Scientific and Horrific Stories

Scientific and Horrific StoriesScientific and Horrific Stories is a collection of short fiction by H. G. Wells. Despite his humble beginnings as the son of English servants, H. G. Wells would become one of the most revered writers of his day. His stories of adventure, utopia, and terror inspired such vastly different figures as Vladimir Nabokov, Winston Churchill, Jorge Luis Borges, and Sinclair Lewis. Many of his novels have been adapted for film, theater, radio, and television,

The focus of the original book was the injury to democratic governance that arises when three individuals-governor

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Mindfulness is now common throughout the West

Iannizzotto introduces and explains the working of the various macroeconomic models available for policymaking

On Anachronism argues that anachronism is basic to all literature and all history and further explores it in film and in music

Containing contributions by leading scholars

This chapter considers the key techniques for improving rice water productivity through enhanced irrigation practices aiming to reduce irrigation water use in rice cultivation

the pre-Indo-European linguistic landscape of Europe

While 97 percent of all American cities are smaller than 50

This first book-length study of the Cheng-Zhu School of Confucianism in the early Qing period explores the thought of Li Guangdi

W Hornung’s The Black Mask

doughnut-loving editor of the medieval Chinese koan collection