HOW MUCH ELECTRICITY CAN YOU GET FROM AN ELECTRIC EEL? WHEN CAN MISTLETOE BE THE KISS OF DEATH? HOW MANY SHEEP DOES IT TAKE TO GET ENOUGH WOOL FOR A SUIT? WHAT DID BOOK WORMS EAT BEFORE THERE WERE BOOKS? The mysteries of the natural world are endless, but your trusty manservant, Jeeves, has the answers to hundreds of nature's most fascinating mysteries. Based upon questions received at the popular Ask Jeeves® website, Just Curious About Animals and Nature, Jeeves is a fun and freewheeling safari of discovery that can tame even the most savage intellectual ...

In Mark Axelrod’s new book, marketplace crudity and the immortal artist intersect in a riotous and outrageous fashion. Discover the chain of restaurants run by Flaubert’s researchers Bouvard and Pecuchet; how an iconic fragrance arose from the erectile dysfunction of J.S. Bach; where Octave Mirabeau consummated his masterpiece L’Erotic Biblion ; General Pinochet and Borges’s contretemps involving olive oil; Faulkner’s stint tinkering with lawnmowers; Musil’s muesli; and other secret histories. A companion to Axelrod’s ...

The third book in the award-winning time travel adventure series for all ages. Perfect for fans of Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, Indiana Jones, Skandar, Skulduggery Pleasant, and Doctor Who. It's Christmas time and Becky and Joe Mellor have returned to Bowen Hall to attend the annual GITT Christmas Party - 'The Enchantment Beneath the Sea Dance.' However, when the party comes to a sudden, terrifying end, they are pitched into a quest for the all-powerful Spear of Fate. So begins an electrifying adventure that leads Becky, Joe, Uncle Percy and ...

This handbook is a short guide for those who are interested in Roman sites that have something to do with the New Testament, and in particular with Peter and Paul. For more than ten years, Dr. Schmisek has led graduate ministry programs in the Eternal City. This book is informed by the questions, insights, and comments from students over those years. While not addressing each and every claimed New Testament artifact in the city of Rome, the handbook focuses on the more significant churches and locales that have a connection to Petrine and Pauline legends: ...

This thoroughly revised, text covers complete data on Dentin Bonding Agents since its inspection. Dentistry is dynamic and fast evolving, developing with every passage of time and to keep pace with it this book incorporates the current concepts changing trends & recent trials in comprehensive form. The clinical performance of present day adhesives has significantly improved, allowing adhesive restorations to be placed with a high predictable level of clinical success. Therefore it is indispensable for the professionals to know the latest in order to select ...

Evagrius of Pontus (ca. 345-399) was a Greek-speaking monastic thinker and Christian theologian whose works formed the basis for much later reflection on monastic practice and thought in the Christian Near East, in Byzantium, and in the Latin West. His innovative collections of short chapters meant for meditation, scriptural commentaries in the form of scholia, extended discourses, and letters were widely translated and copied. Condemned posthumously by two ecumenical councils as a heretic along with Origen and Didymus of Alexandria, he was revered among ...

Prophets of the Nineteenth Century: Carlyle, Ruskin, Tolstoy is a non-fiction book written by May Alden Ward and published in 1900. The book examines the lives and works of three prominent writers from the 19th century: Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, and Leo Tolstoy. Ward explores the impact that these three men had on their respective fields and on society as a whole. Carlyle was a Scottish philosopher, writer, and historian who is considered one of the most influential thinkers of the Victorian era. Ruskin was an English art critic, writer, and social thinker ...

“Despite our perfect and ingenious human design, everyone—regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, sport or athletic skill—develops muscular and postural imbalances over time . . . And they’re all fixable.” It’s time to lose your outmoded concepts about getting older. In fact, it’s time to lose your out-of-date beliefs about the origins of muscle and joint injuries and afflictions altogether. Whether your goal is to finally cure your nagging pain and injuries and prevent them in the future, learn how to stay balanced ...

This text first published in 2014 presented a deconstruction of 21st century Salafi Jihadi discourse of Jihad is war of Sunni Islam by select discursive agents of this discourse. The abiding finding of this deconstruction is the reality that Salafi Jihadi discourse of Jihad is war is rooted in North Atlantic white supremacist humanist secular atheist imperialist colonialist discourse not Qur'anic discourse, this discourse is then shirk. Events in Islam since 2014 demanded a revision of this 2014 work and the war of genocide against Gaza, the largest open-air ...