One of the most prominent Soviet Arctic scientists of the 1920s and 1930s, Mikhail Mikhailovich Ermolaev was a geologist, physicist, and oceanographer. After working in the Arctic for some thirteen years, he was arrested by the NKVD, convicted on a trumped-up charge of 'sabotage', and sent to the Gu[...]

This is the story of the iconic Texan figure name Juanita Slusher, a.k.a Candy Barr. She was once a notorious burlesque dancer known for her athletic choreography and live music accompaniment, commanding as much as $2,000 a week in 1950s Vegas. But growing up as Juanita, her troubled life began when[...]

With 13 , Nevada Barr, New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning Anna Pigeon novels, has written a taut and terrifying psychological thriller. It carries the reader from horrifying 1970s murder spree of a child-dubbed Butcher Boy by a shocked public- in Rochester, Minnesota, to Polly, t[...]

In the Galactic Civil War, Luke Skywalker was not the only hero to hail from Tatooine. Luke''s story has been told time and again, but what about the journeys of his boyhood friends, Biggs Darklighter and Janek "Tank" Sunber? Two very different paths led them both to be heroes in their own right: on[...]

"Star Trek's" many movie adaptations are collected together for the first time in this "Star Trek Movie Omnibus". Included are the three-part "Star Trek: The Motion Picture", the one-shots "Star Trek: The Search for Spock", "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home", "Star Trek: The Final Frontier", and "Star [...]

Blood, Money, & Power exposes the secret, high-level conspiracy in Texas that led to President John F. Kennedy s death and the succession of Lyndon B. Johnson as president in 1963. Attorney Barr McClellan, a former member of L.B.J. s legal team, uses hundreds of newly released documents, including i[...]

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Vertigo (1958) is widely regarded as not only one of Hitchcock's best films, but one of the greatest films of world cinema. Made at the time when the old studio system was breaking up, it functions both as an embodiment of the supremely seductive visual pleasures that 'classical Hollywood' could off[...]

At first, nothing lived on Earth. It was a noisy, hot, scary place. Choking gas exploded from volcanoes and oceans of lava bubbled around the globe...Then in the deep, dark ocean, something amazing happened. This is an exciting and dramatic story about how life began and developed on Planet Earth, w[...]

Describes the craft of building as practised before the second world war, prior to the introduction of modern materials and building techniques. This book includes: the author's drawings to illustrate the text; material on traditional craft practice - useful for undertaking repairs; and explanations[...]

In the "Silver Age of Comics", space was the place, and this book summarizes, critiques and lovingly recalls the classic "DC Comics" science-fiction series edited by Julius Schwartz and written by Gardner Fox and John Broome! The pages of "DC's" science-fiction magazines of the 1960s, "Strange Adven[...]