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Frenchman's Creek (Virago Modern Classics #2160)
by Daphne Du MaurierLady Dona is bored with stylish life at Court so she sets off for freedom to her husband's Cornwall estate. She comes across the white-sailed ship belonging to a Frenchman who robs the shores of Cornwall. This pirate steals the heart of the Lady.
Global Production and Domestic Decay: Plant Closings in the U.S.
by Brian D. PhillipsFirst Published in 1942. Phillips has written an important study covering three areas: three areas: theoretical, empirical, and public policy. This book explores some of the explanations for and consequences of globalized production by transnational corporations. A review of the theoretical underpinnings of the reasons for corporate overseas expansion precedes a discussion of transnational corporation overseas production facilities. The literature reviewed supports the position that the exodus of manufacturing capital has been assisted by state policy which has encouraged capital flight, and that corporate efforts to downsize manufacturing operations in the United States have added to corporate profitability and championed profits over the strengthening the domestic economy.
Global Production and Domestic Decay: Plant Closings in the U.S. (Studies on Industrial Productivity: Selected Works)
by Brian D. PhillipsFirst Published in 1942. Phillips has written an important study covering three areas: three areas: theoretical, empirical, and public policy. This book explores some of the explanations for and consequences of globalized production by transnational corporations. A review of the theoretical underpinnings of the reasons for corporate overseas expansion precedes a discussion of transnational corporation overseas production facilities. The literature reviewed supports the position that the exodus of manufacturing capital has been assisted by state policy which has encouraged capital flight, and that corporate efforts to downsize manufacturing operations in the United States have added to corporate profitability and championed profits over the strengthening the domestic economy.
Go Down, Moses
by William Faulkner"I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance." --William Faulkner, on receiving the Nobel Prize Go Down, Moses is composed of seven interrelated stories, all of them set in Faulkner's mythic Yoknapatawpha County. From a variety of perspectives, Faulkner examines the complex, changing relationships between blacks and whites, between man and nature, weaving a cohesive novel rich in implication and insight.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
by Swami NikhilanandaComplete conversations of Sri Ramakrishna (1836-1886). With introductory biography, foreword by Aldous Huxley. 26 photographs. In the spiritual firmament, Sri Ramakrishna is a waxing crescent. Romain Rolland has described him as the fulfillment of the spiritual aspirations of the three hundred millions of Hindus for the last two thousand years. Mahatma Gandhi has written: "His life enables us to see God face to face. . . . Ramakrishna was a living embodiment of godliness." Sri Ramakrishna is being recognized as a compeer of Krishna, Buddha, and Christ.
Hanged for a Sheep (The Mr. and Mrs. North Mysteries #5)
by Richard Lockridge Frances LockridgeMrs. North must protect her aunt from being poisoned—whether she likes it or not Pamela North has never worried about making sense. When she has a thought, she expresses it, and if no one in the room knows what she&’s talking about, it&’s no trouble to her. While Mrs. North&’s unique style of thought can make her a challenging conversational partner, it also makes her one of the finest amateur sleuths in New York City. But no matter how sharp her wit, she can&’t pin down Aunt Flora. An indomitable old woman, shaped like a snowman and just as icy, Flora is convinced that someone is trying to slip her arsenic, and she&’ll be very cross if her niece can&’t stop the culprit before he succeeds. Aunt Flora stubbornly refuses to let Pamela call in the police, until a suspicious dead body forces them to ask the opinion of Lt. William Weigand. It&’s a screwy mystery, and that means it&’s perfect for Mrs. North.Hanged for a Sheep is the 5th book in the Mr. and Mrs. North Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Hanns and Rudolf: The True Story of the German Jew Who Tracked Down and Caught the Kommandant of Auschwitz
by Thomas HardingINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The &“compelling,&” untold story of the man who captured and brought to trial Rudolf Höss—one of Nazi Germany&’s most notorious war criminals and subject of the Oscar-nominated film The Zone of Interest—&“fascinates and shocks&” (The Washington Post).May 1945. In the aftermath of the Second World War, the first British War Crimes Investigation Team is assembled to hunt down the senior Nazi officials responsible for the greatest atrocities the world has ever seen. One of the lead investigators is Lieutenant Hanns Alexander, a German Jew who is now serving in the British Army. Rudolf Höss is his most elusive target. As Kommandant of Auschwitz, Höss not only oversaw the murder of more than one million men, women, and children; he was the man who perfected Hitler’s program of mass extermination. Höss is on the run across a continent in ruins, the one man whose testimony can ensure justice at Nuremberg. Hanns and Rudolf reveals for the very first time the full, exhilarating account of Höss’s capture, an encounter with repercussions that echo to this day. Moving from the Middle Eastern campaigns of World War I to bohemian Berlin in the 1920s to the horror of the concentration camps and the trials in Belsen and Nuremberg, it tells the story of two German men—one Jewish, one Catholic—whose lives diverged, and intersected, in an astonishing way. This is “one of those true stories that illuminates a small justice in the aftermath of the Holocaust, an event so huge and heinous that there can be no ultimate justice” (New York Daily News).
