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  Hunter Boys - True Tales from...

  Richard Pike

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  “Entertaining and informative tales of success, heroics, fear, relief and exhilaration in and around the Hunter cockpit” (Royal Air Force Historical Society Journal).   From the author of Lightning Boys, this is a fascinating look at the experiences of those who flew the iconic Hawker Hunter.   Fifteen aircrew relate their individual recollections of the highs and lows, the dramas and demands of this incredible aircraft, which came into service in July 1951 and changed the future of fighter development. Included are a chapter by Neville Duke, Hawker Aircraft’s chief test pilot, and other tales recounting the Aden emergency, the 1971 Indo-Pakistan war, and a race against the odds in Gibraltar.   These true stories demonstrate the exceptional performance of this aircraft and illustrate its renowned lengthy service with the RAF and internationally—brought to life with original photographs plus paintings by acclaimed aviation artist Chris Stone.    

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  Another Appalachia - Coming Up...

  Neema Avashia

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  When Neema Avashia tells people where she's from, their response is nearly always a disbelieving "There are Indian people in West Virginia?" A queer Asian American teacher and writer, Avashia fits few Appalachian stereotypes. But the lessons she learned in childhood about race and class, gender and sexuality continue to inform the way she moves through the world today: how she loves, how she teaches, how she advocates, how she struggles.Another Appalachia examines both the roots and the resonance of Avashia's identity as a queer desi Appalachian woman, while encouraging readers to envision more complex versions of both Appalachia and the nation as a whole. With lyric and narrative explorations of foodways, religion, sports, standards of beauty, social media, gun culture, and more, Another Appalachia mixes nostalgia and humor, sadness and sweetness, personal reflection and universal questions.

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  50 Classic Horror Short Stories...

  H.P. Lovecraft

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  CONTENTS: 01. A Suspicious Gift [Algernon Blackwood]02. Skeleton Lake: An Episode in Camp  [Algernon Blackwood]03. The Wood of the Dead  [Algernon Blackwood]04. A Baby Tramp [Ambrose Bierce]05. The Damned Thing [Ambrose Bierce]06. Dagon [H.P Lovecraft]07. The Horror of the Heights [Arthur Conan Doyle]08. The_Descendant [H.P Lovecraft]09. The Cats of Ulthar [H.P Lovecraft]10. The Evil Clergyman [H.P Lovecraft]11. He [H.P Lovecraft]12. The Book  [H.P Lovecraft]13. In the Vault [H.P Lovecraft]14. Nyarlathotep [H.P Lovecraft]15. Death and the Woman  [Gertrude Atherton]16. The Striding Place [Gertrude Atherton]17. Hop-Frog [Edgar Allan Poe]18. The Raven [Edgar Allan Poe]19. The Tell-Tale Heart [Edgar Allan Poe] 20. Shadow [Edgar Allan Poe] 21. The Beast in the Cave [H.P Lovecraft]22. The Doom That Came to Sarnath [H.P Lovecraft]23. The Vampire Maid [Hume Nisbet] 24. A Tale of the Ragged Mountains [Edgar Allan Poe]25. The Demon Spell [Hume Nisbet] 26. Out of the Earth [Arthur Machen] 27. The Signal-Man [Charles Dickens]28. The Colloquy of Monos and Una [Edgar Allan Poe]29.  Demons of the Sea [William Hope Hodgson]30. Glámir [Sabine Baring-Gould] 31. Colonel Halifax's Ghost Story [Sabine Baring-Gould] 32. Tales of Secret Egypt [Sax Rohmer]33. Some Words with a Mummy  [Edgar Allan Poe]34. In the Dark  [Edith Nesbit]35. The Sea Raiders [H. G. Wells] 36. The Baron of Beauguard [Gilbert Parke]37. The Vampire [Jan Neruda]38 .A Journey of Little Profit [John Buchan]39. The Keeper of Cademuir [John Buchan] 40. Dickon the Devil [Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu]41. The Child That Went With The Fairies   [Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu]42. Wicked Captain Walshawe, Of Wauling  [Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu]43. Two Doctors Montague [Rhodes James]44. A School Story Montague [Rhodes James]45. The Diary of Mr. Poynter Montague[ Rhodes James]46. In the Forest of Villefére by [Robert Robert E. Howard]47. The Dream Snake [Robert E. Howard]48. The Thing On the Roof [Robert E. Howard]49. The Imp of the Perverse [Edgar Allan Poe] 50. The Devil in the Belfry [Edgar Allan Poe]

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  Herzl

  Steven Beller

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  Theodor Herzl (1860—1904) was the Paris correspondent of the Austrian Neue Freie Presse when he took a momentous decision in June 1895: he would bring about the creation of a state for the Jews. In his attempt to realise this dream, he became the greatest figure of modern Jewish history and is today seen as the father of the State of Israel. The catalyst for Herzl's 'conversion' is usually seen as the Dreyfus affair, which made him realise the impossibility of Jewish existence in Europe. The truth is more complicated and perhaps more dramatic, involving Herzl's background in the context of central Europe's Jewish bourgeoisie, the explosion of anti-Semitism in fin de siècle Paris and Vienna, and not least Herzl's own personal frustrations and dreams. Once decided, his 'state of the Jews' was to be not only the solution to the physical threat to the Jews, but it would also liberate them from their ghetto existence, and provide them with the 'inner freedom' which, from personal experience, Herzl thought they lacked. Herzl's state was to be a model, liberal society, at the forefront of human progress, integrated and at peace with the world community. A century later, this may look naïve - yet, in his vision, Herzl very much speaks to the present age.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The -...

  Sherwood Anderson

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  The Top 10 – Sherwood Anderson – An Introduction 
   
  The lives of the everyday person are beautifully observed in Anderson’s beguiling prose.  These miniature gems draw us in to streets, towns and situations that, in his words, reveal perhaps a truer and more realistic document of America than reality ever can.  
   
  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  1 - The Top Ten - Sherwood Anderson - An Introduction 
  2 - Hands by Sherwood Anderson 
  3 - An Awakening by Sherwood Anderson 
  4 - Adventure by Sherwood Anderson 
  5 - The Strength of God by Sherwood Anderson 
  6 - Death by Sherwood Anderson 
  7 - Seeds by Sherwood Anderson 
  8 - The Other Woman by Sherwood Anderson 
  9 - Brothers by Sherwood Anderson 
  10 - War by Sherwood Anderson 
  11 - Discovery of a Father by Sherwood Anderson

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  Model of Dinosaur Exhibit

  PBS NewsHour

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  The Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh renovated its dinosaur exhibit to provide a more realistic picture of how dinosaurs lived and interacted with one another more than 100 million years ago.

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