Phillip: 1250 books

During the heady, democratic days of the fifth and fourth centuries, the poorer members of Athenian society, the lower two classes of zeugitai and thetes, enjoyed an unprecedented dominance in both domestic and foreign politics. At home, the participatory nature of the constitution required their...

A fresh look at a famous prayer “There is inherent in this prayer all the strength and compassion of our Father in heaven. There moves through it a beauty and a serenity which no mortal man can fully explain. It reassures our hearts, strengthens our resolve, and leads us into personal contact...

A photographic exposition of Boston Common, Boston's central public park, and of the 'horror stories' behind its famous landmarks!

At what hotel did John Wilkes Booth stay a week before he shot Lincoln? What is the first public school in the United States and who is its most famous dropout? What cryptic message is inscribed on a bronze statue inside the courtyard of Old City Hall? All these questions and more are answered in this photographic exposition of Boston’s historic School Street

Sherlock Holmes investigates the mysterious cases of mutilated cattle,  cattle in trees, and a cattle watchman's death. Due to Holmes's investigation the mutilations end as he predicted. The authorities are well satisfied, but Holmes is not, and directs that the case be written up, but not published...

Cattle are found mutilated, sometimes located high up in trees. Prize-winning heifer Lulu disappears, and her watchman is found dead,  without a mark on his body. Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson investigate, and brilliantly applying his astonishing powers of observation and logical deduction, Holmes...

This is a continuation of my best selling "Sherlock Holmes And the Man In Concrete" now also available in German and Spanish.A concrete block with the head of a young attractive woman sticking out of it is found at low tide. The detectives at Scotland Yard ask for Sherlock Holmes's help. Holmes...

Sherlock Holmes investigates two aerial mysteries; the unexplained death of a balloonist, and the crash on launch of Professor Samuel Langley's steam powered Aerodrome flying machine.  The balloonist has no mark on his body, and was well supplied with oxgen. The Aerodrome's wreckage does not reveal...

Sherlock Holmes is called upon to investigate two aerial mysteries; the strange death of a balloonist, and the unexplained crash on launch of Professor Samuel Langley's Aerodrome. Employing his astonishing powers of observation and logical reasoining to the full,  Sherlock Holmes brilliantly...

A lady of high station is saved from scandal, and a mysterious death is explained.  The authorities are satisfied and the case is closed, but there remains a loose end, and a disturbing possibility associated with it, that cannot be explained.. Sherlock Holmes is not satisfied, and directs...

Okay, you’ve read the law of attraction books and you are still having problems. The vision boards don’t seem to be working. You’ve been saying affirmations every day (well, almost every day) and still, nothing seems to be working. It’s not what we do that sets up an attracting vibration;...

From a rat’s eye view of the London blitz to a cadaver with a complaint about the size of her coffin, this collection of short stories brings us into a comically surreal world that will leave you questioning your ability to tell up from down. What the characters in these stories have in common is...

In this companion volume to their widely acclaimed Perspectives of Psychiatry, Phillip R. Slavney, M.D., and Paul R. McHugh, M.D., argue that the discontinuity of brain and mind is the source of much of psychiatry’s discord, for it leads psychiatrists to think about their discipline in terms of...

What human ends are served by our economic policies? To whom is what “owed” in our country today? Is there an acceptable argument for just wars – or for the proliferation of nuclear weapons? In the final years of the Reagan era, The U.S. Catholic bishops emerged as articulate sources of dissenting...