Happy Times in Norway
by Sigrid UndsetHappy Times in Norway is a moving and delicately humorous picture of Undset&’s own blissful home life before her nation fell to the Nazi occupation. Captured here is the excitement of a Norwegian Christmas, the Seventeenth of May, and summer in the idyllic mountains, as well as the chaotic adventure of raising two energetic boys. With vivid detail and illuminating descriptions of the landscape, Happy Times in Norway is infused with the wish that those cherished days could come again.
House with a Sunken Courtyard
by Ji-Moon Suh Kim Won-IlAn occasionally terrifying and always vivid portrayal of what it was like to live as a refugee immediately after the end of the Korean War. This novel is based on the author's own experience in his early teens in Daegu, in 1954, and depicts six families that survive the hard times together in the same house, weathering the tiny conflicts of interest and rivalries that spring up in such close quarters, but nonetheless offering one another sympathy and encouragement as fellow sufferers of the same national misfortune: brothers and sisters in privation.
House with a Sunken Courtyard
by Ji-Moon Suh Kim Won-IlAn occasionally terrifying and always vivid portrayal of what it was like to live as a refugee immediately after the end of the Korean War. This novel is based on the author's own experience in his early teens in Daegu, in 1954, and depicts six families that survive the hard times together in the same house, weathering the tiny conflicts of interest and rivalries that spring up in such close quarters, but nonetheless offering one another sympathy and encouragement as fellow sufferers of the same national misfortune: brothers and sisters in privation.
I'll Tell Them I Remember You
by William Peter BlattyI'll Tell Them I Remember You is New York Times bestselling author William Peter Blatty's memoir about being raised by his single Lebanese mother struggling to make ends meet in 1930s Manhattan.In this heartfelt and humorous autobiography, Blatty shares what it was like growing up with a strong-willed and opinionated mother who did anything and everything to keep her five children fed and sheltered no matter how strange or unusual. Her spirit and influence helped shape Blatty as a man, a father, and as the famous author of The Exoricst.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
In the Balance: A Miss Silver Mystery (book Four) (The Miss Silver Mysteries #4)
by Patricia WentworthThe &“marvelous&” British governess-turned-sleuth helps a new bride who fears her husband intends to murder her (Daily Mail). Former schoolteacher Miss Maud Silver is on her way back to London when, with a violent shudder of the train, a young woman is thrust into her compartment. She&’s beautiful, well dressed, newly married, and wealthy—a lethal combination. In a state of shock, Lisle Jerningham explains that she fled her home in a hurry after overhearing a sinister conversation. Her new husband&’s first wife died in an apparent accident, and the resultant infusion of cash saved his family home. Now, he&’s broke again—and attempting to engineer a second convenient mishap. Miss Silver is unsure whether the drama is real or a figment of Lisle&’s imagination—but if this frightened young lady is a target for murder, the killer will have to deal with the governess-turned-sleuth first. Starring a mature sleuth who &“has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot&”, In the Balance is a classic British mystery (Manchester Evening News).
Ines of My Soul
by Isabel AllendeIn the early years of the conquest of the Americas, Inés Suárez, a seamstress condemned to a life of toil, flees Spain to seek adventure in the New World. As Inés makes her way to Chile, she begins a fiery romance with Pedro de Valdivia, war hero and field marshal to the famed Francisco Pizarro. Together the lovers will build the new city of Santiago, and they will wage war against the indigenous Chileans--a bloody struggle that will change Inés and Valdivia forever, inexorably pulling each of them toward separate destinies.Inés of My Soul is a work of breathtaking scope that masterfully dramatizes the known events of Inés Suárez's life, crafting them into a novel rich with the narrative brilliance and passion readers have come to expect from Isabel Allende.
