Top Books of 1961
The most significant literary works published this year.
James and the Giant Peach
By Unknown Author
***Roald Dahl's first and most widely celebrated book for young people continues to thrill readers around the world.*** **When James accidentally drops some magic crystals by the old peach tree, strange things start to happen.** The peach at the top of the tree begins to grow, and before long it's as big as a house. When James discovers a secret entrance-way into the fruit and crawls inside, he meets wonderful new friends--the Old-Green-Grasshopper, the dainty Ladybug, and the Centipede of the multiple boots. ***After years of feeling like an outsider in his aunts' house, James finally found a place where he belongs. With a snip of the stem, the peach household starts rolling away--and the adventure begins!*** "This is a stunning book to be cherished for its story, a superb fantasy."***--Chicago Tribune*** "A beautifully written, fantastic book."***--Christian Science Monitor***
Catch-22
By Unknown Author
*Catch-22* is like no other novel. It has its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth from hilarity to horror. It is outrageously funny and strangely affecting. It is totally original. Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off Italy, *Catch-22* is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian, who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he hasn't even met keep trying to kill him. *Catch-22* is a microcosm of the twentieth-century world as it might look to someone dangerously sane. It is a novel that lives and moves and grows with astonishing power and vitality -- a masterpiece of our time. - Back cover.
El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
By Unknown Author
El coronel no tiene quien le escriba fue escrita por Gabriel García Márquez durante su estancia en París, adonde había llegado como corresponsal de prensa y con la secreta intención de estudiar cine, a mediados de los años cincuenta. El cierre del periódico para el que trabajaba le sumió en la pobreza, mientras redactaba en tres versiones distintas esta excepcional novela, que fue rechazada por varios editores antes de su publicación. Tras el barroquismo faulkneriano de La hojarasca , esta segunda novela supone un paso hacia la ascesis, hacia la economía expresiva, y el estilo del escritor se hace más puro y transparente. Se trata también de una historia de injusticia y violencia: un viejo coronel retirado va al puerto todos los viernes a esperar la llegada de la carta oficial que responda a la justa reclamación de sus derechos por los servicios prestados a la patria. Pero la patria permanece muda.
Stranger in a Strange Land
By Unknown Author
Stranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author Robert A. Heinlein. It tells the story of Valentine Michael Smith, a human who comes to Earth in early adulthood after being born on the planet Mars and raised by Martians. The novel explores his interaction with—and eventual transformation of—terrestrial culture. The title is an allusion to the phrase in Exodus 2:22. According to Heinlein, the novel's working title was The Heretic. Several later editions of the book have promoted it as "The most famous Science Fiction Novel ever written".
Solaris
By Unknown Author
The cult-classic by Stanislaw Lem that spawned the movie is now available for your Kindle! Until now the only English edition was a 1970 version, which was translated from French and which Lem himself described as a "poor translation." This wonderful new English translation (by Bill Johnston) of Lem's classic Solaris is a must-have for fans of Lem's classic novel. Telling of humanity's encounter with an alien intelligence on the planet Solaris, the 1961 novel is a cult classic, exploring the ultimate futility of attempting to communicate with extra-terrestrial life. When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface, he finds a painful, hitherto unconscious memory embodied in the living physical likeness of a long-dead lover. Others examining the planet, Kelvin learns, are plagued with their own repressed and newly corporeal memories. The Solaris ocean may be a massive brain that creates these incarnate memories, though its purpose in doing so is unknown, forcing the scientists to shift the focus of their quest and wonder if they can truly understand the universe without first understanding what lies within their hearts.
Astérix le Gaulois
By Unknown Author
El primer álbum de la serie de comics más popular del mundo. Las aventuras del galo han vendido hasta el momento 350 millones de ejemplares. Con este título nace Astérix, el mítico héroe galo creado por los famosos Goscinny y Uderzo. Para lograr hacerse con el secreto de la poción mágica que les da a los habitantes de la irreductible aldea una fuerza sobrehumana, los romanos secuestran a Panorámix, el druida. Astérix, acompañado por su fiel amigo Obélix, tendrá que rescatarlo. ---------- ***German-language description (Issue 2023)*** **Mit "Asterix - Der Gallier" begann die bis heute andauernde Erfolgsgeschichte der unbeugsamen Gallier.** *"Wir befinden uns im Jahre 50 v.Chr. Ganz Gallien ist von den Römern besetzt ... Ganz Gallien? Nein! Ein von unbeugsamen Galliern bevölkertes Dorf hört nicht auf, dem Eindringling Widerstand zu leisten."* In diesem, ersten Abenteuer lernen wir das kleine, gallische Dorf und seine Bewohner kennen. Allen voran natürlich den listigen Asterix und seinen dicksten Freund Obelix, die mit Hilfe eines Zaubertranks , der unbesiegbar macht, des Druiden Miraculix, den Römern in den umliegenden Lagern das Leben schwer machen. Kein Wunder also, dass Zenturio Gaius Bonus versucht hinter das Geheimnis des Zaubertranks zu kommen und nicht vor Spionage, Entführung und anderen Gemeinheiten zurückschreckt, bis er sich plötzlich in einer haarigen Situation wiederfindet…
Les damnés de la terre
By Unknown Author
"The Wretched of the Earth is an analysis of the psychology of the colonized and their path to liberation. Bearing singular insight into the rage of colonized peoples and the role of violence in historical change, the book also incisively attacks postindependence disenfranchisement of the masses by the elite on one hand, and intertribal and interfaith animosities on the other. A veritable handbook of social reorganization for leaders of emerging nations, The Wretched of the Earth has had a major impact on civil rights, anticolonialism, and black-consciousness movements around the world."--Jacket.
Herzog
By Unknown Author
In one of his finest achievements, Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow presents a multifaceted portrait of a modern-day hero, a man struggling with the complexity of existence and longing for redemption. Introduction by Philip Roth
Franny and Zooey
By Unknown Author
Meet Franny and her younger brother, Zooey, in two Salinger stories.
The Phantom Tollbooth
By Unknown Author
The Phantom Tollbooth is a children's fantasy adventure novel written by Norton Juster with illustrations by Jules Feiffer. It was published in 1961 by Random House (USA). It tells the story of a bored young boy named Milo who unexpectedly receives a magic tollbooth one afternoon and, having nothing better to do, drives through it in his toy car, transporting him to the Kingdom of Wisdom, once prosperous but now troubled. There, he acquires two faithful companions, a dog named Tock and the Humbug, and goes on a quest to restore to the kingdom its exiled princesses—named Rhyme and Reason—from the Castle in the Air. In the process, he learns valuable lessons, finding a love of learning. The text is full of puns and wordplay, such as when Milo unintentionally jumps to Conclusions, an island in Wisdom, thus exploring the literal meanings of idioms.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
By Unknown Author
Muriel Spark’s timeless classic about a controversial teacher who deeply marks the lives of a select group of students in the years leading up to World War II "Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life!” So asserts Jean Brodie, a magnetic, dubious, and sometimes comic teacher at the conservative Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh. Brodie selects six favorite pupils to mold—and she doesn’t stop with just their intellectual lives. She has a plan for them all, including how they will live, whom they will love, and what sacrifices they will make to uphold her ideals. When the girls reach adulthood and begin to find their own destinies, Jean Brodie’s indelible imprint is a gift to some, and a curse to others. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is Spark’s masterpiece, a novel that offers one of twentieth-century English literature’s most iconic and complex characters—a woman at once admirable and sinister, benevolent and conniving.
Where the Red Fern Grows
By Unknown Author
Where the Red Fern Grows is a 1961 children's novel by Wilson Rawls about a boy who buys two hunting dogs. ---------- Also contained in: [Prentice Hall Literature: Bronze](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24558491W)
The Winter of Our Discontent
By Unknown Author
Steinbeck's last great novel focuses on the theme of success and what motivates men towards it. Reflecting back on his New England family's past fortune, and his father's loss of the family wealth, the hero, Ethan Allen Hawley, characterises successin every era and in all its forms as robbery, murder, even a kind of combat, operating under 'the laws of controlled savagery.'
What is history?
By Unknown Author
A philosophical interpretation of history, examining the significance of historical study as a science and a reflection of social values.
Little Bear's Visit
By Unknown Author
(Age 4-8) (Preschool to Gr 3) **Little Bear enjoys his visits with his Grandmother and Grandfather Bear. He likes Grandfather’s hat and Grandmother’s cooking. But most of all, he loves to listen to their stories!**
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
By Unknown Author
The Death and Life of Great American Cities was described by The New York Times as “perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning. . . . [It] can also be seen in a much larger context. It is first of all a work of literature; the descriptions of street life as a kind of ballet and the bitingly satiric account of traditional planning theory can still be read for pleasure even by those who long ago absorbed and appropriated the book’s arguments.” Jane Jacobs, an editor and writer on architecture in New York City in the early sixties, argued that urban diversity and vitality were being destroyed by powerful architects and city planners. Rigorous, sane, and delightfully epigrammatic, Jane Jacobs’s tour de force is a blueprint for the humanistic management of cities. It remains sensible, knowledgeable, readable, and indispensable.
World Without End
By Unknown Author
En 1327, quatre enfants sont les témoins d'une poursuite meurtrière dans les bois : un chevalier tue deux soldats au service de la reine, avant d'enfouir dans le sol une lettre mystérieuse, dont le secret pourrait bien mettre en danger la couronne d'Angleterre. Depuis ce jour, le destin des enfants se trouve lié à jamais.
