Top Books of 1959
The most significant literary works published this year.
The Haunting of Hill House
By Unknown Author
First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a "haunting"; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers— and soon, it will choose one of them to make its own.
My side of the mountain
By Unknown Author
A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains, including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.
A Canticle for Leibowitz
By Unknown Author
Highly unusual After the Holocaust novel. In the far future, 20th century texts are preserved in a monastery, as "sacred books". The monks preserve for centuries what little science there is, and have saved the science texts and blueprints from destruction many times, also making beautifully illuminated copies. As the story opens to a world run on a basically fuedal lines, science is again becoming fashionable, as a hobby of rich men, at perhaps 18th or early 19th century level of comprehesion. A local lord, interested in science, comes to the monastery. What happens after that is an exquisitely told tale, stunning and extremely moving, totally different from any other After the Holocaust story
The Eyes of the Dragon
By Unknown Author
The Eyes of the Dragon is a fantasy novel by American writer Stephen King, first published as a limited edition slipcased hardcover by Philtrum Press in 1984, illustrated by Kenneth R. Linkhauser. The novel would later be published for the mass market by Viking in 1987, with illustrations by David Palladini. This trade edition was slightly revised for publication. The 1995 French edition did not reproduce the American illustrations; it included brand new illustrations by Christian Heinrich, and a 2016 new French version also included brand new illustrations, by Nicolas Duffaut. At the time of publication, it was a deviation from the norm for King, who was best known for his horror fiction. The book is a work of epic fantasy in a quasi-medieval setting, with a clearly established battle between good and evil, and magic playing a lead role. The Eyes of the Dragon was originally titled The Napkins. ---------- Also contained in: [Ominbus](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL25080326W)
Starship Troopers
By Unknown Author
Starship Troopers takes place in the midst of an interstellar war between the Terran Federation of Earth and the Arachnids (referred to as "The Bugs") of Klendathu. It is narrated as a series of flashbacks by Juan Rico, and is one of only a few Heinlein novels set out in this fashion. The novel opens with Rico aboard the corvette Rodger Young, about to embark on a raid against the planet of the "Skinnies," who are allies of the Arachnids. We learn that he is a cap(sule) trooper in the Terran Federation's Mobile Infantry. The raid itself, one of the few instances of actual combat in the novel, is relatively brief: the Mobile Infantry land on the planet, destroy their targets, and retreat, suffering a single casualty in the process. The story then flashes back to Rico's graduation from high school, and his decision to sign up for Federal Service over the objections of his father. This is the only chapter that describes Rico's civilian life, and most of it is spent on the monologues of two people: retired Lt. Col. Jean V. Dubois, Rico's school instructor in "History and Moral Philosophy," and Fleet Sergeant Ho, a recruiter for the armed forces of the Terran Federation. Dubois serves as a stand-in for Heinlein throughout the novel, and delivers what is probably the book's most famous soliloquy on violence, and how it "has settled more issues in history than has any other factor." Fleet Sergeant Ho's monologues examine the nature of military service, and his anti-military tirades appear in the book primarily as a contrast with Dubois. (It is later revealed that his rants are calculated to scare off the weaker applicants). Interspersed throughout the book are other flashbacks to Rico's high school History and Moral Philosophy course, which describe how in the Terran Federation of Rico's day, the rights of a full Citizen (to vote, and hold public office) must be earned through some form of volunteer Federal service. Those residents who have not exercised their right to perform this Federal Service retain the other rights generally associated with a modern democracy (free speech, assembly, etc.), but they cannot vote or hold public office. This structure arose ad hoc after the collapse of the 20th century Western democracies, brought on by both social failures at home and military defeat by the Chinese Hegemony overseas (assumed looking forward into the late 20th century from the time the novel was written in the late 1950s). In the next section of the novel Rico goes to boot camp at Camp Arthur Currie, on the northern prairies. Five chapters are spent exploring Rico's experience entering the service under the training of his instructor, Career Ship's Sergeant Charles Zim. Camp Currie is so rigorous that less than ten percent of the recruits finish basic training; the rest either resign, are expelled, or die in training. One of the chapters deals with Ted Hendrick, a fellow recruit and constant complainer who is flogged and expelled for striking a superior officer. Another recruit, a deserter who committed a heinous crime while AWOL, is hanged by his battalion. Rico himself is flogged for poor handling of (simulated) nuclear weapons during a drill; despite these experiences he eventually graduates and is assigned to a unit. At some point during Rico's training, the 'Bug War' has begun to brew, and Rico finds himself taking part in combat operations. The war "officially" starts with an Arachnid attack that annihilates the city of Buenos Aires, although Rico makes it clear that prior to the attack there were plenty of "'incidents,' 'patrols,' or 'police actions.'" Rico briefly describes the Terran Federation's loss at the Battle of Klendathu where his unit is decimated and his ship destroyed. Following Klendathu, the Terran Federation is reduced to making hit-and-run raids similar to the one described at the beginning of the novel (which, chronologically would be placed between Chapters 10 and 11). Rico meanwhile finds himself posted to Rasczak's Roughnecks, named after Lieutenant Rasczak (his first name is never given). This part of the book focuses on the daily routine of military life, as well as the relationship between officers and non-commissioned officers, personified in this case by Rasczak and Sergeant Jelal. Eventually, Rico decides to become a career soldier and attends Officer Candidate School, which turns out to be just like boot camp, only "squared and cubed with books added."[15] Rico is commissioned a temporary Third Lieutenant as a field-test final exam and commands his own unit during Operation Royalty; eventually he graduates as a Second Lieutenant and full-fledged officer. The final chapter serves as more of a coda, depicting Rico aboard the Rodger Young as the lieutenant in command of Rico's Roughnecks, preparing to drop to Klendathu as part of a major strike, with his father (having joined the Service earlier in the novel) as his senior sergeant and a Third Lieutenant-in-training of his own under his wing.
Naked Lunch
By Unknown Author
Controversial and bizarre cult novel based on the author’s own experiences as a drug addict, first published in 1959. Formed as a series of inter-connected adventures set in locations as diverse as the U.S. Mexico and Morocco sees the protagonist, Burroughs’ alter-ego William Lee on the run from the police and always searching for his next fix. Burroughs once stated that the chapters can be read in any order.
A Separate Peace
By Unknown Author
Gene Forrester looks back fifteen years to a World War II year in which he and his best friend were roommates in a New hampshire boarding school.
Cat Among the Pigeons
By Unknown Author
E-book exclusive extras:1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on Cat Among the Pigeons;2) "The Poirots": the complete guide to all the cases of the great Belgian detective.A revolution in the Middle East has a direct and deadly impact upon the summer term at Meadowbank, a picture-perfect girls’ school in the English countryside. Prince Ali Yusuf, Hereditary Sheikh of Ramat, whose great liberalizing experiment—‘hospitals, schools, a Health Service’—is coming to chaos, knows that he must prepare for the day of his exile. He asks his pilot and school friend, Bob Rawlinson, to care for a packet of jewels. Rawlinson does so, hiding them among the possessions of his niece, Jennifer Sutcliffe, who is bound for Meadowbank. Rawlinson is killed before he can reveal the hiding place—or even the fact that he has employed his niece as a smuggler. But someone knows, or suspects, that Jennifer has the jewels. As murder strikes Meadowbank, only Hercule Poirot can restore the peace.
Die Blechtrommel
By Unknown Author
*Die Blechtrommel* ist ein Roman von Günter Grass. Er erschien 1959 als Auftakt der Danziger Trilogie und gehört zu den meistgelesenen Romanen der deutschen Nachkriegsliteratur. Der Roman lässt sich als historischer Roman, Zeitroman, Schelmenroman und Entwicklungsroman charakterisieren. ---------- Set against the backcloth of National Socialism, [this novel] is told in the first person by the central figure, Oskar Matzerath, tracing Oskar's history, beginning with his grandparents, and finishing at his thirtieth birthday (1954). Oskar is a dwarf, whose passion is his tin drum, which exercises some of the power of the Pied Piper's pipe, and he possesses a voice which is capable of breaking glass of all kinds at considerable range. The magic of Oskar's voice is matched by his ability to arrest his growth, but here, as elsewhere, the book moves on two planes, for the adult burgher world believes that his failure to develop is due to a fall. The grotesque figure of Oskar is accompanied by a grotesque series of happenings throughout his life, especially the eccentric deaths of those around him ... Oskar is finally condemned for a murder he has not committed and placed in a mental hospital. Oskar's detachment from the normal world enables him to comment upon it, and the book presents a dry and ironic review of the history of Oskar's times from the standpoint of Danzig, which was his home [as well as the author's].-The Oxford Companion to German Literature.
