Sa: 359 books

The first ever comprehensive collection of plays in English from Southeast Asia. Features work by eight playwrights from seven countries in Southeast Asia, a region which is experiencing profound change: Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia and **Cambodia. **Southeast...

Lev Tolstoi (1828-1910) foi um escritor russo, autor de algumas das mais emblemáticas obras da literatura universal. «A felicidade conjugal» é uma novela sobre o casamento de uma jovem menina com um amigo de família muito mais velho que ela. A visão...

Le roman de Maupassant le plus notoire, suivi d’une anthologie sur le personnage de l’ambitieux. Dans une édition spécialement conçue pour les lycéens.   L’œuvre Séducteur sans fortune ni scrupule, Georges Duroy, dit Bel-Ami, use de son charme auprès des femmes pour se faire une place...

Written in 1913 this is a thoroughly decadent story of an unusual menage a trois which ends in a killing. It's filled with poets and artists and those special problems that sensitive people have ('Do you hear that music? It's like a symbol of my life: a wonderful melody murdered by a terrible unworthy...

DEDICATION TO Professor RAJA GOPALACHARIAR, M.A., B.L., WHO HAS DONE SO MUCH TO MAKE THE VAISHNAV SAINTS OF THE SOUTH KNOWN TO US, I DEDICATE THIS ATTEMPT TO PLACE THE ORIGINAL LIFE OF CHAITANYA—THE GREATEST VAISHNAV TEACHER OF THE NORTH WITHIN THE REACH OF ALL READERS OF ENGLISH WHO KNOW NOT THE BENGALI TONGUE. PATNA COLLEGE, 10th April, 1913. J. SARKAR

In SADDAM HUSSEIN: THE POLITICS OF REVENGE, the author draws on his own knowledge of and extensive contacts within the Arab world to produce both a thorough biography and a penetrating psychological profile of the most powerful and unpredictable man in the world today. He explains why Saddam behaves...

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This tale of two generations, spanning from the Azores to Toronto’s Portuguese community, is full of “immense emotional and truthful power” (Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn).   These “beautiful [and] profoundly moving” interlinked stories of a father and son explore the innocent dreams...

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,...

NINE years ago I conceived the idea of writing down some facts for the information of my children, who at that time knew nothing about my origin except that I was Arabian and had come from Zanzibar. Exhausted in body and in mind, I did not then expect to live until they were grown up, did not think...

The transcript of four lectures delivered by Allamah Sayyid Saeed Akhtar Rizvi in California regarding Islam's true nature and it's perception in the West. It also includes a lecture about the culture of Muslims in India.

How is risk managed in your school? Is it dealt with internally, by an external agent, or not at all?This book is an introduction to the necessary maintenance and management of risk in schools. The concept of risk in schools is not a fad: the 'risk movement' is important and is not going away. Schools...

This book presents up-to-date results on abstract evolution equations and differential inclusions in infinite dimensional spaces. It covers equations with time delay and with impulses, and complements the existing literature in functional differential equations and inclusions. The exposition is devoted...

Moving beyond the question of whether an area of scholarly investigation can truly be characterized as 'legal', Exploiting the Limits of Law combats the often unhelpful constraints of law's subject-matter and formal processes. Through a process of reflection on the limits of law and repeated efforts...