Bøker av John Hall

Pandora's Box is a fast-paced, action-packed, wonder-filled novel, urging the reader to travel deeper into its mystery until the very end. Remarkably told, written with such delicate grace and elegance, it will quickly find its way to your list of all-time favorites.Noelle is an ambitious twenty-two year old girl dreaming of doing something extraordinary. Refusing to believe that the next thirty years will consist of working the same monotonous job, she knows there must be something more to life. Approached through cyberspace by a mysterious and beautiful woman, Xenia, guardian of the Empress Aldana in the world of Xexyll Esuna, Noelle is called upon a mission that would save their world from utter annihilation from an opposing force known as the Yenzeti. Accepting the quest, she must abandon everything she has ever known, leaving her world behind. Failure would simultaneously end all life in the Universe, as would her refusal of the mission. Her journey will mark a remarkable quest in her soul's evolution as she learns the inner secrets of the Universe after finding the Trans-Dimensional Time-Space Warp Portal. This quest will change the fate of every existing world, as she unlocks the ancient mystery of life itself.

In this first biography of Theodore Paleologus, new documentary evidence exposes him as a hardened mercenary and killer in the pay of the wicked Earl of Lincoln but also supports his imperial pretensions - long dismissed by historians.

The surgeon John Hall, born 1529/30, published this work in 1565 as an appendix to his translation of a thirteenth-century surgical work. Hall was vociferously opposed to fraudulent medicine, and this work, edited by surgeon and antiquarian Thomas Pettigrew (1791-1865) and published in 1844, describes his struggles against quacks.