New Releases by Guy R. Williams

"This guide looks at weight training as a means of strengthening specific muscle groups to improve performance and as a means of general sporting conditioning. Each exercise is fully illustrated and described for easy use by beginners....." -- back cover.

A dramatic adaptation of the Melville novel about the great white whale and Captain Ahab''s obsessive pursuit of him.

A play based on the Bible story of the mighty King Nebuchadnezzar who is challenged by three young men who have a strong and abiding faith in their God.

A study of the roots and history of magic when people could not explain events by scientific reasoning and believed that the seasons changed and the sun rose and set by magic. The real origins of magic are seen to lie in early attempts to make things happen and to change the course of nature.

The history of medical treatment from the barbarous era of the eighteenth century through the revolutionary and often bizarre changes of the nineteenth century: the introduction of anesthesia and antiseptics, hospital reform and explorations of "alternative" medicine.

This story of a proud rural beauty and the three men who court her is the novel that first made Thomas Hardy famous. Despite the violent ends of several of its major characters, "Far from the Madding Crowd" is the sunniest and least brooding of Hardy''s great novels. The strong-minded Bathsheba Everdene--and the devoted shepherd, obsessed farmer, and dashing soldier who vie for her favor--move through a beautifully realized late nineteenth-century agrarian landscape, still almost untouched by the industrial revolution and the encroachment of modern life.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ...rendered him less desirable as a husband than she had at first thought him to be.'' ''I cannot answer, '' said Elizabeth-Jane thoughtfully. ''It is so difficult. It wants a Pope to settle that '' ''You prefer not to, perhaps?'' Lucetta showed in her appealing tone how much she leant on Elizabeth''s judgment. ''Yes, Miss Templeman, '' admitted Elizabeth. ''I would rather not say.'' Nevertheless, Lucetta seemed relieved by the simple fact of having opened out the situation a little, and was slowly convalescent of her headache. ''Bring me a looking-glass. How do I appear to people?'' she said languidly. ''Well--a little worn, '' answered Elizabeth, eyeing her as a critic eyes a doubtful painting; fetching the glass she enabled Lucetta to survey herself in it, which Lucetta anxiously did. ''I wonder if I wear well, as times go '' she observed after a while. ''Yes--fairly. ''Where am I worst?'' ''Under your eyes--I notice a little brownness there.'' ''Yes. That is my worst place, I know. How many years more do you think I shall last before I get hopelessly plain?'' There was something curious in the way in which Elizabeth, though the younger, had come to play the part of experienced sage in these discussions. ''It may be five years, '' she said judicially. ''Or, with a quiet life, as many as ten. With no love you might calculate on ten.'' Lucetta seemed to reflect on this as on an unalterable, impartial verdict. She told Elizabeth-Jane no more of the past attachment she had roughly adumbrated as the experiences of a third person; and Elizabeth, who in spite of her philosophy was very tender-hearted, wept that night in bed at the thought that her pretty, rich Lucetta did not treat her to the full confidence of names and dates in her confessions. For by the ''she'' of Lucetta''s story...

A penniless clerk from Moscow is mistaken for a government inspector by the corrupt officials of a small town in Tsarist Russia.

"... Examines the barbarous world of eighteenth century medicine in detail - the great hospitals, the lying-in rooms, the spas, the quacks. Rich in anecdotes and eye-witness accounts, the book brilliantly illumines a past age and makes us profoundly grateful for twentieth century knowledge." --