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Breathing

An Inspired History

by Edgar Williams ...

Our knowledge of breathing has shaped our social history, and philosophical beliefs since prehistory. Breathing occupied a spiritual status to the Ancients, while today it is central to the practice of many forms of meditation, like Yoga. Over time physicians ,scientists and engineers have pieced together the intricate biological mechanisms of breathing to devise ever more sophisticated devices to ... Read more

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Our knowledge of breathing has shaped our social history, and philosophical beliefs since prehistory. Breathing occupied a spiritual status to the Ancients, while today it is central to the practice of many forms of meditation, like Yoga. Over time physicians ,scientists and engineers have pieced together the intricate biological mechanisms of breathing to devise ever more sophisticated devices to
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Giraffe

by Edgar Williams ...

Series Book 38 - Animal
Everything about a giraffe – its extraordinary long neck, distinctive camouflage, graceful movement and friendly nature – is instantly recognizable. Consequently the giraffe has fascinated man throughout its history, with its quiet and lofty stance representing in the human psyche virtue, peace and harmony. But while giraffe once roamed the Great Plains of Africa in huge herds, their numbers have ... Read more

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Everything about a giraffe – its extraordinary long neck, distinctive camouflage, graceful movement and friendly nature – is instantly recognizable. Consequently the giraffe has fascinated man throughout its history, with its quiet and lofty stance representing in the human psyche virtue, peace and harmony. But while giraffe once roamed the Great Plains of Africa in huge herds, their numbers have
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Slow Fall

by Edgar Williams ...

Slow Fall is a mystery in The Wekiwa County series. Set in the pre-Disney torpor of rural central Florida, it tells the story of an ex-Miami-cop who returns to his small-town Florida home to bury his father, an apparent suicide. Troubled by the circumstances of his father's death, he is drawn into a maelstrom of intrigue involving televangelists, drug runners, and corruption. A secret past ... Read more

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Slow Fall is a mystery in The Wekiwa County series. Set in the pre-Disney torpor of rural central Florida, it tells the story of an ex-Miami-cop who returns to his small-town Florida home to bury his father, an apparent suicide. Troubled by the circumstances of his father's death, he is drawn into a maelstrom of intrigue involving televangelists, drug runners, and corruption. A secret past
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Hippopotamus

by Edgar Williams ...

Series Book 82 - Animal
Hippos are well-loved, cumbersome, rotund mammals famous for lounging around semi-submerged in muddy pools. Gregarious herbivores, they emerge after dusk from the water into the cool night air to graze on grass and plants before returning to the water at sunrise. They have huge mouths adapted for grazing as well as large, sharp tusks and jaws powerful enough to bite through crocodiles, small boats ... Read more

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Hippos are well-loved, cumbersome, rotund mammals famous for lounging around semi-submerged in muddy pools. Gregarious herbivores, they emerge after dusk from the water into the cool night air to graze on grass and plants before returning to the water at sunrise. They have huge mouths adapted for grazing as well as large, sharp tusks and jaws powerful enough to bite through crocodiles, small boats
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Ostrich

by Edgar Williams ...

Series Book 54 - Animal
In many senses the ostrich looms large – the tallest and heaviest of any living bird, a fully grown North African ostrich can reach 2.75 metres (9 feet) in height and weigh almost 160 kgs (350 pounds). It also lays the largest egg of any living bird. From its eggs to its meat, skin and feathers, the ostrich has been exploited by humans since history began.Edgar Williams has provided a singular, ... Read more

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In many senses the ostrich looms large – the tallest and heaviest of any living bird, a fully grown North African ostrich can reach 2.75 metres (9 feet) in height and weigh almost 160 kgs (350 pounds). It also lays the largest egg of any living bird. From its eggs to its meat, skin and feathers, the ostrich has been exploited by humans since history began.Edgar Williams has provided a singular,
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Moon

Nature and Culture

by Edgar Williams ...

Series series Earth
Since humans first gazed upward, the moon has hung in the sky virtually unchanged, entrancing generations of poets, artists and scientists. Once worshipped as a deity, often thought to cause madness, now known to manipulate our tides and much else besides, humanity’s relationship with the moon has been ever-changing; the one constant has been our continued fascination with it. Moon gives a ... Read more

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Since humans first gazed upward, the moon has hung in the sky virtually unchanged, entrancing generations of poets, artists and scientists. Once worshipped as a deity, often thought to cause madness, now known to manipulate our tides and much else besides, humanity’s relationship with the moon has been ever-changing; the one constant has been our continued fascination with it. Moon gives a
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The Fall of the House of Usher and other tales of mystery and imagination

The Fall of the House of Usher The Pit and the Pendulum Ligeia The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar The Tell-Tale Heart The Black Cat The Masque of the Red Death The Cask of Amontillado The Premature Burial

by Edgar Allan Poe ...

Narrated by William Roberts ...

