The dead are not like you and me. They don’t walk, or talk, sweat or laugh, breathe or cry because they are dead, pushing up daisies, no more. The undead are an abomination, a blight on the world, created using dark arts or even worse, forbidden or cursed science. DeadEd is the twice dead. A product of dark arts and cursed science. Surely such a creature should be the ultimate destruction, but he Is not. DeadEd has the body of Frankenstein and the blood of Dracula, and the desire to save h...

Between 1980 and 2011 author Michael Patterson made some forty week-long journeys by train through Europe. With camera at the ready and notebook or tape recorder in hand, he travelled each day, stopping off at places along the route. To reach the extremities of Scandinavia, Italy, Spain and Portugal on these no-fly trips Michael often travelled overnight by sleeping car and it is these journeys which are at the heart of this book. Utilising a splendid collection of images, Michael details ...

The Oxford Dictionary of Plays provides essential information on the best-known, best-loved, and most important plays in world theatre. Each entry includes details of the title, author, date of writing, date of first performance, genre, setting, and composition of cast; there is also a summary of the play's plot, and a brief commentary. Genres covered include: burlesque, comedy, farce, historical drama, kabuki, masque, melodrama, morality play, mystery play, No, romantic comedy, t...

This book celebrates the British railway station hotel. It focuses on those hotels built or acquired by the railway companies themselves rather than on the many railway or station hotels built by local entrepreneurs as speculative ventures up and down the country. It traces the success and failure of some of the early railway hotels but at its heart are those, such as Glasgow’s Central Hotel, the Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras or the Royal Victoria Hotel in Sheffield, which survived the...

First published in 1981, this book represents the first work in English to give a comprehensive account of the revolutionary developments in German theatre from the decline of Naturalism through the Expressionist upheaval to the political theatre of Piscator and Brecht. Early productions of Kaiser’s From Morning till Midnight and Toller’s Transfiguration are presented as examples of Expressionism. A thorough analysis of Piscator’s Hoppla, Such is Life! And Brecht...

First published in 1990. The book surveys of the development of German theatre from a market sideshow into an important element of cultural life and political expression. It examines Schiller as ‘theatre poet’ at Mannheim, Goethe’s work as director of the court theatre at Weimar, and then traces the rapid commercial decline that made it difficult for Kleist and impossible for Büchner to see their plays staged in their own lifetime. Four representative texts are analysed: Schiller’s The...

Since the opening of the Channel Tunnel and its associated high-speed lines, it is now possible to travel by train from London to Paris in about two hours. For many passengers, arrival at the Gare du Nord is their first experience of the French capital. Yet this great station is just one of seven surviving city centre termini, each one served by trains linking Paris with a different part of France. In words and pictures this book aims to chart the history of these Parisian landmarks, explo...

How to successfully navigate and prevent conflictFrom the publishers of the popular Strength Deployment Inventory, Have a Nice Conflict follows one man's fight to rescue his sinking career. Sales manager John Doyle would consider his career a success—he's his company's top revenue driver, and his take-charge attitude gets the job done. However, when he is passed over for promotion—again—after losing two direct reports, who cite his abrasive style as their ...

Love & Other Things is the first poetry by Michael Tavon. The young author shares his sentiments towards: love, life, death, and heartbreak.

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Ready to move beyond simple chatbots and build AI systems that actually work autonomously? This practical guide reveals how to create sophisticated multi-agent AI systems using Claude Code, giving you the competitive edge in the rapidly evolving world of AI development.Unlike generic AI tutorials, this book focuses specifically on Anthropic's Claude models and their unique advantages for building reliable, scalable agent systems...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Build Your MVP This Weekend: The Complete Claude Code Guide for Non-Technical FoundersStop waiting for a technical co-founder. Stop spending months learning to code. Your startup idea doesn't have to stay trapped in a notes file anymore.Claude Code has changed everything about who can build software.This practical guide shows non-technical founders, solopreneurs, and product managers exactly how to use Anthropic's Claude Co...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Turn One Developer Into a 16-Person AI Engineering TeamIn February 2026, sixteen autonomous AI agents built a complete C compiler in just 14 days. They wrote 100,000 lines of production code, compiled the Linux kernel and PostgreSQL, and managed their own Git workflows without human intervention. This wasn't a research experiment. It was proof that AI agent swarms can deliver enterprise-grade software faster than traditional development te...