Little Fuzzy
By Unknown Author
Little Fuzzy is the name of a 1962 science fiction novel by H. Beam Piper, and is now in public domain. Synopsis: One day Jack Holloway, prospector on the planet Zarathustra, finds what seems to be a small monkey with golden fur; these new introductions (for the first brings a family) are tiny hunters, and prove to be curious and capable tool users. Why is this so important to the new human settlers? - Because a planet inhabited by a sapient race cannot be monopolized by the Zarathustra Company. Little Fuzzy is generally seen as a work of juvenile fiction. It was nominated for the 1963 Hugo Award for Best Novel. More on Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Fuzzy
A Grief Observed
By Unknown Author
Written after his wife's tragic death as a way of surviving the "mad midnight moment," A Grief Observed is C.S. Lewis's honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss. This work contains his concise, genuine reflections on that period: "Nothing will shake a man -- or at any rate a man like me -- out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself." This is a beautiful and unflinchingly homest record of how even a stalwart believer can lose all sense of meaning in the universe, and how he can gradually regain his bearings.
A Civil Contract
By Unknown Author
Adam Deveril, is one of the Duke of Wellington's captains, and a hero at Salamanca. When his father, a crony of the Prince Regent, is killed in the hunting field, Adam became the 6th Viscount Lynton of Fontley Priory, Lincolnshire. But he returns from the Peninsula War to find his magnificent home in disrepair and his family on the brink of ruin and the broad acres of his ancestral home mortgaged to the hilt. He is madly in love with the beautiful Julia Oversley, but he soon realises that the drastic measure of a marriage of convenience is the only answer. It is Lord Oversley, father of Adam's first love, who tactfully introduces him to Mr Jonathan Chaleigh, a City man of apparently unlimited wealth with no social ambitions for himself, but with his eyes firmly fixed on a suitable match for his one and only daughter, the quiet and decidedly plain Jenny Chawleigh. Although Jenny Chawleigh was bright, well-mannered, and an heiress, she was no match for beautiful Julia Oversley, the love of handsome Adam Deveril's life. But Adam desperately needed money to keep his fatherless family together, and a marriage to Jenny would solve all his problems. And Jenny's father, a man of great wealth and ambition for his daughter, was only too happy to arrange a suitable match with a title for her. Adam chafes under Mr. Chawleigh's generosity, and Julia's jealous behavior upon hearing of the betrothal nearly brings them all into a scandal. But Adam didn't reckon with the Jenny nobody knew, or the unknown quality that lay hidden behind her demure and plain facade, who bring him comfort and eventually more....
Mother Night
By Unknown Author
Mother Night is a daring challenge to our moral sense. American Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal. But is he really guilty? In this brilliant book rife with true gallows humor, Vonnegut turns black and white into a chilling shade of gray with a verdict that will haunt us all.
The Bronze Bow
By Unknown Author
After witnessing his father's crucifixion by Roman soldiers, Daniel bar Jamin is fired by a single passion: to avenge his father's death by driving the Roman legions from the land of Israel. Consumed by hatred, Daniel joins the brutal raids of an outlaw band living in the hills outside his village. Though his grandmother's death slows his plans by forcing him to move home to care for his sister, he continues his dangerous life by leading a group of the boy guerrillas in spying and plotting, impatiently waiting to take revenge. In nearby Capernaum, a rabbi is teaching a different lesson. Time and again Daniel is drawn to the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, only to turn away, disappointed and confused by Jesus' lack of action in opposing the Romans. Devoid of tenderness and forgiveness, headstrong Daniel is also heedless of the loyalty of his friend Joel; the love of Joel's sister, Malthace; and the needs of his own disturbed sister, Leah, dragging them down his destructive path towards disaster. Elizabeth George Speare won the 1962 Newbery Medal for this magnificent novel of Daniel's tormented journey from a blind, confining hatred to his acceptance and understanding of love. Booklist called it "a dramatic, deeply felt narrative whose characters and message will be long remembered." - Inside front cover. "Angry and bitter, a teenager in ancient Israel fights the occupation of his land by the Romans. He plots revenge and carries out daring raids, never doubting his ideals, until all of his actions, plans, and notions are brought into question by a man who fights the Romans with a force stronger than hatred."
The Ivy Tree
By Unknown Author
A TRICK OF COLORING... HER WALK... THE WAY SHE SMILED... An English June in the Roman Wall countryside; the ruin of a beautiful old house standing cheek-by-jowl with the solid, sunlit prosperity of the manor farm - a lovely place, and a rich inheritance for one of the two remaining Winslow heirs. There had been a third, but Annabel Winslow had died four years ago - so when a young woman calling herself Annabel Winslow comes 'home' to Whitescar, Con Winslow and his half-sister Lisa must find out whether she really is who she says she is. Mary Grey has nothing to look forward to except a future as colorless as her name. So if she looks, walks, and smiles so much like the glamorous missing heiress Annabel Winslow, why not be her for a little while? To the lonely young woman--living in a dreary furnished room, faced with an uncertain future--the impersonation offered intriguing possibilities. If Mary looked so much like the missing heiress, why should she not be an heiress? And so plain Mary became the glamorous Annabel. But she did not live happily ever after. In fact, she almost did not live at all. Because someone wanted Annabel Winslow missing ... permanently.
Sobre héroes y tumbas
By Unknown Author
Novela escrita por el escritor argentino y publicada en 1961, ésta irrumpe en el panorama de la literatura latinoamericana aglutinando una variedad de elementos que la distinguen entre las ficciones de América del Sur. De este modo, es frecuentemente considerada como una novela total, con rasgos de surrealismo inusitados en la literatura latinoamericana (especialmente en la sección de "El Informe sobre ciegos"). Buena parte de su trama puede insertarse también en la tradición de la Bildungsroman ("novela de formación") de la que se cuentan varios ejemplos en la literatura alemana. Por otro lado, la descripción de una familia retratada a través de una largo lapso temporal con tintes decadentes, emparenta temáticamente esta novela con las ficciones de Faulkner y García Márquez.
Erinnerungen, Träume, Gedanken
By Unknown Author
The Swiss psychologist shares the visions, inner experiences, and dreams that have shaped his work and thought. In the spring of 1957 when he was 81 years old, Jung undertook the telling of his life story. At regular intervals he had conversations with his colleague and friend Aniela Jaffe, and collaborated with her in the preparation of the text based on these talks. On occasion he was moved to write entire chapters of the book in his own handwriting, and he continued to work on the final stages of the manuscript until shortly before his death on June 6, 1961.
The city in history
By Unknown Author
Examines the development and nature of the city from Egypt to Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome and the Middle Ages to the modern world.
Asylums
By Unknown Author
A total institution is defined by Goffman as a place of residence and work where a large number of like-situated, individuals, cut off from the wider society for an appreciable period of time, together lead an enclosed, formally administered round of life. Prisons serve as a clear example, providing we appreciate that what is prison-like about prisons is found in institutions whose members have broken no laws. This volume deals with total institutions in general and, mental hospitals, in particular. The main focus is, on the world of the inmate, not the world of the staff. A chief concern is to develop a sociological version of the structure of the self. Each of the essays in this book were intended to focus on the same issue--the inmate's situation in an institutional context. Each chapter approaches the central issue from a different vantage point, each introduction drawing upon a different source in sociology and having little direct relation to the other chapters. This method of presenting material may be irksome, but it allows the reader to pursue the main theme of each paper analytically and comparatively past the point that would be allowable in chapters of an integrated book. If sociological concepts are to be treated with affection, each must be traced back to where it best applies, followed from there wherever it seems to lead, and pressed to disclose the rest of its family. (Author) Erving Goffman was Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania until his death in 1982. Publisher's note.
Fate is the Hunter
By Unknown Author
Ernest K. Gann’s classic memoir is an up-close and thrilling account of the treacherous early days of commercial aviation. In his inimitable style, Gann brings you right into the cockpit, recounting both the triumphs and terrors of pilots who flew when flying was anything but routine.
A House for Mr. Biswas
By Unknown Author
Naipaul’s breakthrough novel is a marvellous comic tale of a Trinidadian of Indian descent striving to improve his lot. Continually making big plans for himself he constantly finds himself thwarted by his wife’s family and by his own ineptitude and over-reaching ambition.
The Moviegoer
By Unknown Author
Kate's desperate struggles to maintain her sanity force Binx to relinquish his dreamworld.
Owls in the Family
By Unknown Author
Describes the many adventures of a family that adopts two owls.
Dress pattern designing
By Unknown Author
The techniques Natalie Bray pioneered and perfected revolutionised dress pattern designing, assisting the rise of the modern fashion industry. Her teaching has had a profound influence on design, production and education and her works are classics: fashions change but the principles of designing patterns in the flat do not. This book - the most popular of Natalie Bray's three works - covers the basic course and includes measurement and block patterns, circular patterns, simple pattern designing, yokes, dart manipulation, sleeves, collars and necklines, skirts, and the one-piece dress foundation. Source: Publisher
The golden goblet
By Unknown Author
The story of a young orphaned boy trained as a metalworker in ancient eygpt who uncovers a plot by his wicked half brother to steal from the pharoahs tombs. Ranofer wants only one thing in the world: to be a master goldsmith like his beloved father was. But how can he when he is all but imprisoned by his evil half brother, Gebu? Ranofer knows the only way he can escape Gebu's abuse is by changing his destiny. But can a poor boy with no skills survive on the cutthroat streets of ancient Thebes? Then Ranofer finds a priceless golden goblet in Gebu's room and he knows his luck−and his destiny−are about to change.
