Roy: 2801 books

Un’altra torrida estate è finita a Delhi, e la festa di Diwali, con il suo frastuono, la folla, gli striscioni colorati e i minacciosi fuochi d’artificio, è ormai lontana. Quale momento migliore, dunque, per stiracchiarsi, sbadigliare, scuotere le zampe, e riaprire la caccia per i gatti di Nizamuddin,...

From one of America's most influential writing teachers, a collection of 50 of the best writing strategies distilled from 50 writing and language books -- from Aristotle to Strunk and White. With so many excellent writing guides lining bookstore shelves, it can be hard to know where to look...

Ragtime music has a character all its own. While it lends itself ideally to a variety of settings and moods, it always maintains its unique joyful feeling. The banjo is an instrument ideally suited for ragtime. The bright crisp banjo sound truly adds a new dimension to the ragtime feeling. Mel Bay...

Arundhati Roy, die Autorin des Weltbestsellers "Der Gott der kleinen Dinge", kehrt zurück! Ihr lange herbeigesehnter Roman "Das Ministerium des äußersten Glücks" führt uns an den unwahrscheinlichsten Ort, um das Glück zu finden. Eine Reihe ausgestoßener Helden ist hier mit...

The term 'record collecting' is shorthand for a variety of related practices. Foremost is the collection of sound recordings in various formats - although often with a marked preference for vinyl - by individuals, and it is this dimension of record collecting that is the focus of this book. Record...

Dishing out wity one-liners and old-fashioned country logic the same way an old camp cook dishes out beans and biscuits, Roy English’s Advice from a Country Farmer is simply this—no-nonsense humor and wisdom from a country gentleman schooled in common sense and kindness. “Most farmers work...

In this Inevitable teaching, I will teach you how to break your self down,completely, and remake the self, for the greatest of blessings ever, which is being controlled by the human dowels. I will make known to you all of the woes, and also healings, of the self, quite naturally. Using methods while...

Twenty-one year old Eleanor Lindstrom’s life has been turned upside down. She’s been hired as an intern for San Francisco’s top underground radio station in 1978, KTST - Tasty, and is now one of the infamous Tasty Girls. A Tasty DJ, one of the top ten bachelors in San Francisco is chasing after...

2018 ASJA Award-Winner in the Biography/History Category Is it possible to make direct contact with the dead? Do the departed seek to make contact with us? The conviction that both things are true was the cornerstone of spiritualism, a kind of do-it-yourself religion that swept the Western...

Inequalities in educational opportunity have been a persistent feature of all school systems for generations, with conventional explanations of differences in educational attainment tending to be reduced to either quantitative or non-quantitative 'list' theories. In this groundbreaking book, Roy Nash...

Kentucky has long punched above its weight in the US Senate, as some of the nation's most distinguished senators have hailed from the Commonwealth. Despite its relatively small population for much of American history, Kentucky has produced a record two Senate majority leaders, a record three Senate...

Army is serious business. But with the Army comes tears and laughter. Anecdotes from life in the Army that look at the Army with a wink and a twinkle are described in this book. These anecdotes could happen to any Army personnel from any of the Armies of the world. Most of the anecdotes are true. Some are a mix of fact and fiction, with facts dominating the fact-fiction mix.

Roy Ramsay worked with the Field Ambulance in Egypt, on hospital ships evacuating the wound and sick from Gallipoli in WWI. He served on the Western Front, enduring the shocking physical conditions of trench warfare, and the struggle to retrieve the injured and wounded and get them back for medical attention. These war memoirs cover the whole course of the war until the Armistice.

The first work to seriously and successfully bridge twentieth century economics and philosophy. Subroto Roy draws these two disciplines together and examines the intellectual roots of economics.