Biblical Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction
10 best books like Biblical Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction (Eric H. Cline): Carmilla, The Quantum Magician, Orange World and Other Stories, 100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories, Arctic-Nation, The Early History of God: Yahweh and the Other Deities in Ancient Israel, The Greeks and the Irrational, The Home Front: Life in America During World War II, Body Of Proof, Folklore in the Old Testament: Studies in Comparative Religion, Legend and Law
| Author | J. Sheridan Le Fanu |
| ISBN | 0809510839 |
Bloody relevant to read!
BEFORE DRACULA, THERE WAS...
But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together.
This is a very important book in historic sense, in the genre of vampire reading, due that it was published 25 years before than Dracula....
| Author | Derek Künsken |
| ISBN | 1781085706 |
Belisarius is a quantum man, an engineered Homo quantus who fled the powerful insight of dangerously addictive quantum senses. He found a precarious balance as a con man, but when a client offers him untold wealth to move a squadron of warships across an enemy wormhole, he must embrace his birthright...
Orange World and Other Stories
| Author | Karen Russell |
| ISBN | 1984892215 |
From the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases Karen Russell's extraordinary, irresistible gifts of language and imagination.
Karen Russell's...
100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
| ISBN | 0380507730 |
Contents include: The Science Fiction Blowgun by Isaac Asimov / A Loint of Paw by Isaac Asimov / The Advent on Channel Twelve by C. M. Kornbluth / Plaything by Larry Niven / The Misfortune Cookie by Charles E. Fritch / I Wish I May, I Wish I Might by Bill Pronzini / FTA by George R. R. Martin / Trace by Jerome Bixby...
| Author | Juan Díaz Canales |
| ISBN | 1596878185 |
This is the third in the Blacksad series I am reading, this one the second volume, though the order doesn't really seem to matter. Start anywhere. I liked the first one best, in part because the characters as animals approach was so well done, and it was so fresh for me; I liked the fourth volume less well....
Foreword by Patrick D. Miller
In this remarkable, acclaimed history of the development of monotheism, Mark S. Smith explains how Israel's religion evolved from a cult of Yahweh as a primary deity among many to a fully defined monotheistic faith with Yahweh as sole god. Repudiating the traditional...
| Author | E.R. Dodds |
| ISBN | 0520003276 |
In this philosophy classic, first published in 1951, E.R. Dodds takes on the traditional view of Greek culture as a triumph of rationalism. Using the analytical tools of modern anthropology & psychology, he asks, "Why should we attribute to the ancient Greeks an immunity from 'primitive' modes...
8 hrs and 12 mins
Free for a limited time. Narrated by award-winning actor Martin Sheen, The Home Front: Life in America During World War II takes listeners into the lives of Americans at home who supported the war effort and sustained the country during wartime. The war brought immediate, life-changing...
A woman disappeared. A man was convicted. Case closed?
Body of Proof, a true crime podcast, examines the many unanswered questions surrounding the disappearance and death of Suzanne Pilley in Edinburgh in 2010 and the subsequent conviction of David Gilroy. Journalists and TV producers...
Folklore in the Old Testament: Studies in Comparative Religion, Legend and Law
| Author | James George Frazer |
القراءة الأولى لنصوص فريزر العظيم، جزء واحد من ثلاثة أجزاء، وهو الكتاب الوحيد لفريز الذى وصل إلى يدىّ بعد جهد.
دراسة مقارنة بين أساطير العبريين التى صيغت...
Hellboy Omnibus Volume 1: Seed of Destruction
| Author | Mike Mignola |
| ISBN | 1506706665 |
The story jumps from Hellboy's mysterious World War II origin to his 1994 confrontation with the man who summoned him to earth, and the earliest signs of the plague of frogs. Avoiding his supposed fate as the herald of the end of the world, Hellboy continues with the Bureau for Paranormal Research and...
Защита от темных искусств. Путеводитель по миру паранормальных явлений
Наука и мистика. Чего и почему мы боимся и как в наших домах завелись домовые.
Новая книга от автора бестселлера "Сумма биотехнологии", получившего...
Carnival Row: Tangle in the Dark
Listening Length: 3 hours and 8 minutes
Tourmaline Larou lives an idyllic life of learning by day and partying by night. An aspiring poet, her future promises nothing less than brilliance.
Then, Vignette Stonemoss walks through the door, and Tourmaline’s world is upended.
As...
3.5 stars. A 1952 SF short story by the well-known classic SF author Philip K. Dick (Gutenberg freebie!).
In a distant future, a council of powerful men has lost patience with a pacifist movement (now embodied in a religion called the First Church), which they view as having led to the...
IT'S NOT A GAME ANYMORE...
In the real world, twenty-one-year-old library sciences student Tina Anderson is invisible and under-appreciated, but in the VR-game Forever Fantasy Online she's Roxxy—the respected leader and main tank of a top-tier raiding guild. Her brother, James Anderson,...
