Conrad: 1584 books

When Conrad Jones helps the police identify an occultist symbol carved into the chest of a murder victim, he attracts the attention of a Satanic cult who believe themselves to be human vampires. He writes a book about them exposing how far reaching their influence is and they desperately want to silence...

Le recueil se compose de deux récits, qui partagent deux traits communs. L'un est une même technique de narration : un narrateur non identifié rapporte les dires d'un autres narrateur, on a un récit dans le récit. L'autre est que le narrateur identifié est le même : un vieux marin, nommé Charles...

Does Thoreau belong to the past or to the future? Instead of canonizing him as a celebrant of “pure” nature apart from the corruption of civilization, the essays in Thoreauvian Modernities reveal edgier facets of his work—how Thoreau is able to unsettle as well as inspire and how he is able...

"A Smile of Fortune" is a masterly tale of misplaced loyalty, family feuds, and illicit bargaining.  Embarking in the tropics, a ship's captain makes the instant acquaintance of a seemingly genial Mr. Jacobus and his irritable brother. One a respectable businessman with a considerable...

FOCAL POINT: 3 Timeless Principles Every Christian Believer Should Know For Living A Happier, More Satisfied, God-Filled Life In A Distracting & Constantly Changing Era! Inside you will learn: => How your perspective and outlook of life, shapes your experiences, and how to increase...

This classic text on the nature of deviance, originally published in 1980, is now reissued with a new Afterword by the authors. In this new edition of their award-winning book, Conrad and Schneider investigate the origins and contemporary consequences of the medicalization of deviance. They examine...

In 1623 the actors John Heminges and Henry Condell assembled Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, better known as The First Folio. In doing so they preserved literature's most dramatically vital and poetically rich account of our human world. Endlessly reinterpreted...

The book deals with Golf instruction. After a short intro, chapters deal with the grip, body posture, ball-placement, alignment, back-swing, down-swing, the short game (chip, pitch-and-run, lob and bunker shots), hilly lies and finally putting. An epilogue, in which the mental aspects of the game are highlighted, brings the reading to an end.

What does it feel like being haunted by someone who never wanted to come home? Except for revenge?Officer Jay Coppell has worked dozens of cases, everything from robbery to homicide. This is the case no officer wants as it hit all too close to home. His father, shot down by a vicious motorcycle...

This is an entirely new edition and translation of Conrad De Meester's brilliant and moving presentation of the life, thought, and spirituality of St. Thérèse of Lisieux. The author has completely revised and amplified his previous book in the light of the new, thoroughly annotated editions...

Penned by Conrad this is the tale of a duel between two French officers in the backdrop of Napoleonic wars. The quarrel that arises over a frivolous matter develops into a persistent animosity between the two protagonists. The acutely contrasting human behaviours and their consequences are presented with an apparent terseness and dramatic intensity. Intriguing!

"The Lagoon" is a short story by Joseph Conrad composed in 1896 and first published in Cornhill Magazine in 1897. The story is about a white man, referred to as "Tuan", who is travelling through an Indonesian rainforest and is forced to stop for the night with a distant Malay friend...

In The Fragile Mind, Dr. Conrad not only provides insight into what daily life is like for African Americans and individuals who are poor, he offers an innovative approach to overcoming these challenges based on what scientists have uncovered about the human brain - its brilliance, as well as its...

This book is a unique combination of intellectual history, personal memoir, and military theory. When Conrad Crane retired from twenty six years of active duty to become a research professor at the Army War College, he never expected to become a modern Cassandra, fated to tell truth to power without...