The Sirens of Titan
By Unknown Author
"His best book," Esquire wrote of Kurt Vonnegut's 1959 novel The Sirens of Titan, adding, "he dares not only to ask the ultimate question about the meaning of life, but to answer it." This novel fits into that aspect of the Vonnegut canon that might be classified as science fiction, a quality that once led Time to describe Vonnegut as "George Orwell, Dr. Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into one writer ... a zany but moral mad scientist." The Sirens of Titan was perhaps the novel that began the Vonnegut phenomenon with readers. The story is a fabulous trip, spinning madly through space and time in pursuit of nothing less than a fundamental understanding of the meaning of life. It takes place at a time in the future, when "only the human soul remained terra incognita ... the Nightmare Ages, falling roughly, give or take a few years, between the Second World War and the Third Great Depression." The villainous and super rich Malachi Constant is offered a chance to journey into the far reaches of outer space, to eventually live on the planet Titan surrounded by three beautiful sirens. There is the proverbial "small print" with this incredible offer, which Constant turns down, setting in motion a fantastic chain of events that only Vonnegut could imagine. The result is an uproarious, freewheeling inquiry into the very reason we exist and about how we participate and matter in the scheme of the universe. The Sirens of Titan is essential, fundamental Vonnegut, as entertaining as it is questing in search of answers to the mysteries of life. As a work of fiction, it is a sure leap, in terms of craft, over his first novel, Player Piano. His writing here is pared down, more concentrated and graceful, richly in the service of his remarkable ideas. Vonnegut summons greatness for the first time in The Sirens of Titan, where the search for the meaning of existence looks and sounds like a kaleidoscopic dream but leaves the reader with a clear and challenging answer.
Endurance
By Unknown Author
Bound for Antarctica, where polar explorer Ernest Shackleton planned to cross on foot the last uncharted continent, the Endurance set sail from England, in August 1914. The ship became locked inside an island of ice, and was later crushed. This tale of survival by Shackleton and all 27 of his men for over a year on the ice-bound Antarctice seas defined heroism.
The Unknown Ajax
By Unknown Author
Miles from anywhere, Darracott Place is presided over by elderly Lord Darracott. Irascible Lord Darracott rules his barony with a firm hand. The tragic accident that kills his eldest son by drowning has done nothing to improve his temper. For now he must send for the next heir apparent--the unknown offspring of the uncle whom the family are never permitted to mention. He also summoneds his bickering descendants to the rundown family estate. Yet none of that beleaguered family are prepared for the arrival of the weaver's brat and heir apparent... The new heir is Major Hugo Darracott, “that damned weaver's brat” from the Yorkshire wilderness. The family members are ordered to lick Hugo into shape for his new status. Hugo is actually very, very rich and was raised to be a credit to both sides of his family. But his sense of humor makes it impossible to resist playing the ill-bred yokel of the Darracotts' worst fears. Miles from anywhere, Darracott Place is presided over by elderly Lord Darracott. Irascible Lord Darracott rules his barony with a firm hand. The tragic accident that kills his eldest son by drowning has done nothing to improve his temper. For now he must send for the next heir apparent--the unknown offspring of the uncle whom the family are never permitted to mention. He also summoneds his bickering descendants to the rundown family estate. Yet none of that beleaguered family are prepared for the arrival of the weaver's brat and heir apparent... The new heir is Major Hugo Darracott, “that damned weaver's brat” from the Yorkshire wilderness. The family members are ordered to lick Hugo into shape for his new status. Hugo is actually very, very rich and was raised to be a credit to both sides of his family. But his sense of humor makes it impossible to resist playing the ill-bred yokel of the Darracotts' worst fears. Making the best of a bad situation, Anthea Darracott was civil to her newly-met cousin Hugh--but barely. For Anthea, reduced to accepting the charity of Lord Darracott, had been ordered to marry Hugh, new heir to the Darracott fortune. Lord Darracott's plan seemed perfect--to him: Hugh, the offspring of his son and a common weaver's daughter, might bring an unsuitable wife into the family. To prevent this disaster, Hugh must marry the impoverished, 22-year-old spinster Anthea. Knowing this, the two young people detested one another on sight. The infant Cupid was shooting his arrows with an appalling lack of aim that season....
Psycho
By Unknown Author
Norman Bates runs an old roadside motel when a beautiful woman running away from it all gets more than she bargained for when renting a room for the night.
Cider with Rosie
By Unknown Author
Cider with Rosie is a wonderfully vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a village before electricity and cars, a timeless place on the verge of change. Growing up amongst the fields and woods and characters of the place, Laurie Lee depicts a world that is both immediate and real and belongs to a now-distant past. 'It sings in the memory' Sunday Times Laurie Lee's matchless memories of his childhood, told in glittering prose and with a wonderfully wicked sense of comedy, have made Cider with Rosie one of the most famous of all autobiographies. One of eight children, Laurie Lee was born in 1914, in Slad, Gloucestershire, then a remote corner of England. As his father was absent, the large family -- five children from his father's first marriage and three from his second one -- was brought up by his capable mother. "We lived where he had left us; a relic of his provincial youth; a sprawling cumbersome, countrified brood too incongruous to carry with him; and I, for one, scarcely missed him. I was perfectly content in this world of women . . . bullied and tumbled through the hand-to-mouth days, patched or dressed-up, scolded, admired, swept off my feet in sudden passions of kisses, or dumped forgotten among the unwashed pots." Lee's memoir opens when he was just a baby younger than three years old and ends as he becomes a young man experiencing his first kiss. "I turned to look at Rosie. She was yellow and dusty with buttercups and seemed to be purring in the gloom; her hair was rich as a wild bee's nest and her eyes were full of stings. I did not know what to do about her, nor did I know what not to do. She looked smooth and precious, a thing of unplumbable mysteries, and perilous as quicksand." This beloved classic describes a lost world, a world reflecting the innocence and wonder of childhood, and illuminating an era without electricity or telephones. This is England on the cusp of the modern era, but it could have been anywhere. This may explain why Cider with Rosie became an instant bestseller when it was published in 1959, selling over six million copies in the UK alone, and continues to be read by children and adults all over the world. - Amazon (from The Midwest Book Review)
The Magic World
By Unknown Author
Twelve stories with magic occurrences.
Honey
By Unknown Author
It was an agonising moment for Mrs Milward - a situation which can be a nightmare for Women's Institutes when the prospective speaker for the Group Meeting of the Meadlands W.I. cried off just before the meeting was due to begin. Mrs. Milward was very conscious that 217 ladies, including all the chairmen and secretaries of the other Institutes, as well as the County Representative, would be coming - and there would be NO SPEAKER ! What could she do ? It was her daughter Honey, who suggested that one last bid should be made for the speaker's services - a bid which Honey decided to make herself. Honey never foresaw the far-reaching consequence which this simple mission was destined to bring upon herself. Honey Milward agreed to act as fiancee to the formidable plastic surgeon John Anston-- a man she'd always regarded as a monster. The arrangement was only for the benefit of John's visiting sister, an incorrigible matchmaker. Unfortunately, his sister's visit looked like it might be permanent. And to complicate matters even further, Honey found herself falling in love with him!
Time out of joint
By Unknown Author
Time Out of Joint is a dystopian novel by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in novel form in the United States in 1959. An abridged version was also serialised in the British science fiction magazine New Worlds Science Fiction in several installments from December 1959 to February 1960. The novel epitomizes many of Dick's themes with its concerns about the nature of reality and ordinary people in ordinary lives having the world unravel around them. The title is a reference to Shakespeare's play Hamlet. The line is uttered by Hamlet to Horatio after being visited by his father's ghost and learning that his uncle Claudius murdered his father; in short, a shocking supernatural event that fundamentally alters the way Hamlet perceives the state and the universe ("The time is out of joint; O cursed spite!/That ever I was born to set it right!" [I.V.211-2]), much as do several events in the novel. Ragle Gumm is an ordinary man leading an ordinary life, except that he makes his living by entering a newspaper contest every day -- and winning, every day. But he gradually begins to suspect that his life -- indeed his whole world -- is an illusion, constructed around him for the express purpose of keeping him docile and happy. But if that is the case, what is his real world like, and what is he actually doing every day when he thinks he is guessing 'Where Will The Little Green Man Be Next?'
What the Buddha taught
By Unknown Author
Clarifies the fundamental principles of Buddhist doctrine by explicating the original Pali text of the Tipitaka.
Little blue and little yellow
By Unknown Author
A little blue spot and a little yellow spot are best friends, and when they hug each other they become green.