On Becoming a Person
By Unknown Author
The late Carl Rogers, founder of the humanistic psychology movement, revolutionized psychotherapy with his concept of client-centered therapy. His influence has spanned decades, but that influence has become so much a part of mainstream psychology that the ingenious nature of his work has almost been forgotten. Houghton Mifflin is delighted to introduce this preeminent psychologist to the next generation with a new edition of this landmark book.
The carpetbaggers
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1961.
Ten Apples Up on Top
By Unknown Author
A lion, a dog, and a tiger balance apples on their heads.
Thunderball
By Unknown Author
"When a stranger arrives in the Bahamas, the locals barely turn their heads, seeing another ex-pat with money to burn at the casino tables. But James Bond has more than money on his mind; he's got less than a week to find two stolen atom bombs hidden among the coral reefs. While acting the playboy, Bond meets Domino, sultry plaything of secretive treasure hunter Emilio Largo. In getting close to this gorgeous Italian girl, Bond hopes to learn more about Largo's hidden operation."--Jacket.
The Labyrinth of Solitude
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1961.
The concept of law
By Unknown Author
A philosophical look into “What is Law”, and all else that encompasses a legal system. The author also compares his views against other renowned experts. I just started reading it, all I can say so far is that Mr. H.L.A. Hart writes a lot like me, so for all my dear English Professors who corrected my essays and told me that proper writing does not contain run-on sentences please read this worthy book that has been read by college Professors, students and layman for over forty years.
Kunst der Farbe
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1961.
Dostoyevsky. Notes From Underground / White Nights / The Dream of a Ridiculous Man / Selections from The House of the Dead
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1961.
Physical chemistry
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1961.
Childhood Annotated
By Unknown Author
This is the first of Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy, written while he was in the army in the Caucasus and the Crimea.Please Note: This book is easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. The Microsoft eBook has a contents page linked to the chapter headings for easy navigation. The Adobe eBook has bookmarks at chapter headings and is printable up to two full copies per year. Both versions are text searchable.
What was I scared of?
By Unknown Author
The narrator is frightened by a pair of pale green pants with no one inside that seems to be following him, until the two meet and discover that they have nothing to fear.
Nobody Knows My Name
By Unknown Author
Told with Baldwin's characteristically unflinching honesty, this collection of illuminating, deeply felt essays examines topics ranging from race relations in the United States to the role of the writer in society, and offers personal accounts of Richard Wright, Norman Mailer and other writers.
Hukum pidana
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1961.
The Sneetches and other stories
By Unknown Author
A book of humorous stories in rhyme. The stories are The Sneetches, The Zax, Too Many Daves, and What Was I Scared Of?
A treasury of witchcraft
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1961.
Parthenia in-violata or Mayden-musicke for the Virginall and Bass-viol
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1961.
Anaphora ston Gkreko
By Unknown Author
Autobiography
Mechanical measurements
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1961.
Call for the Dead
By Unknown Author
Le Carre's first book which introduces George Smiley. Smiley investigates the apparent suicide of Samuel Fennan, who worked in the Foreign Office and had been under investigation due to his communist background at Oxford.
Ishi in Two Worlds a Biogr
By Unknown Author
Naiomi Alderman described the book as follows in the Guardian Newspaper; "On 29 August 1911, a 50-year-old man, a member of the Yahi group of the Native American Yana people, walked out of the forest near Oroville, California, and was captured by the local sheriff. He was known at the time and popularised in the press as “the last wild Indian”. He called himself “Ishi” – a word in the Yahi language that means simply “man”. He was the very last of his people, and had been living in the wilderness alone, travelling to places he remembered from the time when his tribe had flourished, in the hope of finding some remnant of those he’d grown up with. When he realised they were truly all gone, when a series of forest fires meant he was close to starvation, he allowed himself to be found and taken in. Knowing that he was the last surviving Yahi, Ishi was desperate to communicate some of the culture that would be entirely lost when he was gone. He ended up living with the director of the museum of anthropology at the University of California, Alfred Kroeber. He taught Kroeber as much as he could: demonstrated the skills of flint-knapping, explained his language, told the stories of his people one last time so they could be written down and preserved. He was particularly fond of children, Kroeber recorded. Ishi died in 1916, of tuberculosis. After his death, Alfred’s wife, Theodora, wrote a remarkable book about him, Ishi in Two Worlds, which relays as much of the Yahi culture as the anthropologists were able to record, and talks about Ishi’s own accounts of his life. To read it is to touch an intricate and beautiful civilisation that is now entirely gone, a place that can only be momentarily resurrected by an imaginative act, as unreachable as an alien world.
The Origins of the Second World War
By Unknown Author
Professor Taylor has put himself way out on a limb- and his book will unquestionably continue to arouse controversy on this side of the water as it already has in what is known as the British Battle of Oxford- with Trevor-Roper as chief combatant- in England. Taylor has been accused of pro-Hilterlism, of complete reversal of his own somewhat Vansittartism in an earlier book; scholars charge him with contradictions, of failure to substantiate his statements, of a mass of unsupported wishful thinking. Germany has hailed his position with considerable glee. Now- in preface to the American edition he opens a whole new territory going back to World War I in claiming that Germany would have own had not America intervened, that American membership in the league would have been detrimental to the Allies; that the election of F.D.R. was a victory for isolation- and that if he had stood pat on this ground World War II might have been avoided; that the Nuremberg evidence was collected so that lawyers could conceal the guilt of the prosecuting powers, and so on. The legacy of Versailles was the actual cause of World War II -- and Hitler capitalized on the mistakes of the Western Powers. He was -- says Taylor- no more wicked in principle and doctrine (he makes no mention of his national excesses) than other statesmen, though he outdid them in wicked deeds. Step by step Taylor traces the march of history between the wars,- Abyssinia, the Spanish Civil War, the death of the league, the reoccupation of the Rhineland, the Sino-Japanese War, the successive immediate steps to war with the Austrian Aruchluss, the Czechoslovakian betrayal, Danzig -- and war. Throughout he sees Hitler as making no plans, as unready; he accepts Munich as a triumph of British policy which desired to deter but not provoke Hitler. France's role, too, is not presented in complimentary terms. The give and take of negotiations, to determine where the Soviet stood, kept the Western powers jittery, and ultimately Britain was caught short. Nobody wanted to go to war over Danzig, but Hitler was betrayed by his own timetable. That ultimately he attacked Soviet Russia and declared war on the United States was an accident of history- not of a madman.... Taylor's book may deal with matters of historical curiosity, but scholars will rise up to dispute him.
Psychotherapy, East and West
By Unknown Author
Before he became a counterculture hero, Alan Watts was known as an incisive scholar of Eastern and Western psychology and philosophy. In this 1961 classic, Watts demonstrates his deep understanding of both Western psychotherapy and the Eastern spiritual philosophies of Buddhism, Taoism, Vedanta, and Yoga. He examined the problem of humans in a seemingly hostile universe in ways that questioned the social norms and illusions that bind and constrict modern humans. Marking a groundbreakingsynthesis, Watts asserted that the powerful insights of Freud and Jung, which had, indeed, brought psychiatry close to the edge of liberation, could, if melded with the hitherto secret wisdom of the Eastern traditions, free people from their battles with the self. When psychotherapy merely helps us adjust to social norms, Watts argued, it falls short of true liberation, while Eastern philosophy seeks our natural relation to the cosmos.
A severed head
By Unknown Author
Martin Lynch-Gibbon believes he can possess both a beautiful wife and a delightful lover. But when his wife, Antonia, suddenly leaves him for her psychoanalyst, Martin is plunged into an intensive emotional re-education. He attempts to behave beautifully and sensibly. Then he meets a woman whose demonic splendour at first repels him and later arouses a consuming and monstrous passion. As his Medusa informs him, 'this is nothing to do with happiness'.
The extraction of teeth
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1961.
Andorra
By Unknown Author
play by Max Frisch
No Roses in June
By Unknown Author
She, a MacDonald, love a Campbell? Edward Campbell had a totally unjustified reason for despising Fiona MacDonald, but she was certainly not going to explain her actions to a "stuffy colonial" she'd never see again! Unfortunately, Fiona did meet him again--as the uncle of her four young charges on a remote New Zealand sheep station. And it seemed the ancient feud between the clans was being revived. Too late then to wish they'd started out differently.
Schaum's outline of theory and problems of statistics in SI units
By Unknown Author
Study faster, learn better-and get top grades with Schaum's OutlinesMillions of students trust Schaum's Outlines to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Outline presents all the essential course information in an easy-to-follow, topic-by-topic format. You also get hundreds of examples, solved problems, and practice exercises to test your skills.Use Schaum's Outlines to:Brush up before testsFind answers fastStudy quickly and more effectivelyGet the big picture without spending hours poring over lengthy textbooksFully compatible with your classroom text, Schaum's highlights all the important facts you need to know. Use Schaum's to shorten your study time-and get your best test scores!This Schaum's Outline gives you:A concise guide to the standard college course in statistics486 fully worked problems of varying difficulty660 additional practice problems
The Stainless Steel Rat
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1961.
Deceit, desire, and the novel
By Unknown Author
Discussion of the thesis that any goal which the protagonist of a novel seeks has been suggested by a mediator and that this "triangular desire" is the form of all great novels.
Calculus
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1961.
Le temple du soleil
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1961.
The Myth of Mental Illness
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1961.
Max Schönwetter
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1961.
Caligula
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1961.
Pfumo reropa
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1961.
Mila 18
By Unknown Author
An historical novel about the Jewish Resistance fighters who took on the might of the Nazis in German occupied Warsaw during WW2. As the Jewish ghetto gradually shrinks and becomes cut off from the outside world a handful of its residents take up arms to maintain their freedom and their dignity in a struggle they know cannot be won.
