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The Trail to Seven Pines: A Novel (Hopalong Cassidy)
by Louis L'AmourHopalong rides into a firestorm of violence and betrayal. On the rain-drenched trail to the lawless town of Seven Pines, Hopalong discovers two men -- one dead, the other badly wounded. Returning with medical help, Hopalong finds the wounded man has been shot through the temple. Who would commit such a murder? To find out, Hopalong hires on at Bob Ronson's Rocking R Ranch. There he learns that more than a thousand cattle have been run off by men keeping one scheming eye on the ranch and the other on the monthly stagecoach shipments of gold. Hopalong is determined to stop those responsible. But even the best gunfighter needs men he can trust to watch his back, men willing to risk their lives to do what's right. With their help, Hopalong fights to save the Rocking R, only to find himself the target of a ruthless gunman in a life-and-death struggle for frontier justice.From the Paperback edition.
The Train to Timbuctoo (Little Golden Book)
by Margaret Wise BrownBack in print for a new generation, a rollicking, rhyming train tale from the author of Goodnight Moon!From Kalamazoo to Timbuctoo, from Timbuctoo and back!This beloved story from 1951, about a big train and a little train that have just left Kalamazoo, has captured the imaginations of generations of children. Out of print for decades, it is back to delight little ones and their parents and grandparents again. "Clackety-clack—clackety-clack—pocketa-pocketa-pocketa"—down the track they go! Now a new generation of children will pore over the cheerful illustrations of bridges, tracks, and countryside, while listening to this rollicking tale.
The Troubled Air: A Novel
by Irwin ShawNew York Times Bestseller: A provocative novel about one man&’s struggle with courage and his conscience at the height of McCarthyism. Clement Archer, head of a popular radio show, faces a profound dilemma: Five of his employees stand accused of being communists, and a magazine threatens disclosure unless Archer fires each and every one. Despite his efforts to meet his own moral standards and avoid self-incrimination, Archer finds himself hounded from both ends of the political spectrum for his seemingly righteous actions. The Troubled Air, Irwin Shaw&’s second novel, was published immediately before the author moved to Europe, where he lived for the next twenty-five years. The story remains a powerful portrayal of a good, decent man ensnared by the hysteria and cruelty of a dark period in American history. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Irwin Shaw including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author&’s estate.
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
by Eric HofferA stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in his spare time while living in the railroad yards. The True Believer -- the first and most famous of his books -- was made into a bestseller when President Eisenhower cited it during one of the earliest television press conferences.Completely relevant and essential for understanding the world today, The True Believer is a visionary, highly provocative look into the mind of the fanatic and a penetrating study of how an individual becomes one.
The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
by Elizabeth HardwickEssays on music, art, pop culture, literature, and politics by the renowned essayist and observer of contemporary life, now collected together for the first time. The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick is a companion collection to The Collected Essays, a book that proved a revelation of what, for many, had been an open secret: that Elizabeth Hardwick was one of the great American literary critics, and an extraordinary stylist in her own right. The thirty-five pieces that Alex Andriesse has gathered here—none previously featured in volumes of Hardwick&’s work—make it clear that her powers extended far beyond literary criticism, encompassing a vast range of subjects, from New York City to Faye Dunaway, from Wagner&’s Parsifal to Leonardo da Vinci&’s inventions, and from the pleasures of summertime to grits soufflé. In these often surprising, always well-wrought essays, we see Hardwick&’s passion for people and places, her politics, her thoughts on feminism, and her ability, especially from the 1970s on, to write well about seemingly anything.
