1914. Kipling, English short-story writer, novelist and poet, who celebrated the heroism of British colonial soldiers in India and Burma, was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. These tales were collected by Kipling from all places and all sorts of people. Contents: The Lang Men o' Larut; Reingelder and the German Flag; The Wandering Jew; Through the Fire; The Finances of the Gods; The Amir's Homily; Jews in Shushan; The Limitations of Pambe Serang; Little Tobrah; Bubbling Well Road; The City of Dreadful Night; Georgie Porgie; Naboth; The Dream of Duncan Parrenness; The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney; The Courting of Dinah Shadd; On Greenhow Hill; The Man Who Was; The Head of the District; Without Benefit of Clergy; At the End of the Passage; The Mutiny of the Mavericks; The Mark of the Beast; The Return of Imray; Namgay Doola; Bertran and Bimi; and Moti Guj-Mutineer. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Description: Many centuries ago, a princess kissed a frog and transformed him into a handsome prince. Unlike the fable, they never ended happily ever after. It is rumored that the Frog Prince is still alive and now roams the deserted path in the Black Forest, capturing unsuspecting visitors. When the chancellor's daughter goes missing, you are sent to investigate her disappearance. Journey through the deserted forest in Dark Parables – The Exiled Prince, an eerie Hidden Object Adventure game!

What happens if you send Frank West - Hero Dead Rising - a city of Fortuna, the scene of the second part of the famous brick-busting action? Continuation of the series will answer this burning question. Forget everything you know about Dead Rising 2 - Frank is back, and Fortune, with its appearance will change once and for all!

Jackass Collection.

Famed cartoonist Ub Iwerkss granddaughter Leslie turns the camera lens on the artists and storytellers behind some of the most widely hailed animated films of the modern era in the in-depth documentary The Pixar Story. Featuring such key members as John Lasseter, Steve Jobs, and George Lucas, the doc tells the story of the companys humble roots all the way to being one of the biggest power players in Hollywood. Featuring unseen footage of early output from the studio, as well as a full overview of its many box-office successes and technological breakthroughs, Iwerkss film celebrates the artistic spirit that has pushed the boundaries of what animation can deliver, while staying true to the ideals that its parent company Disney once held so dear..

Britain’s leading linguistics expert, David Crystal, reads his own eye–opening and highly entertaining tour of the English language through the ages.

Max Kennedy is a Minuteman, one of the many American vigilantes who patrol the border with Mexico. Hunting down illegal immigrants, the Minutemen live a gritty existence in the desert. They do it from a belief that they are at the frontline of a war to save their country. Yet within Max lies a great conflict; a sympathy for the Mexicans, who he feels are destroying his country. Casting a penetrating light on the US-Mexico border issue, Maxs story is a telling insight into human trafficking, first-world poverty and right-wing hate politics.

The worlds foremost expert on the English language takes us on an entertaining and eye-opening tour of the history of our vernacular through the ages.

We are proud of our sporting heroes and we know them by name. And in our uniquely Australian way we are equally proud of our entertainers, scientists, explorers and bushrangers. We know their names – at least, the names of those of whom we are most proud. But there is, perhaps above all of these, the Australian of whom we are proudest, and he does not have a name. He has a drab uniform and a slouch hat and we call him DIGGER.Through a sequence of pivotal battles we tell the story of the Digger – the legend, the myth and the truth. The emergence of a type of fighting man with an international reputation as non-conformist, disrespectful, loose of discipline and unparalleled as a shock troop or as a soldier able to function on his own initiative.Archive, re-enactment, expert commentary and visits to the worldwide scenes of the chosen events combine with selected first person accounts, by ordinary soldiers, to chart the emergence of a national icon.Battle Camp in Far North Queensland was the scene of a pitched battle during the “frontier wars” when those firing their Schneider rifles at the attacking Aboriginals were not yet soldiers, or even Australians.In South Africa they had become soldiers but were still not Australians when they fought the Boers. At the Siege of Elands River they wrote the story of the first heroic action into the long record of Australia’s military achievements.Gallipoli may be where popular legend has it that Australia grew to nationhood, but her young men became hardened and redoubtable soldiers – “diggers” – on the Western Front, where they were blooded at a place called Fromelles.Only twenty-five years later the legend of the digger grew almost to maturity in the Pacific War, in battles such as Milne Bay.The greatest international honour ever paid to Australian fighting soldiers, the American Presidential Citation, was awarded for action in the Korean War, at the Battle of Kapyong.Less than a hundred years separate Battle Camp from Long Tan in Vietnam. Less than half a century divides that battle from the image which brings our history of the digger up to date – East Timor, the professional, international soldier acting wholly under Australian command.This is a story full of high drama, diverse landscape, terrible and funny stories and fascinating characters. At its core is one of the central elements of Australia’s cultural identity, The Digger.

The worlds foremost expert on the English language takes us on an entertaining and eye-opening tour of the history of our vernacular through the ages.

The story of 85-year-old Jiro Ono, considered by many to be the best sushi chef in the world. A thoughtful and elegant meditation on work, family, and the art of perfection, chronicling Jiros life as both an unparalleled success in the culinary world and as a loving yet complicated father.

From the bestselling author of
The Professor and the Madman,
The Map That Changed the World, and Krakatoa
Writing with marvelous brio, Simon Winchester first serves up a lightning history of the English language and pays homage to the great dictionary makers from Samuel Johnson to Noah Webster before turning his unmatched talent for storytelling to the making of the most venerable of dictionaries – The Oxford English Dictionary. Here the listener is presented with lively portraits of such key figures as the brilliant but sickly first editor Herbert Coleridge, the colorful, wildly eccentric Frederick Furnivall, and the incomparable James Augustus Henry Murray, who spent half a century as editor bringing the project to fruition.

A documentary that details the creation of Julian Assanges controversial website, which facilitated the largest security breach in U.S. history.

A documentary that details the creation of Julian Assanges controversial website, which facilitated the largest security breach in U.S. history.

A documentary that details the creation of Julian Assanges controversial website, which facilitated the largest security breach in U.S. history.