Between past and future
By Unknown Author
Essays examining the effect on political and social thought of the western world's break with the Graeco-Roman tradition.
A Fall of Moondust
By Unknown Author
An early Arthur C. Clarke novel that takes place on the Moon. The setting is a future in which the Moon has become a tourist destination, and one of the attractions is a huge dust bowl on which one can sightsee from a "dust cruiser". Then there's a serious accident...... This is an excellent hard SF adventure.
Fear is the Key
By Unknown Author
A classic novel of ruthless revenge set in the steel jungle of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico – and on the sea bed below it. Now reissued in a new cover style.A sunken DC-3 lying on the Caribbean floor. Its cargo: ten million, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in gold ingots, emeralds and uncut diamonds guarded by the remains of two men, one woman and a very small boy. The fortune was there for the taking, and ready to grab it were a blue-blooded oilman with his own offshore rig, a gangster so cold and independent that even the Mafia couldn't do business with him and a psychopathic hired assassin. Against them stood one man, and those were his people, those skeletons in their watery coffin. His name was Talbot, and he would bury his dead – but only after he had avenged their murders.
Katz und Maus
By Unknown Author
The second book in the "Danzig trilogy," the followup to The tin drum. A novella focusing on adolescent boys in Danzig (now Gdansk) from 1939 to 1944, during the German occupation of Poland.
Paradise Lost
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1961.
Zinunula omunaku
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1961.
The knowledge of the holy
By Unknown Author
"An Inspiring Classic on the Nature of God: What is the nature of God? How can we recapture a real sense of God's majesty and truly live in the Spirit? This beloved book, a modern classic of Christian testimony and devotion, addresses these and other vital questions, showing us how we can rejuvenate our prayer life, meditate more reverently, understand God more deeply, and experience God's presence in our daily lives. Informative and inspiring, The Knowledge of the Holy illuminates God's attributes--from wisdom, to grace, to mercy--and shows through prayerful and insightful discussion, how we can more fully recognize and appreciate each of these divine aspects. This book bears eloquent witness to God's majesty and shows us new ways to experience and understand the wonder and the power of God's spirit in our daily lives"--Back cover.
Ben-Hur
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1961.
Illuminationen
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1961.
6,000,000 accusers
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1961.
Star Hunter
By Unknown Author
<p>On the unexplored jungle world of Jumala, former pilot turned safari guide Ras Hume schemes to collect the reward for finding a missing heir to a fortune. A busboy from local dive bar is brainwashed into believing he is the missing heir, but he soon begins to doubt his own memories.</p> <p>This standalone story was originally published in 1961 as part of a double title paperback by Ace Books along with an abridged version of <i>The Beast Master</i>, and again in 1968 paired with the short novel <i>Voodoo Planet</i>, all by <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/andre-norton">Andre Norton</a>.</p>
Introduction to soil microbiology
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1961.
Dawn
By Unknown Author
Based on the novel l'Aube by Elie Wiesel adapted and translated by Daniel Banks, with passages from the English translation by Frances Frenaye. Fifth draft.
La Nuit / L'Aube / Le Jour
By Unknown Author
Contains: [La Nuit](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14856842W/La_Nuit) L'Aube Le Jour
Reflex
By Unknown Author
Jockey Phillip Nore must discover the reasons behind the murder of a famed racetrack photographer as he delves into a world of betrayal, blackmail, and bribery before he becomes the next victim.
The Door Through Space
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1961.
Words from the Myths
By Unknown Author
A large portion of Greek mythology organized around a specific themes, and the impact of mythological words and phrases on our present day language. Hundreds of words in daily use are surrounded by enchanting stories that will interest younger readers. The myths, interesting in themselves, are used to illustrate a particular English word or concept.
A Fish Out of Water
By Unknown Author
"Comic pictures show how the fish rapidly outgrows its bowl, a vase, a cook pot, a bathtub."--The New York Times.
Blue Bay Mystery
By Unknown Author
The Aldens find a castaway on a South Sea island. How did he get there and who is he?
Shock for the Secret Seven
By Unknown Author
Dogs are going missing all over town. When Scamper also disappears, the group becomes the Secret Six and must solve the mystery. Jack finally finds the clue to end the mystery.
Les 7 boules de cristal
By Unknown Author
Después de dos años de ausencia en los que ha viajado a Perú y Bolivia, la expedición etnográfica Sanders-Hardmuth regresa a Europa habiendo descubierto varias tumbas incas. Se han traído la momia del inca Rascar Capac, también llamado «el que desencadena fuego del cielo», que llevaba puestas valiosas joyas de oro macizo. Al cabo de poco tiempo, todos los participantes de la expedición van cayendo víctimas de un mal misterioso, y siempre que eso ocurre son hallados los fragmentos de una pequeñas bolas de cristal.
Tintin au pays de l'or noir
By Unknown Author
Tintin travels to the Land of Black Gold, after car engines begin exploding around the world. The world is on the brink of an oil crisis.
Once a Mouse
By Unknown Author
As it changes from mouse, to cat, to dog, to tiger, a hermit's pet also becomes increasingly vain.
The Game of Kings
By Unknown Author
Amazon.com Review Praised for her historical fiction by critics and devoted fans alike, author Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles took the romance world by storm some 30 years ago, firmly fixing Dunnett's reputation as a master of the historical romance. The Game of Kings, the first story in The Lymond Chronicles, sets the stage for what will be a sweeping saga filled with passion, courage, and the endless fight for freedom. The setting is 1547, in Edinborough, Scotland. Francis Crawford of Lymond returns to the country despite the charge of treason hanging over his head. Set on redeeming his reputation, He leads a company of outlaws against England as he fights for the country he loves so dearly. Dangerous, quick-witted, and utterly irresistible, Lymond is pure pleasure to watch as he traverses 16th-century Scotland in search of freedom. The Game of Kings is a must-have for the historical romance connoisseur
Precedence of H.M. lieutenants & sheriffs of counties, Lord mayors and mayors
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1961.
Tell Me a Riddle
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1961.
Ferdydurke
By Unknown Author
"In this novel a writer finds himself tossed into a chaotic world of school-boys by a diabolical professor who wishes to reduce him to childishness. Originally published in Poland in 1937. Ferdydurke became an instant literary sensation and catapulted its young author to fame. Deemed scandalous and subversive by Nazis, Stalinists, and the Polish Communist regime in turn, the novel (as well as all of Gombrowicz's other works) was officially banned in Poland for decades. It has nonetheless remained one of the most influential works of twentieth-century European literature."--BOOK JACKET.
Harpo speaks!
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1961.
Four-Day Planet
By Unknown Author
Fenris isn't a hell planet, but it's nobody's bargain. With 2,000-hour days and an 8,000-hour year, it alternates blazing heat with killing cold. A planet like that tends to breed a special kind of person: tough enough to stay alive and smart enough to make the best of it. When that kind of person discovers he's being cheated of wealth he's risked his life for, that kind of planet is ripe for revolution.
New patterns of management
By Unknown Author
I want read or borrow this book (New pattern of management )
April Morning
By Unknown Author
The story of one day in the life of a young American boy in colonial Lexington, the day on which he joined the militia and saw his father shot down by the British.
Trixie Belden and the Black Jacket Mystery
By Unknown Author
Trixie is intrigued by Regan's problems and the sudden appearance of Dan Mangan, a black-jacket wearing city kid who has come to stay with Mr Maypenny. Although the Bob-Whites are busy organising an Ice Carnival to aid their Mexican pen-pals, Trixie is determined to find out why Dan is here and what is troubling Regan. When Honey's missing watch is pawned and the clubhouse is broken into, the finger points squarely at Dan. Trixie's dislike of him is evident, but when she and Bobby find themselves in trouble he is the only one who can save them
New York Times Cook Book
By Unknown Author
This is a classic cookbook for the home gourmet cook, by Craig Claiborne and the New York Times. Terrific recipes!
The image
By Unknown Author
First published in 1962, this book introduced the notion of “pseudo-events”—events such as press conferences and presidential debates, which are manufactured solely in order to be reported—and the contemporary definition of celebrity as “a person who is known for his well-knownness.” Since then Daniel J. Boorstin’s prophetic vision of an America inundated by its own illusions has become an essential resource for any reader who wants to distinguish the manifold deceptions of our culture from its few enduring truths.
The Soft Machine
By Unknown Author
In Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs revealed his genius. In The Soft Machine he begins an adventure that will take us even further into the dark recesses of his imagination, a region where nothing is sacred, nothing taboo. Continuing his ferocious verbal assault on hatred, hype, poverty, war, bureaucracy, and addiction in all its forms, Burroughs gives us a surreal space odyssey through the wounded galaxies in a book only he could create.
The American dream
By Unknown Author
The play, a satire on American family life, concerns a married couple and their elderly mother. They are visited by two guests this particular day who turn their world upside down. The family in this play consist of a dominating Mommy, an emasculated Daddy and a clever and witty Grandma. A neighbor, Mrs. Barker, enters and the dialogue continues with the occasional interjection by Grandma. Mommy and Daddy exit leaving Mrs. Barker and Grandma alone. Grandma apparently knows why Mrs. Barker has been asked to come by and explains to her that Mommy and Daddy had adopted a son from her many years previously. As the parents objected to the child's actions, they mutilated it as punishment, eventually killing it. After Mrs. Barker exits, a Young Man appears at the door looking for work. After hearing his life story, Grandma realizes that this Young Man, whom she dubs "The American Dream," is the twin of Mommy and Daddy's first child. As the first child was mutilated, he too was experiencing the pain and has been left as an empty shell of a man. After seeing this Young Man as a way out, she moves her things and leaves. The Young Man is introduced to the family as a suitable replacement for the original child. --Wikipedia.com.