Bastion was supposed to mean safety. It was supposed to mean a break from fighting for their lives and a chance to talk to someone who might actually know what’s going on. Access to their gold and some beer would have been nice, too.
They got none of those things. When Tina and James arrive in the...
Computer Science: A Very Short Introduction
| Author | Subrata Dasgupta |
| ISBN | 0198733461 |
Over the past sixty years, the spectacular growth of the technologies associated with the computer is visible for all to see and experience. Yet, the science underpinning this technology is less visible and little understood outside the professional computer science community. As a scientific...
Viva Durant and The Secret of the Silver Buttons
Viva Durant, New Orleans’ youngest detective, is on a quest to solve a jazzy mystery involving hidden treasure, while exploring the city’s unique culture, history, and music. This family-friendly audio original features original jazz music from the creator, Ashli St. Armant, and an enthusiastic...
| Author | Lucy M. Long |
| ISBN | 1780237332 |
Whether drizzled into our tea or spread atop our terms of endearment, there’s one thing that is always true about honey: it is sweet. As Lucy M. Long shows in this book, while honey is definitely the natural sweetener par excellence, it has a long history in our world as much more, serving in different...
The vaunted power of the Mage’s College. Unbounded freedom among the Wolfmen. The best of both worlds.
Recent college grad Sam King was hoping for a backpacking trip across Europe as a graduation present. Instead he’s going to get a different kind of trip: a three-month stint in the ultimate...
| Author | Julius Wiedemann |
| ISBN | 3822838691 |
Imaginary worlds, impossible stairways, paradoxical hallways, enigmatic patterns, and mind-boggling graphics are the trademarks of M.C. Escher's artwork. His two-dimensional drawings bring to life a fourth dimension where the surfaces of things come together like a Mobius strip. The profoundly...
| Author | Peter F. Hamilton |
| ISBN | 0399178848 |
Humanity's complex relationship with technology spirals out of control in this first book of an all-new trilogy from "the owner of the most powerful imagination in science fiction" (Ken Follett).
In 2204, humanity is expanding into the wider galaxy in leaps and bounds. A new technology of...
| Author | Mike Mignola |
| ISBN | 1883313007 |
So this is an adaptation of a film based on a book. So this is kind of a weird book.
While I enjoyed the 1992 film (questionable accents from some actors aside), it's not one that I'd necessarily want to see adapted into a comic, it was only Mike Mignola's art that got this on my list. Of course the guy...
| Author | George R.R. Martin |
| ISBN | 0553285696 |
Sin dejar de lado la ficción especulativa y la creación de un universo paralelo en el que abundan los superhéroes y los supervillanos con poderes sorprendentes, este volumen de la extraordinaria serie se aproxima al thriller. La novela comienza un lunes de julio y se prolonga hasta la medianoche...
The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secret World of Sleep
| Author | Guy Leschziner |
| ISBN | 1250202701 |
For Dr. Guy Leschziner's patients, there is no rest for the weary in mind and body. Insomnia, narcolepsy, night terrors, sleep apnea, and sleepwalking are just a sampling of conditions afflicting sufferers who cannot sleep--and their experiences in trying are the stuff of nightmares. Demoniac hallucinations...
| Author | Juan Díaz Canales |
| ISBN | 1596878177 |
Meet John Blacksad, a cat in the shadows. Imagine New York as a city of criminal rats, jazz-playing gorillas and rhino thugs. Enter a mystery where the suspects have tails. Find out why comics' biggest names are wild about one of the freshest graphic novels in years—a 2005 Eisner and Harvey Award nominee....
| Author | George R.R. Martin |
| ISBN | 0553282530 |
Since a strange alien virus created the superhuman beings known as Aces and Jokers 40 years ago, they have struggled for respect and recognition. Now, they are key players in a presidential convention torn by hatred and dissent as assassins stalk the halls of the convention and one of the candidates...
The Elements of Expression: Putting Thoughts into Words
| Author | Arthur Plotnik |
| ISBN | 1936740141 |
More than ever in this completely updated edition, The Elements of Expression helps word users "light up the cosmos or the written page or the face across the table" as they seek the radiance of expressiveness—the vivid expression of thoughts, feelings, and observations.
Nothing kills...
| Author | Nicholas Sansbury Smith |
The seventh and never-before-published book in USA Today bestselling Nicholas Sansbury Smith's propulsive post-apocalyptic series about a soldier's mission to save the world.
An army advances...
In Europe, Master Sergeant Joe Fitzpatrick and Team Ghost return from a mission...
| Author | Anne Birrell |
| ISBN | 0292708793 |
Chinese myths were primarily a diffuse and fragmentary oral tradition, eventually preserved in writing only in a piecemeal fashion. Many classical texts are unavailable in translation, and the stories have been unknown to Western readers. Anne Birrell here introduces the general reader to a selection...
