection of ghost stories both classic and obscure.Contents:"The Phantom Coach" by Amelia B. EdwardsA man becomes lost on the moors during a snow storm."Blind Man's Buff" by H. R. WakefieldA cheap piece of real estate..."The Third Coach" by H. R. WakefieldA strange train crash."That Time of the Night" by Ian GordonThat peculiar period...

If you want to learn the secrets of trading, this book is for you.Trading is one of the most effective ways to earn a monthly income, right from your home.But most people are afraid of starting out.And they are right: trading is very risky, if you don’t know what to do.Trading by Edward G. Woodby is your complete guide to start trading profitably with scientific, proven strategies and techniques.In this book you will discover:- What you n...

Why does Edward Long's History of Jamaica matter? Written in 1774, Long's History, that most 'civilised' of documents, attempted to define White and Black as essentially different and unequal. Long deployed natural history and social theory, carefully mapping the island, and drawing on poetry and engravings, in his efforts to establish a clear and fixed racialized hierarchy. His White family sat at the heart of Jamaican planter society and the West India trade in sugar, which provided the ...

Frightful fiction by masters from Lovecraft to Stoker to Crowley to Poe.Packed with stories selected and introduced by one of todays leading esoteric scholars, this book will do more than make your toes curl and your skin crawl. These tales reveal hidden truths and forbidden pursuits, and divulge the secrets of magical initiation. Covering topics from rituals to hauntings to the Devil himself, this one-of-a-kind volume includes selections from:Aleister Crow...

For over a decade, a killer hid in plain sight.On a cold December morning in 2010, police searching for a missing woman stumbled upon four bodies wrapped in burlap along a desolate stretch of Ocean Parkway. What began as a missing persons case exploded into one of the most chilling serial killer investigations in American history—the hunt for the Long Island Serial Killer.Eleven sets of remains. Thirteen years of dead ends. One suspect who lived among us.In July 202...

"A charming, idiosyncratic meditation on the human urge to see further, and more, in this cultural history of the 'aerial view' . . . McPherson makes an elliptical and enchanting case for reinserting wherever possible the ground-level, human perspective . . . Redolent with insights into the ethical quandary of history-making, as well as the author’s own sense of awe at the full sweep of the human story, this is a wonder."—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewAs ...

What can be called the long twentieth century represents the most miraculous and creative era in human history. It was also the most destructive. Over the past 150 years, modern societies across the globe have passed through an extraordinary and completely unprecedented transformation rooted in the technological developments of the nineteenth century. The World in the Long Twentieth Century lays out a framework for understanding the fundamental factors that have shaped our world o...

Edward Verrall Lucas In the present volume will be found twenty stories from early writers for children, the period being roughly 1790 to 1830, with three later and more sophisticated efforts added. Having so recently made remarks on the character of these old books—in the preface last year to Old-Fashioned Tales, a companion volume to this—I have very little to say now, except that I hope the selection will be found to be interesting. If it is not, it is less my fault than that of the aut...