Best Selling Books by Ian Andrew

Ever had a strange experience, heard ghost stories, seen poltergeist cases and then asked yourself is there anything in these stories? Well, look no further. Ian Webb is an independent researcher with a research degree in Psychology. He sets out to answer two common questions: (1) do paranormal phenomena exist and (2) is there a scientific framework to understand paranormal experiences? The book assumes no knowledge of the paranormal. It takes the reader through a journey of paranormal research techniques, laboratory experiments, and case studies. Also, it discusses the potential theoretical basis to paranormal including, neurological & psychological profiles, environmental factors and the similarities between paranormal and quantum mechanics. Ian Webb discusses eight major paranormal topics which include: (1) Near Death Experiences, (2) Remote Viewing, (3) Mediumship case studies and research, (4) Cases studies of Haunted locations, (5) Poltergeist cases, (6) Extra Sensory Perception, (7) Whether humans have the ability to influence objects or people beyond normal means and (8) Research into past lives. All paranormal topics are underpinned by the principle that human consciousness can work outside of space and time. The book explores the validity of paranormal phenomena, whether science has an explanation, and examine whether there is evidence for life after life.

This book''s hero is Darius Antonopoulos, an artist and apprentice printer who left London in 1605 to visit his ancestral home in Greece. What he found there was to send him on an incredible journey - a quest to discover the Seven Wonders of the World.

Over three chapters, this thesis studies the colophon at the end of Fourth Kingdoms in BnF Syr. 27, which is divided into several main sections. Chapter 1 provides a transcription of the colophon, analysis of the main paratextual features, and a first-time translation into English. Chapter 2 compares the first main section of the colophon with a similar extant text from Origen, noting that no known extant text matches the material in the colophon. Then, it compares the second major section with Pseudo-Athanasius’s Synopsis Scripturae Sacrae and, to some extent, Epiphanius’s On Weights and Measure, noting where the colophon relies on and is different from these texts. In Chapter 3 the third major section is especially compared with Epiphanius’s On Weights and Measures as it is contained in BL Add. 17148 to demonstrate BnF syr. 27’s reliance upon this text.

The purpose of this study was to test a social-organizational hypothesis concerning the way silent reading in small-group lessons influences students'' end-of-lesson performance. It was hypothesized that positive effects of silent reading may not be found solely in direct cognitive consequences for individual students but in the dynamics of the small-group lesson. The principal test of the hypothesis was whether group processes of pacing, student attention, and emphasis on story meaning could be placed on the causal path between the silent reading lesson and students'' end-of-lesson performance. One hundred children in four third-grade classes, each divided into three ability groups, participated in the study. Each group received two silent and two oral reading lessons. Type of lesson was counterbalanced for lesson order and stories. A feature of the study was a three-week "socialization" period prior to each pair of lessons. Group processes were measured from videotapes of the lessons. End-of-lesson performance was measured by children''s story recall and passage and word reading. Results showed that positive effects of silent reading were mediated by students'' attention and teacher-student discussion. Students were more attentive during silent reading than they were during oral reading and they reinstated more story information in discussion. However, there was no net benefit of silent reading on children''s end-of-lesson performance. The probable reason was the blank, unproductive time when students had to wait for others to finish reading before discussion could resume. This slowed the pace of the lessons and seemed to offset benefits accruing from attention and discussion. These results are consistent with the social-organizational hypothesis that positive effects of silent reading are socially constructed. While silent reading establishes favorable conditions for learning, benefits may be realized only if teachers organize their lessons to make best use of available time and adapt their instruction to capitalize on students'' increased attention during silent reading and their responsiveness to story content during discussion.

THE story of how industrial waste was transformed into the only acoustic instrument to be invented in the 20th century is told in Our Time is Now, a collection of essays by nonagenarian writer Cy Grant. That instrument is the steelpan, made from discarded oil drums in Trinidad after the Second World War, whose musicology Grant uses as a platform for a wider examination of the role of music in culture. Pan as Comic Symbol, one of six essays, is in fact part of Grant''s overall critique of western society, expounded more fully in his 2005 book Blackness and the Dreaming Soul in which he examines the West''s alienation from the natural world. The development of steelpan has paralleled that of calypso and carnival, so it is somehow fitting that Grant, a household name in the 1950s as a calypso singer, should be writing about it.