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PETER LANE GEORGE RAPP, the red-faced livery-man from town, stood with his hands in the pockets of his huge bear-skin coat, his round face glowing, looking down at Peter Lane, with amusement wrinkling the corners of his eyes. "Tell you what I'll do, Peter," he said, "I'll give you thirty-five...

Misfits are often confused with outcasts. Yet misfits rather find themselves in-between that which fits and that which does not. This volume is interested in this slipperiness of misfits and explores the blockages and the promises of such movements, as well as the processes and conditions that produce...

Through case studies that examine historical and contemporary crises across the world, the contributing writers to this volume explore the cultural and social construction of trauma. How do some events get coded as traumatic and others which seem equally painful and dramatic not? Why do culpable groups...

Whoever has the youth has the future. My teaching will be hard. Weakness will be knocked out of them. A violently active, dominating, brutal youth that is what I am after.’ Adolf Hitler The divisions of the Waffen-SS were the elite of Hitler’s armies in World War II. SS-Hitlerjugend is an in-depth...

When a small boy disappears from the notorious Regina Street in the Second City of London, Chief Commander John Coffin takes on the case. From one of the most universally praised English mystery authors. Regina Street, nicknamed Murder Street, has known more than its fair share of murders and violent...

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts,...

Yeats assembled this volume in 1922, the year before he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. His selected work here includes poems from The Wind among the Reeds, The Old Age of Queen Maeve, Baile and Aillinn, In the Seven Woods, The Shadowy Waters, The Green Helmet, Responsibilities, The Wild Swans at Coole, and Michael Robartes and the Dancer.

Yeats combined his idiosyncratic symbolism with echoes of Japan’s noh drama, attempting to create a new kind of theater. This 1921 collection comprises 1919’s celebrated Two Plays for Dancers (The Only Jealousy of Emer and The Dreaming of the Bones) as well as At the Hawk’s Well and Calvary.

This story describes the life of the main hero in Middle Ages. The book narrates the small village of that time: culture, relationship, fears, belief and hope. This book sends to the reader the atmosphere of medieval Ireland in all bright colors. This thrilling work of the author is about ghosts and...

Stop right there! If you like your fantasy filled with fellowships and noble quests, this anthology is not for you. And if you love lengthy tales of politics and power, then it won’t be to your taste either. But if you like a little intimacy with your evil, and your vengeance short and sweet,...

« Cette nuit-là, il avait enchaîné les verres. Il avait tourné la clé dans le contact et réagi trop tard quand la voiture avait glissé. Chase avait tué mon frère. C’était à cause de lui que le corps de Kyle reposait entre quatre planches de bois. » Kelsey, 19 ans, passe son temps...

Sie nennen ihn den Prediger – ihn, den namenlosen Reiter, der gekommen ist, um eine kalifornische Goldgräberstadt in gesetzloser Zeit von Gewalt und Terror zu befreien: Er ist ein harter, kompromissloser Revolvermann und Streiter Gottes in einer Person, und mit dem Colt in der Hand nimmt er die...

Siddique has a problem. He's fallen for his best friend, but she has enough troubles. He loves her daughter too, secretly wishing he were the little girl's daddy. He’s no longer the shy, immigrant boy with the funny name whom Melly befriended. But if he opens his heart, will she take her daughter...

Conversations on sustainability, renewable energy, and other pressing issues: “A level of intellectual discussion all too absent in our national discourse.” —Booklist A co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, named one of the most influential women of the twentieth century...