The author of The Professor and the Madman recounts his experiences traveling to Diego Garcia, Tristan, Gibraltar, Ascension Island, St. Helena, Hong Kong, Bermuda, the British West Indies, the Falklands, and Pitcairn Island, all remnants of the vast British Empire. Reprint.[...]

The pseudanonymous author offers a real-life account of the dark and violent history of the Necronomicon, an unholy book of the occult once believed to be only a work of fiction, detailing its origins in the Middle East, its role in some of the pivotal events of the twentieth century, and the danger[...]

A comprehensive companion to and tutorial in the original occult text of the Necronomicon examines the rituals, spells, teachings, and forbidden knowledge of the volume and furnishes an astrological history and workbook designed to help students master the spells in the volume. Original.[...]

A story that spans the millennia and the continents - from India to Andalusia and from the bazaars of Cairo to the streets of Oxford. It takes you to unimagined places: to a Jewish kingdom in the mountains of southern Arabia; a Syrian synagogue glowing with radiant wall paintings; and, the palm grov[...]

The Political System of the European Union sets out an innovative way of analyzing, researching and teaching the European Union. Starting from the observation that the EU now possesses many of the attributes of modern political systems, Hix and Hoyland argue that we should use the general theories o[...]

The main purpose of this book is to examine the impact of the 'postmodern turn' on the contemporary social sciences. Here, the 'postmodern turn' is conceived of as a paradigmatic shift from the Enlightenment belief in the relative determinacy of both the natural world and the social world to the - [...]

Poststructuralists hold Hegel responsible for giving rise to many of modern philosophy's problematic concepts -- the authority of reason, self-consciousness, the knowing subject. Yet, according to Simon Lumsden, this animosity is rooted in a fundamental misunderstanding of Hegel's thought, and resol[...]

One of the major tasks facing researchers, practitioners, and funders is the development of empirical tools to measure the inherent worth of nonprofit organizations as well as the sector as a whole. Renowned scholars present chapters on the state of the art of performance measurement in the nonprofi[...]