Madeline in London
By Unknown Author
Madeline and the other girls travel to London to visit their former neighbor on his birthday.
A Stranger at Green Knowe (Green Knowe Chronicles)
By Unknown Author
A strange friendship develops between a young Chinese refugee who is spending the summer at Green Knowe and a gorilla who has escaped from the London Zoo.
Statistika promyshlennogo predpriyatiya
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1961.
A maça no escuro
By Unknown Author
"Martin is convinced that he has murdered his wife. In a delirium of guilt and grief, he wanders through a forest until he comes across an isolated farm run by Vitoria - an indomitable spinster who is 'afraid to live', and her flighty, obsessive cousin Ermelinda, who is terrified of death. As Martin works on Vitoria's land he is both haunted and comforted by memories of his wife and son." "In the intense heat of the Brazilian summer, drought threatens both the farm and its inhabitants, and these three very different but equally domineering characters provoke each other into a realisation of their individual psychological isolation."--Jacket.
The destruction of the European Jews
By Unknown Author
"Based on the three-volume revised and definitive edition." "The standard text in the field ... [by] the pre-eminent scholar of the Holocaust." David S. Wyman, N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. "Examines the history of persecution against European Jews, discusses the definition of a Jew according to the German regime, and describes the processes through which Jews were eliminated during the Holocaust years."
The five clocks
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1961.
Beowulf
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1961.
Winnie-the-Pooh / The House at Pooh Corner / When We Were Very Young / Now We Are Six
By Unknown Author
Contains: - [Winnie-the-Pooh][1] - [The House at Pooh Corner][2] - [When We Were Very Young][3] - [Now We Are Six][4] [1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL476641W [2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL476471W [3]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL476630W [4]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL476498W
what makes day and night
By Unknown Author
A simple explanation of how the rotation of the earth causes night and day.
The structure of science
By Unknown Author
The philosophy of physics.
Wake in Fright (Film Ink)
By Unknown Author
"New to The Yabba?" It was the inevitable question asked of a stranger to the Australian outback town of Bundanyabba. Then would follow round after round of drinks and a recital of The Yabba's virtues. You could rob your host, sleep with his wife or rape his daughters and Bundanyabba would welcome you. But refuse a drink or despise The Yabba and you were an outcast. John Grant came from Sydney. He was serving his mandatory time as a school-teacher in the outback. Bundanyabba was the essence of what he hated most about the region: its meaningless generosity and utter shallowness; its stifling hospitality and complete callousness; its scorching, relentless, horrible heat. And yet John, who was on his way to see his girl in Sydney, was stuck there — flat broke, dependent on these friendly. loathsome people. He gambled with them, drank with them, shot with them. He was trapped in a nightmare like the man cursed to dream of the Devil and wake in fright. Afterwards he realized it was enough to be it awake, to be alive. In spare, telling prose, Kenneth Cook creates a terrifying picture of the degradation to which men can sink and of the second chance given to one man to come back to life. *Wake in Fright* is a remarkable achievement in the genre of the taut novel of suspense.
The Mystery of Banshee Towers
By Unknown Author
The Find-Outers is a clever mystery series from bestselling author Enid Blyton, and perfect for fans of The Secret Seven. Ern is back visiting Mr Goon, which gives him and the Find-Outers the perfect chance to explore Banshee Towers. But there's more secrets to the towers than the screaming banshees. Fatty, Larry, Daisy, Pip, Bets and Buster the Dog have one last case to solve ...
The mystery of the fire dragon
By Unknown Author
Strange tales of a fire dragon lead Nancy Drew into a daring investigation where fiery illusions conceal criminal intent.
Rabbit redux
By Unknown Author
353 p. ; 22 cm
Angélique et son amour
By Unknown Author
Fleeing the ruthless persecution of Louis XIV, Angelique, the most hunted woman in France, is finally forced to seek refuge on the high seas. With the outcast Huguenots, she embarks for the New World aboard a mysterious pirate vessel whose masked, enigmatic commander is Rescator, black-sheathed spectre of her past.
Catseye
By Unknown Author
Deported from his own planet in a galactic war, Troy Horay was permitted to hire out as a daily laborer on Korwar, where he had been relocated. Temporary work in a strange interplanetary pet shop led Troy to the realization that with certain animals, he could hold wordless communication. Why were these animals being brought to Korwar? (from the book's 1st page) Who was the controlling agent they feared and hated? The night on which the pet-shop owner was killed, a few of the pieces in the puzzle fell into place. Just enough to involve Troy personally, and force his escape to a dead underground city and a bidder freedom that challenged time itself and the plans of mighty planetary rulers.
Miss Happiness and Miss Flower
By Unknown Author
After she leaves India to live with her cousins in England, eight-year-old Nona is overcome with homesickness until her great-aunt sends two Japanese dolls which need love and care. Includes construction plans for a Japanese dollhouse.
The Borrowers aloft
By Unknown Author
The Clock family, Pod, Homily and Arietty, are kidnapped from their new home in Little Fordham and held captive in an attic by Mr and Mrs Platters, a married couple who own a rival model village. They plan to build a see-through, escape-proof miniature house in which to display the tiny family and make more money. The Clocks are horrified at their fate, but escape seems impossible...
Promise at Dawn
By Unknown Author
'Promise at Dawn' begins as the story of a mother's sacrifice. Alone and poor, she fights fiercely to give her son the very best. Gary chronicles his childhood with her in Russia, Poland, and on the French Riviera. And he recounts his adventurous life as a young man fighting for France in the Second World War. But above all, he tells the story of the love for his mother that was his very life, their secret and private planet, their wonderland "born out of a mother's murmur into a child's ear, a promise whispered at dawn of future triumphs and greatness, of justice and love."
The theatre of the absurd
By Unknown Author
"In 1953 Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot premiered at a tiny avant-garde theatre in Paris; within five years, it had been translated into more than twenty languages and seen by more than a million spectators. Its startling popularity marked the emergence of a new type of theatre whose proponents - Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, Pinter, and others - shattered dramatic conventions and paid scant attention to psychological realism, while highlighting their characters' inability to understand one another. In 1961, Martin Esslin gave a name to the phenomenon in his ground-breaking study of these playwrights who dramatized the absurdity at the core of the human condition." "Over four decades after its initial publication, Esslin's landmark book has lost none of its freshness. The questions these dramatists raise about the struggle for meaning in a purposeless world are still as incisive and necessary today as they were when Beckett's tramps first waited beneath a dying tree on a lonely country road for a mysterious benefactor who would never show. Authoritative, engaging, and eminently readable, The Theatre of the Absurd is nothing short of a classic: vital reading for anyone with an interest in the theatre." --Book Jacket.
Emily's Runaway Imagination
By Unknown Author
Emily decides that what the town of Pitchfork needs is a library, and comes up with a plan to make it happen.
Throw wide the door
By Unknown Author
This is the story of a girl painter who could bring joy to many lives. She was able to pull a man away from being in thrall to his tragic past and learn to love her. Mix a bank robbery and various other couples with their wires crossed and it is a typical emilie loring book. Quite a good read
Death and the joyful woman
By Unknown Author
All of Comerford is shocked when Detective George Felse arrests Kitty Norris, the daughter of a rival beer baron, the last person to see Armiger alive, and the main beneficiary of his will. But Kitty, charming and popular, has an unexpected advocate in Felse’s young son, Dominic, who has fallen in love with her. Passionately convinced of Kitty’s innocence, Dominic sets out to find the true culprit, a hazardous undertaking that could cost him his life. Death and the Joyful Woman is the 2nd book in the Felse Investigations, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order
The 2nd Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles & Diversions
By Unknown Author
Martin Gardner’s “Mathematical Games” Department ran monthly in *SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN*. This second book is composed entirely of new games and puzzles that appeared there since Mr. Gardner’s first collection was published in 1959. Offering a new feast of mathematical entertainments to charm both layman and mathematician, some are easy, some are tough, and some call for scissors and paste. For most the only basic equipment needed is an alert and curious mind. All are connected, via the author’s clear and lively commentaries, to important aspects of mathematical thinking. Time will vanish as you turn Flexatubes inside out... play Piet Hein’s new game of Soma... consider the Mathematics of Cooling Coffee and Slicing Doughnuts... find your way through Hampton Court Maze (or any maze, in person or on paper)... explore, while folding a bird, the mathematics of Origami... divert yourself with Digital Roots... attack the maddening puzzle of the Monkey and the Coconuts. Play the new Induction Game of Eleusis - with a standard deck of cards - and you become a scientist outguessing the universe. Solve the new Smith-Jones-Robinson problems and you experience the triumphs of the logician. An easily learned parlor trick provides an introduction to the concept of Numerical Congruence. And the reader is shown how “humanity, bracing itself for the shock of finding life on other planets,” might draw comfort from the properties of Platonic Solids. In addition: brain teasers (18 of them, neat as epigrams); mind expanders (see the section on Ambiguity and Probability); Topological Magic with pencil, shoelace and soda straw; and a history-making report on the solution of a classic problem — squaring the square. The final chapter is surely the funniest commentary on numerology ever written. Add it all up - by mental arithmetic or with the help of the smartest of electronic calculators - and this is the total: topflight entertainment, delightful reading, and an invaluable key to the joys of the mathematical process.
Frontier living:An illustrated guide to pioneer life in America
By Unknown Author
Describes the daily lives of American pioneers who explored and settled the territories west of the Appalachians.
