The bullets in her skull had been fired from three different directions, as if he had used her for target practice. Her brassiere had been pulled up and her jeans undone; the killer had taken her underwear as a trophy. The police were convinced he was murdering backpackers purely for pleasure...Read about the shocking backpacker murders of Ivan Milat, along with the horrific stories of Eric Edgar Cook and William MacDonald in this 3 in 1 True Crime Compendium. Three brutal serial k...

The brutal rapes and murders were never-ending. Everyone was a target; no one was safe. He raped a 6 year-old girl and slit the throat of a 75 year-old woman. He sodomized an 8 year old boy after killing his father and forcing his mother to perform oral sex. The Night Stalker was going crazy and the Devil was his master...Read about the shocking crimes of the Night Stalker, Richard Ramirez, along with the horrific stories of the Boston Strangler and Son of Sam in this 3 in 1 Tr...

The Men Who Led - Franklin D. RooseveltHe could not walk across a room yet he carried a nation across its darkest years. This is the story of how.On the morning of April 12, 1945, Franklin Roosevelt sat in a small house in the Georgia pines, signing papers and holding a pose for a portrait painter, while outside the dogwood bloomed and the war he had managed for three and a half years moved toward its final weeks. At one-fifteen in the afternoon he pressed ...

THE MEN WHO LED: ABRAHAM LINCOLNHe arrived in New Salem in the spring of 1831 on a flatboat, twenty-two years old, without money or connections or any established reputation. He had taught himself to read by firelight, memorized Shakespeare in a log cabin, and decided, with the specific determination of a person who has nothing and intends to have more, that the world was worth understanding seriously.What he made of that determination is the subject of thi...

The death of a person is a tragedy while the explosion of a lifeless galaxy is a mere firework. The moral difference is grounded in the nature of humans: humans have intrinsic worth, a worth that makes their fate really matter. This is the worth that the Australian philosopher James Franklin proposes as the foundation of ethics. In The Worth of Persons he explains that ethics in the usual sense of right and wrong actions, rights and virtues, and how to live a good life, is founded...

The Men Who LedTheodore RooseveltHe was born gasping for breath and died in his sleep as the most consequential president between Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt. In the sixty years between, Theodore Roosevelt remade himself, his office, and his country, by force of will, by force of argument, and when necessary, by force.This is the full biography of that life: the sickly boy who built his body in a Midtown gymnasium; the Harvard na...

How did we make reliable predictions before Pascal and Fermat's discovery of the mathematics of probability in 1654? What methods in law, science, commerce, philosophy, and logic helped us to get at the truth in cases where certainty was not attainable? In The Science of Conjecture, James Franklin examines how judges, witch inquisitors, and juries evaluated evidence; how scientists weighed reasons for and against scientific theories; and how merchants counted shipwrecks to determi...

In Sumptuously Soulful Coaching Pie, author and Certified Master Life Coach, James Franklin takes us on a magnetising and equally enlightening journey into the world of profoundly positive and permanent change that can occur through high-end transformational coaching.Sumptuously Soulful Coaching Pie is a guiding star for coaches and healers who want to go from achieving minor transitions with their clients, all the way through to profoundly positive transformation.By the en...

The Art of Effective Learning is your practical guide to mastering the skills that truly build academic success. In this audiobook, James Franklin simplifies the science of learning into clear, actionable steps that any student can apply—whether preparing for exams, upgrading professional skills, or exploring personal interests.Through relatable examples, proven techniques, and motivating insights, you’ll learn how to study smarter, stay focused, improve memory, build discipline, and overc...

To scientists, the tsunami of relativism, scepticism, and postmodernism that washed through the humanities in the twentieth century was all water off a duck’s back. Science remained committed to objectivity and continued to deliver remarkable discoveries and improvements in technology.In What Science Knows, the Australian philosopher and mathematician James Franklin explains in captivating and straightforward prose how science works its magic. He begins with an account of the natur...

First published in 1972. This is Volume four of a collection of ten source books on Haiti and looks at the present state of its agriculture, economics, laws, religion and details of its inhabitants as in 1842. Franklin was a frequent visitor to the West Indies and sook to understand the Haitian experience of independence in order to assess the probable impact of emancipation in the Anglophone Caribbean.

"How We Are Fed: A Geographical Reader" by James Franklin Chamberlain explores the intricate relationship between geography and food production. The book delves into how various geographical factors influence agricultural practices, food distribution, and dietary habits across different cultures. Chamberlain presents a comprehensive analysis of the interplay between the environment and human sustenance, highlighting the significance of local resources and climate in shaping food systems. T...