| Crafting & Executing Strategy: The Quest for Competitive Advantage:Concepts and Cases Publication Date: January 27, 2011| ISBN-10: 0078112729 | ISBN-13: 978-0078112720| Edition: 18 Overview: The 18th edition of Crafting and Executing Strategy represents one of our most important and thoroughgoing revisions ever. The newest member of the author team, Margie Peteraf, led a thorough re-examination of every paragraph on every page of the 17th edition chapters.The overriding objectives were to inject new perspectives and the best academic thinking, strengthen linkages to the latest research findings, modify the coverage and exposition as needed to ensure squarely on-target con...
| | Nurse Harriet comes home (Harlequin romance) ...
| | Fair Valley Refuge: The Shepherd's Heart, Book 3 Publication Date: August 19, 2012| Series: The Shepherd's Heart She’s loved him for as long as she can remember. But can she trust her heart to a man haunted by constant danger? Shiloh, Oregon, April 1887 Victoria Snyder, adopted when she was only days old, pastes on a smile for her mama’s wedding day, but inside she’s all atremble. Lawman Rocky Jordan is back home. And this time he’s got a bullet hole in his shoulder and enough audacity to come calling. Since tragedy seems to strike those she cares for with uncanny frequency, she wants nothing to do with a man wh...
| | A Crimson Dawn (The Tyneside Sagas) Publication Date: December 8, 2011| Series: The Tyneside Sagas Emmie Kelso is only nine years old when she is rescued from a dingy Gateshead tenement and sent to Crawdene for her health; taken in to the vibrant, loving household of the MacRaes,a radical mining family.Blossoming into a pretty, spirited young woman, Emmie is swept off her feet by handsome miner Tom Curran, but learns too late of his possessive, violent nature. As war engulfs Europe in 1914, Tom enlists but Emmie joins the MacRaes and others in their cries for peace.Working alongside Rab, the MacRaes eldest son, their childhood...
| | The Abyss of Human Illusion Publication Date: February 1, 2010“To the novel—everyone’s novel—Sorrentino brings honor, tradition, and relentless passion.”—Don DeLillo“Sorrentino [is] a writer like no other. He’s learned, companionable, ribald, brave, mathematical, at once virtuosic and somehow without ego. Sorrentino’s books break free of the routine that inevitably accompanies traditional narrative and through a passionate renunciation shine with an unforgiving, yet cleansing, light.”—Jeffrey Eugenides“For a compelling, hilarious, and u...
| | McLevy: The Edinburgh Detective Publication Date: October 1, 2008Edinburgh has provided the backdrop to stories of detection for almost a century and a half. In the 1860s, a few years before Conan Doyle began his medical studies at Edinburgh University, there appeared a hugely popular series of books with titles including Curiosities of Crime in Edinburgh, The Sliding Scale of Life and The Disclosures of a Detective. They were all the work of one James McLevy, an Edinburgh policeman. The now largely forgotten, McLevy was one of the first exponents of the crime genre and a likely influence on the creator of Sherlock Holmes....
| | Wuthering Heights Publication Date: July 15, 2009The classic novel of The manor called Wuthering Heights, the life of Heathcliff, and the characters who come and go on the moor. ...
| | Folklore in the Old Testament: Studies in Comparative Religion, Legend, and Law Release Date: November 16, 1988Abridged edition.The author compares episodes of the Old Testament with similar legends from other cultures in the ancient world.Contents: Part 1) Early ages of the world: Creation of man, Fall of man, mark of Cain, great flood, Tower of Babel; Part 2) Patriarchal age: Covenant of Abraham, Heirship of Jacob or ultimogeniture, Jacob and the kidskins or the new birth, Jacob at Bethel, Jacob at the well, covenant of the cairn, Jacob at the ford of the Jabbok, Joseph's cup; Part 3) Times of the judges and the kings: Moses in the ark of bulrushes, Samson and Delilah...
| | The New Comedy of Greece and Rome Publication Date: August 30, 1985| ISBN-10: 0521303648 | ISBN-13: 978-0521303644| Edition: 1 In writing this book on the plays of New Comedy the author's aim is to fill a gap in the existing literature by concentrating on what one might look for in watching and reading these plays and why such an exercise might be pleasurable. The social comedy of Menander, Plautus and Terence provided a style of comic drama which was to prove the root of all subsequent western comedy. Dr Hunter gives a literary account of this drama, placing it in its ancient context and then ranging over a number of sp...
| | Rites of Passage in Ancient Greece (Bucknell Review) ...
| | Spring 71/Dead Souls (Oberon Classics) Publication Date: April 1, 2007| Series: Oberon Classics Significant texts in the study of theatre history. BBC-commissioned translations of Adamov's important work. ...
| | Essays on Latin Lyric, Elegy, and Epic (Princeton Series of Collected Essays) ...
| | City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology Publication Date: April 1, 2008"This comprehensive selection from the influential City Lights Pocket Poets Series is a landmark retrospective, celebrating forty years of publishing and cultural history.From the introduction by Lawrence Ferlinghetti: “Even though some say that an avant-garde in literature no longer exists, the smaller independent publisher is itself still a true avant-garde, its place still out there, scouting the unknown . . . From the beginning, the aim was to publish across the board, avoiding the provincial and the academic . . . I had in mind rather an internation...
| | From Baudelaire to surrealism: Translated from the French (The Documents of modern art) ...
| | The Arkansas Testament Publication Date: September 1, 1988Walcott's eight collection of poems is divided into two parts -- "There," verse evoking the poet's native Carribbean, and "Elsewhere." ...
| | Blasted Literature: Victorian Political Fiction and the Shock of Modernism (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Literature) Publication Date: December 7, 2010| ISBN-10: 0748640673 | ISBN-13: 978-0748640676Turning to late Victorian "dynamite novels" (or fiction that portrays terrorism), as well as radical journalism and modernist writing,Blasted Literature proves the centrality of terrorism to the literary imagination of 1880 to 1915. During this period, a range of writers exploited the sensational draw of terrorist plotlines, in some cases for the sake of expanding their art, and in other cases, for the sake of enticing their audience. Mapping the political and aesthetic links between "shilling shockers" and ...
| | Phantom Release Date: December 1, 1992A child is born... His mother's only gift is a mask. Precocious and gifted, he will live friendless and alone. taunted and abused, he will flee, only to find himself caged again-as a freak in a Gypsy carnival. A brilliant outcast... the world is his home. Filled with bitter rage, he will kill to escape, becoming a stonemason's apprentice in Rome... a dark magician at the treacherous Persian court... and finally, the genius behind the construction of the Paris Opera...
| | Lucinda, Darkly: The Demon Princess Chronicles ...
| | Skeleton Letters (A Scrapbooking Mystery) Release Date: October 2, 2012| Series: A Scrapbooking Mystery When a fellow scrapbooker is bludgeoned with a religious statue in St. Tristan’s Church, a stolen relic may hold the key to catching the culprit... The last thing Carmela Bertrand and her friend Ava expect to bear witness to in St. Tristan’s Church is a crime. But now a beloved member of their scrapbooking circle is lying lifeless next to a smashed statue of St. Sebastian—and a mysterious hooded figure has absconded with an antique crucifix. With so many tourists passing through the church, the police don&rs...
| | How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries: The Art and Adventure of Sleuthing Through the Past Publication Date: April 1, 2008The core of the book is Emerson’s personal take on writing and selling historical mysteries, but it also includes contributions from over forty other historical mystery writers —practical advice, anecdotes, and suggestions for research—and input from assorted editors, booksellers, and reviewers. For both historical mystery writers and readers. ...
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