Richard Burton

Volume 1 of classic work. Posing as a wandering dervish, Burton gained admittance to the holy Kaabah and to the tomb of the prophet at Medina and participated in all the rituals of the Hadj (pilgrimage). A treasury of material on Arab life, beliefs, manners and morals, etc.

Kate Skylar is an ordinary seventeen-year-old with an extraordinary destiny. A virgin, Kate suddenly finds herself pregnant with what she believes is the Son of God. But the Catholic Church is convinced Kate is carrying the Antichrist and, assisted by an artificial intelligence known as Grand Inquisitor, will stop at nothing to kill Ethan, her son. Ethan's only protection is Conversatio, a secret organization dedicated to the Second Coming-which may...

A humorous collection of unbelievable-but-true stories of workplace misbehavior, mischief, and mayhem... You've heard the stories, seen the videos, and shaken your head in disbelief every time an employee does something so completely insane, out of line, or just plain stupid that it makes headlines. And you wonder "Did they really think they were going to get away with that?!?" Of course, they did-until they got caught. For decades, attorney Richard...

This two-part classic reveals the dissolution of an eighteen-year marriage from two very differing points of view. Martin and Jane Reynolds, brought together by chance after a two-year separation, reminisce on their past lives together and the family that they shared. Martin remembers the sadomasochistic union he had been condemned to while Jane contemplates the scars that their children have accrued while witnessing their parents' crumbling marriage....

In his personal diaries Richard Burton is a man quite different from the one we "know" as acclaimed actor, international film star and jet-set celebrity. From these private pages there emerges a different person -- a family man, a father, a husband, a man often troubled and always keenly observing. Understood through his own words, day by day and year by year, Burton becomes a fully rounded human being who, with a wealth of talent and a surprising...

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1885), is a celebrated English language translation of One Thousand and One Nights (the "Arabian Nights") – a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age (8th−13th centuries) – by the British explorer and Arabist Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890).

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1885), is a celebrated English language translation of One Thousand and One Nights (the "Arabian Nights") – a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age (8th−13th centuries) – by the British explorer and Arabist Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890).

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1885), is a celebrated English language translation of One Thousand and One Nights (the "Arabian Nights") – a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age (8th−13th centuries) – by the British explorer and Arabist Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890).

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1885), is a celebrated English language translation of One Thousand and One Nights (the "Arabian Nights") – a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age (8th−13th centuries) – by the British explorer and Arabist Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890).

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1885), is a celebrated English language translation of One Thousand and One Nights (the "Arabian Nights") – a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age (8th−13th centuries) – by the British explorer and Arabist Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890).