From the bestselling author of Everything Bad is Good For You Steven Johnson's The Ghost Map vividly recreates Victorian London to show how huge populations live together how cities can kill
- & how they can save us Steven Johnson is one of today's most exciting writers about popular culture urban living & new technology In The Ghost Map he tells the story of the terrifying cholera epidemic that engulfed London in 1854 & the two unlikely heroes
- anesthetist Doctor John Snow & affable clergyman Reverend Henry Whitehead
- who defeated the disease through a combination of local knowledge scientific research & map-making In telling their extraordinary story Steven Johnson also explores a whole world of ideas & connections from urban terror to microbes ecosystems to the Great Stink cultural phenomena to street life 'A wonderful book' Mail on Sunday 'A thumping page-turner' Daily Telegraph ' Enthralling vivid & gripping' New Statesman ' Exhilarating' Spectator ' It is a rattling scientific mystery but in the hands of Steven Johnson it becomes something much richer a vast interconnected picture about urban & bacterial life it is difficult to do justice to the exuberance of Johnson's ideas' Scotland on Sunday Steven Johnson is the author of the acclaimed books Everything Bad is Good for You Mind Wide Open Where Good Ideas Come From Emergence & Interface Culture His writing appeared in the Guardian the New Yorker Nation & Harper's as well as the op-ed pages of The New York Times & the Wall Street Journal He is a Distinguished Writer In Residence at NYU's School Of Journalism & a Contributing Editor to Wired


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Someone is committing barbarous murders throughout Barcelona focusing on locations designed by renowned visionary architect Antoni Gaudi The police have no clues but a young woman is thrust into the investigation by a man resembling the late Gaudi himself led to the scenes of the crimes before they even occur… could be a precognizant ghost?A visual tour through the beautiful streets of Barcelona on a true edge-of-your-seat thriller written by El Torres & illustrated by Jesus Alonso both natives of the city Winner of several awards in Spain ...

Join Stitch Head a mad professor's forgotten creation as he steps out of the shadows into the adventure of an almost-lifetime The ghost of a villainous ne'er-do-well is haunting the corridors of Castle Grotteskew gunning for Stitch Head's heart & soul Certain that his heart once belonged to the vicious rogue Stitch Head's world is torn apart Will he surrender to the evil ghost & agree to do his bidding? ...

There&s a myth in Southern Ohio about an apparition that seeks to live again Taking place over 100 years The Ghost of Ohio follows the titular spectre as he tries to unravel the mystery of his own death & fights to return to the earthly plane Written by Black Veil Brides frontman Andy Biersack & tying into his second solo album of the same name The Ghost of Ohio is a gothic adventure for the ages ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Product Description Classic Will Hay comedy The outbreak of the Second World War results in the boys& school of St Michaels relocating to Dubain Castle on the Isle of Skye The new schoolmaster (Hay) scoffs at the legends of a ghostly piper which haunts the castle until two headmasters come to a grisly end Who will become the next victim of the phantom piper? Synopsis St Michael&s school is evacuated to Dunbain Castle on the Isle of Skye & the master (Will Hay) soon discovers that the place is haunted by the ghost of Mad Mc Kinnon ...

The classic ghost story from Penelope Lively one of the modern greats of British fiction for adults & children alike 256 pages Lively Penelope ...

1918 the closing months of the war Army psychiatrist William Rivers is increasingly concerned for the men who have been in his care
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Selected & Introduced by David Stuart Davies Traumatised by ghost stories in her youth Pulitzer Prize winning author Edith Wharton (1862 -1937) channelled her fear & obsession into creating a series of spine-tingling tales filled with spirits beyond the grave & other supernatural phenomena While claiming not to believe in ghosts paradoxically she did confess that she was frightened of them Wharton imbues this potent irrational & imaginative fear into her ghostly fiction to great effect In this unique collection of finely wrought tales Wharton demonstrates her mastery of the ghost story genre Amongst the many supernatural treats within these pages you will encounter a married farmer bewitched by a dead girl; a ghostly bell which saves a woman's reputation; the weird spectral eyes which terrorise the midnight hours of an elderly aesthete; the haunted man who receives letters from his dead wife; & the frightening power of a doppelganger which foreshadows a terrible tragedy Compelling rich & strange the ghost stories of Edith Wharton like vintage wine have matured & grown more potent with the passing years ...

Dot & Ryan's sneaky Halloween visit to a condemned tower leads to an exciting discovery but can curiosity save the bat in this quirky adventure story from Gillian Cross Particularly suitable for struggling reluctant or dyslexic readers aged 8 72 pages 11 Illustrations black & white Cross Gillian ...