Nine tomorrows
By Unknown Author
Nine Tomorrows is a collection of nine short stories and two pieces of comic verse by American writer Isaac Asimov. The pieces were all originally published in magazines between 1956 and 1958, with the exception of the closing poem, "Rejection Slips", which was original to the collection. The book was first published in the United States in 1959 and in the UK in 1963. It includes two of Asimov's favorite stories, "The Last Question" and "The Ugly Little Boy". Contents "I Just Make Them Up, See!" "Profession" "The Feeling of Power" "The Dying Night" (part of the Wendell Urth series) "I'm in Marsport Without Hilda" "The Gentle Vultures" "All the Troubles of the World" (part of the Multivac series) "Spell My Name with an S" "The Last Question" (loosely part of the Multivac series) "The Ugly Little Boy" "Rejection Slips"
Hawai
By Unknown Author
Michener gives us a broad scope of Hawaii, from the formation of the islands to modern day. I read this as a teen and am looking forward to reading it again, now many years later.Each chapter gives us a history of a different ethnic group, the Hawaiians, then the Chinese, Japanese ect, and how they contributed to the formation of something profoundly beautiful and profoundly sad, as the native Hawaiians don't stand a chance of hanging on to their paradise.The book has wonderful people, many based on real persons. The Calvanist missionaries who devote their lives to bringing the white man's God. Over the years the people I met in Hawaii have had a very real influence on me. But it also colored my understanding of big buisness, politicsand religion.
Hollywood Babylon
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1959.
Organic chemistry
By Unknown Author
A popular introduction to organic chemistry which stresses the importance of molecular structure in understanding the properties and principles of organic chemistry. Provides a wide variety of spectra to be analyzed. Features four-color photographs throughout.
Alas Babylon
By Unknown Author
A story of a group of people who rely on their own courage and ingenuity to survive in a town which escaped nuclear bombing.
Sammy the Seal
By Unknown Author
Anxious to see what life is like outside the zoo, Sammy the seal explores the city, goes to school, and plays with children but decides that there really is no place like home.
Goodbye, Columbus and five short stories
By Unknown Author
Dramatizations of aspects of American life seen through the comic or tragic predicament of American Jews.
Awful Auntie
By Unknown Author
From number one bestselling author David Walliams comes another heartfelt but hilarious hoot of an adventure Stella Saxby is the sole heir to Saxby Hall. But awful Aunt Alberta and her giant owl will stop at nothing to get it from her. Luckily Stella has a secret - and slightly spooky - weapon up her sleeve ...
For Your Eyes Only
By Unknown Author
"Bond watched her as she reached the edge of the tables and came up the aisle. It was hopeless. She was coming to meet someone—her lover. She was the sort of woman who always belongs to somebody else. What damnable luck! Before Bond could pull himself together, the girl had come up to his table and sat down. ‘I’m sorry I’m late. We’ve got to get moving at once. You’re wanted at the office.’ She added under her breath: ‘Crash dive.’" Sudden emergencies and beautiful girls who aren’t quite what they seem and are the stock-in-trade of James Bond. And when 007 is on the case there’s only one thing you can be sure of—the result will be thrilling. And whether he’s dealing with the assassination of a Cuban thug in America, the destruction of an international heroin ring, or sudden death in the Seychelles, Bond gets the job done. In his own suave and unmistakable style…
L'imagination sociologique
By Unknown Author
C. Wright Mills is best remembered for his highly acclaimed work The Sociological Imagination, in which he set forth his views on how social science should be pursued. Hailed upon publication as a cogent and hard-hitting critique, The Sociological Imagination took issue with the ascendant schools of sociology in the United States, calling for a humanist sociology connecting the social, personal, and historical dimensions of our lives. The sociological imagination Mills calls for is a sociological vision, a way of looking at the world that can see links between the apparently private problems of the individual and important social issues. Leading sociologist Todd Gitlin brings this fortieth anniversary edition up to date with a lucid introduction in which he considers the ways social analysis has progressed since Mills first published his study in 1959. A classic in the field, this book still provides rich food for our imagination.
Freedom from the known
By Unknown Author
A MASTERPIECE FROM JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI ON FREEDOM. THE AUTHOR SAYS ABOUT THE CHAINS IN WHICH THE PRESENT MAN LIVE,ABOUT HIS FEARS OF THE KNOWN AND FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN. HE EMPLOYS A WITTY SARCASM AT THE WAY IN WHICH PEOPLE ARE READY TO ACCEPT THE IDEOLOGICAL TYRANNY OF RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS WHEN THEY ARE NOT READY TO ACCEPT ANY KIND OF POLITICAL DICTATORSHIP. FREEDOM FROM ALL THE SHACKLES THAT DRAW US BACKWARD FROM BEING A UNIVERSAL CITIZEN-THAT IS THE CORE TOPIC DISCUSSED IN THIS BOOK.
Il gattopardo
By Unknown Author
The acclaimed novel by Lampedusa gives an exquisite portrait of a despotic Sicilian aristocrat. The story unfolds over the duration of Italian reunification during the nineteenth century, beginning at the time when Garibaldi’s forces have landed on Sicily as part of his drive to unify and modernise the country.
The masks of God
By Unknown Author
The author of such acclaimed books as Hero With a Thousand Faces and The Power of Myth discusses the primitive roots of mythology, examining them in light of the most recent discoveries in archaeology, anthropology, and psychology
Miguel Street
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1959.
This is my God
By Unknown Author
This Is My God is Herman Wouk's famous introduction to Judaism completely updated and revised with a new chapter, Israel at Forty. A miracle of brevity, it guides readers through the world's oldest practicing religion with all the power, clarity and wit of Wouk's celebrated novels.
To Sir, With Love
By Unknown Author
A black teacher from British Guiana describes how he overcame the hostility and prejudices of his students in a London slum school.
The case of the mythical monkeys
By Unknown Author
It all began when pretty Gladys Doyle lost her way and was forced to spend the night in a remote cabin. The next morning she discovered her handsome host gone and a stranger in his place - dead as the proverbial herring. There follows a courtroom scene in the best Perry Mason tradition, with a most reticent group of witnesses: a lady author whose realistic novel is a bit too true to life; Edgar Carlisle, equally talented at telling stories; Richard Gilman, an old hand at the disappearing act; and a smart, sharp operator never at a loss for clever plots. Action and suspense are at their height and the adroit Mason at his legal best in this superb mystery.
The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1959.
Il cavaliere inesistente
By Unknown Author
138 pages ; 20 cm
Love in Hiding
By Unknown Author
NO ESCAPE From the moment Gretna set out for London she was entangled in a web of perilous adventure. Her sudden encounter with the strange Marquis of Stade introduced her to a world of reckless pleasure seekers. When she arrived in London she found herself plunged into the vain social whirl of her Aunt Maria -- the woman whose liaison with the Prince of Wales was infamous. Gretna was being pressed into a compromise by the deadly Lord Wroxhall--and she discovered that the fascinating Marquis of Stade was her aunt's sworn enemy. Gretna knew she couldn't escape the terrifying demands of her new glittering world--but she also knew that she must pay a terrible price for her quest for love....
The Menace from Earth
By Unknown Author
Earth seems a sinister planet hanging in the sky. But to the Pluto colony, Earth Satellite Base holds the only possible reprieve from a terrifying death sentence. And on Earth itself, alien intelligence prowls the skies, kidnapping people for its own inhuman amusement - book cover.
Mathilda
By Unknown Author
Relatando la historia desde su lecho de muerte, Matilda cuenta la historia de la confesión de su padre sobre el amor incestuoso que sentía hacia ella, seguido por su suicidio mediante ahogamiento; su relación con un talentoso poeta joven llamado Woodville fracasa ante el objetivo de remendar las emociones de Matilda o prevenir su muerte solitaria.
Galactic Derelict
By Unknown Author
Galactic Derelict, is the second novel of The Time Trader series. It continues with the premise of an encounter between Western Heros and a mysterious alien race that has used time travel to alter earth. This novel shifts, between present day and the time of Folsom Man, some 10,000 years ago.
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
By Unknown Author
The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name for himself in society. This film chronicles his short and dubious rise to power, as well as his changing relationships with family and friends. Along the way the film explores the themes of anti-semitism and the responsibilities which come with adulthood. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz is the story of a young Jewish man from Montreal who learns lessons in life from a series of people who serve as his mentors. As their apprentice, he is given the opportunity to observe their lives and learn from them, and as he does, he carves a course for a life he believes will bring him power and money.
Introduction to jurisprudence
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1959.
The Manchurian candidate
By Unknown Author
Sgt Raymond Shaw is a hero of the first order. He's an ex-prisoner of war who saved the life of his entire outfit, a winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, the stepson of an influential senator...and the perfect assassin. Brainwashed during his time as a POW he is a 'sleeper', a living weapon to be triggered by a secret signal. He will act without question, no matter what order he is made to carry out. To stop Shaw, his former commanding officer must uncover the truth behind a twisted conspiracy of torture, betrayal and power that will lead to the highest levels of the government...
Identity and the life cycle
By Unknown Author
Three of Erikson's early papers, now seen as bases for his later theories, include observations on groups and children, an elaboration of the critical stages in the life cycle, and a multilateral study of ego identity.
Introduction to electric circuits
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1959.
Aimez-vous Brahms...
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1959.
The Lantern Bearers
By Unknown Author
Instead of leaving with the last of the Roman legions, Aquila, a young officer, decides that his loyalties lie with Britain, and he eventually joins the forces of the Roman-British leader Ambrosius to fight against the Saxon hordes. Historical fiction.