The Unconscious Significance of Hair: A Sort Of Autobiography (Collected Works of Charles Berg)
by Charles BergOriginally published in 1951, the implications of this book were thought to be far wider and deeper than its title suggests. 'Hair-activities are chosen merely as a sample of uncritically accepted human behaviour. The author then proceeds to examine them very carefully in the light of dreams, anthropology, folklore, symptoms and perversions. He shows them to be an expression of instinct-driven tensions and conflicts. The popular illusion that they are determined by reason or adaption to reality is exploded. The corollary is inescapable; if in this innocent particular our thoughts and behaviour are symptomatic expressions of an unconscious conflict or complex, how much more psychopathic would our more significant ideas, beliefs, institutions, customs and laws prove to be on similar detailed investigation! Is, therefore, our self-expression in life and civilization nothing more than a symptom, identical in its source and mechanism with the symptoms of nervous and mental illness? The book is really a psychiatric criticism of normality based upon a chosen item of typically normal behaviour. It is, however, written in a way that will be easily understood by every intelligent reader.' This book is a re-issue originally published in 1951. The language used is a reflection of its era and no offence is meant by the Publishers to any reader by this re-publication.
The Under Dog and Other Stories: A Hercule Poirot Collection (Hercule Poirot Mysteries)
by Agatha ChristieA beautiful heiress, a dashing playboy, a handsome prince, and a forgotten recluse. What do they have in common? They're all victims in a series of crimes only Hercule Poirot could solve.
The Undesired Princess
by L. Sprague deCampThe Undesired PrincessRollin Hobart thought he was a logical, sensible man - until he was transported to a world that was perfectly logical but not sensible in the least.The Enchanted BunnyJoe Johnson thought he had his hands full ghostwriting a Senators memoirs - but that was before he fell into the middle of a fairy tale, complete with wizard and fire-breathing dragon.Two reluctant heroes using their modern knowledge but finding that things don't work quite the way they're used to. But they've got to try, because nobody else can save the world - and unless Hobart and Joe succeed they and their new friends are going to be horribly and realistically dead.
The Valley of the Lower Thames 1640 to 1850
by Fred HamilFew are the regions in the province of Ontario so rich and rewarding to the reader interested in local history as the valley of the Lower Thames. As the author tells us with warmth and enthusiasm of the early settlers, roads, bridges, inns, and mills of his native region, his story takes on a wider significance. Here, indeed, is the story of pioneer Canada, "writ small." The valley of the Lower Thames includes the greater part of what is now the county of Kent, and comprises one of the richest and most populous agricultural areas of modern Ontario. For many years it remained separated from the upper river settlements by miles of primeval forest. The Thames River was the highroad for commerce and travel that bound the people on both its banks into one community, and connected them with other communities far beyond. Professor Hamil has embellished what is commonly known of such striking pioneer figures as Thomas Talbot, the Ainse family, and others, with additional fascinating details, and brings before us many figures less well known to history but whose careers arouse admiration, sympathy, curiosity, and amusement.
The Way Some People Die (Lew Archer Series #3)
by Ross MacdonaldIn a rundown house in Santa Monica, Mrs. Samuel Lawrence presses fifty crumpled bills into Lew Archer's hand and asks him to find her wandering daughter, Galatea. Described as 'crazy for men' and without discrimination, she was last seen driving off with small-time gangster Joe Tarantine, a hophead hood with a rep for violence. Archer traces the hidden trail from San Francisco slum alleys to the luxury of Palm Springs, traveling through an urban wilderness of drugs and viciousness. As the bodies begin to pile up, he finds that even angel faces can mask the blackest of hearts.Filled with dope, delinquents and murder, this is classic Macdonald and one of his very best in the Lew Archer series.From the Trade Paperback edition.
The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message For An Age Of Anxiety
by Alan W. WattsAn exploration of man's quest for psychological security and spiritual certainty in religion and philosophy.From the Trade Paperback edition.
