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Atlanta, GA.: Curry Publishing, 1989. A highly acclaimed fictional story about management as it really is by an entrepreneur who has met over 2000 payrolls in companies he founded or acquired. The incidents, challenges, problems, and character types are real-life composites of Everett Suters' management experiences over a period of more than thirty years. No gimmicks, textbook theory, charts, graphs,… Ler mais sobre este item

Hollywood, California: Lone Eagle Publishing, 2004. Many books attempt to show writers how to create believable characters. This comprehensive text is unlike the majority: it specifically identifies 16 "master archetypes," complete with thumbnail sketches and descriptions of specific qualities, flaws, background, styles, and possible occupations. The authors, all writers and writing instructors, detail eight male and eight female archetypes in… Ler mais sobre este item

Lulu.com, 2007. This story is based on the many diaries and folklore of our pioneers and American Indians during the time period 1822 to the early 1900's. It chronicles the fictitious life of Tom Huston with actual historical persons and places from Michigan Territory to the Rocky Mountains. Travel now with Tom Huston and share his life with the Pottawatomie… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Garland Press, 1997. This extensive collection of English-language essays examines the many strategies of resistance to male domination that women in France from the 16th through the 18th centuries utilized in their lives and their writings. Themes treated include women's views on marriage, religion, education, careers, tradition, and narrative and rhetorical innovation. The 28 essays cover such well-known… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Random House, 1995. Colin Powell is the embodiment of the American dream. He was born in Harlem to immigrant parents from Jamaica. He knew the rough life of the streets. He overcame a barely average start at school. Then he joined the Army. The rest is history - but a history that until now has been known only… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Viking Press, 1942. Classic short novel set in World War II, yet timelessly applicable to any country engaged in warfare. The book illustrates the effects of war on different people, however Steinbeck has intentionally refrained from making it literally true to actual events. During Wold War II, European resistance groups against the Nazis published and translated this novel… Ler mais sobre este item

Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1993. In this scholarly, comprehensive, and highly acclaimed text, Bryan Cheyette combines cultural theory, discourse analysis and new historicism with close readings of works by Arnold, Trollope and George Eliot, Buchan and Kipling, Shaw and Wells, Belloc and Chesterton, T. S. Eliot and Joyce to argue that the Jew lies at the heart of modern… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Hawthorn Books, 1966. Classic text presents the author's true-life account of the agonizing day-to-day life she experienced during her incarceration at Estrelita State Institution, including the events leading up to her arrest and sentencing, and her subsequent forced recommission to a mental facility for the second time after the publication of this book. "Jane Doe" is the pseudonym… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1962. Classic biography of George P. LeBrun (on his hundreth birthday 1962) as told to writer/author Edward Radin. He reflects on his life, including his career and mainstay of the New York Board of Coroners and the Board of Medical Examiners; his involvement in politics and the formation of the Latin-American League to protect… Ler mais sobre este item

Barcelona, Spain: Vergara, 2006. "Gardenias on the balcony" is a story of the power of love that surmounts all cultural differences, taboos and prejudices; it is also about the survival of passion between a Mexican woman and a man from the United States. If, in "A Mexican Wedding" Sandra Sabanero provides the reader with an insight into the conditions under… Ler mais sobre este item

Geneve, Switzerland: Editions Slatkine, 2006. Scholarly text presents a detailed historicity and analysis of the original French translations of Jane Austen's novels, focusing on four texts: Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Sense and Sensibility (1811), and Persuasion (1817). Jane Austen's work was first translated into French by Swiss translators in Geneva and Lausanne. Includes sections on methodology, literary… Ler mais sobre este item

London, U.K.: Thoemmes Press , 2005. Jonathan Swift has had a profound impact on almost all the national literatures of Continental Europe. The celebrated author of acknowledged masterpieces like A Tale of a Tub (1704), Gulliver's Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729), the Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin, was courted by innumerable translators, adaptors, and retellers, admired and challenged… Ler mais sobre este item

Munich, Germany: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2006. This scholarly edition of Dr. John Arbuthnot's Correspondence is the first complete collection of all his extant letters, editied and fully annotated according to historicist principles. As letter-writer, Arbuthnot takes an equal place with other Scriblerians, the earliest group of writers in English that exchanged letters as part of their imaginative projects. The taste… Ler mais sobre este item

Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press, 1976. N. Scott Momaday's beautifully written memoir of his childhood in the Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico is geographically as well as chronologically defined, describing the cultural and religious ceremonies of the Jemez Pueblo, and exploring emotionally-charged stories and memories of his family. 171 pgs. Illustrated. Signed and dated by N. Scott Momaday on the… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Coward-McCann, 1934. Classic highly acclaimed text is Neagoe's first novel. Neagoe's internationally acclaimed short stories laid the groundwork for this extraordinary novel, and it took four years to complete. Easter Sun was published simultaneously in New York, London, and Paris in 1934. Prior owner's name on front endpaper. Dustjacket has some minor rubbing to covers and edges, with… Ler mais sobre este item

Roma, Italy: Edizioni Di Storia e Letteratura, 1984. Classic two-volume text presents a selection of 38 classical studies contributed by renown scholars in honor of Joseph Billanovich, one of the founders of twentieth-century scholarship on Renaissance humanism. Includes a chronologic bibliography of Billanovich's works from 1937-1984. Text in Italian. 826 pgs. collectively. Illustrated. Deckled edges. Some of the pages are… Ler mais sobre este item

Chicago, Illinois: St. James Press/ Gale Research, 1994. The Guide to French Literature, in two volumes, surveys the lives and works of famous French writers from the roots of French literature to the present. Compiled and edited by the eminent scholar Professor A.H.T Levi, the Guide offers comprehensive entries on over 300 of the most notable French authors from Ronsard,… Ler mais sobre este item

New York 1928-1944: Charles Scribner's Sons Comprehensive 21-volume scholarly set contains a selection of biographies of noteworthy persons whom were deceased at the time of publication, and had resided in the U.S. or its territories- as stipulated by the committee of management. They include persons whom have made a significant contribution to American life, including the sciences, fine arts, literature,… Ler mais sobre este item

Charlottesville, Virginia: Bibliographic Society of the University of Virginia University Press, 1948. Each year Studies in Bibliography presents a wide range of scholarly articles on bibliography and textual criticism. Founded by Professor Fredson Bowers of the University of Virginia, Studies made its first appearance in 1948 as Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, a title that… Ler mais sobre este item

Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1970. Classic two-volume scholarly text considered to be the preeminent contemporary translation of Dante. Professor Singleton's prose translation, facing the Italian text (George Petrocchi' s Italian edition) in a line for line literate arrangement on each page. The companion volume, the Commentary, presents every point of information- vocabulary; grammar; identification of Dante's characters; historical sources… Ler mais sobre este item