A Collection of Fairy Tales in Three Volumes selected and edited by Joseph Jacobs 1. Celtic Fairy Tales
2. English Fairy Tales
3. Indian Fairy Tales
Over a century ago, Jacobs collected and adapted many tales in his lifetime and made contributions to the field of fairy tale studies. These three volumes include the most popular of his collections.
Portrait Of A Killer: Jack The Ripper -- Case Closed Well, I am sure - THAT case is far from being closed...it is a very controversial book, probably fiction (and it made big money:)) but.. I have read that book, and if not more, we can learn a lot about Victorian London's East End and its poverty.
From Library Journal Student of philology in 1970s Milan, Casaubon is completing a thesis on the Templars, a monastic knighthood disbanded in the 1300s for questionable practices. At Pilades Bar, he meets up with Jacopo Belbo, an editor of obscure texts at Garamond Press. Together with Belbo's colleague Diotallevi, they scrutinize the fantastic theories of a prospective author, Colonel Ardenti, who claims that for seven centuries the Templars have been carrying out a complex scheme of revenge. When Ardenti disappears mysteriously, the three begin using their detailed knowledge of the occult sciences to construct a Plan for the Templars [...]
The Grand Chessboard
The Grand Chessboard (ISBN 0-465-02726-1) is one of the major works of Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Advisor under the administration of United States President Jimmy Carter.
The Grand Chessboard presents Brzezinski’s geostrategic vision for
American preeminence in the twenty-first century. Central to his
analysis is the exercise of power on the Eurasian landmass