The Wisdom of the Talmud: The Wisdom Of The Torah, The Wisdom Of The Talmud, The Wisdom Of The Koran, The Wisdom Of Muhammad, And The Wisdom Of Buddha (Wisdom)
by The Wisdom SeriesDiscover the ancient wisdom and historical influence of a cornerstone of Judaism The Wisdom of the Talmud presents a thorough history and overview of the Talmud, the rabbinical commentary on the Torah that was developed in the Jewish academies of Palestine and Babylonia. From the close of the Biblical canon to the end of the fifth century, Jewish scholars studied the scripture and worked to develop—and debate—supplementary understandings of the Torah&’s directions on a variety of topics. From man&’s purpose and miracles, to marriage and wellness, to consciousness and community, the Talmud considers what it means to practice faith on a daily basis and through a changing world. This book is an essential and approachable guide for understanding how interpretation of the Torah has guided Jewish life for thousands of years. This ebook features a new foreword, image gallery, and list of proverbs and sayings of the rabbis.
The Wooden Overcoat
by Pamela BranchClifford Flush founded the Asterisk Club in Chelsea to provide a home for wrongfully acquitted murderers, being one himself. Qualified prospective members need only name the club as beneficiary in their wills in order to avail themselves of its comforts and unique services. Unfortunately, there isn't room for Benjamin Cann, a gentleman's outfitter newly acquitted of murdering his mistress. So Flush arranges for Benjamin to be temporarily quartered next door in a rat-infested house inhabited by two artistic couples. When Benjamin and a female member of the Asterisk Club turn up dead, the two households both have reason to avoid the police and dispose of the bodies ...'Ingenious and successful farce'Sunday Times
The Wooden Overcoat (Murder Room #781)
by Pamela BranchClifford Flush founded the Asterisk Club in Chelsea to provide a home for wrongfully acquitted murderers, being one himself. Qualified prospective members need only name the club as beneficiary in their wills in order to avail themselves of its comforts and unique services. Unfortunately, there isn't room for Benjamin Cann, a gentleman's outfitter newly acquitted of murdering his mistress. So Flush arranges for Benjamin to be temporarily quartered next door in a rat-infested house inhabited by two artistic couples. When Benjamin and a female member of the Asterisk Club turn up dead, the two households both have reason to avoid the police and dispose of the bodies ...'Ingenious and successful farce' Sunday Times
The Works of Love
by Wright Morris"When I was a boy of eight in the Platte Valley of Nebraska, my father made the first of the many moves that would prove to be of interest to a future writer of fiction. They were east to Chicago, the point on the map where all the lines pointed. Almost twenty years would pass before I would seek to recapture the past that I had experienced. The Works of Loveis the first fruit of that effort, and the linchpin in my novels concerned with the plains. The reader who has read The Home Place or The Field of Vision will find in this novel the crux of an experience I frequently return to but never exhaust."—Wright Morris
The World War II Trilogy: From Here to Eternity, The Thin Red Line, and Whistle (The World War II Trilogy #2)
by James JonesThree classic World War II novels in one collection, including the National Book Award winner From Here to Eternity. An army base at Pearl Harbor. The jungles of Guadalcanal. A veterans hospital on the home front. Inspired by his own experiences in the US Army, author James Jones&’s World War II Trilogy stands as one of the most significant achievements in war literature. This compilation includes:From Here to Eternity Pearl Harbor, 1941. A challenging young private is transferred to a unit where the commander is determined to make his life hell. This edition includes scenes and dialogue censored for the novel&’s original publication. A true classic, From Here to Eternity was made into an Academy Award–winning film and a television mini-series, as well as adapted for the stage.The Thin Red Line The invasion of Guadalcanal ignites a six-month battle for two thousand square miles of jungle and sand. But the soldiers of Charlie Company are not of the heroic mold. The unit&’s captain is too intelligent and sensitive for the job, his first sergeant is half mad, and the enlisted men begin the campaign gripped by cowardice. This searing portrait of jungle combat has been adapted twice for feature films.Whistle After a long journey across the Pacific, a ship finally lands on American soil. For the soldiers&’ loved ones, it&’s a celebration. But on board, hundreds of men are broken and haunted, survivors of the battle to wrest the South Seas from the Japanese Empire. Though on their way to heal in a Tennessee hospital, their road to recovery will take far more than mending physical wounds. This ebook features an illustrated biography of James Jones including rare photos from the author&’s estate.
The Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of South-Western Nigeria: Western Africa Part IV
by Daryll FordeRoutledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples. Concise, critical and (for its time) accurate, the Ethnographic Survey contains sections as follows: Physical Environment Linguistic Data Demography History & Traditions of Origin Nomenclature Grouping Cultural Features: Religion, Witchcraft, Birth, Initiation, Burial Social & Political Organization: Kinship, Marriage, Inheritance, Slavery, Land Tenure, Warfare & Justice Economy & Trade Domestic Architecture Each of the 50 volumes will be available to buy individually, and these are organized into regional sub-groups: East Central Africa, North-Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, West Central Africa, Western Africa, and Central Africa Belgian Congo. The volumes are supplemented with maps, available to view on routledge.com or available as a pdf from the publishers.
Then Am I Strong
by Francena H. ArnoldJoAnne, an orphan, is dependent upon her close friend Nona, but when Nona leaves, her insecurities and fears lead her to shift dependence to her friend Dave. In this story of encouragement and hope, even through difficult circumstances, JoAnne begins to understand Christ&’s words, &“Lo, I am with you always.&”
Then Am I Strong
by Francena H. ArnoldJoAnne, an orphan, is dependent upon her close friend Nona, but when Nona leaves, her insecurities and fears lead her to shift dependence to her friend Dave. In this story of encouragement and hope, even through difficult circumstances, JoAnne begins to understand Christ&’s words, &“Lo, I am with you always.&”
They Came to Baghdad
by Agatha ChristieIn Agatha Christie’s classic crime adventure novel, They Came to Baghdad, a bright, young adventure seeker in the Middle East finds more excitement than she bargained for when a wounded spy expires in her hotel room.A secret superpower summit is being held in Baghdad, but the word is out, and an underground organization in the Middle East is plotting to sabotage the talks.Into this explosive situation appears Victoria Jones, a young woman with a yearning for adventure who gets more than she bargains for when a wounded spy dies in her hotel room.The only man who can save the summit is dead. Can Victoria make sense of his dying words: Lucifer…Basrah…Lefarge. . . .
Time and Again
by Clifford D. SimakAsher Sutton has a book in his hands - a book that would change the history of the galaxy, a book by himself...that he had never written. Or had he? Or would he?
Time and Again: Good Night, Mr. James And Other Stories; Time And Again; And Way Station (The\works Of Clifford D. Simak Ser.)
by Clifford D. SimakAfter twenty years, a vanished space voyager returns to Earth bearing a dangerous truth that will alter the universe in this powerful, thought-provoking science fiction classic from one of the Golden Age greats Twenty years ago, Asher Sutton vanished somewhere in the star system 61 Cygni, an inaccessible corner of the universe that humankind has thus far been unable to explore. Now Asher has returned to Earth, having impossibly survived catastrophic damage to his spacecraft. But the star-traveler is not the same man he was when he began his journey two decades earlier. He is, in fact, no longer completely human. And he isn't alone. But he has a message to convey that could have reality-altering consequences for the human galaxy-conquerors who consider themselves almost gods, and for the nearly human androids they create, enslave, and oppress. It is Asher's destiny to change everything. His mission has made him a hero to some, a pariah to others--and a target for determined time-traveling assassins from the future whose mission it is to silence him at all costs before everything they cherish is obliterated. A true science fiction visionary, SFWA Grand Master Clifford D. Simak infused thrilling stories of time travel, space exploration, artificial intelligence, and alien contact with powerful, thought-provoking ideas. An enthralling masterwork of speculative fiction that astonishes while exploring humanity in all its disparate aspects, Time and Again can be counted among the prolific, multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author's most brilliantly imagined and successfully realized creations.