Unabridged

4 hours 52 min

The horrors of the Spanish Inquisition, with its dungeon of death, and the overhanging gloom on the House of Usher demonstrate unforgettably the unique imagination of Edgar Allan Poe. Unerringly, he touches upon some of our greatest nightmares premature burial, ghostly transformation and words from beyond the grave. Written in the 1840s, they have retained their power to shock and frighten even ... Read more

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The horrors of the Spanish Inquisition, with its dungeon of death, and the overhanging gloom on the House of Usher demonstrate unforgettably the unique imagination of Edgar Allan Poe. Unerringly, he touches upon some of our greatest nightmares premature burial, ghostly transformation and words from beyond the grave. Written in the 1840s, they have retained their power to shock and frighten even
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Harvard Classics Volume 42

English Poetry 3: Tennyson To Whitman

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Golden Deer Classics, Richard Monckton Milnes, William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Kingsley, J. Wilson, Robert Browning, Emily Brontë, Robert Stephen Hawker, Coventry Patmore, William (Johnson) Cory, Sydney Dobell, William Allingham, George Mac Donald, Edward, Earl of Lytton, Arthur Hugh Clough, Matthew Arnold, George Meredith, Alexander Smith, Charles Dickens, Thomas Edward Brown, James Thomson (B. V.), Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Georgina Rossetti, William Morris, John Boyle O'Reilly, Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy, Robert Williams Buchanan, Algernon Charles Swinburne, William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Cullen Bryant, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, Sidney Lanier, Bret Harte, Walt Whitman ...

Series Book 42 - Harvard Classics
Contents: 1. Use Preview To See Table of Contents Inside Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard Classic Shelf Of Fiction) 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die (Golden Deer Classics) ... Read more

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Contents: 1. Use Preview To See Table of Contents Inside Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard Classic Shelf Of Fiction) 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die (Golden Deer Classics)
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Poe Vol. 4

by Edgar Allan Poe ...

Narrated by Jason William Bayless ...

Unabridged

1 hour 42 min

This edition contains four short stories: Berenice, The Premature Burial, The Angel of the Odd, and The Sphinx.Edgar Allan Poe is a giant of American literature and a master of the macabre, as proven in these four classic short stories. These innovative and evocative works are just a few of Poe's writings that helped define the gothic and horror genres in the 19th century. ... Read more

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This edition contains four short stories: Berenice, The Premature Burial, The Angel of the Odd, and The Sphinx.Edgar Allan Poe is a giant of American literature and a master of the macabre, as proven in these four classic short stories. These innovative and evocative works are just a few of Poe's writings that helped define the gothic and horror genres in the 19th century.
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Classic Tales of Horror

A Collection of the Greatest Horror Tales of All-Time: At the Mountains of Madness, Carmilla, The Great God Pan, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Invisible Man, The Lair of the White Worm, The Masque of the Red Death, The Vampyre

by H. P. Lovecraft, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Arthur Machen, Victor Hugo, H. G. Wells, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, John William Polidori ...

Series Book 2 - Classic Tales of Horror
Ranging from the macabre to the supernatural, the collection of stories found in Classic Tales of Horror contains some of the most influential horror and dark fiction books of all-time.Included in this classic horror anthology are:At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. LovecraftThe Lair of the White Worm by Bram StokerCarmilla by J. Sheridan LeFanuThe Great God Pan by Arthur MachenT... ... Read more

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Ranging from the macabre to the supernatural, the collection of stories found in Classic Tales of Horror contains some of the most influential horror and dark fiction books of all-time.Included in this classic horror anthology are:At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. LovecraftThe Lair of the White Worm by Bram StokerCarmilla by J. Sheridan LeFanuThe Great God Pan by Arthur MachenT...
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Halloween and Horror Stories

by H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, William Black ...

Narrated by Various ...

Unabridged

2 hours 16 min

Unlock a haunting collection of eerie stories with this digital audio version of "Halloween and Horror Stories". Dive into the minds of literary legends as you explore the dark and mysterious worlds they crafted.This audio collection includes:"The Alchemist" by H.P. Lovecraft – An early tale of ancient curses, alchemy, and vengeance that only Lovecraft can weave."A Halloween Wraith" by William ... Read more

$4.99 USD

Unlock a haunting collection of eerie stories with this digital audio version of "Halloween and Horror Stories". Dive into the minds of literary legends as you explore the dark and mysterious worlds they crafted.This audio collection includes:"The Alchemist" by H.P. Lovecraft – An early tale of ancient curses, alchemy, and vengeance that only Lovecraft can weave."A Halloween Wraith" by William
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10 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die, Vol. 3

The Pit and the Pendulum, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, At the Mountains of Madness, Frankenstein, No Longer Human. Confessions of a Faulty Man

by Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Robert Louis Stevenson, H. P. Lovecraft, Jack London, Mary W. Shelley, Osamu Dazai, Nathaniel Hawthorne ...

This book contains the following works:Edgar Allan Poe: The Pit and the PendulumWilliam Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's DreamFrances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret GardenFyodor Dostoevsky: The Dream of a Ridiculous ManRobert Louis Stevenson: Treasure IslandH.P. Lovecraft: At the Mountains of MadnessJack London: The Call of the WildMary W. Shelley: Frankenstein, or The Modern PrometheusOsamu Dazai: N ... Read more

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This book contains the following works:Edgar Allan Poe: The Pit and the PendulumWilliam Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's DreamFrances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret GardenFyodor Dostoevsky: The Dream of a Ridiculous ManRobert Louis Stevenson: Treasure IslandH.P. Lovecraft: At the Mountains of MadnessJack London: The Call of the WildMary W. Shelley: Frankenstein, or The Modern PrometheusOsamu Dazai: N
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