Jack and Rochelle: A Holocaust Story of Love and Resistance
by Jack Sutin Rochelle Sutin Lawrence SutinWhen the Holocaust descended on Poland, two young Jews fought back--and fell in love Jack and Rochelle first met at a youth dance in Poland before the war. They shared one dance, and Jack stepped on Rochelle's shoes. She was unimpressed. When the Nazis invaded eastern Poland in 1941, both Jack (in the town of Mir) and Rochelle (in the town of Stolpce) witnessed the horrors of ghettoization, forced labor, and mass killings that decimated their families. Jack and Rochelle managed, in their separate ways, to escape into the forest. They reunited, against all odds, in the winter of 1942-43 and became Jewish partisans who fought back against the Nazis. The couple's careful courtship soon blossomed into an enduring love that sustained them through the raging hatred of the Holocaust and the destruction of the lives they had known. Jack and Rochelle's story, told in their own voices through extensive interviews with their son, Lawrence, has been in print for twenty years and is celebrated as a classic of Holocaust memoir literature. This is the first electronic edition.
Joe Gould's Secret (Modern Library)
by Joseph MitchellThe story of a notorious New York eccentric and the journalist who chronicled his life: &“A little masterpiece of observation and storytelling&” (Ian McEwan). Joseph Mitchell was a cornerstone of the New Yorker staff for decades, but his prolific career was shattered by an extraordinary case of writer&’s block. For the final thirty-two years of his life, Mitchell published nothing. And the key to his silence may lie in his last major work: the biography of a supposed Harvard grad turned Greenwich Village tramp named Joe Gould. Gould was, in Mitchell&’s words, &“an odd and penniless and unemployable little man who came to this city in 1916 and ducked and dodged and held on as hard as he could for over thirty-five years.&” As Mitchell learns more about Gould&’s epic Oral History—a reputedly nine-million-word collection of philosophizing, wanderings, and hearsay—he eventually uncovers a secret that adds even more intrigue to the already unusual story of the local legend. Originally written as two separate pieces (&“Professor Sea Gull&” in 1942 and then &“Joe Gould&’s Secret&” twenty-two years later), this magnum opus captures Mitchell at his peak. As the reader comes to understand Gould&’s secret, Mitchell&’s words become all the more haunting. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Joseph Mitchell including rare images from the author&’s estate.
John Henry Muirhead: Reflections (Routledge Revivals)
by John W HarveyFirst published in 1942, Reflections documents the life of John Henry Muirhead and the philosophical age that he observed. The first part of the volume derives from Muirhead’s own autobiographical narrative, left unfinished when he died in May 1940. The second part features two final chapters written by John W. Harvey that comprehensively record the final stages of Muirhead’s life. Harvey’s chapters incorporate Muirhead’s unfinished final years of commentary and begin at the man’s retirement from Birmingham Chair in 1921. As a student and teacher of philosophy, Muirhead’s life ran almost precisely parallel to what he himself refers to as ‘one of the most vivid and important movements in British and American philosophy’. He came into contact with some of the age’s primary thinkers and as such, his own autobiography is important in providing an insight into his contemporary philosophical environment.
L'étranger
by Albert Camus"L'Étranger" est un célèbre roman écrit par l'écrivain français Albert Camus. Publié en 1942, ce roman existentialiste raconte l'histoire de Meursault, un homme indifférent et apathique qui est jugé pour avoir tué un homme sur une plage en Algérie. Le livre explore des thèmes tels que l'absurdité de la vie, l'aliénation, la solitude et la perception de la réalité. "L'Étranger" est considéré comme l'une des œuvres majeures de la littérature française du XXe siècle et a été étudié dans de nombreuses écoles à travers le monde.
