Title: Pausanias's Description of Greece. Translated with a commentary by J. G.Frazer.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all know[...]
Discusses what motivates extremists and examines groups from the far left and far right of American politics[...]
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
Selected by "The New York Times Book Review" as a Notable Book of the Year Drawing on extensive interviews with George Kennan and exclusive access to his archives, an eminent scholar of the Cold W[...]
Fascinating reinvestigation of the Haigh serial murders of 1944-9, based on fresh primary research into case files and Haigh's family background. Provides insight into the police methods and forensic science of the day and a painstaking portrait of a serial killer.[...]
Arguably the greatest and most popular poem in the Hungarian language, Petofi's spirited folk epic, recounting the adventures of Johnny Grain-o'-corn, a young and 'valiant' shepherd boy, is an engaging and highly readable story with all the charm and romance of an immortal fairy tale. After a reluct[...]
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George är en nyfiken och pratglad romantiker som drömmer om att bli författare. Han tror att han lever ett händelselöst liv i förorten med sin familj: Susanne som är projektledare, och tonårsbarnen Anton och Elin. Men allt förändras kvällen då han [...]
Sveriges svar på Nick Hornby !
George är en nyfiken och pratglad romantiker som drömmer om att bli författare. Han tror att han lever ett händelselöst liv i förorten med sin familj: Susanne som är projektledare, och tonårsbarnen Anton och Elin. Men allt förändras kvällen då han h[...]
Sveriges svar på Nick Hornby !
George är en nyfiken och pratglad romantiker som drömmer om att bli författare. Han tror att han lever ett händelselöst liv i förorten med sin familj: Susanne som är projektledare, och tonårsbarnen Anton och Elin. Men allt förändras kvällen då han [...]
George John Romanes (1848-94), considered by The Times to be 'the biological investigator upon whom in England the mantle of Mr. Darwin has most conspicuously descended', wrote this influential work on the evolution of the mental faculties of animals in 1883. The two scientists were close friends, a[...]
For more than fifty years, George F. Kennan's "American Diplomacy" has been a standard work on American foreign policy. Drawing on his considerable diplomatic experience and expertise, Kennan offers an overview and critique of the foreign policy of an emerging great power whose claims to rightness o[...]
Arab Seafaring in the Indian Ocean in Ancient and Early Medieval Times. In this classic work George Hourani deals with the history of the sea trade of the Arabs in the Indian Ocean from its obscure origins many centuries before Christ to the time of its full extension to China and East Africa in the[...]
This groundbreaking work on logic by the brilliant 19th-century English mathematician George Boole remains influential to this day. Boole's major contribution was to demonstrate conclusively that the symbolic expressions of algebra could be adapted to convey the fundamental principles and operations[...]
The Oxford Handbook of Kierkegaard brings together some of the most distinguished contemporary contributors to Kierkegaard research together with some of the more gifted younger commentators on Kierkegaard's work. There is significant input from scholars based in Copenhagen's Soren Kierkegaard Resea[...]
Changes in family structures, demographics, social attitudes and economic policies over the last sixty years have had a large impact on family lives and correspondingly on family law. This book provides global perspectives on the policy challenges facing family law and policy round the world. The c[...]
In addition to complete rules and instructions for playing dozens of games, tables of probabilities and percentages, and the fine points of winning play, this book--one of the best on the subject--also contains some 60 pages of information on how to detect cheating.
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Lost on the TundraTo her small Eskimo village, she is known as Miyax; to her friend in San Francisco, she is Julie. When the village is no longer safe for her, Miyax runs away. But she soon finds herself lost in the Alaskan wilderness, without food, without even a compass to guide her.Slowly she is [...]
Vital tools for implementing Lean Six Sigma - what they are, how they work, and which to use. The "Lean Six Sigma Pocket Toolbook" is today's most complete and results-based reference to the tools and concepts needed to understand, implement, and leverage Lean Six Sigma. The only guide that groups t[...]