These essays on the English manifestation of the emblem by Roy Strong, Clifford Davidson, Judith Dundas, Mary Silcox, Peter Daly, Denis Drysdall, Wendy Katz and John Horden. Collected in honour of Karl Josef Holtgen, they deal with Geoffrey Whitney, Henry Peacham, George Wither and others.

The Art of the Emblem: Essays in Honor of Karl Josef Holtgen (Ams Studies in the Emblem)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Manning, John

Crafts & Hobbies

Ams Pr Inc

One By One...Two decades ago, at a private women's college in upstate New York, a student was brutally attacked in her dorm room. Her assailant was never found...They Disappear...Sue Barlow arrives at Wilbourne College twenty years later. When a classmate disappears, Sue thinks it's an isolated incident. But then two other girls vanish...And Die...As fear grows on campus, Sue begins to sense she's being watched. And as the body count rises, she soon realizes that a twisted psychopath is summoning her to play a wicked game - a game that only will end when she dies.

All the Pretty Dead Girls

Literature & Fiction

United States

Pinnacle

Old houses have their secrets. The Young residence - a beautiful Maine mansion overlooking the Atlantic - is no exception. But the secrets here are different. They can kill...Carolyn Cartwright, private detective and ex-FBI agent, has been hired by Howard Young to investigate a string of gruesome family deaths. The crimes are horrific, brutal, and senseless. And the time has come for the killing to begin again...One by one, members of the Young family are chosen to die. Old and young, weak and strong, no one is safe from a killer with a limitless thirst for revenge. And the only way for Carolyn to uncover the shocking truth is to enter the room no one has ever left alive - and make herself the next target...

The Killing Room

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

No Turning BackPoint Woebegone. From the moment Daphne May steps off the train, it's clear that this small Maine town is aptly named. Even before she reaches Swallowtail, the windswept house where she'll be working as a governess, Daphne's sense of foreboding is justified. Nowhere To HideA waitress's gruesome death sets the whole town on edge--especially the wealthy, eccentric Witherspoon family. There are rumors, hostile whispers. Daphne tries to adjust to her strange surroundings and difficult pupil, finding a friend in local property developer Gregory Winston. Then a killer strikes again--and again. . .No AccidentsA psychopath is culling his victims with brutal precision, and Daphne's arrival is far from random. But knowledge may come too late to save her from the secrets in her past, with a killer hiding in plain sight. . ."Brilliantly executed. . .this one is not to be missed!" --Kevin O'Brien, New York Times bestselling author on All the Pretty Dead Girls "If you like Dean Koontz, you'll love John Manning!" --Wendy Corsi Staub, New York Times  bestselling author

The Sound of a Scream

Could the length of your fingers indicate a predisposition to breast cancer? Or musical genius? Or homosexuality? In Digit Ratio, John T. Manning posits that relative lengths of the second and fourth digits in humans (2D:4D ratio) does provide such a window into hormone- and sex-related traits.It has been known for more than a century that men and women tend to differ in the relative lengths of their index (2D) and ring (4D) fingers, which upon casual observation seem fairly symmetrical. Men on average have fourth digits longer than their second digits, while women typically have the opposite. Digit ratios are unique in that they are fixed before birth, while other sexually dimorphic variables are fixed after puberty, and the same genes that control for finger length also control the development of the sex organs. The 2D:4D ratio is the only prenatal sexually dimorphic trait that measurably explains conditions linking testosterone, estrogen, and human development; the study of

Digit Ratio: A Pointer to Fertility, Behavior, and Health

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Rutgers University Press

Could the length of your fingers indicate a predisposition to breast cancer? Or musical genius? Or homosexuality? In Digit Ratio, John T. Manning posits that relative lengths of the second and fourth digits in humans (2D:4D ratio) does provide such a window into hormone- and sex-related traits.
It has been known for more than a century that men and women tend to differ in the relative lengths of their index (2D) and ring (4D) fingers, which upon casual observation seem fairly symmetrical. Men on average have fourth digits longer than their second digits, while women typically have the opposite. Digit ratios are unique in that they are fixed before birth, while other sexually dimorphic variables are fixed after puberty, and the same genes that control for finger length also control the development of the sex organs. The 2D:4D ratio is the only prenatal sexually dimorphic trait that measurably explains conditions linking testosterone, estrogen, and human development; the study of the ratio broadens our view of human ability, talent, behavior, disposition, health, and fertility. In this book, Manning presents evidence for how 2D:4D correlates with traits ranging from sperm counts, family size, musical genius, and sporting prowess, to autism, depression, homosexuality, heart attacks, and breast cancer, traits that are all linked with early exposure to sex hormones.

Digit Ratio: A Pointer to Fertility, Behavior, and Health (A volume in the Rutgers Series in Human Evolution, edited by Robert Trivers.)

Internal Combustion Engine Design

Ricardo UK Ltd

A creature or being out of mankind's most ancient mythos. A concept that combines all of the unconscious fears that have haunted our species since its very beginnings. How would this nightmare manifest in our own day and age? And more importantly, what would IT be frightened of? The terrifying answers to these and many more creepy questions can be found in John Manning's chilling anthology, WHAT SCARES THE BOOGEY MAN?

What Scares the Boogey Man?

Genre Fiction

Perseid Press

Seven million years on the New Hell Sinday Times bestseller list... The damned are revolting! The underworld explodes with excitement as Satan himself rebels against forces from on high. Or does he? Dreams are dashed and strongholds topple as the greatest shared universe of all times convulses with mystery and mayhem. Shakespeare and Marlowe begin a new play to please the Devil.... Satan and Samael plot to expose the unrepentant damned... Before Napoleon's eyes, Caesar's villa explodes in chaos... Goethe finds out that hell is all around him... Isadora Duncan forgets that dreams can be hell... Hell's librarian throws a bash and the damned party down... and down... and down... All over the netherworlds, worse comes to worst as Hell's Most Unwanted try assaulting heaven's gates and raise more hell than they bargained for....

Dreamers in Hell (Heroes in Hell)

Morris, Janet

Cordova, Jason

Ventrella, Michael A.

Barczak, Tom

Jorns, Petra

Meister, Bettina S.

Groller, Richard

Finley, Jack William

Legion, Shebat

Twenty tales of terror, dark fantasy, and macabre humor from authors in Canada and the United States spanning seven decades - 1860 thru 1929. Ten authors from What Scares the Boogeyman? return and are joined by ten new writers: Jason Cordova - Michael H. Hanson - Richard Groller - Rie Sheridan Rose Brian Bigelow - Larry Atchley, Jr. - Forrest Hedrick Shebat Legion - Shirley Meier - Ethan Nahte - Benjamin Bement Deborah Koren - John Manning - Austin Sirkin - W. B. Alexander Jack W. Finley - Wayne Borean - Robert M. Price and Charles Garofalo Bill Snider - Tom Barczak Tobias Fox rides into a dusty Texas town to investigate stories of terrible doings in Nightwalker. What he finds is not what he expected. Two men face off against an alien terror on the moon's surface in The Strange and Terrifying Mystery of Luna Colony - a tale of horror in a steampunk setting. It is the lunch hour on Fleet Street. Conversations and chance encounters take place amidst the delectable aromas of Mrs. Lovett's savory meat pies in Cab Ride.

Terror by Gaslight: A Fantom Enterprises - Iron Clad Press Production

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

Xlibris

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Manning, John. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Manning, John