Walkabout
By Unknown Author
Mary and her young brother Peter are the only survivors of an aircrash in the middle of the Australian desert. Facing death from exhaustion and starvation, they meet an aboriginal boy who helps them to survive, and guides them along their long journey. But a terrible misunderstanding results in a tragedy that neither Mary nor Peter will ever forget...
The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag
By Unknown Author
SciFi - The novella The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (1942). Short stories are: " -- And He Built a Crooked House"; "They --"; "Our Fair City"; "The Man Who Traveled in Elephants"; and, "-- All You Zombies --".
Howl
By Unknown Author
This annotated version of Ginsberg's classic is the poet's own re-creation of the revolutionary work's composition process, along with anecdotes and an intimate look at the poet's writing techniques.
The Divided Self
By Unknown Author
First published in 1960, this watershed work aimed to make madness comprehensible, and in doing so revolutionized the way we perceive mental illness. Using case studies of patients he had worked with, psychiatrist R. D. Laing argued that psychosis is not a medical condition but an outcome of the 'divided self', or the tension between the two personas within us: one our authentic, private identity, and the other the false, 'sane' self that we present to the world.
Madeline and the gypsies
By Unknown Author
Pepito, son of the Spanish Ambassador, and Madeline, rescued by gypsies during a storm, travel and perform with their wandering friends until they again find Miss Clavel
Sleep walkers
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1959.
Introduction to mathematical statistics
By Unknown Author
The fifth edition of this text offers a careful presentation of the probability needed for mathematical statistics and the mathematics of statistical inference.
Poems
By Unknown Author
The sixteen volumes are published with the goal that Hughes pursued throughout his lifetime: making his books available to the people. Each volume will include a biographical and literary chronology by Arnold Rampersad, as well as an introduction by a Hughes scholar lume introductions will provide contextual and historical information on the particular work.
Karel Appel
By Unknown Author
427 p. : 21 cm
The motivation to work
By Unknown Author
"When first published, Motivation to Work challenged the received wisdom by showing that worker fulfillment came from achievement and growth within the job itself. In his new introduction Herzberg examines thirty years of motivational research in job-related areas."--Back cover.
Father Bear comes home
By Unknown Author
Describes the adventures of Little Bear in which he goes fishing, has the hiccups, looks for a mermaid, and welcomes Father Bear home from the sea.
Happy birthday to You!
By Unknown Author
Describes a birthday celebration in Katroo presided over by the Birthday Bird.
Short stories
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1959.
The proud tower
By Unknown Author
The fateful quarter-century leading up to the Great War comes magnificently to life in these pages. It was a time when the world of Privilege still existed in Olympian luxury and the world of Protest was "heaving in its pain, its power and its hate." The age was the climax of a century of the most accelerated rate of change in man's record, a cataclysmic shaping of destiny. In portraying this world Barbara Tuchman concentrates on society rather than the state. Her aim, as she writes in her foreword, is "to discover the quality of the world from which the Great War came." - Jacket flap.
Machinerys Handbook
By Unknown Author
Machinery's Handbook has been the most popular reference work in metalworking, design, engineering and manufacturing facilities, and in technical schools and colleges throughout the world for nearly 100 years. It is universally acknowledged as an extraordinarily authoritative, comprehensive, and practical tool, providing its users with the most fundamental and essential aspects of sophisticated manufacturing practice. The 29th edition of the "bible of the metalworking industries" contains major revisions of existing content, as well as new material on a variety of topics. It is the essential reference for mechanical, manufacturing, and industrial engineers, designers, draftsmen, toolmakers, machinists, engineering and technology students, and the serious home hobbyist. - Publisher.
Basic electronics
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1959.
A Taste of Honey
By Unknown Author
A Taste of Honey tells the story of a working-class adolescent girl and her various relationships: the black sailor who gets her pregnant; the homosexual art student who moves into her apartment to help her through the pregnancy; her fun-loving and saloon-frequenting mother; and Peter, her mothers newly acquired husband.
House of Lorraine
By Unknown Author
Nicole Herriot took a dislike to Pierre Dubois the moment she met him, and worked hard to free her uncle's world-famous couture firm from his influence. Then she found, belatedly, that her feelings towards him were changing ... yet she could not turn aside from the path she had marked out. Her loyalty was still to the House of Lorraine, and to Lucien Chausson whom she had promised to marry. While Pierre, it seemed, was himself bound to the glamorous Janice Worth. Would the situation ever sort itself out?
The birthday party
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1959.
Final Diagnosis, The
By Unknown Author
A story of the life and death struggles in a large hospital, it focuses on Joe Pearson, the chief pathologist who must make the final diagnosis on every patient, and eventually on himself.
Dear and glorious physician
By Unknown Author
The world-famous novel about the triumphant story of St. Luke, man of science, and Gospel writer<P> Today St. Luke is known as the author of the third Gospel of the New Testament, but two thousand years ago he was Lucanus, a Greek, a man who loved, knew the emptiness of bereavement, and later traveled through the hills and wastes of Judea asking, "What manner of man was my Lord?" And it is of this Lucanus that Taylor Caldwell tells here in one of the most stirring stories ever lived or written.<P> Lucanus grew up in the household of his stepfather, the Roman govenor of Antioch. After studying medicine in Alexandria he became one of the greatest physicians of the ancient world and traveled far and wide through the Mediterranean region healing the sick. <P> As time went on he learned of the life and death of Christ and saw in Him the God he was seeking. To find out all he could about the life and teachings of Jesus, whom he never saw, Lucanus visited all the places where Jesus had been, questioning everyone--including His mother, Mary--who had known Him or heard Him preach. At last, when he had gathered all information possible, he wrote down what we now know as the Gospel according to St. Luke. <P> Taylor Caldwell has chosen the grand, the splendid means to tell of St. Luke. Her own travels through the Holy Land and years of meticulous research made Dear and Glorious Physician a fully developed portrait of a complex and brilliant man and a colorful re-creation of ancient Roman life as it contrasted in its decadence with the new world Christianity was bringing into being. Here is a story to warm, to inspire, to call forth renewal of faith and love lying deep in each reader's heart.
Brown girl, brownstones
By Unknown Author
"Set in Brooklyn during the Depression and World War II, this is the story of a Selina Boyce, the daughter of Barbadian immigrants. She is caught between the struggles of her hard-working, ambitious mother, who wnats to "buy house" and educate her daughters, and her father, who longs to return to the land in Barbados. Selina seeks to define her own identity and values as she struggles to surmount the racism and poverty that surround her."--Page 4 of cover.
Secret Seven Fireworks
By Unknown Author
*Secret Seven Fireworks*, is mainly about with the battle of wits between the Seven and Susie's new club, the Tiresome Three. There is the investigation of a burglary as well, but the S.S. allow themselves to be distracted by the T.T. so much that Susie is not filler in this story, but a main part of it.
Zazie dans le métro
By Unknown Author
Impish, foul-mouthed Zazie arrives in Paris from the country to stay with her uncle Gabriel. All she really wants to do is ride the metro, but finding it shut because of a strike, Zazie looks for other means of amusement and is soon caught up in a comic adventure that becomes wilder and more manic by the minute.
The future as history
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1959.
Arabian sands
By Unknown Author
Story of five years of travel with the nomad Arabs in the unknown deserts of Southern Arabia.
Electronic communication
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1959.
Jean and Johnny
By Unknown Author
First DateFifteen-year-old Jean is astonished when a handsome Johnny whirls her 'round the dance floor. She's never given much thought to boys before; now Johnny is all that's on her mind. Finally she finds the courage to invite him to a dance. But the excitement of a new dress and a scheme to take Johnny's photograph cannot stop jean's growing uneasiness that she likes Johnny a lot more than he likes her . . .This high-school story, which is both funny and touching, is about a girl who lacks self-confidence, and a boy who has too much.
Experiencing architecture
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1959.
Nine days to Christmas
By Unknown Author
Ceci anxiously awaits her first posada, the special Mexican Christmas party, and the opportunity to select a piñata for it.
Audio cyclopedia
By Unknown Author
Great book about all the facets of sound and sound recording. The book is in the form of Q & A
The Pictorial Key to the Tarot
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1959.
The Pink Motel
By Unknown Author
When Kirby, Bitsy, and their parents inherit an unusual and very pink motel in Florida, they find it filled with eccentric characters, mystery, and adventure.
The encyclopedia of witchcraft and demonology
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1959.
The first fast draw
By Unknown Author
East Texas wasn't much of a home for Cullen Baker. Few liked him, and some even tried to kill him. Yet after three hard years of wandering, he's come back to farm the land that is rightfully his. Only Cullen's in for an unwelcome homecoming: His neighbors have long memories, the Reconstructionist have greedy hearts, and his worst enemy has teamed up with a vicious outlaw. But Cullen isn't about to back down. Instead he's intent on perfecting a new way of gunfighting: the fast draw. And now, with enemies closing in on three sides and threating the woman he loves, he'll have to be faster than lightning - and twice as deadly - just to survive.
