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The Ultimate French Verb Review and Practice
McGraw-Hill Companies,Inc. 2006; US$ 15.00Learn verb skills and communicate confidently in a new language. Building on the authors’ bestselling The Ultimate Review and Practice series, this book is your best bet to mastering the often tricky verb forms and key sentence structures of the French language. The Ultimate French Verb Review and Practice offers a step-by-step program for experienced... more...
Planning Twentieth Century Capital Cities
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 44.95The twentieth century witnessed an unprecedented increase in the number of capital cities worldwide ? in 1900 there were only about forty, but by 2000 there were more than two hundred. And this, surely, is reason enough for a book devoted to the planning and development of capital cities in the twentieth century. However, the focus here is not only... more...
Liberalism and Social Reform
ABC-CLIO 1996; US$ 185.00This book examines the heroic spirit of French industrial capitalism prior to World War I, and the role certain industrialists played in ensuring the success and stability of the country's economic and political order. It focuses in particular on the success of innovative manufacturers in France's chief industrial centers, the Nord, Loire, and Lorraine,... more...
The Serialist
Simon & Schuster 2010; US$ 15.00A DARK AND STYLISH PAGE-TURNER FROM A BOLD NEW VOICE IN FICTION Harry Bloch is a struggling writer who pumps out pulpy serial novels?from vampire books to detective stories?under various pseudonyms. But his life begins to imitate his fiction when he agrees to ghostwrite the memoir of Darian Clay, New York City?s infamous Photo Killer. Soon, three... more...
The Serialist
Simon & Schuster 2010; Not AvailableA DARK AND STYLISH PAGE-TURNER FROM A BOLD NEW VOICE IN FICTION Harry Bloch is a struggling writer who pumps out pulpy serial novels?from vampire books to detective stories?under various pseudonyms. But his life begins to imitate his fiction when he agrees to ghostwrite the memoir of Darian Clay, New York City?s infamous Photo Killer. Soon, three... more...
The Serialist
Simon & Schuster 2010; Not AvailableA DARK AND STYLISH PAGE-TURNER FROM A BOLD NEW VOICE IN FICTION Harry Bloch is a struggling writer who pumps out pulpy serial novels?from vampire books to detective stories?under various pseudonyms. But his life begins to imitate his fiction when he agrees to ghostwrite the memoir of Darian Clay, New York City?s infamous Photo Killer. Soon, three... more...
Fat and Mean
Free Press 1996; US$ 25.00Since the early 1980s, economic experts have recommended "downsizing" as the best way for U.S. corporations to remain competitive. Reducing unnecessary staff would lower costs, increase profits, and transform these companies into lean, mean production machines. As many American businesses pursued this strategyoften in the wake of mergers and... more...
Sinister Yogis
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 25.00Since the 1960s, yoga has become a billion-dollar industry in the West, attracting housewives and hipsters, New Agers and the old-aged. But our modern conception of yoga derives much from nineteenth-century European spirituality, and the true story of yoga’s origins in South Asia is far richer, stranger, and more entertaining than most of us... more...
Yoga in Practice
Princeton University Press 2011; US$ 29.95Yoga is a body of practice that spans two millennia and transcends the boundaries of any single religion, geographic region, or teaching lineage. In fact, over the centuries there have been many "yogas"--yogas of battlefield warriors, of itinerant minstrels and beggars, of religious reformers, and of course, the yogas of mind and body so popular today.... more...
Fat and Mean
Free Press 1996; Not AvailableSince the early 1980s, economic experts have recommended "downsizing" as the best way for U.S. corporations to remain competitive. Reducing unnecessary staff would lower costs, increase profits, and transform these companies into lean, mean production machines. As many American businesses pursued this strategyoften in the wake of mergers and... more...