The Case of the Bigamous Spouse
By Unknown Author
Pretty Gwynn Elston visits Perry Mason to say she's afraid for her life. What a mess - she's staying at the home of her old friend, Nell, and Nell's new husband, Felting Grimes. Meanwhile, through her work, Gwynn discovers Felting has another wife and young son, age seven! Her friend Nell suspects nothing, but Felting has discovered Gwynn knows his secret, so she's sure he's trying to kill her. The next day, the already complicated situation takes a further bizarre twist when Gwynn finds Felting's body with a bullet through his head. So wouldn't you just know it, the police lock her up since she's their only suspect! Join ace detective Paul Drake and lovely secretary Della Street as they help Perry Mason unravel THE CASE OF THE BIGAMOUS SPOUSE
Twentieth-century Harmony
By Unknown Author
One of the most important books on contemporary music to appear in this century. Here for the first time is an orderly presentation of the harmonic procedures to be found in music of the first half of the twentieth-century. The author examines the nature of intervals in various contexts, discusses the modes and other scales employed in modern music, describes the formation and uses of chords by thirds, by fourths, and by seconds, of added-note chords and polychords; he deals with different types of harmonic motion, with harmonic rhythm and dynamic sand ornamentation, with harmonic behavior in tonality, polytonality, atonality and serial composition.
For the New Intellectual
By Unknown Author
This is Ayn Rand's challenge to the prevalent philosophical doctrines of our time and the "atmosphere of guilt, of panic, of despair, of boredom, and of all-pervasive evasion" that they create. One of the most controversial figures on the intellectual scene, Ayn Rand was the proponent of a moral philosophy--and ethic of rational self-interest--that stands in sharp opposition to the ethics of altruism and self-sacrifice. The fundamentals of this morality--"a philosophy for living on Earth"--are here vibrantly set forth by the spokesman for a new class, For the New Intellectual.
Happy days
By Unknown Author
"Two characters--a woman buried up to her waist in the first act and up to her neck in the second, and a man who revolves around the mound in which she is placed--probe the tenuous connections that hold people to people and people to the universe in Happy Days"--Cover.
Paddington Abroad (Paddington)
By Unknown Author
Paddington and the Brown family have a series of misadventures on their vacation in France.
The Sea For Breakfast
By Unknown Author
***Lillian Beckwith's settling in on the island of Bruach*** and having a croft of her own, is the basis of these comic adventures. Adapting to a totally different way of life provides many excuses for humour and the eccentric cast of characters guarantees there is never a dull moment on Bruach. ***In one story, beachcombing yields a strange find. In another a Christmas party results in a riotous night's celebration.*** **I haven't laughed so much since Whisky Galore''*--EVENING NEWS (fr. Cvr. )***
Great ideas from the great books
By Unknown Author
Dr. Mortimer J. Adler, director of the Institute for Philosophical Research, author of How To Read A Book, How To Think About War And Peace GREAT IDEAS from the GREAT BOOKS with an introduction by William Benton, Chairman of the Board of Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. Answers are drawn from the wisdom of the past to the problems about which we are most concerned in the world of today
Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume Two
By Unknown Author
“Anyone can cook in the French manner anywhere,” wrote Mesdames Beck, Bertholle, and Child, “with the right instruction.” And here is the book that, for more than forty years, has been teaching Americans how. Mastering the Art of French Cooking is for both seasoned cooks and beginners who love good food and long to reproduce at home the savory delights of the classic cuisine, from the historic Gallic masterpieces to the seemingly artless perfection of a dish of spring-green peas. This beautiful book, with more than 100 instructive illustrations, is revolutionary in its approach because: This is the classic cookbook, in its entirety—all 524 recipes.
Messenger of Love
By Unknown Author
LOVE'S DILEMMA Greenwich Palace, in the reign of Elizabeth I: the beautiful Andora Bland arrives from the country to take up her post among the Queen's Maids of Honour... a post which she discovers can be both dangerous and exciting. When Andora meets the dashing Sir Hengist Wake, recently knighted for his buccaneering exploits, she discovers that Sir Hengist is as much a pirate ashore as he ever was at sea. When Andora's old- fashioned, mud-splattered coach rattled into the courtyard of Greenwich Palace, Sir Hengist Wake roared with laughter at the traveling "Ark." Andora was only a country maid, but she had the pride of a tartar. From that moment the new Maid of Honor counted Sir Hengist her enemy.... But not for long. The Queen's most dashing buccaneer began to woo the little country mouse. When he could have the hand of the most beautiful woman in the whole gaudy court, why did Sir Hengist set out to capture Andora's heart? And now that she loved the man she hated, how could Andora trust that traitorous heart?
The Thirtieth Year
By Unknown Author
This is collection of the stories written by a distinguished German author who died in 1973. Reading these stories entails abandoning the terms of one's own comfort. The author's relentless vision demands that readers allows themselves to be hypnotised, taken over by her repetitive cadences and burning images of grief and loss. And yet, in the beauty of her images there is a tremendous affirmation of the world.
The Spanish Civil War
By Unknown Author
A masterpiece of the historian's art, Hugh Thomas's *The Spanish Civil War* remains the best, most engrossing narrative of one of the most emblematic and misunderstood wars of the twentieth century. Revised and updated with significant new material, including new revelations about atrocities perpetrated against civilians by both sides in this epic conflict, this "definitive work on the subject" (Richard Bernstein, *The New York Times*) has been given a fresh face forty years after its initial publication in 1961. In brilliant, moving detail, Thomas analyzes a devastating conflict in which the hopes, dreams, and dogmas of a century exploded onto the battle field. Like no other account, *The Spanish Civil War* dramatically reassembles the events that led a European nation, in a continent on the brink of world war, to divide against itself, bringing into play the machinations of Franco and Hitler, the bloodshed of Guernica, and the deeply inspiring heroics of those who rallied to the side of democracy. Communists, anarchists, monarchists, fascists, socialists, democrats —the various forces of the Spanish Civil War composed a fabric of the twentieth century itself, and Thomas masterfully weaves the diffuse and fascinating threads of the war together in a manner that has established the book as a genuine classic of modern history.
Progress in Medicinal Chemistry
By Unknown Author
PROGRESS IN MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY 16.
Economic theory and operations analysis
By Unknown Author
Analytic tools of optimization; Microeconomic analysis; Recent developments in mathematical economics; Postcript on computers.
An Experiment in Criticism
By Unknown Author
"Professor Lewis believed that literature exists above all for the joy of the reader and that books should be judged by the kind of reading they invite. He doubted the use of strictly evaluative criticism, especially its condemnations. Literary criticism is traditionally employed in judging books, and 'bad taste' is thought of as a taste for bad books. Professor Lewis' experiment consists in reversing the process, and judging literature itself by the way men read it. He defined a good book as one which can be read in a certain way, a bad book as one which can only be read in another. He was therefore mainly preoccupied with the notion of good reading: and he showed that this, in its surrender to the work on which it is engaged, has something in common with love, with moral action, and with intellectual achievement. In good reading we should be concerned less in altering our own opinions than in entering fully into the opinions of others; "in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself". As with all that Professor Lewis wrote, the arguments are stimulating and the examples apt"--Publisher description.
The edge of sadness
By Unknown Author
Beautifully written . Very human, deeply spiritual. A book that resonates with life, it's struggles, its day to day routine that leads to introspection and encounters with God through simple people in everyday events, in a struggle for sobriety. All these lead the protagonist to a the edge of darkness. Routine and struggle can do that to you . Instead of an abyss that you expect him plunge into he is in the end rescued by a loving, caring God. A God that manifests Himself in daily parochial life within a city' s catholic sector. Author has spiritual depth and beautiful prose. I enjoyed this book very very much.
Revolutionary road
By Unknown Author
"A deft, ironic, beautiful novel that deserves to be a classic." --William StyronFrom the moment of its publication in 1961, Revolutionary Road was hailed as a masterpiece of realistic fiction and as the most evocative portrayal of the opulent desolation of the American suburbs. It's the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, beautiful, and talented couple who have lived on the assumption that greatness is only just around the corner. With heartbreaking compassion and remorseless clarity, Richard Yates shows how Frank and April mortgage their spiritual birthright, betraying not only each other, but their best selves.In his introduction to this edition, novelist Richard Ford pays homage to the lasting influence and enduring power of Revolutionary Road.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Nuremberg diary
By Unknown Author
Nuremberg Diary is Gustave Gilbert's account of and interviews he conducted during the Nuremberg Trials of Nazi leaders, including Hermann Göring, involved in World War II and the Holocaust. Dr. Gilbert, a fluent German speaker, served as a prison psychologist in Nuremberg, where he had close contact with those on trial. The text is the verbatim notes Gilbert took immediately after having conversations with the prisoners, information backed up by essays he asked them to write about themselves.[1] The diary was first published in 1947 and reissued in 1961,[2] just before the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem.
Marnie
By Unknown Author
Marnie appears to be charming and efficient. A true professional. But inwardly she is unscrupulous, a rebel against society and the law. When she starts working for a small family firm, two of the partners vie for her attentions, and as Mark Rutland, the younger partner, forces his way into Marnie's world he becomes desperate to understand her. Why is she so cynical, so uncaring? Why is she a thief and a liar? Who is the real Marnie? Mark sets a trap ...but it is not only Marnie who is caught ...'A crime novel of considerable suspense, and great distinction' Spectator 'The incomparable Winston Graham ...who has everything that anyone else has, then a whole lot more' Guardian
Sejarah umat Islam
By Unknown Author
History of the Muslim peoples.
