A rarely seen collection of archival postcards, drawings, & photographs documenting London`s great cemeteries. Since they were established in the 1830s, London`s great cemeteries have inspired countless artists & photographers to record their quiet beauty & solemn majesty. Not just resting places for the city`s honoured dead, they also serve as great repositories of social, architectural, & geographic history, reflecting our changing attitudes to the great inevitable. Featuring over 170 images, along with comprehensive notes, The Honoured Dead presents a rarely seen collection of archival postcards, drawings, & photographs gathered over many years by author & former funeral director Brian Parsons. As well as the celebrated ” Magnificent Seven” necropolises-Highgate, Kensal Green, West Norwood, Abney Park, Nunhead, Brompton, & Tower Hamlets-the book also documents cemeteries & burial sites throughout Greater London & its environs, some of them now themselves buried by time. Providing a unique perspective on London`s past, & its shifting visual representation, The Honoured Dead is a collection to be remembered with flowers. ...

The Honoured Society describes how the US army returned the Mafia to power in 1944, after Mussolini came close to destroying them. It looks at the Mafia in their homeland
- how in attempting to preserve Sicily for the Sicilians in the face of countless invasions it infiltrated every aspect of the island`s life, corrupting landowners, the police, the judiciary & even the church. In one chilling chapter Norman Lewis details the escapades of eighty-year-old Padre Camelo, who led his monks on sprees of murder & extortion, frequently using the confessional box for transmitting threats.
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Vividly & beautifully told, often deeply shocking, The Honoured Society is the true story of one woman`s personal journey to the dark heart of the Mafia. In 1979, having been fascinated by Coppola`s masterpiece The Godfather, twenty-year-old Petra Reski jumped into her car & drove from her home in Germany to the Mafia-stronghold of Sicily; she wanted to see for herself the stark truth behind the glamorous fiction. In 2007, six Mafioso were shot dead outside a pizzeria in the North German town of Duisburg; in thirty years, the influence & violence of organised crime had only grown, but now Reski would be called to report on the scene as one of the world`s foremost Mafia experts. In The Honoured Society, Petra Reski exposes just how far Italy`s mafias permeate everyday life across Europe. Through her firsthand accounts of meeting crooked priests & heroic victims, wet-eyed wives & murderous husbands, she also tells the human stories &, too often, the human costs, of the Mafia`s ongoing bloody war. ...

The Hope is the new State of Israel, & its servants include Zev Barak, a young army officer who rises to become military attache in Washington; Sam Pasternak, arms procurer & master of shuttle diplomacy who heads up military intelligence; Benny Luria, fighter pilot whose finest hour comes over Sinai; Yael, the girl soldier with a penchant for powerful men; Nakhama, the beautiful Moroccan immigrant wife & mother; Kishote, the man with a charmed life who leads an armoured brigade through the desert; &, in America, there is the remarkable Virginia headmistress Emily, whose father is in the CIA. The towering story of modern Israel from Independence to the triumph of the Six-Day War is told through the bittersweet agonies of these people, who between them help create the Hope. ...

Emmy award-winning actor Barbara Williams opens up about her brutal yet often beautiful childhood in a British Columbian logging town, from her brother`s suicide to her mother`s poverty. The family moved more than 27 times, & mental illness, substance abuse & injustice followed wherever they went. They lived a hard small-town life & suffered, but Williams always hoped for a better life. It`s a miracle she survived to bring us these stories. In doing so, she proves there is one thing that can survive the worst of life & even death: love without judgment. ...

The Horologicon (or book of hours) gives you the most extraordinary words in the English language, arranged according to the hour of the day when you really need them. Do you wake up feeling rough? Then you`re philogrobolized. Pretending to work? That`s fudgelling, which may lead to rizzling if you feel sleepy after lunch, though by dinner time you will have become a sparkling deipnosophist. From Mark Forsyth, author of the bestselling The Etymologicon, this is a book of weird words for familiar situations. From ante-jentacular to snudge by way of quafftide & wamblecropt, at last you can say, with utter accuracy, exactly what you mean. ...

THE HORRIBLE HISTORY OF THE WORLD presents the foul but fascinating story of humans from brain-nibbling Neanderthals to terrified teenage soldiers in the twentieth century. Readers can discover why Alexander the Great banned beards, what smelly sport was played by samurai warriors & who tried to bump off her enemies with a cake made with poisoned bath-water. It's all you ever need to know about the wicked world
- all the gore & more!
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What happens to a vampire when he dies? How does somebody become a werewolf? How can you protect yourself from witches? All of these questions & more are answered in this book, which will finally give you all the information you ever wanted to know about ghosts, zombies, monsters & all kinds of creepy-crawly creatures that give us the heebie-jeebies. Full of tips, anecdotes & trivia
- & delightfully illustrated by Axel Scheffler
- Paul van Loon`s Horror Handbook is a fun andfascinating reference book for all fans of scary stories & things that go bump in the night.

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A fascinating examination of ethics, religion & psychology, this selection of Schopenhauer`s works contains scathing attack on the nature & logic of religion, & an essay on ethics that ranges from the American slavery debate to the vices of Buddhism. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves
- & each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war & revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked & comforted. They have enriched lives
- & destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals & visionaries whose ideas shook civilization & helped make us who we are.

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When their son Rowan was born, Rupert & Kristin's dream had come true. But the dream became a nightmare when their beautiful boy developed a disorder that left him incapable of communication, tormented by raging fits, requiring 24-hour care
- & shattering their lives. Then, one day, father & son were walking in the woods near their house & stumbled across their neighbour's old brown horse, Betsy. What happened next was unlike anything Rupert had ever seen. Certainly, the effect on Betsy was extraordinary: she went stock-still & bowed her head, wide-eyed & quivering before the child. But when Rupert lifted Rowan onto Betsy's back, the effect on his son was nothing short of miraculous: Rowan started to speak... Shaken but exhilarated, Rupert proposed that the family make a journey to the ancient homeland of the horse, deep in the wilds of Mongolia, where he'd heard astonishing stories of healing & transformation. So began an epic journey on horseback, from their home in Texas to the furthest reaches of the planet
- a journey that would test their love, challenge their beliefs, & change their lives.

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