To Kiss, Or Kill
by Day KeeneTo Kiss, or Kill, first published in 1951, is a classic noir murder mystery by Day Keene (1904-1969). Just out of the mental asylum, no one could blame heavyweight boxer, Barney Mandell, a little overindulgence at a tavern. And when a hot little number wanted to sleep with him, well it had been two years since he was a free man. But Barney remembered his wife, Gale, and thinks he told the cheap floozy that he’d have to pass. But Barney’s mind hadn’t been working so well lately. So when he finds her later that night in his hotel room naked and dead, he’s not really sure if he killed her or not. But the police have little doubts and even his friends and wife wonder if Barney did it. A compulsively readable thriller from 1951 by Noir Master, Day Keene.
Todas as almas
by Javier MaríasUma magnífica história de desejo, solidão, amor e vaidade na cidade dos pináculos. A jovem professora Clare Bayes atrai o olhar de muitos colegas num jantar da universidade de Oxford. Entre os que a cobiçam está o nosso narrador sem nome, um professor espanhol desesperado por escapar ao tédio da conversa com um economista obeso. Clare e o nosso narrador não tardarão a explorar o fascínio mútuo em encontros furtivos em quartos de hotel, longe da vigilância do marido da amante. Nas horas deixadas vagas pelo pouco trabalho e pelo amor ilícito, o narrador vagueia pelas ruas de Oxford, cidade de abundantes vaidades inflamadas e de outras tantas almas perdidas. É na cidade dos pináculos que se cruza com o dramático destino do escritor John Gawsworth, enigmática figura saída de outros tempos. Recordando os tempos de Oxford já confortavelmente instalado numa vida normal em Madrid, com emprego, mulher e filho, o nosso narrador não pode deixar de se interrogar sobre qual das vidas é mais real, sobre qual dos tempos ficará para sempre gravado em si. Sexto romance de Javier Marías, publicado em 1989, Todas as almas inspira-se nos dois anos que o autor viveu em Oxford como professor de Tradução. Nestas páginas, Marías exibe já esplendidamente a ironia fina e a aguçada capacidade de reflexão sobre o maior mistério de sempre: os outros. Os elogios da crítica: "Ler os livros de Javier Marías é um desafio e uma descoberta. E uma lição de vida para quem aceite a proposta de neles morar."António Lobo Antunes, sobre Todas as almas "Um livro de escrita belíssima, com um singular humor negro e que, misteriosamente, toca o leitor com as vozes que ecoam dentro dele, as vozes dos mortos a que Javier Marías dá vida com uma arte profunda e subtil." John Banville "Se Javier Marías deu à personagem alguma das suas próprias características, é porque tem por hábito tratar qualquer vida, incluindo a sua, da mesma forma que enfrenta a literatura que gosta de ler e escrever: contando o mistério sem o explicar." Elide Pitarello "Javier Marías é, na minha opinião, um dos melhores escritores contemporâneos."J. M. Coetzee "Javier Marías é um dos mais importantes escritores vivos."Claudio Magris "De longe o melhor prosador espanhol contemporâneo. Um enorme escritor."Roberto Bolaño "Entre os escritores que deveriam receber o Nobel, está Javier Marías."Orhan Pamuk "Um escritor profundamente necessário, um cavaleiro andante; divertido, incisivo, cheio de ira e amor."The Guardian "Javier Marías escreve com elegância, inteligência e um extraordinário mistério."The Times Literary Supplement "Elegante, cerebral# Marías é um escritor de talento impressionante. A sua prosa é ambiciosa, irónica, filosófica e humana."The New York Times
Training and Promotion in Nationalised Industry (Routledge Revivals)
by The Acton Society TrustTraining and Promotion in Nationalised Industry (1951) is the results of a study made into the personnel department and into certain aspects of personnel policy in the nationalised coal, electricity, gas, transport and airways industries in postwar Britain. The object of the report is to place on record a range of facts not otherwise readily available, and thus to make possible a comparative survey of current developments in these fields.