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180 Masterpieces of World Literature (Vol.2)

Enriched edition. Life is a Dream, The Awakening, Babbitt, Sense and Sensibility, Dubliners, Notre Dame, Odyssey…

by Virginia Woolf, P. B. Shelley, Henrik Ibsen, Charles Dickens, James Joyce, Leo Tolstoy, Ford Madox Ford, E. M. Forster, Honoré de Balzac, Jane Austen, L. M. Montgomery0, Kenneth Grahame1, Rabindranath Tagore2, George Weedon Grossmith3, F. Scott Fitzgerald4, Daniel Defoe5, Jules Verne6, Jonathan Swift7, James Fenimore Cooper8, George MacDonald9, J. M. Barrie0, Alexandre Dumas1, Homer2, Benito Pérez Galdós3, Dante4, William Dean Howells5, Kakuzo Okakura6, Gustave Flaubert7, Victor Hugo8, Stendhal9, John Buchan0, Edgar Wallace1, William Walker Atkinson2, Émile Coué3, G. K. Chesterton4, D.H. Lawrence5, George Bernard Shaw6, Joseph Conrad7, Walter Scott8, Anthony Trollope9, Emile Zola0, Theodor Storm1, Harriet Beecher Stowe2, Nathaniel Hawthorne3, Henry Fielding4, Jerome K. Jerome5, Laurence Sterne6, Thomas Hardy7, Willa Cather8, Edith Wharton9, Kate Chopin0, Sinclair Lewis1, W. Somerset Maugham2, Henry James3, Ivan Turgenev4, Nikolai Gogol5, Pedro Calderon de la Barca6, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe7, Benjamin Franklin8, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee9, Edgar Allan Poe0, Willkie Collins1, Ann Ward Radcliffe2, Bram Stoker3, Gaston Leroux4, H. G. Wells5, Lewis Wallace6, Washington Irving7, Machiavelli8, Fyodor Dostoyevsky9, Confucius0, Laozi1, John Milton2, W. B. Yeats3, Elizabeth von Arnim4, Cao Xueqin5, Grayson Doyle8 ...

180 Masterpieces of World Literature (Vol.2) presents an unparalleled assembly of literary greatness, convening the works of seminal authors from diverse epochs and regions in a single volume. This anthology spans myriad literary periods and styles, from the classical poise of Homer to the modernist complexities of Virginia Woolf. The collection navigates through a vast landscape of thematic ... Read more

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180 Masterpieces of World Literature (Vol.2) presents an unparalleled assembly of literary greatness, convening the works of seminal authors from diverse epochs and regions in a single volume. This anthology spans myriad literary periods and styles, from the classical poise of Homer to the modernist complexities of Virginia Woolf. The collection navigates through a vast landscape of thematic
... Read more
Hotel Design, Planning and Development

by Lawrence Adams, Richard H. Penner, Walter Rutes ...

Hotel Design, Planning and Development presents the most significant hotels developed internationally in the last ten years so that you can be well-informed of recent trends. The book outlines essential planning and design considerations based on the latest data, supported by technical information and illustrations, including original plans, so you can really study what works. The authors provide ... Read more

$159.99 USD

Hotel Design, Planning and Development presents the most significant hotels developed internationally in the last ten years so that you can be well-informed of recent trends. The book outlines essential planning and design considerations based on the latest data, supported by technical information and illustrations, including original plans, so you can really study what works. The authors provide
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180 Masterpieces You Should Read Before You Die (Vol.2)

A Global Anthology of Timeless Classics, Epic, Drama, Satire, and Modernist Fiction

by Virginia Woolf, Henrik Ibsen, Charles Dickens, James Joyce, Leo Tolstoy, Ford Madox Ford, E. M. Forster, Honoré de Balzac, Jane Austen, L. M. Montgomery, Kenneth Grahame, Rabindranath Tagore, George Weedon Grossmith, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Daniel Defoe, Jules Verne, Jonathan Swift, James Fenimore Cooper, George MacDonald, J. M. Barrie, Alexandre Dumas, Homer, Benito Pérez Galdós, Dante, William Dean Howells, Kakuzo Okakura, Gustave Flaubert, Victor Hugo, Stendhal, John Buchan, Edgar Wallace, William Walker Atkinson, Émile Coué, G. K. Chesterton, D.H. Lawrence, George Bernard Shaw, Joseph Conrad, Walter Scott, Anthony Trollope, Emile Zola, Theodor Storm, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Fielding, Jerome K. Jerome, Laurence Sterne, Thomas Hardy, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, Sinclair Lewis, W. Somerset Maugham, Henry James, Ivan Turgenev, Nikolai Gogol, Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Benjamin Franklin, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Edgar Allan Poe, Willkie Collins, Ann Ward Radcliffe, Bram Stoker, Gaston Leroux, H. G. Wells, Lewis Wallace, Washington Irving, Machiavelli, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Confucius, Laozi, John Milton, P. B. Shelley, W. B. Yeats, Elizabeth von Arnim, Cao Xueqin ...