Hustler (Alpha Books)
By Unknown Author
"Fast" Eddie knows the scene. He knows the alcohol, he knows the road, he knows the men, and -- most importantly -- he knows the hustle. After years of beating everyone he can on the road, Eddie is getting tired of it all and dreams of something bigger. The greatest pool player in the world, to him, is Minnesota Fats, top-stick in New York who hasn't lost a game in years. Eddie has the skills he needs to be the best if he lets his skills transcend his arrogance. Tevis has written a heartbreaking treatise on a mix of many themes propping up the his big point: We lose if we choose to lose. An opponent gets the upper hand if they chose to win.
Ökonomisch-philosophische Manuskripte aus dem Jahre 1844
By Unknown Author
" ... Marx explains how, under capitalism, people rely on labor to live. In the past people could rely on nature itself for their natural needs; in modern society, if one wants to eat, one must work: it is only through money that one may survive. Thus [a person] becomes a slave to his wages. It is only through his work that he can find enough money to continue to live; but he doesn't simply live, he actually only survives, as a worker. Labor is only used to create more wealth, instead of achieving the fulfillment of human nature."
The Borrowers afloat
By Unknown Author
The Borrowers, a family of miniature people, journey down a drain, live briefly in a teakettle, and are swept away in a flood before finding a new home. Sequel to "The Borrowers Afield."
The case of the deadly toy
By Unknown Author
ENGAGED TO A NIGHTMARE When Norda Allison sees her husband-to-be slap his young son, she immediately calls off the wedding. Now she is terrified. Her ex-fiancé has beat up her new boyfriend. Anonymous newspaper clippings are flooding her mailbox--articles graphically depicting what jilted men do to the women who leave them. Then Norda's life takes an even darker turn. It begins with a barking dog, a child's scream, a gunshot, and the discovery of a very dead body--and ends when Norda is arrested, charged with a brutal murder. Now only brilliant courtroom strategist Perry Mason stands between Norda and a sentence of certain death . . .
Research in education
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1959.
Wisdom of the West
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1959.
Level 7
By Unknown Author
A chillingly calm first person account of Armageddon, from the point of view of a low-level military functionary. This account should make you think, and should terrify you.
A concise history of modern painting
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1959.
The flame trees of Thika
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1959.
The secret of the golden pavilion
By Unknown Author
Nancy Drew, her lovely blue eyes sparkling with excitement, stared in fascination from the cabin of a private helicopter. The craft was headed for the River Heights airport, a few miles beyond. Below, the rooftops of the town stood out clearly in the moonlight. - Chapter 1, The Secret of The Golden Pavilion.
An v de la révolution algérienne
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1959.
Weisse Spinne
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1959.
Eating people is wrong
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1959.
Soil, Grass and Cancer
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1959.
More About Paddington CD
By Unknown Author
The Peruvian bear decorates, turns detective, and helps with Christmas shopping, along with other disasters.
Tarzan at the Earth's Core
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1959.
James Joyce
By Unknown Author
**James Joyce** by Richard Ellmann was published in 1959 (a revised edition was released in 1982). It provides an intimate and detailed account of the life of Irish modernist James Joyce, which informs an understanding of this author’s complex works. (Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Joyce_(biography)))
Advise and Consent
By Unknown Author
Allen Drury’s *Advise and Consent* is one of the high points of 20th Century literature, a seminal work of political fiction—as relevant today as when it was first published. A sweeping tale of corruption and ambition cuts across the landscape of Washington, DC, with the breadth and realism that only an astute observer and insider can convey. Allen Drury has penetrated the world’s stormiest political battleground—the smoke-filled committee rooms of the United States Senate—to reveal the bitter conflicts set in motion when the President calls upon the Senate to confirm his controversial choice for Secretary of State. This novel is a true epic showing in fascinating detail the minds and motives of the statesmen, the opportunists, the idealists. From a Senate old-timer’s wily maneuvers, a vicious demagogue’s blistering smear campaign, the ugly personal jealousies that turn a highly qualified candidate into a public spectacle, to the tragic martyrdom of a presidential aspirant who refuses to sacrifice his principles for his career—never has there been a more revealing picture of Washington’s intricate political, diplomatic, and social worlds. *Advise and Consent* is a timeless story with clear echoes of today’s headlines.
The Getaway
By Unknown Author
Doc McCoy knows everything there is to know about pulling off the perfect bank job. But there are some things he has forgotten--such as a partner who is not only treacherous but insane and a wife who is still an amateur. Worst of all, McCoy has forgotten that when the crime is big and bloody enough, there is no such thing as a clean getaway.
Les Possédés
By Unknown Author
Théâtre avec 23 personnages : 6 femmes, 17 hommes.
The silent language
By Unknown Author
In the everyday but unspoken give-and-take of human relationships, the silent language plays a vitally important role. Here, a leading American anthropologist has analyzed the many ways in which people talk to one another without the use of works. The pecking order in a chicken yard, the fierce competition in a school playground, every unwitting gesture and action-this is the vocabulary of the silent language. According to Dr. Hall, the concepts of space and time are tools with which all human beings may transmit messages. Space, for example, is the outgrowth of an animalʼs instinctive defense of his lair and is reflected in human society by the office workerʼs jealous defense of his desk, or the guarded, walled patio of a Latin-American home. Similarly, the concept of time, varying from Western precision to Eastern vagueness, Is revealed by the businessman who pointedly keeps a client waiting, or the South Pacific islander who murders his neighbor for an injustice suffered twenty years ago. Includes information on American culture, Americans overseas, Arabs, formal cultural systems, informal cultural systems, Middle East, Navajo, patterns, Pueblo Indians, sets, space, Spanish culture, time, etc.
Secret of the Lost Race
By Unknown Author
The orphaned Joktar is on the run. A xenophobic maniac wants him dead because of his mysterious origins. He is sent fleeing for his life, leaving behind his life as a curiously young-looking Casino Dealer in the spaceport of N'Yok. He is captured and shipped as slave labor to the company run ice planet of Fenris. He escapes captivity and survives against all odds, with the help of some of his strange genetic quirks. He falls in with a group of freedom fighters, and finds a mysterious mentor. He thinks he is safe, but his enemies find him again. This time he decides to fight back... Nonstop action, and Norton's wonderfully drawn characters make this a must read for anyone who loves space opera!
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
By Unknown Author
A short story collection featuring, in the title story, one of Sillitoe’s very best. The story concerns a teenaged boy from a poor working class background who is sent to a borstal for robbery and takes up long-distance running as a way of temporarily escaping from both his present situation and his bleak future prospects. Seeing his natural ability the institution Governor enters him into a race against a top local school, expecting to reap the kudos from the boy’s performance. On the day however, the boy rebels against the way he is being used, thereby denying the Governor his reflected glory. Perhaps one of the most revered works of fiction in the twentieth-century, iThe Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner /iis a modern classic about integrity, courage, and bucking the system. Its title story recounts the story of a reform school cross-country runner who seizes the perfect opportunity to defy the authority that governs his life. It is a pure masterpiece. From there the collection expands even further from the touching ldquo;On Saturday Afternoonrdquo; to the rollicking ldquo;The Decline and Fall and Frankie Buller.rdquo; Beloved for its lean prose, unforgettable protagonists, and real-life wisdom,i The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner/i captured the voice of a generation, and its poignant and empowering life lessons will continue to captivate and entertain readers for generations to come.br#160;
Groucho and Me
By Unknown Author
Surprisingly good autobiography from the master of wit and the quick-fire quip
Le rhinocéros
By Unknown Author
absurdist theatre samuel french publisher 1960
Le sacré et le profane
By Unknown Author
Famed historian of religion Mircea Eliade observes that even moderns who proclaim themselves residents of a completely profane world are still unconsciously nourished by the memory of the sacred. Eliade traces manifestations of the sacred from primitive to modern times in terms of space, time, nature, and the cosmos. In doing so he shows how the total human experience of the religious man compares with that of the nonreligious. This book serves as an excellent introduction to the history of religion, but its perspective also emcompasses philosophical anthropology, phenomenology, and psychology. It will appeal to anyone seeking to discover the potential dimensions of human existence. -- P. [4] of cover.
The Beast Master
By Unknown Author
Is a science fiction novel which tells the story of Hosteen Storm, a Navajo and former soldier who has empathic and telepathic connections with a group of genetically altered animals. The team emigrates from Earth to the distant planet Arzor where he is hired to herd livestock. Storm still harbors anger at his former enemies the Xik, and has sworn revenge on a man named Quade for his father's murder. According to Kirkus he finds "life and hope" instead.
Sweet bird of youth
By Unknown Author
A masseur-gigolo takes a has-been actress from Hollywood to his home in the South, believing that her money and faded glamour might help him achieve a life-long dream.
Le secret de la licorne
By Unknown Author
A clue hidden in a toy ship leads Tintin on a dangerous treasure hunt.
