Muhammad was born in 570 CE, and over the following sixty years built a thriving spiritual community, laying the foundations of a religion that changed the course of world history. There is more historical data on his life than on that of the...
Contemporary photographs never seen outside Scotland Yard are featured in this guide to some of the most incredible murders ever committed
New Scotland Yard, the headquarters of London's Metropolitan Police, houses the notorious Black Museum, a...
What goes on in human beings when they make or listen to music? What is it about music, what gives it such peculiar power over us, power delectable and beneficent for the most part, but also capable of uncontrollable and sometimes destructive force?...
„Mūsiškiai“ – knyga apie žudikus ir nužudytuosius. Apie lietuvius ir žydus. Apie tai, kas įvyko prieš 75 metus su mūsiškiais mūsų, Lietuvos, žemėje. Knyga pagrįsta Lietuvos istorikų įžvalgomis, žudikų išpažintimis,...
My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M. E. Braddon, F. W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R. M. Ballantyne,...
People have been getting naked in public for reasons other than sex for centuries. But as novelist and narrative journalist Mark Haskell Smith shows in Naked at Lunch, being a nudist is more complicated than simply dropping trou. "Nonsexual social...
(A 101-page True Crime Short with photographs) He was on the football and wrestling teams in high school — a giant of a man, a US Army veteran and a college student who dreamed of the day when he would become a teacher. He also had a deep sexual...
From acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin, and with an introduction by Karen Joy Fowler, a collection of thoughts—always adroit, often acerbic—on aging, belief, the state of literature, and the state of the nation.
Ursula K. Le Guin has taken...