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  • The Greatest Adventure

    by John Taine ...
    THEY FOUND A LOST WORLD OF WEIRD MONSTERS. When a sea captain brought a baby dinosaur to the home of a wealthy, brilliant scientist, it triggered off an expedition that well deserves the title of THE GREATEST ADVENTURE. For the trail of that little creature led straight into the unexplored, quake-shaken Antarctic to a lost world overrun with the monsters of an evolution gone wild! In every way a ... Read more

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  • Seeds of Life

    by John Taine ...
    Seeds of Life is a variation on the Jekyll and Hyde theme. A technical assistant is zapped by radiation in a laboratory and is transformed into genius. Initially, the genius builds incredible devices that make millions of dollars. But the genius goes to the Dark Side and his evil threatens to unleash new horrors on the United States. ... Read more

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  • The Purple Sapphire

    by John Taine ...
    To the rim of Earth's last frontier they fought, a man and a girl who held the sole key to a long dead civilization — the key that might let it live again across the centuries! ... Read more

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  • Green Fire

    by John Taine ...
    In the hallowed, humming chambers of a private New York laboratory, renowned physicist James Ferguson collapses under the assault of a silent, crackling green spark. The eerie discharge, the precise hue of the forbidden nebulium line, leaves him visibly aged and cognitively scrambled. His brilliant daughter Vera, a capable scientist herself, experiences the flash's bizarre, alien intelligence—a ... Read more

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  • The Greatest Adventure

    by John Taine ...
    Series series MIT Press / Radium Age
    A scientifically-precipitated, out-of-control tale of evolution set in Antarctica—it predates Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness—by a mathematician of note who also wrote science fiction.In The Greatest Adventure, an expedition to Antarctica discovers remnants of an elder race with advanced technology. These ancients had discovered the secret of developing new life-forms . . . but when the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Seeds of Life

    by John Taine ...
    Dr Andrew Crane is a researcher at the Erickson Foundation for Electrical Research in Seattle, aided by "his technical assistant, the stocky Neils Bork". Bork has a drinking problem, and is difficult to deal with, none of which prevents his mysterious physical and mental transformation into a new being, with new abilities and a new name: Miguel De Soto!"His best work shows an admirable imaginative ... Read more

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  • The Purple Sapphire

    by John Taine, Eric Temple Bell ...
    Eric Temple Bell in 1924, published The Purple Sapphire, his first novel. Bell adopted the pseudonym of John Taine for all of his fictional work while continuing to write non-fiction under his own name. In the field of mathematics, Bell polynomials and Bell numbers of combinatorics are named in his honour and in 1924 he was awarded the Bocher Memorial Prize for his work in mathematical analysis ... Read more

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  • Black Cat Weekly #95

    by Robert Lopresti, Simon Wood, A. R. Morlan, Fritz Leiber, Hal Charles, Hulbert Footner, R. Austin Freeman, Seabury Quinn, Alfred Coppel, John Taine ...
    Our 95th issue has a lot of fun stuff—starting off with a pair of original mysteries by Robert Lopresti and Mindy Quigley (thanks to Acquiring Editors Michael Bracken an Barb Goffman). Also on the mystery side, we have a pair of classic novels by Hulbert Footner R. Austin Freeman, plus a solve-it-yourself puzzler from Hal Charles.On the fantastic side of things, A.R. Morlan has a modern tale of ... Read more

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  • The Philosophy of Art

    by Hippolyte Taine ...
    Translated by John Durand ...
    This insightful work explains what art represents and how to judge a good piece of art. With discussion on art, philosophy, history, and psychology, Hippolyte Taine developed the notion of understanding art through the historical circumstances during its creation. In addition, Taine talks about literature and the qualities that make a text a gem. The book comprises an application of the ... Read more

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  • The Ancient Regime

    Enriched edition. Unveiling the Societal Structures of Pre-Revolutionary France: A Historical Analysis

    by Hippolyte Taine, Desmond Everly ...
    Translated by John Durand ...
    In "The Ancient Regime," Hippolyte Taine presents a meticulous exploration of French society and culture leading up to the Revolution of 1789. Taine's literary style is characterized by a rich, analytical prose that fuses rigorous historical detail with philosophical insight. He deftly employs a sociological lens to dissect the complexities of the ancien régime, illuminating the interconnectedness ... Read more

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  • The French Revolution - Volume 1

    by John Durand, Hippolyte Taine, Svend Rom ...
    This second part of “Les Origines de la France Contemporaine” will consist of two volumes. — Popular insurrections and the laws of the Constituent Assembly end in destroying all government in France; this forms the subject of the present volume. — A party arises around an extreme doctrine, grabs control of the government, and rules in conformity with its doctrine. This will form the subject of the ... Read more

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  • The Philosophy of Art

    Enriched edition. A 19th-Century Inquiry into Aesthetics, Culture, Society, and the Forces Shaping Artistic Expression

    by Hippolyte Taine ...
    Translated by John Durand ...
    In "The Philosophy of Art," Hippolyte Taine undertakes a meticulous exploration of the nature and purpose of art through the lens of philosophy and historical context. Taine engages with the societal influences on artistic expression, melding aesthetic theory with a nuanced understanding of cultural evolution. His literary style is characterized by analytical rigor and literary eloquence, placing ... Read more

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