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Free Download Travels of Terror: Strange and Spooky Spots Across America (US Travel Guide, Gift for Fans of True Crime, Horror, and the Paranormal) by Kelly Florence, Meg Hafdahl
English | September 10, 2024 | ISBN: 1728290198 | 320 pages | PDF | 9.69 Mb
Grab your flashlight, garlic, and ghost hunting equipment. We’re taking you on the ultimate road trip of the spookiest places around the U.S.

Free Download The A-Z of Curious London: Strange Stories of Mysteries, Crimes and Eccentrics by Gilly Pickup
English | October 1, 2013 | ISBN: 0752489682 | 160 pages | PDF | 3.51 Mb
An A-Z of eccentric characters, strange events, and curious happenings, this book reveals the amazing and curious history of the city of London

Free Download The A-Z of Curious Essex: Strange Stories of Mysteries, Crimes and Eccentrics by Paul Wreyford
English | October 1, 2013 | ISBN: 0752489860 | 160 pages | PDF | 3.21 Mb
‘Curious’ is perhaps not the first word you would use to label Essex. But ‘curiouser and curiouser’ it becomes when you dig below the surface. Meet larger-than-life characters, including the one-time fattest man in England whose waist was wider than the height of an average man. And talking of big, discover the origin of Humpty Dumpty. Did you know that explorer David Livingstone, who trekked across Africa, got lost in Essex; that the Essex villain Dick Turpin was only identified because a relative refused to pay the cost of a ‘stamp’, or that St George saw off his dragon here? Surprising and bizarre tales abound if you dig a little deeper. And if you literally look below the surface in Essex, you’ll discover one of the most incredible Government ‘secrets’ of all time.

Free Download Strange Phenomena in Convex and Discrete Geometry By Chuanming Zong (auth.), James J. Dudziak (eds.)
1996 | 158 Pages | ISBN: 0387947345 | PDF | 4 MB
Convex and discrete geometry is one of the most intuitive subjects in mathematics. One can explain many of its problems, even the most difficult – such as the sphere-packing problem (what is the densest possible arrangement of spheres in an n-dimensional space?) and the Borsuk problem (is it possible to partition any bounded set in an n-dimensional space into n+1 subsets, each of which is strictly smaller in "extent" than the full set?) – in terms that a layman can understand; and one can reasonably make conjectures about their solutions with little training in mathematics.

Free Download Ian Tattersall, "The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack: and Other Cautionary Tales from Human Evolution"
English | ISBN: 1137278897 | 2015 | 256 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
In his new book The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack, human paleoanthropologist Ian Tattersall argues that a long tradition of "human exceptionalism" in paleoanthropology has distorted the picture of human evolution. Drawing partly on his own career―from young scientist in awe of his elders to crotchety elder statesman―Tattersall offers an idiosyncratic look at the competitive world of paleoanthropology, beginning with Charles Darwin 150 years ago, and continuing through the Leakey dynasty in Africa, and concluding with the latest astonishing findings in the Caucasus.

Free Download Travels of Terror: Strange and Spooky Spots Across America by Kelly Florence, Meg Hafdahl
English | September 10th, 2024 | ISBN: 1728290198 | 320 pages | True EPUB | 7.90 MB
Grab your flashlight, garlic, and ghost hunting equipment. We’re taking you on the ultimate road trip of the spookiest places around the U.S.

Free Download Travels of Terror: Strange and Spooky Spots Across America by Kelly Florence, Meg Hafdahl
English | September 10th, 2024 | ISBN: 1728290198 | 320 pages | True EPUB | 7.90 MB
Grab your flashlight, garlic, and ghost hunting equipment. We’re taking you on the ultimate road trip of the spookiest places around the U.S.

Free Download Stravaging "Strange" (Russian Library) by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, translated by Joanne Turnbull
English | February 28, 2023 | ISBN: 0231199465, 0231199473 | True EPUB | 224 pages | 2.6 MB
"I’m not on good terms with the present day," Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky once mused, "but posterity loves me." Virtually unknown during his lifetime and unpublishable under Stalin, he now draws comparisons to Beckett, Borges, Gogol, and Swift. This book presents three tales that encapsulate Krzhizhanovsky’s gift for creating philosophical, satirical, and lyrical phantasmagorias.

Free Download The Very Long, Very Strange Life of Isaac Dahl by Bart Yates
English | July 23, 2024 | ISBN: 1496750454 | True EPUB | 240 pages | 0.4 MB
Both sweeping and exquisitely intimate, award-winning author Bart Yates blends historical fact and fiction in a surprising, thought-provoking saga spanning 12 significant days across nearly 100 years in the life of a single man, beginning in 1920s Utah.

Free Download Masters of Mystery: The Strange Friendship of Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini by Christopher Sandford
English | January 1, 2011 | ISBN: 0230619509 | 304 pages | EPUB | 1.35 Mb
Renowned mystery author Arthur Conan Doyle and famous illusionist Harry Houdini first met in 1920, during the magician’s tour of England. At the time, Conan Doyle had given up his lucrative writing career, killing off Sherlock Holmes in the process, in order to concentrate on his increasingly manic interest in Spiritualism. Houdini, who regularly conducted séances in an attempt to reach his late mother, was also infatuated with the idea of what he called a "living afterlife," though his enthusiasm came to be tempered by his ability to expose fraudulent mediums, many of whom employed crude variations of his own well-known illusions. Using previously unpublished material on the murky relationship between Houdini and Conan Doyle, this sometimes macabre, sometimes comic tale tells the fascinating story of the relationship between two of the most loved figures of the 20th century and their pursuit of magic and lost loved ones.