The Architecture of Michelangelo
By Unknown Author
In this widely acclaimed work, James Ackerman considers in detail the buildings designed by Michelangelo in Florence and Rome—including the Medici Chapel, the Farnese Palace, the Basilica of St. Peter, and the Capitoline Hill. He then turns to an examination of the artist's architectural drawings, theory, and practice. As Ackerman points out, Michelangelo worked on many projects started or completed by other architects. Consequently this study provides insights into the achievements of the whole profession during the sixteenth century. The text is supplemented with 140 black-and-white illustrations and is followed by a scholarly catalog of Michelangelo's buildings that discusses chronology, authorship, and condition. For this second edition, Ackerman has made extensive revisions in the catalog to encompass new material that has been published on the subject since 1970.
The man-eater of Malgudi
By Unknown Author
Congenial days of a South India village printer and his friends are disturbed when a taxidermist moves into the attic with dancing girls and stuffed animals, and threatens to shoot a temple elephant.
Le voci della sera
By Unknown Author
"In a quiet Italian town after World War Two, Elsa lives with her parents in the house where she was born. Twenty-seven and unmarried, she is a constant concern to her obsessive, hypochondriac mother. But her mother does not know that Elsa has fallen in love with Tommasino, the elusive youngest son of the De Francisci family, who own the textile factory that dominates the town. Over the course of their secret meetings, Elsa begins to imagine a future with Tommasino, free from the constraints of expectations and burdensome history. But this is all threatened by exposure. An elegant and beautifully re-strained novel that scratches at the fragility of postwar consciousness, Voices in the Evening is an unforgettable story about first love and lost chances"--
The biology of fungi
By Unknown Author
Growth and nutrition - Phycomycetes - Ascomycetes - Basidiomycetes - Deuteromycetes - Habitat relations of fungi - Dispersal in fungi - Fungi as plant parasites - Fungi and human affairs___
The case of the spurious spinster
By Unknown Author
Perry Mason and Della Street are approached by a young secretary, Susan Fisher, who needs help after discovering that her boss may be involved in some fishy matters at the Corning Mining, Smelting, and Investing Company. A shoe box full of money and the company's owner both disappear, and Miss Fisher finds herself needing Perry Mason's assistance even more. When the manager of the Mojave Monarch Mine ends up murdered, Mason has to draw on all of his expertise to prove that his client didn't commit the deadly crime.
The Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night
By Unknown Author
The countryside of New England is expertly illustrated in the pictures accompanying the lyrics to this old folk song about a fox who travels many miles to get dinner for his wife and kits.
No fond return of love
By Unknown Author
Dulcie Mainwaring, the heroine of the book, is one of those excellent women who is always helping others and never looking out for herself- especially in the realms of love. The novel has a delicate tangle of schemes and unfulfilled dreams, hidden secrets and a castle or two.
Alfred Hichcock's Haunted Houseful
By Unknown Author
Nine short stories featuring haunted houses, by such notable authors as Elizabeth Coatsworth, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Mark Twain.
Chester
By Unknown Author
A wild horse searches for someone to love and care for him.
The lime twig
By Unknown Author
For nearly fifty years and in more than fourteen novels, John Hawkes has been creating his "landscapes of the imagination" and enriching the form and language of the American novel. Bringing together three early novels, this volume displays Hawkes's mastery as a prose stylist and the range and power of his gifts as an innovative writer. The Lime Twig (1961), set in postwar London, is the story of a young man who, unwittingly involved with the underworld, comes face to face with the violence and decay of contemporary society. Second Skin (1964) is a tale of suicide and new life on two mythical islands - one demonic, the other idyllic - and is a comic, magical evocation of The Tempest. Travesty (1976) is a portrait of the ultimate artist, a harrowing monologue on fear and eroticism that takes place during a drive at night in Southern France.
Bel Lamington
By Unknown Author
Bel Lamington finds London a very lonely place-- until a charming young artist literally drops in on her rooftop garden...
The sun
By Unknown Author
Describes the sun and how it provides the light and energy which allow plant and animal life to exist on the earth.
1001 ways to live without working
By Unknown Author
I suspect this original edition was printed, assembled and distributed by Tuli himself.
New Testament survey
By Unknown Author
"A revision of The New Testament, an historical and analytic survey ... 1953."
In High Places
By Unknown Author
The Canadian prime minister's vital plan for union with the U.S. is upset by a modern man-without-a-country.
Beorn the proud
By Unknown Author
Beorn, a pagan Viking from Denmark, becomes a better ruler as a result of the influence of Ness, a Christian girl he took from Ireland as his slave.
History of Harris County, Georgia, 1827-1961
By Unknown Author
History
The rhetoric of fiction
By Unknown Author
"This beautifully illustrated book, written by an outstanding architect-planner and illustrated by an eminent photographer, demonstrates for laymen and professionals how our cities and open spaces can be made comfortable, beautiful and profitable. With the aid of aerial photographs - 16 in color - as well as maps and renderings of exciting new projects, the author argues that high-density core cities are the desirable and inevitable solution to our social problems. One of the founding partners of the architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Mr. Owings points out the aesthetic lessons to be learned from our history and geography. Our compulsive mobility and swift industrialization, in combination with the grandeur of our land forms, have produced a uniquely American design viewpoint upon which to base our new buildings and our revitalized cities. Although we have generally allowed our railroads, highways and industries to ravage our environment, dramatic improvements are being made in cities such as Baltimore, Washington, Chicago, New York, San Francisco and Philadelphia. In describing these projects, the nature of great architecture and the kind of talent in government, business and education needed for the task, Mr. Owings shows how our environment can be saved and the American aesthetic realized"--Dust jacket.
The Atoms Within Us
By Unknown Author
An overview of human molecular biology, with a history of discoveries and a discussion of present developments.
The Religious Body
By Unknown Author
Inspector C.D. Sloan of the Callehsire C.I.D. makes his first appearance here as he looks into the murder of a nun at the Convent of St. Anselm. First published in 1966, The Religious Body was Aird's first book and immediately established herself as one of the leading exponents of the post-WWII English traditional mystery.
Time Is the Simplest Thing
By Unknown Author
Space travel has been abandoned in the twenty-second century. It is deemed too dangerous, expensive, and inconvenient—and now the all-powerful Fishhook company holds the monopoly on interstellar exploration for commercial gain. Their secret is the use of "parries," human beings with the remarkable telepathic ability to expand their minds throughout the universe. On what should have been a routine assignment, however, loyal Fishhook employee Shepherd Blaine is accidentally implanted with a copy of an alien consciousness, becoming something more than human. Now he's a company pariah, forced to flee the safe confines of the Fishhook complex. But the world he escapes into is not a sanctuary. Its people have been taught to hate and fear his parapsychological gift—and there is nowhere on Earth, or elsewhere, for Blaine to hide.
Time May Change
By Unknown Author
Setting off on a glamorous Mediterranean cruise as guest of the parents of a charming man who was determined to marry her, Rowan had not a care in the world. But the idyllic prospect was very soon to be shattered by a million-to-one coincidence which turned the cruise into an emotional battleground for Rowan. Of all the men in the world, her former fiance appeared on the scene again -- and how could they possibly avoid one another when they were constantly in the same party. And as time went by, it became increasingly clear to her that Blake's effect on her was as disturbing as ever...
The Judas tree
By Unknown Author
This is yet another semi-autobiographical work about a medical man who achieves success and worldy wealth in a non-medical field but remains unsatisfied with his life. It is a rather bitter book , with the protagonist being very self-centred , and it makes reference , as do a number of Cronin's works , to a fixation with suicide. Nonetheless, it is a good and interesting read
Blue Fire
By Unknown Author
**From the jacket** When Susan Hohenfield journeyed from Chicago to Africa, the scene of her childhood, she was in turn ecstatically happy and filled with apprehension. Married less than a week to a man she adored but scarcely knew, Dirk Hohenfield, she feared the first encounter with her father, for whom she nursed a terrible bitterness in her heart. Niklaas van Pelt loomed in her mind as the ogre who had driven Susan and her mother from his home and later served a term in prison for smuggling diamonds. But during the first weeks in her new home it was not her father who disturbed her. For this dignified and intelligent man she began to feel compassion and even love. Other people, however, intruded into her life and her marriage, threatening to destroy both. One such intruder was John Cornish, a writer who had helped send her father to prison, and was now on hand to plague Susan and the old man about an unsolved mystery. A second was the blond and clever Mara Bellman. "I'm neither mad nor a fool," she announced Susan. "I'm in love with Dirk and in the end I mean to have him back." When Susan's husband began to behave strangely, suggesting that as a child she might have been implicated in the theft of a diamond, she was even more confounded. She struggled to remember the past in an effort to cope successfully with the present. Soon it became apparent that Africa was not the innocent place of her childhood memories; it was charged with fear, intrigue and the fierce craving of men for sudden wealth. Susan was to believe that there was no one she could trust fully, not even her husband. As the mystery deepened and secrets from her own past were revealed to her, her courage and resourcefulness were put severely the test.
Return to Gone-Away (Gone-Away Lake #2)
By Unknown Author
In this sequel to "Gone-Away Lake," eleven-year-old Portia and family return with cousin Julian to the site they visited the previous summer, this time to take possession of a large Victorian house, unoccupied for fifty years and full of treasures and secrets.
Сон смешного человека
By Unknown Author
"The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" (Russian: Сон смешного человека, Son smeshnovo cheloveka) is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky written in 1877. It chronicles the experiences of a man who decides that there is nothing of any value in the world. Slipping into nihilism with the “terrible anguish” he is determined to commit suicide. A chance encounter with a young girl, however, begins the man on a journey that re-instills a love for his fellow man. It was first published in A Writer's Diary.
