English Lit 101

A guide to the greats in British litrature! From Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Charles Dickens’ Tiny Tim to Jane Austen’s Mr. Darcy and Shakespeare’s Juliet, British authors have created some of the most compelling characters in all of literature. But too often, textbooks reduce these vibrant voices to boring summaries that would put even an…

The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain

For deft plotting, riotous inventiveness, unforgettable characters, and language that brilliantly captures the lively rhythms of American speech, no American writer comes close to Mark Twain. This sparkling anthology covers the entire span of Twain’s inimitable yarn-spinning, from his early broad comedy to the biting satire of his later years. Every one of his sixty…

Necromanticism: Travelling to Meet the Dead, 1750-1860.

Westover P. Necromanticism is a study of literary pilgrimage: readers’ compulsion to visit literary homes, landscapes, and (especially) graves during the long Romantic period. The book draws on the histories of tourism and literary genres to highlight Romanticism’s recourse to the dead in its reading, writing, and canon-making practices. Introduction: Traveling to Meet the Dead…

Indre Viskontas – Brain Myths Exploded

Much of the layperson’s knowledge of the brain is predicated on a lack of understanding about this mysterious organ. To start building a more straightforward, accurate understanding of current breakthroughs in neuroscience, you have to start by shattering popular brain myths. Each of these 24 lectures takes as its focus a single powerful, prevalent brain…

The Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Sourcebook, Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition: A Guide to Healing, Recovery, and Growth

How millions of PTSD suffers learned to live without fear, pain, depression, and self-doubt The Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Sourcebook, Revised and Expanded Second Edition introduces survivors, loved ones, and helpers to the remarkable range of treatment alternatives and self-management techniques available today to break through the pain and realize recovery and growth. This updated edition incorporates all-new…

Recent Trends in Cardiovascular Risks

Salient features of the book: – All chapters are related to the advances in cardiovascular risks.; – Chapters are written by renowned authors globally. – Chapters are lucid and easy to understand. – Chapters are useful for clinicians, medical practitioners, researchers, teachers, and students. – Chapters include flow charts, diagrams, and tables for easy comprehension…