The Hills is Lonely
By Unknown Author
Delightful memoir of a retired schoolteacher who went crofting on a remote Hebridean island and fell in love with the place and its people.
The Magic Christian
By Unknown Author
This is a prescient description of Donald Trump and the current American political fiasco, obviously written either with the use of a Time Machine or while in a prescient trance.
Mythologies
By Unknown Author
Collection of folklore stories re-told by Yeats. It gathers three of his other books, The Celtic Twilight, The Secret Rose and Stories of Red Hanrahan.
Billard um halb zehn
By Unknown Author
After being drawn into the Second World War to command retreating German forces despite his anti-Nazi feelings, Faehmel struggles to re-establish a normal life at war's end by creating a rigorous routine for himself, which includes a daily game of billiards.
The little disturbances of man
By Unknown Author
Grace Paley explores the "little disturbances" that lie behind our everyday lives. Whether writing about sexy little girls, loving and bickering couples, angry suburbanites, frustrated job-seekers, or Jewish children performing a Christmas play, she captures the loneliness, poignancy, and humor of human experience with matchless style.
Free Fall
By Unknown Author
Somehow, somewhere, Sammy Mountjoy lost his freedom, the faculty of free will 'that cannot be debated but only experienced, like a colour or the taste of potatoes'.
The haunted lagoon
By Unknown Author
"Impossible!" the girls gasped. Louise and Jean Dana stare unbelievingly through the swirling mists in an isolated lagoon. In mid-air floats a fantastic apparition -- a full-rigged sailing ship! The next moment, the phantomlike vessel dissolves in the fog. Little did the Dana sisters dream, when invited to visit fascinating Chincoteague Island off the Virginia coast, where wild ponies roam, that their carefree vacation would turn into a challenging and exciting mystery. To find the solution, Louise and Jean must find an ex-sea captain, Tracy Forsythe, whose once proud career was ruined under tragic circumstances during a shipwreck years ago. In their efforts to locate the missing man and help the captain's heartbroken family clear his name, the two young sleuths are thwarted constantly by a sinister enemy who resorts to desperate measures to prevent them from unearthing the truth.
Noces / L'Été
By Unknown Author
The themes of poverty, sport, and the horror of human mortality all figure prominently in his volumes of so-called Algerian essays: Noces (Nuptials, 1938), and L'Eté (Summer, 1954).
The secret of the old clock / The hidden staircase
By Unknown Author
Sixteen-year-old Nancy Drew wishes to help the Turners, who are struggling relatives of the recently deceased Josiah Crowley, by finding a missing will that can give them claim to Crowely's estate.
The Reluctant Guest
By Unknown Author
When Ann Calvert went to spend a month on a South African farm with Theo Borland and his sister, she expected a pleasant holiday; just that. But she got both less and more than she bargained for. Both Theo and Elva proved to be different from her first idea of them, and there was a totally unexpected element in the person of Storr Peterson -- the most dynamic and disturbing man she had ever met.
The Last Frontier
By Unknown Author
Maclean's first spy thriller focuses on a British secret agent operating in Hungary during the Cold War.
The Gammage Cup (The Minnipins #1)
By Unknown Author
The Minnipins have lost their past. Long ago, the hero Gammage led them in war against the horrible Hairless Ones. But now -- Bravery? Forgotten. Courage? No more. Heroes? The stuff of storybooks. Yet sometimes heroes turn up when they are least expected.... Muggles, Gummy the poet, and Walter the Earl are not like the other Minnipins. They dress differently, speak their minds, and -- when Walter the Earl finds a package of old scrolls and swords -- dare to disagree with the Minnipin leaders. For their troubles, they are banished from their village. But Walter the Earl found the weapons for a reason: The Hairless Ones have returned. And this time there is no Gammage to protect the Minnipins. This time there are only Muggles and her friends, outlaws who must rescue the very people who have cast them out.
The moon jumpers
By Unknown Author
Four children play in the moonlight before bedtime on a soft summer night.
The Town House
By Unknown Author
The Town House" is the first in a trilogy of novels by Norah Lofts about the inhabitants of a country house in Suffolk from the late fourteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. It begins with the story of Martin Reed, a serf existing under the control of a universally accepted and supported hierarchy. His rebellion, in defence of the woman he loves, casts both of them into the unknown. Freed from his acceptance of circumstance, Reed forges a new path, a path which culminates in the building of the House, and the foundations of a dynasty.
Slavery; a problem in American institutional and intellectual life
By Unknown Author
From the publisher. This third edition of Stanley M. Elkin's classic study offers two new chapters by the author. The first, "Slavery and Ideology," considers the discussion and criticism occasioned by this controversial work. Elkins amplifies his original purpose in writing the book and takes into consideration the substantial body of critical commentary. He also attempts a prediction on the course of future research and discussion.
The silver brumby
By Unknown Author
A silver brumby is special, but he will be hunted by man and horse alike, and must be stronger than both. Thowra, the magnificent silver stallion, is king of the brumbies. But he must defend his herd from the mighty horse, The Brolga, in the most savage of struggles. But that is not the only danger. Thowra needs all his speed and cunning to save his herd from capture by man. In a desperate chase through the mountains, it seems there is no longer anywhere for him to run to... Blurb from the 1968 edition published by Granada (first published 1958)
The Girls in 3-B
By Unknown Author
An honest, explosive novel that turns conventional ideas of 1950s feminity upside down, The Girls in 3-B reveals in page-turning detail the hidden world of mid-century America, showcasing predatory Beatnick men, workplace intrigues, drug hallucinations, repressed family secrets, and clandestine lesbian trysts. From the hip-hang of a bohemian lifestyle to the sophisticated lure of a wealthy boss to the habbier —but taboo— security of a lesbian relationship these three women experience first-hand the adventures and the limitations that await spirited young working women who strike out on their own in a decidedly male-centered world.
Le Dernier des Justes
By Unknown Author
**The Last of the Just** is a post-war novel by André Schwarz-Bart originally published in French (as *Le Dernier des justes*) in 1959. It was published in an English translation by Stephen Becker in 1960. It was Schwarz-Bart’s first book and won the Prix Goncourt, France’s highest literary prize. The author was the son of a Polish Jewish family murdered by the Nazis and he based the story on the massacre in York. The story follows the "Just Men" of the Levy family over eight centuries. Each Just Man is a Lamed Vav, one of the thirty-six righteous souls whose existence justifies the purpose of humankind to God. Each "bear the world’s pains… beginning with the execution of an ancestor in 12th-century York, Englan… culminat[ing] in the story of a schoolboy, Ernie, the last… executed at Auschwitz." It has been described as an enduring classic that reminds "how easily torn is the precious fabric of civilization, and how destructive are the consequences of dumb hatred-whether a society’s henchmen are permitted to beat an Ernie Levy because he’s Jewish, or because he’s black or gay or Hispanic or homeless." Gilbert Highet, a Book-of-the-Month Club judge called it, "the saddest novel I have ever read, almost as sad as history." (Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_of_the_Just))
Maggie Cassidy
By Unknown Author
Maggie Cassidy tells the story of Jean and Maggie, a couple of girls in love with the idea of being in love, looking ahead to marriage with hope and trepidation whilst trying to mature in a New England mill town in the 1950s.
Norman the doorman
By Unknown Author
Norman, the doorman of a mouse hole in an art museum, uses his own art talent and finds a way to see the art treasures in the galleries upstairs
Versprechen
By Unknown Author
A detective, unsatisfied with a suspect's confession to the murder of a little girl, tries to use another girl as bait to catch the killer.
Schaum's outline of theory and problems of vector analysis
By Unknown Author
The guide to vector analysis that helps students study faster, learn better, and get top grades.
Onion John
By Unknown Author
His friendship with the town odd-jobs man, Onion John, causes a conflict between Andy and his father.
Pan Book of Horror Stories
By Unknown Author
Twenty-one stories to make you bristle and shiver. Twenty-one stories to disturb your dreams. Twenty-one stories on the wings of terror. By twenty-one of the greatest masters of the macabre ever to write in the English language.
The Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles & Diversions
By Unknown Author
Paradoxes and paperfolding, moebius variations and mnemonics, fallacies, brain-teasers, magic squares, topological curiosities, probability and parlor tricks, and a variety of ancient and new games and problems, from polyominoes, nim, hex and the Tower of Hanoi to four-dimensional ticktacktoe. Together with mathematical commentaries by Mr. Gardner and addenda from readers of Scientific American. Plus bibliographies and, of course, solutions.
The Hardy boys detective handbook
By Unknown Author
Police science is one of the youngest and most rapidly growing professions in the United States today. I have revised this handbook for fans of Frank and Joe Hardy who are interested in learning about modern police practices. The first seven chapters, based upon true stories from police files, illustrate how Frank and Joe use the various facets of police technology while tracking down criminals. Further uses of these techniques -- fingerprinting, surveillance, and other related skills in the science of criminal investigation -- are detailed in the last five chapters. William F. Flynn, FBI Special Agent who recently retired, acted as my consultant in the preparation of this revised edition. It is our sincere hope that many readers of this handbook will someday join the ranks of our country's brave and dedicated law-enforcement officers who fight the never-ending war against crime. - Foreword.