The Sierra Gold Mystery
By Unknown Author
Louise and Jean Dana fly home from Thailand completely unaware of the exciting adventures waiting for them just a few hours away. But even before their plane lands in San Francisco, Louise's precious star sapphire ring is stolen, and the girls are plunged into a new mystery. Before the Danas have a chance to investigate it, a fellow traveler, Janet Crane, begs them to find her grandfather who has disappeared somewhere in the rugged terrain of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in eastern California. The two mysteries must wait, for the girls have promised to visit their aunt, Mrs. Carol Reed, in Sacramento. Aunt Carol tells Louise and Jean a family secret about a chest of gold nuggets which was buried for an ancestor during the historic gold rush of 1849 by his devoted Chinese servant -- and now the girls have three thrilling mysteries to satisfy their love of adventure. Four generations of Reeds have searched for clues to the treasure with only a half-charred letter to guide them. Now Jean and Louise, with their sharp instinct for solving the most complicated riddles, decide to add their three mysteries together -- and come up with a triple solution.
Spencer's Hospital
By Unknown Author
When Harriet went to Spencer's Hospital she had no professional regrets, but it would mean the renewal of her love affair with Randall Spencer; and after more then two years' separation she had every reason to believe that Randall was a very different person from the man she had known.
"I can't" said the ant
By Unknown Author
This ant... Just can't. And so he shant. The end.
Consider Her Ways and Others
By Unknown Author
*Consider Her Ways* Jane Waterleigh has no memory of her past wakes up and discovers that she is a mother of some description, in a bloated body that is not her own. *Odd* is a tale of how an ordinary man profited from an extraordinary time paradox when he stops to help a man seemingly lost and confused, and then learns the reasons why. *Stitch in Time* concerns an elderly lady reflecting on a lost love and, thanks to her sons' experiments with time, finally discovering the reason why her lover abandoned her so many years ago. *Oh Where, Now, is Peggy MacRafferty?* is a social satire on Hollywood glamour in which a bright, individual young Irish woman becomes part of the celebrity circuit, and loses all that makes her special in the process of becoming a star. *Random Quest* combines romance and parallel universes. *A Long Spoon* is the story of how a demon is summoned by mistake and the lengths the couple that invoked him have to go to get rid of him without losing their souls in the bargain.
Art and culture
By Unknown Author
A collection of essays by critic Clement Greenberg on painting and sculpture of the late nineteenth / early twentieth century European art, and American art of the first half of the twentieth century.
Five of a Kind
By Unknown Author
Includes the novels "The Rubber Band," "In The Best Families," and Three Doors to Death (short story collection: "Man Alive," "Omit Flowers," and "Door to Death").
The savage my kinsman
By Unknown Author
In January of 1956, the world recoiled in shock with the news. Five American missionaries had been speared to death in the Equadorian jungles by Auca Indians, reportedly the most savage tribe on earth. Years later, it became clear that what had seemed to be the tragic ending of those missionaries' dreams was only the first chapter of one of the most breathtaking missionary stories of the twentieth century. The Savage, My Kinsman tells the story, in text and pictures, of Elisabeth Elliot's venture into Auca territory three years after the death of her husband, Jim Elliot. Elisabeth and her daughter Valerie, then three years old, returned to the jungle along with Rachel Saint, the sister of one of the other slain men. The linguistic work of these women brought Christ's message of salvation to the tribe that had killed their loved ones. They became the first to enter Auca territory and live to tell the story. - Publisher.
Hitlers zweites Buch
By Unknown Author
Product Description: In May, 1945, an American officer in Germany confiscated the manuscript of an unpublished book ascribed to Adolf Hitler and sent it to the United States. The book had been dictated in the summer of 1928, and then placed in a safe at the Nazi party central publishing house with strict orders that it was not to be published or shown to anyone. After its confiscation by the U.S. Army, the manuscript was kept in the World War II Records Division of the United States National Archives, and in the summer of 1958, it was identified beyond any question as a second book by Hitler, devoted entirely to foreign policy.
Becky's Christmas
By Unknown Author
As Becky and her family busily prepare for a traditional country Christmas, she grows more and more curious about the special present Father is making for her.
Similarities in Wave Behavior
By Unknown Author
College textbook written by Dr. J.N. Shive of Bell Labs demonstrates and discusses the following aspects of wave behavior: Reflection of waves from free and clamped ends Superposition Standing waves and resonance Energy loss by impedance mismatching Reduction of energy loss by quarter-wave and tapered-section transformers Dr. Shive was employed by Bell Labs and was more than just a lecturer. He worked on early transistor technology, inventing the phototransistor in 1950. Dr. Shive also invented what he called the "Shive Wave Generator" and is a machine he uses in college classrooms to demonstrate wave theory.
Katherine, the Virgin Widow
By Unknown Author
IN THE ROYAL MARRIAGE MARKET THE INFANTA OF SPAIN WAS A TRUE PRIZE. In the eyes of the world, Katharine of Aragon was a precious object to be disposed of for the glory of Spain. Her parents, Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand, send her to England to become the bride of Arthur, Prince of Wales. But soon her frail husband was dead, and a fateful question loomed: Was the marriage consummated, as Katharine's priest avowed, or was the young widow still a virgin? On that delicate point hinged Katharine's--and England's--future. Meanwhile, waiting in the wings was her willful, handsome brother-in-law, bold Prince Henry, who alone had the power to restore Katharine's lost position. Jean Plaidy's narrative genius sparkles in this story of a remarkable royal marriage that inspired some of history's bloodiest deeds . . . .(
The management of innovation
By Unknown Author
The Management of Innovation is one of the most influential books on organization theory and industrial sociology ever written. The main question it addresses - the relationship between an organization and its market and the technological environment - continues to preoccupy researchers and managers as innovation has even greater impact on organizational structures and competitiveness. Engagingly written and wearing its scholarship lightly, the book presents the authors' now famous binary classification of 'mechanistic' or 'organic' systems. For this it has become justly famous, but the book is also a penetrating study of social systems within organizations and of organizational dynamics, covering such issues as organizational politics, the role of the chief executive and the relationship between technical staff and general managers. For this new edition, Tom Burns has written an overview of developments in organization theory and situated the book in that context.
Silence Observed (Inspector Appleby Mystery)
By Unknown Author
> Respected Fine Art experts are deceived in one of the most intriguing murder cases Inspector Appleby has ever faced, beginning with Gribble, a collector of forgeries whose latest acquisition is found to be a forged forgery! In the words of Appleby himself: 'Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. Just a little mad, for a start. Inclined, say, to unreasonable jokes in the course of business. But later - well, very mad indeed.'
Coil's Masonic encyclopedia
By Unknown Author
Is the most up to date of Masonic Encyclopedias. The 2nd edition, edited in 1996 by the late Allen Roberts, is a treasure trove of important Masonic information and features over 1750 articles. No serious masonic student should be without this book.
The manipulation of human behavior
By Unknown Author
Seven studies of brainwashing by specialists covering powers of hypnosis, drugs, isolation, physical deprivation, etc., and countermeasures available for each.
A new life
By Unknown Author
Sy Levin, a high school teacher beset by alcohol and bad decisions, leaves New York for the Pacific Northwest to start over, imagining that an extraordinary new life awaits him there. Soon after arriving, he realizes that he had fallen for the myth of the West as a place of personal reinvention.
The Fox in the Attic
By Unknown Author
Augusten is a young man from an aristocratic family, struggling to make sense of a world devastated by the Great War. The enemy abroad may have been defeated, but when he finds himself implicated in the death of a young girl, he becomes targeted as the enemy within. Fleeing Britain, Augusten seeks refuge and solace in the remote castle of Bavarian relatives; but what he finds is a hinterland of fierce lust and terrible darkness; a paradigm of the hunger and the hatred that promises to resuscitate a ruined Germany.
Comment c'est
By Unknown Author
lxviii, 759 p. ; 24 cm
West Side Story
By Unknown Author
A little bit like Romeo and Juliet, Maria and Tony come from different worlds, but fall in love. Follow them through the streets of New York as their love is tested by disapproval of family and friends. Immortalized in Leonard Bernstein's musical.
Street without joy
By Unknown Author
In this classic account of the French war in Indochina, Bernard B. Fall vividly captures the sights, sounds, and smells of the savage eight-year conflict in the jungles and mountains of Southeast Asia from 1946 to 1954. The French fought well to the last, but even with the lethal advantages of airpower, they could not stave off the Communist-led Vietnamese nationalists, who countered with a hit-and-run campaign of ambushes, booby traps, and nighttime raids. Defeat came at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, setting the stage for American involvement and opening another tragic chapter in Vietnam's history. - Back cover. Originally published in 1961, before the United States escalated its involvement in South Vietnam, Street without Joy offered a clear warning about what American forces would face in the jungles of Southeast Asia: a costly and protracted revolutionary war fought without fronts against a mobile enemy. In harrowing detail, Fall describes the brutality and frustrations of the Indochina War, the savage eight-year conflict -- ending in 1954 after the fall of Dien Bien Phu -- in which French forces suffered a staggering defeat at the hands of Communist-led Vietnamese nationalists. With its frontline perspective, vivid reporting, and careful analysis, Street without Joy was required reading for policymakers in Washington and GIs in the field and is now considered a classic. - Publisher.
The Serpent's Coil
By Unknown Author
Story of three hurricanes and the men and ships that endured them.
Run river
By Unknown Author
Everett McClellan and his wife, Lily, the great-grandchildren of California pioneers, become involved in murder and betrayal.