La llave de Sarah
by Tatiana de RosnayLa epopeya de una niña judía por salvar a su hermano se convertirá en un ejemplo a seguir para quienes han vivido marcados por el peso de la culpa. La verdad siempre encuentra la luz. París, julio de 1942. Las autoridades arrestan a 13.000 judíos ante la mirada de los parisinos, que guardan silencio por miedo, indiferencia o simple interés, pues esperan ocupar las viviendas vacías. El pequeño Michel se oculta en un armario para huir de la redada. Su hermana Sarah cierra la puerta para protegerle y se guarda la llave, pensando que va a regresar en unas horas. Sin embargo, el destino de los Starzynski es protagonizar una de las páginas más tristes de la historia. Los gendarmes confinan a los miles de detenidos durante cinco días en el Velódromo de Invierno, cerca de la Torre Eiffel, sin comida ni agua. Después envían a las familias a un campo de concentración francés, donde los separan como paso previo a su posterior traslado a Auschwitz. París, mayo de 2002. Julia Jarmond, una periodista norteamericana afincada en Francia desde hace veinte años, recibe el encargo de preparar un reportaje con ocasión del sexagésimo aniversario de la redada. La reportera reconstruye el itinerario de los Starzynski y la lucha denodada de Sarah por salvar a su hermano, pero lo último que puede imaginar es que la investigación le conduzca hasta los Tézac, la familia de su marido. La llave de Sarah abre, entre otras cosas, la puerta de la redención. La crítica ha dicho...«Un viaje estremecedor hacia los horrores del nazismo y el colaboracionismo de los franceses.»El País
La ventana alta (Philip Marlowe #3)
by Raymond ChandlerEn La ventana alta (1942), la tercera novela de Raymond Chandler, Marlowe demuestra que no existen los casos sencillos y que detrás de una investigación rutinaria suelen esconderse las pasiones humanas más siniestras. Elizabeth Bright Murdock, una adinerada y áspera viuda, contrata a Marlowe para que encuentre su doblón Brasher, una moneda rara y muy valiosa que ha sido robada. Marlowe deberá resolver un rompecabezas cuyas piezas no parecen tener relación, mientras se suceden los asesinatos relacionados con un asesinato que fue silenciado durante muchos años.«Marlowe es un sir Galahad con ropajes del siglo xx... un hombre capaz de enfrentarse a los peores elementos de un mundo despiadado. Llamémosle religión (o idealismo), pero con unos buenos puños e incluso una pistola como defensa.»Patricia Highsmith
Land of Unreason (Gateway Essentials #57)
by Fletcher Pratt L. Sprague deCampOn Midsummer's Eve, as everybody knows, you should leave a bowl of milk out for the fairies. Unfortunately - or fortunately - Fred Barber, an American diplomat convalescing in Yorkshire, didn't take the obligation with proper seriousness. He swapped the milk for a stiff dose of Scotch. So he had only himself to blame if the fairies got a bit muddled. Barber found himself in an Old English Fairyland. At the Court of King Oberon, to be precise. The natural - or supernatural - laws there were, to say the least of it, distinctly odd. Things kept changing. This made the mssion with which he was entrusted, as the price of his return to the normal world, even harder than he expected. He had to penetrate the Kobold Hills, where it was said that swords were being made, and discover if an ancient enemy had returned. He was given a magic wand - but not told how to use it. Through the fields and forests he went, meeting dryads and sprites, ogres and two-headed eagles, on the way. Danger, seduction and magic lay all around him. And, as the adventure continued, somehow it darkened and became more seriousness. At the end of Fred Barber's quest lay a shattering revelation.
Last Laugh, Mr. Moto (The Mr. Moto Novels #5)
by John P. MarquandJapanese spymaster Mr. Moto travels to the Caribbean in search of a weapon with the power to determine the course of World War II November 1940: In Kingston Harbor, ex-navy pilot Bob Bolles lounges aboard his cutter. After months spent drifting from port to port, his only ironclad rule is no alcohol before noon. But when an American businessman named Malcolm Kingman, his gorgeous socialite wife, and their Swedish butler charter the Thistlewood for a trip to the remote Mercator Island, Bob's carefree life takes a dangerous and dramatic turn. By the time he places the Kingmans' strange accents and realizes what they hope to recover from the deserted island, it's too late. He is caught in the middle of an international espionage plot with grave implications for the wars raging across Europe and Asia. To keep a powerful military secret from falling into the wrong hands, Bob must dig deep within himself to locate hidden reserves of courage. Easier said than done, as is outwitting Mr. Moto, a top secret agent of Imperial Japan who has been tracking the Thistlewood across the Caribbean Sea. First serialized in the Saturday Evening Post, John P. Marquand's popular and acclaimed Mr. Moto Novels were the inspiration for 8 films starring Peter Lorre.