The river at Green Knowe
By Unknown Author
An English girl, a Polish refugee, and a displaced boy from the Orient explore an island-strewn river flowing past the ancient manor house of Green Knowe.
Shock treatment
By Unknown Author
A TV salesman, Peter Regan, falls in love with Gilda Delaney, the wife of a wheelchair bound bully. She had never stopped blaming herself for the accident that crippled her husband. At least, that was the story she told him - a story he had no reason to doubt, infatuated as he was with everything about her. Peter therefore decides to murder the bully with an ingenious plan using a TV set as the murder weapon. It was only afterwards that he began to wonder....
Principles of optics
By Unknown Author
“Principles of Optics” is one of the classic science books of the twentieth century, and probably the most influential book on optics written in the last 50 years. It is a self-contained comprehenxive account of classical optics written clearly and succintly.
The joy of music
By Unknown Author
Illustrated talks on music appreciation, based on the author's "Omnibus" television shows. Includes expanded scripts of seven of the shows.
Primitive Rebels
By Unknown Author
**Primitive Rebels** is a 1959 book by Eric Hobsbawm on pre-modern European social movements and social banditry. (Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive_Rebels))
Still Glides the Stream
By Unknown Author
When Will Hastie finally decides to retire from the military and return home to Scotland, he intends to settle down on his family estate and learn to become a farmer. But back home, the death of his best friend and neighbour, Rae, during World War Two is still strongly felt. In particular, Rae's sister, Patty, has been brooding for the past 10 years over Rae's final letter home from France. When she decides to share the letter with Will, it sends him off to France to discover for himself the circumstances of Rae's death. And his discovery there changes the lives of all those left behind...
I Am a Woman
By Unknown Author
She looked around the Cellar with Laura following her gaze. "I know most of the girls in here ... I've probably slept with half of them. I've lived with half of the half I've slept with. I've loved half of of the half I've lived with." "L for Love," Beebo said, looking into space. "L for Laura." She turned and smiled at her, "L for Lust and L for the L of it. L for Lesbian, L for Let's--let's," she said, and blew smoke softly into Laura's ear.
The Marquise of O--
By Unknown Author
From 'The Marquis of O--', in which a woman is made pregnant without her knowledge, to the vivid and inexplicable suffering portrayed in 'The Earthquake in Chile', his stories are those of a man swimming against the tide of the German Enlightenment, unable to believe in the idealistic humanism of his day, and who sees human nature as irrational, ambiguous and baffling. It is this loss of faith, together with his vulnerability and disequilibrium, his pronounced sense of evil, his desperate challenge to established values and beliefs, that carries Kleist more forcefully than Goethe or Schiller across the gap between the eighteenth century and today.
Américains
By Unknown Author
From the Publisher: In 1958, the first edition of Robert Frank's The Americans was published in Paris. Les Americains contained Frank's 83 photographs in the same sequence as all subsequent editions, with the image on the right hand page, but juxtaposed with historical texts about American society and politics, gathered by Alain Bosquet. The following year, in the first American edition, the French texts were removed and an introduction by Jack Kerouac was added. Over the subsequent 50 years, The Americans has been republished in many editions, in numerous languages, with a variety of cover designs and even in a range of sizes. It is the most famous photography book ever published, and it changed the face of the medium forever. Robert Frank discussed with his publisher, Gerhard Steidl, the idea of producing a new edition using modern scanning and the finest tritone printing. The starting point was to bring original prints from New York to Gottingen, Germany, where Steidl is based. In July 2007, Frank visited Gottingen. A new format for the book was worked out and new typography selected. A new cover was designed and Frank chose the book cloth, foil for embossing and the endpaper. Most significantly, as he has done for every edition of The Americans, Frank changed the cropping of many of the photographs, usually including more information. Two images were changed completely from the original 1958 and 1959 editions.
Stranger than science
By Unknown Author
This book is an absolutely factual account of weird happenings and astounding discoveries which science cannot explain. It is a collection of dramatic stories that would be totally incredible if they were not true. It is a world of dreams that have shown themselves to be true. ..of humans with superhuman powers. ..of chilling encounters with creatures that can be found in no natural science text book.. .and of even more terrifying experiences with beings and objects not of the planet Earth.
The plant sitter
By Unknown Author
A boy cares for his neighbors' plants while they go on vacation.
The breaking point
By Unknown Author
Every Sunday afternoon James Fenton and his wife took their usual walk. The pattern never changed. Then Fenton reached his breaking point. The idea of escape had never occurred to him before. But suddenly something clicked in his brain. He was aware of a sense of power within. He was in control. He was the master hand that set the puppets jiggling. So Fenton chose #8 Boulting Street as a starting point for the greatest adventure of his life. He rang the bell and a young woman answered. Fenton had the impulse to say "I have come to strangle you." Instead he took off his hat and smiled. "Do you rent rooms?" has asked.
The case of the singing skirt
By Unknown Author
ix, 313 p. (large print) ; 22 cm
The cultural unity of Negro Africa
By Unknown Author
"The Cultural Unity of Black Africa is a profound contribution to the universal store of knowledge in that it situates the geographical and cultural origins of patriarchy and matriarchy in Europe and Africa respectively, and shows that social systems evolve out of specific climatic and environmental factors. These proclivities predispose the inhabitants of both zones towards a particular world-view and thus meaningful conflict. Diop also demonstrates the extensive influence of ancient Egypt on classical Greece in terms of literature, science and philosophy." -- Publisher's description.
Voodoo Planet
By Unknown Author
This short novel, Voodoo Planet, features Dane Thorson, a young man fortunate enough to land a job on the Free Trader ship, the "Solar Queen." Plying their trade among the stars, Free Traders visit planets--known and unknown--in search of profit. (Another novel featuring Dane Thorson, Plague Ship, is also available.) In Voodoo Planet, Captain Gaelic and the ship's medic, Tau, are invited to Khatka, a world settled by African refugees, to held unravel the secret of a witch doctor's growing power. Dane is invited along as cover, much to his delight. Khatka has been set up as an exclusive hunting preserve for the rich. With mysterious, possibly supernatural deaths at the hands of otherworldly creatures, disappearing equipment, and a witch doctors "magic" (not to mention poachers!), it may be more than the crew of the Solar Queen can handle! Features a new introduction by John Gregory Betancourt.
The Case of the Waylaid Wolf
By Unknown Author
*"Come on, baby," he said, "don't be a prude."* He kept on advancing, his face no longer a mask of affability but filled with savage, primitive, ruthless passion. Seething with indignation, Arlene attacked him. But with brutal strength he pushed her back until she collapsed on the davenport. She doubled her knees, got them against his chest and gave a sudden push. As he staggered to his feet, she picked up a chair and threw it. It caught him low in the abdomen and he doubled over in pain. Arlene grabbed her raincoat and made for the door, running down the gravel driveway, past the swimming pool, out to the dirt road. When she could run no more, she looked back. The beam of headlights was swinging around the driveway. Then the car started slowly down the road after her... If you're young, attractive, and female, resist the advances of Loring Lamont at your peril. The spoiled son of a rich and powerful father, Lamont is a wolf who goes after one pretty lamb too many. For stenographer Arlene Ferris has vowed not to let him get away with his cruel come-ons, though she never had murder in mind. Perry Mason's cardinal rule - always trust your client - finds its sorest test when all the evidence says the unfortunate Miss Ferris brandished the fatal knife. Now he may have to step over the line of the law to prove his trust was justified.
The face of war
By Unknown Author
Martha Gellhorn was a war correspondent for nearly fifty years. From the Spanish Civil War in 1937 through the wars in Central America in the mid-eighties, her reports reflected her feelings for people no matter what their political ideologies, and the openness and vulnerability of her conscience. "I wrote very fast, as I had to," she says, "afraid that I would forget the exact sound, smell, words, gestures, which were special to this moment and this place." Whether in Java, Finland, the Middle East, or Vietnam, she used the same approach.
Plant propagation
By Unknown Author
CD-ROM contains: Expanded definitions and images for over 200 terms used in plant propagation -- Color images -- Animations -- Tutorials -- Video clips.
Words of science, and the history behind them
By Unknown Author
Scientific terminology arranged in dictionary form with a full page discussion of the history, root, and meaning of each word.
Why Revival Tarries
By Unknown Author
Leonard Ravenhill's call to revival is as timely now as it was when ¹rst published over forty years ago. The message is fearless and often radical as he expounds on the disparity between the New Testament church and the church today. Why Revival Tarries contains the heart of his message. A.W. Tozer called Ravenhill "a man sent from God" who "appeared at [a] critical moment in history," just as the Old Testament prophets did. Included are questions for group and individual study.
