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The Boggart Sourcebook is a three-part volume. In part one, 'Boggart Ephemera', there is a selection of about 40, 000 words of nineteenth-century boggart writing (particularly material that is difficult to find in libraries). Part two presents a catalogue of 'Boggart Names' (place-names and personal names, totalling over 10, 000 words). Finally, part three contains the entire 'Boggart Census' - a compendium of ground-breaking grassroots resear...

In the last fifty years, folklorists have amassed an extraordinary corpus of contemporary legends including "the Choking Doberman, " "the Eaten Ticket, " and "the Vanishing Hitchhiker." But what about the urban legends of the past? These legends and tales have rarely been collected, and when they occasionally appear, they do so as ancestors or precursors of the urban legends of today, rather than as stories in their own right. In The Nail in t...

In the last fifty years, folklorists have amassed an extraordinary corpus of contemporary legends including "the Choking Doberman, " "the Eaten Ticket, " and "the Vanishing Hitchhiker." But what about the urban legends of the past? These legends and tales have rarely been collected, and when they occasionally appear, they do so as ancestors or precursors of the urban legends of today, rather than as stories in their own right. In The Nail in t...

A much-feared supernatural being from the north of England, the boggart survives against the odds whether in place-names or the pages of Harry Potter. Using long-forgotten sources, this ground-breaking book reveals that almost everything we thought we knew about the Boggart is wrong.

Baron Love Junior, President of the world's third smallest country is up for re-election in three weeks. The country is broke, they are $10 million in debt and Australia is threatening to close their immigration detention centre and ship away the detainees reducing the countries income even further. A ship that has been adrift at sea for weeks washes up on a coral reef. Aboard is $35 million worth of cocaine and two shipwrecked mariners. Baron...

Although only a young woman Katherine is becoming a professional in her trade - hunting werewolves. The year is 1642. It's cold in Russia and Royal Russian Lycanthropes are a problem. Desperate people pay highly for her skills and ferocity. She is rarely out of work. With her father injured she took on the last assignment alone, obsessed with wiping them out armed only with her wits, her hound, Tsar, and a ton of weapons. She has not killed th...

So Much For The 30 Year Plan is the first ever book about Therapy?, one of rock s boldest and most idiosyncratic acts, written with the full co-operation of the band.

Professor Leif Hansen, a wealthy Danish botanist, builds a pioneer ecovillage for scientists to begin research into lichen that could one day produce oxygen on Mars for future space missions.NASA agrees to help with the project and finds a suitable location for his research in Namibia, South West Africa, where he and his fellow ecovillagers can research permaculture, eco-living, and getting back in touch with Mother Nature.Unknown to him a cab...

Looks at the history of fairy sightings from 500AD to the present, with a heat-seeker map of Britain and information on the key fairy sightings. 'Engaging and authoritative... British fairies, it turns out, are classic eccentrics' "Sunday Telegraph

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Includes a Fairy Census of 600 modern sightings of fairies, and a contribution on Ireland fairies by the Irish doyenne of Fairylore, Jenny Butler.

Forewords by Dr. Aubrey de Grey (Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge) and Robert A. Freitas Jr. (Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Molecular Manufacturing)"A rare and uplifting vision of the biological future we can and should create for ourselves." - Dr. Gregory Fahy, Chief Scientific Officer, Vice President, 21st Century MedicineThe debate about the ethics of human biotechnology or genetic engineering is one of the most impor...

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Steve Jobs ist für die Apple-Gemeinde ein Visionär und Guru, für seine Gegner ein unberechenbarer Egomane. Er revolutionierte zunächst den Computermarkt und setzte den äußerlich wenig attraktiven Kisten den Apple entgegen, der aus einem Gebrauchsgegenstand ein Kultobjekt machte. Danach gelang es ihm, mit computeranimierten Filmen wie »Toy Story« oder »Findet Nemo!« die Herzen der Zuschauer im Sturm zu erobern. Sogar die ehrwürdige Academy of M...