Lay On, Mac Duff! (The MacDougal Duff Mysteries #1)
by Charlotte ArmstrongThis MacDougal Duff Mystery launched the career of the Edgar Award–winning &“American queen of suspense novelists&” (New York Telegraph). Feeling unmoored since the death of her father, twenty-year-old Bessie Gibbon has left upstate New York to live with an aunt and uncle, Lina and Charles Cathcart, in their four-story Manhattan home. Bessie has heard tales about her eccentric uncle: that he was a millionaire theater magnate and the black sheep of the family, that his marriage to Lina was more of an arrangement than a matter of love, and most important, that he was an inveterate player of parlor games—but nothing prepares Bessie for the luxury in which he lives, the odd assortment of servants, or the cronies who can turn a late-night Parcheesi tournament into a blood sport. And that&’s precisely what happens when one of them is shot to death after a particularly cutthroat game. Now there are whispers that it was Uncle Charles who pulled the trigger, and no one is all that surprised. Detective MacDougal Duff wants to know why. When Duff&’s investigation yields more secrets about the family than Bessie is comfortable with, she starts to fear for her safety. Especially when another of her uncle&’s acquaintances is murdered—stabbed with a carving knife. If this is another one of her uncle&’s games, Bessie can&’t help but wonder who might be the next to lose. Lay On, Mac Duff! is the 1st book in the MacDougal Duff Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Lees Lieutenants 3 Volume Abridged
by Stephen W. Sears Douglas Southall FreemanA towering landmark in Civil War literature, long considered one of the great masterpieces of military history -- now available in a one-volume abridgment. Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command is the most colorful and popular of Douglas Southall Freeman's works. A sweeping narrative that presents a multiple biography against the flame-shot background of the American Civil War, it is the story of the great figures of the Army of Northern Virginia who fought under Robert E. Lee. Dr. Freeman describes the early rise and fall of General Beauregard, the developing friction between Jefferson Davis and Joseph E. Johnston, the emergence and failure of a number of military charlatans, and the triumphs of unlikely men at crucial times. He also describes the rise of the legendary "Stonewall" Jackson and traces his progress in the Shenandoah Valley Campaign and into Richmond amid the acclaim of the South. The Confederacy won resounding victories throughout the war, but seldom easily or without tremendous casualties. Death was always on the heels of fame, but the men who survived -- among them Jackson, Longstreet, and Ewell -- developed as commanders and men. Lee's Lieutenants follows these men to the costly battle at Gettysburg, through the deepening twilight of the South's declining military might, and finally to the collapse of Lee's command and his formal surrender in 1865. To his unparalleled descriptions of men and operations, Dr. Freeman adds an insightful analysis of the lessons learned and their bearing upon the future military development of the nation. Accessible at last in a one-volume edition abridged by noted Civil War historian Stephen W. Sears, Lee's Lieutenants is essential reading for all Civil War buffs, students of war, and admirers of the historian's art as practiced at its very highest level.
Let Me Love
by Denise RobinsA captivating love story from the 100-million-copy bestselling Queen of Romance, first published in 1942, and available now for the first time in eBook.
Letters from the Field, 1925-1975
by Margaret MeadMargaret Mead was famous for keeping in touch with a wide circle of friends as we see in this collection of wonderfully revealing correspondence from the field. Written over a period of half a century, these letters to friends, family, and colleagues detail her first fieldwork in Samoa and go on to record her now famous anthropological endeavors in mainland New Guinea, the Admiralty Islands, and Bali. Enhanced by photographs, these intelligent, vivid, frequently funny, and often poetic letters tell us much about Mead's passion for and understanding of preliterate cultures. But they are equally valuable as a fundamental text on the science -- and art -- of anthropology. This edition, prepared for the centennial of Mead's birth, features introductions by Jan Morris and Mead's daughter. Mary Catherine Bateson.