Meneer Beerta is het eerste deel van Het Bureau, een roman in zeven delen, die de menselijke verhoudingen op en rondom een wetenschappelijk instituut tussen de jaren 1957 ...
A novel of pagan terror from the author of The Ritual and The Reddening.
Disaster strikes quickly and without warning. What should have been a glorious weekend of kayak...
The definitive history of the Spanish Armada, lavishly illustrated and fully revised
In July 1588 the Spanish Armada sailed from Corunna to conquer England. Three weeks...
It’s about to get very dark.
Bram Stoker Award-winning author Laird Barron returns to the dark and dreadful with his fifth horror collection, which weaves sixteen weird...
Lucian Blaga (1895-1961) is judged by many to be Romania’s most original philosopher and greatest poet of the twentieth century. While scholars with access to his works in...
In 1628 the Dutch East India Company loaded the Batavia, the flagship of its fleet, with a king’s ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java; the ship ...
In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Illinois with her new husband, her parents, and eight siblings. Seven mont...
On February 1, 1929, Carl Panzram, the self-described “meanest man who ever lived”, stepped through the gates at the Leavenworth Penitentiary in Kansas. Upon entering the ...
Jest to opowieść o losach Beniamina, który wpada w sidła miłości i zostaje w zamku pogańskiej Aspazji, zapominając o rodzinie, ojczyźnie i całym świecie. Powieść Żmichowsk...
To a small English village, it is a vast organic presence, as ancient as time itself and seething with hidden life and forbidden legends...
To its victims, it is a name...
When European missionaries first arrived in India in the sixteenth century, they entered a world both fascinating and bewildering. Hinduism, as they saw it, was a pagan th...
Man-Devil: The Mind and Times of Bernard Mandeville, the Wickedest Man in Europe
John J. Callanan
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(0)A lively and provocative account of Bernard Mandeville and the work that scandalised and appalled his contemporaries—and made him one of the most influential thinkers of t...
Termeer, the narrator of A Posthumous Confession, is a twisted man and a troubled one. The emotionally stunted son of a cold, forbidding, and hypocritical father, Termeer ...
"The Muqaddimah," often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-centu...
Horror Movie meets the scope and emotion of Stephen King in this heart-pounding, magnetic tour de force about a woman pulled into a cult horror film that is determined to ...
A radical new explanation of how life and consciousness emerge from physics and chemistry.
As physicists work toward completing a theory of the universe and biologists ...
The best-selling author of the million-copy classic House of Leaves returns with a magisterial, page-turning epic, about two friends determined to rescue a pair of horses ...
<p>Zoonomia; or the Laws of Organic Life is a two-volume medical work by Erasmus Darwin dealing with pathology, anatomy, psychology, and the functioning of the body. Its p...