A fascinating history of our most common illness, written by a leading immunologist.The tickle in the back of your throat; the cough that won’t let you sleep; the stuffy nose and the constant need to sneeze – these symptoms are sadly all too familiar. Having a cold is so common in our day-to-day experience that we tend to see it as an inevitable inconvenience, rather than an illness that we should do something about.But despite its persistence in our lives, the common col...

Focusing on the British Isles, the author explores a period of huge societal change the Neolithic, or New Stone Age through the most iconic artifact of its time: the polished stone axe, using his own ancient stone axe-head, given to him by a local quarry worker, as a guide to the revolution that changed the world. These formidable creations were not only crucial tools that enabled the first farmers to clear the forests, but also objects of great symbolic importance, signifying status and p...

An in-depth cultural and archaeological history of one of England's great ancient monuments: the White Horse at Uffington.

The Classic Collection of William Shakespeare invites listeners on an immersive journey through the timeless power of language, love, betrayal, ambition, and imagination. This curated selection of Shakespeare's greatest plays—including Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, and A Midsummer Night's Dream—captures the full spectrum of the human experience in words that still breathe fire centuries later.Presented in rich, cl...

Gothic Horror is one of the oldest of the horror genres. Darker, edgier and on the Romanticism end of Romanticism. In addition to being important to the horror genre, the first scifi, fantasy, romance, mystery, and adventure authors drew inspiration from Gothic horror, so it's sometimes considered the parent of all modern genre fiction. Content: Mary Shelley: Frankenstein Bram Stoker: Dracula The Judge's House Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray Robert Louis Stevenson: The Strange Case...

This selection includes tales:The Gold-BugThe Murders in the Rue MorgueThe Fall of the Huse of UsherThe Masque of the Red DeathThe Pit and the PendulumThe Tell-Tale HeartThe Black CatThe Cask of AmontilladoHop-FrogThe Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar

This book contains the following works: 1. The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe 2. The War of the Worlds by Herbert George Wells 3. The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 4. Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky 5. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 6. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle 7. Animal Farm by George Orwell 8. The Call of Cthulhu by Howard Phillips Lovecraft 9.The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving 10. The Great Gatsb...

"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. It has been described as the first modern detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of ratiocination". C. Auguste Dupin is a man in Paris who solves the mystery of the brutal murder of two women.

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays. Today, the title characters are regarded as archetypal young lovers.Romeo and Juliet had a profound influence on subsequent literature. Before then, romance had not even been ...

"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1843. It follows an unnamed narrator who insists on his sanity after murdering an old man with a "vulture eye". The murder is carefully calculated, and the murderer hides the body by cutting it into pieces and hiding it under the floorboards. Ultimately the narrator's guilt manifests itself in the hallucination that the man's heart is still beating under the floorboards.The story was first published in Jame...

This selection includes Tales and Poems:TalesThe Murders in the Rue MorgueThe Gold-BugThe Black CatThe Pit and the PendulumThe Tell-Tale HeartThe Fall of the House of UsherThe Masque of the Red DeathThe Cask of AmontilladoThe Facts in the Case of M. ValdemarHop-FrogLigeiaMorellaThe Oval PortretPoemsThe RavenAl AaraafAnnabel LeeThe BellsThe City in the ...

Reformulating a problem of both constitutionalism and liberalism discussed in the works of Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, Hannah Arendt, and Alexis de Tocqueville, the book examines one generally overlooked manifestation of constitutionalism: the role of the courts in shaping democratic politics and the inter-relationship between citizens and state.Drawing on constitutional history, law, and political theory, David Miles argues that constitutionalism cannot be seen merely as an instit...