Francis: 3998 books

This volume contains three complete works.  The focus is dictionaries of slang, or common usage of the English language.   The first work included in this volume is “The Slang Dictionary,” by John Camden Hotten.  The work shows the state of slang in England in 1913....

a police road block on the highway to chiang mai on a hot day. A policeman who takes more than his lunch break and decides to join a card game with his friends.an unscheduled encounter with a scorpion ultimately leads the policeman into some very hot water.

Ce livre contient les ouvrages suivants classés par ordre alphabétique (noms de famille auteurs ) Les Mille et une nuits - Tome I & Tome II [Anonymous] Les Cinq Filles de Mrs Bennet (Orgueil et Préjugés) [Jane Austen] Le Père Goriot [Honoré de Balzac] Lettres de mon moulin [Alphonse Daudet]...

Quatre-vingt-treize textes, glanés par Francis Lacassin dans les correspondances de Jack London ou dans de petites revues enfouies dans des bibliothèques américaines, composent Profession : écrivain. Ils révèlent (après le chercheur d'or, le vagabond du rail ou des mers, le militant socialiste,...

Spinoza was a radical Enlightenment philosopher whose ideas still retain the ability to inform, shock and guide. His first biography was written by Jean Lucas shortly after his death. This updated version is written for twenty-first century readers and is published exclusively in e-book form.

Excerpt...The vagabond would not relent. The auction's host summoned a nearby policeman who took the unsteady vagabond away. Thomas was visibly shaken by the event. It wasn't until he and his wife returned to their home on a hill overlooking the town that he finally felt calm. The...

this e-book will teach you why do we have debts? helps you identify kinds of debt how to start eliminating debts? correct mindset for your finances

This is a second book in a three book series. The author takes the reader to Delaware. Rehoboth Beach is full of undercurrents. The author never ever comes to grips with to find out who is always controling the atmosphere. He tells a story of struggle and nasty people trying to throw stones at his...

A Wall Street Journal Top Ten Fiction Book of 2017 * A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of the Year * A Seattle Times Favorite Book of 2017 * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Kirkus Reviews Best Historical Fiction Book of the Year * A Library Journal Top Historical Fiction Book of the Year * Winner...

50 marques françaises, la plupart disparues mais pas oubliées... restées dans la mémoire collective par les biais des supports de l'époque, efficaces car faisant partie de la vie quotidienne, les magazines, le cinéma, l'affichage, la publicité lumineuse,...

In Influencing Enterprise Risk Mitigation, author Francis J. D’Addario draws on his many years of impressive security experience to describe business risk prevention and mitigation strategies. D’Addario, former security manager at Starbucks, Hardee’s, and Jerrico, shares stories of risk mitigation...

This highly controversial and compelling book exposes the government's city academies project: the ways in which companies and rich individuals have been persuaded to sponsor academies, their real reasons for sponsoring them, the lies that have been told in support of the academies project, and the...

When the struggle to save oil-soaked birds and restore blackened beaches left him feeling frustrated and helpless, John Francis decided to take a more fundamental and personal stand-he stopped using all forms of motorized transportation. Soon after embarking on this quest that would span two decades...

“A splendid book for journalists (new or old), fiction writers, essayists, and critics. But it could also be of great use to the intelligent common reader, the man or woman who wonders why it’s impossible to finish reading certain stories and why others carry the reader in a vivid rush to the...