My Philosophical Development
By Unknown Author
Russell gives an account of his philosophical development. He describes his Hegelian period and includes hitherto unpublished notes for a Hegelian philosophy of science. He deals next with the two-fold revolution involved with his abandonment of idealism and adoption of a mathematical logic founded upon that of Giuseppe Peano. After two chapters on Principia Mathematica (1910-1913), he passes to the problems of perception as dealt with in Our Knowledge of the External World (1914). In a chapter on ‘The Impact of Wittgenstein’, Russell examines what he now thinks must be accepted and what rejected in that philosopher's work. He notes the changes from earlier theories required by the adoption of William James's view that sensation is not essentially relational and is not per se a form of knowledge. In an explanatory chapter, he endeavours to remove misconceptions of and objections to his theories as to the relation of perception to scientific knowledge. Russell concludes with a reprint of some articles on modern Oxford philosophy.
Julius
By Unknown Author
A gorilla becomes a star attraction at the circus and frightens away his audience.
Obras completas y otros cuentos
By Unknown Author
"Monterroso's microcuentos defy social and literary categories in this collection of brilliant satires that combine the first English-language versions of Obras completas y otros cuentos (1959) and Movimiento perpetuo (1972). Corral's 'Before and After Augusto Monterroso' and Grossman's competent translations make this volume an excellent introduction to one of Latin America's greatest living writers. Highly recommended for classroom and general use"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Realm of numbers
By Unknown Author
The most important tool of science is mathematics. This clear and readable book shows even the non-mathematical reader how to use this tool with understanding. Starting with the most basic sort of finger counting, Isaac Asimov proceeds to the pleasures of the abacus, where numbers take physical shapes, and on to the ideas of zero, fractions, and the decimal system. He makes sense of logarithms and even of imaginary numbers, and ends at the very frontiers of mathematics with a discussion of infinity and the concept of an infinity of infinities! The mathematics which Professor Asimov presents is not the thorny wasteland many struggling students suppose it to be. His main concern is not the mathematical techniques one learns in textbooks, but the various wherefores behind them.
From pagan to Christian
By Unknown Author
Thoughtful analysis for the general reader of a philosopher's passage from the Chinese heritage of Confucianism and Buddhism to Christianity.
Thrush Green
By Unknown Author
This is the first book in Miss Read's Thrush Green series. The story takes place on May Day, the day Mrs Curdle's fair comes to the Cotswold village of Thrush Green. During this day, the fair is seen through the eyes of various villagers, from young Paul, to Molly, to Ben Curdle, to Dr and Mrs Bailey, and other residents of Thrush Green.
The broken spears
By Unknown Author
Translated by Lysander Kemp. Illustrations adapted from original codices painting.
The Golden Rose
By Unknown Author
A holiday in Mozambique! To Gwen, the prospect of a visit to Portuguese East Africa would have been an exciting one at any time, but now she hoped, too, that it would help her to recover from an unhappy love affair. As for the motive behind her uncle's invitation, it a seemed straightforward enough one. He wanted to send his small motherless son home for an English education. True, he had hinted at opposition from his wealthy Portuguese in-laws, but surely thought Gwen, it was only a matter of putting his foot down. Not until she arrived did Gwen realize that her uncle's plans came from a different quarter - from the powerful and self-assured Duque de Condeiro, whose position as the boys godfather made him a doubly formidable opponent. But Gwen was determined to help her uncle and, incidentally, to get the better of that annoyingly imperious autocrat.
Sabre jet ace
By Unknown Author
Fictional story about Korean war triple jet ace Joseph Christopher McConnell, Jr. (30 January 1922 – 25 August 1954) He was a United States Air Force fighter pilot who was the top American flying ace during the Korean War. A native of Dover, New Hampshire, Captain McConnell was credited with shooting down 16 MiG-15s while flying North American F-86 Sabres. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Star, and the Distinguished Flying Cross for his actions in aerial combat. McConnell was the first American triple jet-on-jet fighter ace and is still the top-scoring American jet ace.
The stones of Florence
By Unknown Author
Picture-and-text book on Italy. Includes all aspects of Florentine life, from art and architecture to religion and politics.
College physics
By Unknown Author
Interesting
Dangerous Lover
By Unknown Author
Some men are dangerous... Justin Storr was such a man -- ruthless, strong-willed, passionate -- dangerously attractive to women. He was engaged to a society girl, but little Susan Willowfield, who had been his uncle's secretary, caught his straying eye. Fight against it as she might, how could she resist the irresistible -- the magnetic charm of this.violent, arrogant, lovable man?
Advertisements for myself
By Unknown Author
A collection of stories, polemic, meditations, and interviews.
The Measure of a Man
By Unknown Author
Why nonviolence matters. Eloquent and passionate, reasoned and sensitive, this pair of meditations by the revered civil-rights leader contains the theological roots of his political and social philosophy of nonviolent activism.
Lady L.
By Unknown Author
This is a thoroughly interesting tale about aristocracy, appearances and amour! We meet the aging version of Lady L at her 80th birthday party. All of her esteemed grandchildren, her son and their families have gathered. On her estate is a pavilion, which Lady L keeps locked with her treasured memorabilia. The land is being taken by the government and so the pavilion must be demolished. Most of the book happens in flashback as Lady L takes her trusted but stuffy friend Percy whose help she needs in saving the pavilion and relates to him the beginning of a young girl Annette Boudin whose father was an anarchist and whose mother ran away with another man. Her unusual upbringing was complicated by her father's demise, where the unusually attractive young woman took to earning her way in the world's oldest profession. She meets the also greatly attractive Armand Denis, who happens to also be an anarchist and delights in assassinations of powerful royal figures across Europe. As the tale unfolds, Lady L is taken under wing by a powerful but bohemian wealthy man named Glendale nearing the end of his life. Discovering she is pregnant with Armand's child, she marries Glendale to protect her child. She assumes a great estate and wealth upon Glendale's passing. The story comes to a crashing climax as years later when the now known Lady L in her second society marriage gets word that Armand has been released from prison. The flames of passion run through her again. The novel comes to a crashing conclusion with its final heist and Lady L's revealed secret of why she cares so deeply about what will happen to her pavilion. --Lee Armstrong at Amazon.com. This book was made into a 1965 movie of the same title.
The listening walls
By Unknown Author
"Mystery story about the search for a missing woman, ranging from Mexico City to San Francisco and points in between." --
Becket
By Unknown Author
Portrays the conflict of loyalties to church and state as they influenced the lives of two powerful men in English history.
Nurse with a dream
By Unknown Author
The past beckoned and Jacky answered As long as she could remember, Jacqueline had longed to see the old house that her father had spoken of so often. Timberfold was her only tie with the past, a dream that had begun before she had been born. Now, if she chose, Guy Clarke was ready to make the place her own. But that would mean giving up everything that Jacky had worked so long for--including Alan Broderick. It wasn't an easy decision to make....
A nation of immigrants
By Unknown Author
Tells the story of the struggles of successive waves of immigrants who came to America and includes the President's plea for a complete revision of our immigration law.
Hubert's hair-raising adventure
By Unknown Author
A haughty lion accidentally loses his mane. His friends find a remedy, but it creates a new crisis.
Century of struggle
By Unknown Author
"The book you are about to read tells the story of one of the great social movements in American history. The struggle for women's voting rights was one of the longest, most successful, and in some respects most radical challenges ever posed to the American system of electoral politics ... It is difficult to imagine now a time when women were largely removed by custom, practice, and law from the formal political rights and responsibilities that supported and sustained the nation's young democracy ... For sheer drama the suffrage movement has few equals in modern American political history."--Back cover.
Naughty Amelia Jane!
By Unknown Author
Amelia Jane is the terror of the toy cupboard and she can never behave for very long!
The Flowering Year
By Unknown Author
On New Year's Day, Nicola's mother wished her "a happy, flowering year". Though the first day of it produced nothing but thistles from her meeting with Garth Courtney, as the months went by they began to blossom in a quite unexpected manner.
The Zoo Story
By Unknown Author
The Mayflower Theatre Company, in association with Robert M. Lang, Jr. presents Edward Albee's "The Zoo Story," productions directed and designed by Nash-Chandler, lighting designed by Michael Koss.
The Hardy Boys (House on the Cliff / Secret of the Old Mill / Tower Treasure)
By Unknown Author
Contains: - House on the Cliff - Secret of the Old Mill - [Tower Treasure](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL47950W)
Moura
By Unknown Author
Spirited young Anne Wicklow left her post as housekeeper at a fashionable girls school to look after the safety of one of her charges who was suddenly taken to gloomy Chateau Moura by her strange guardian. But once at Moura, the shadowy secrets, haunting legends and hostile inhabitants of that terror-filled mansion quickly enveloped Anne herself in a menacing situation that threatened her own life and sanity. At the center of this hidden danger stood the virile, surly master of Moura, Edmond, whose brooding good looks and irresistible fascination lured Anne ever deeper into a love that could prove to be her fatal undoing.