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Over the past four decades, few writers have created a body of work as distinctive - or disturbing - as Stephen Gregory's. In his tales of death and madness the menace usually comes not from the supernatural, but from the natural, and particularly birds, which in Gregory's fiction often bring terror on their dark wings. Included in this volume are the ghost stories 'The Late Mr Lewis' and 'The Boys Who Wouldn't Wake Up' as well as the macabre ...

Over the past four decades, few writers have created a body of work as distinctive - or disturbing - as Stephen Gregory's. In his tales of death and madness the menace usually comes not from the supernatural, but from the natural, and particularly birds, which in Gregory's fiction often bring terror on their dark wings. Included in this volume are the ghost stories 'The Late Mr Lewis' and 'The Boys Who Wouldn't Wake Up' as well as the macabre ...

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Der wortkarge Farmer Jim Douglas kommt in die Stadt Rio Arriba, wo am nächsten Tag vier Verbrecher hingerichtet werden sollen. Er ist überzeugt davon, dass es die Mörder und Vergewaltiger seiner Frau sind und will ihren Tod miterleben. Doch kurz vor der Exekution gelingt den Schurken die Flucht. Jim nimmt die Verfolgung auf, eine mörderische Jagd zur mexikanischen Grenze beginnt. Ohne Erbarmen tötet er drei der Banditen, die bis zuletzt ihre U...

[An] artful first novel, reminiscent of the tales of Poe . . . Gregory uses a low-key style and subtle lyricism to build an atmosphere of nightmarish horror in a tale that could become a classic.' - Publishers Weekly'[A] first-class terror story with a relentless focus that would have made Edgar Allan Poe proud.' - New York Times'[N]o summary can do justice to the subtlety of Gregory's first novel, with its fresh, vivid, sensual prose and its ...

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Building on the extremely successful and popular Russell's Soil Conditions and Plant Growth, Wiley-Blackwell is pleased to publish this completely revised and updated edition of the soil science classic. Covering all aspects of the interactions between plant and soil, Peter J. Gregory and Stephen Nortcliff, along with their team of internationally-known and respected authors, provide essential reading for all students and professionals studyin...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This w...

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Excerpt from Thomas Jefferson: An Address Before the Iroquois Club, April 13th, 1901He labored manfully for separation of church and State and the complete establishment of religious freedom, and drew the bill upon that subject, which, with minor changes, was finally adopted in 1786.He prepared a bill for free common schools, and one for the prompt naturalization of foreigners, which a hostile biographer declares, was too Democratic. The latte...

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Mia is a mischievous mouse who loves to play pranks on her friends. One morning, after scaring herself with an extraordinarily loud yawn Mia decides that she will trick her animal friends with her scary boo scream but when her plans don't turn out the way she expected Mia has to turn to her friends for help. You can't scare me, Mia Mouse is a story of friendship, kindness and sharing. A heart-warming story for the whole family to enjoy.

Toward the end of his administration (2010-2015), then Uruguayan President Jose 'Pepe' Mujica made headlines across the world with a couple of unusual speeches at United Nations assemblies in Rio de Janeiro and New York that were heatedly anti-capitalist, anti-consumerist, anti-globalisation and anti-climate change all fuelled by a libertarian socialist concept of freedom. This Sancho Panza-like figure was not only one of the few presidents of...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This w...

Beginning in the year Uruguayans elected a different party into government for the first time in nearly a century, the author examines intellectuals' role in the Uruguayan left's drive toward unity and effectiveness. Discussion focuses on fragmentation and impotence on the left, frustrated attempts at left unity in the 1960s, the creation of the centre-left Broad Front in 1971, and the defeat of all left endeavours and all dialogue in the 1973...