The second volume of 180 Masterpieces You Should Read Before You Die assembles an expansive, transnational canon of fiction, drama, poetry, philosophy, travel writing, satire, and moral reflection. Moving from epic and classical wisdom to Gothic suspense, realist social panorama, modernist experiment, children's fantasy, and speculative adventure, it reveals literature as a sustained inquiry into ... Read more

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The second volume of 180 Masterpieces You Should Read Before You Die assembles an expansive, transnational canon of fiction, drama, poetry, philosophy, travel writing, satire, and moral reflection. Moving from epic and classical wisdom to Gothic suspense, realist social panorama, modernist experiment, children's fantasy, and speculative adventure, it reveals literature as a sustained inquiry into
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The New Makers of Modern Strategy

From the Ancient World to the Digital Age

by John Bew, Lawrence Freedman, Walter Russell Mead, Toshi Yoshihara, Matthew Kroenig, Hew Strachan, John H. Maurer, Michael Cotey Morgan, James Lacey, Eric Helleiner, Jonathan Kirshner, Iskander Rehman, Matt J. Schumann, Michael V. Leggiere, Charles Edel, Kori Schake, Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh, Sarah C. M. Paine, Priya Satia, Margaret MacMillan, Williamson Murray, Robert Kagan, Tami Biddle, Brendan Simms, Francis Gavin, Daniel Marston, Guy Laron, Tanvi Madan, Sergey Radchenko, Thomas G. Mahnken, Christopher J. Griffin, Dmitry Adamsky, Carter Malkasian, Ahmed S. Hashim, Elizabeth Economy, Seth G. Jones, Sue Mi Terry, Jason K. Stearns, Joshua Rovner, Thomas Rid, John Lewis Gaddis, Eric Edelman, Andrew Ehrhardt, Mark Moyar, Antulio Echevarria ...

The essential resource on military and political strategy and the making of the modern worldThe New Makers of Modern Strategy is the next generation of the definitive work on strategy and the key figures who have shaped the theory and practice of war and statecraft throughout the centuries. Featuring entirely new entries by a who’s who of world-class scholars, this new edition provides global, ... Read more

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The essential resource on military and political strategy and the making of the modern worldThe New Makers of Modern Strategy is the next generation of the definitive work on strategy and the key figures who have shaped the theory and practice of war and statecraft throughout the centuries. Featuring entirely new entries by a who’s who of world-class scholars, this new edition provides global,
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Establishing Zion

Foundations For A Millennial Society

by Lawrence Walters ...

Narrated by Lawrence Walters ...

Unabridged

9 hours 29 min

Zion, a unified community of people, has been the focus of prophetic teaching for millennia. Establishing Zion: Foundations for a Millenial Society looks at how Zion will function practically, beyond the personal righteousness of those who live there. It looks at questions like: Who will pick up the garbage and fix the streets? How will poverty be eliminated? In what ways will family life differ? ... Read more

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Zion, a unified community of people, has been the focus of prophetic teaching for millennia. Establishing Zion: Foundations for a Millenial Society looks at how Zion will function practically, beyond the personal righteousness of those who live there. It looks at questions like: Who will pick up the garbage and fix the streets? How will poverty be eliminated? In what ways will family life differ?
... Read more
The Way It Was

Walter Lord on His Life and Books

by Walter Lord ...

In 1926, Walter Lord, nine years old, persuaded his mother to cross the Atlantic aboard the Olympic. The choice was no accident; the Olympic was sister ship to the Titanic and already the doomed White Star liner sailed in and out of young Lord's imagination. The following year, he wrote and illustrated an account of how the Titanic sank in the early morning hours of April 14, 1912 with the loss of ... Read more

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In 1926, Walter Lord, nine years old, persuaded his mother to cross the Atlantic aboard the Olympic. The choice was no accident; the Olympic was sister ship to the Titanic and already the doomed White Star liner sailed in and out of young Lord's imagination. The following year, he wrote and illustrated an account of how the Titanic sank in the early morning hours of April 14, 1912 with the loss of
... Read more
Life of Abuse to Success

A Child's Story

by Walter Lawrence ...

Growing up the whipping boy for a family's anger can shape you. In Life of Abuse to Success: "A Child's Story" the reader learns of one boy who came out of years of abusive treatment to find success and happiness in his own life. ... Read more

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Growing up the whipping boy for a family's anger can shape you. In Life of Abuse to Success: "A Child's Story" the reader learns of one boy who came out of years of abusive treatment to find success and happiness in his own life.
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A Primer on Property Tax

Administration and Policy

Edited by William J. McCluskey, Gary C. Cornia, Lawrence C. Walters ...

'The chapters in this book explore in detail the choices regarding both the structure and administration of the property tax, drawing on the extensive knowledge the authors have acquired in studying property taxes around the world. The chapters provide a wide-ranging treatment of the design choices and administrative tasks, both in terms of the breadth of design options and administrative tasks ... Read more

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'The chapters in this book explore in detail the choices regarding both the structure and administration of the property tax, drawing on the extensive knowledge the authors have acquired in studying property taxes around the world. The chapters provide a wide-ranging treatment of the design choices and administrative tasks, both in terms of the breadth of design options and administrative tasks
... Read more
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The Curse of the Reckaviles (Unabridged)

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by Walter S. Masterman ...

Narrated by Lawrence Woods, Bruce Gordon, Woodrow Robinson, Janice Lighthill ...

Unabridged

4 hours 44 min

An English peer is found stabbed in his room with more than a hint of the supernatural playing a hand. This is only reinforced by the curse of the Reckaviles and the sinister members of the lineage. Scotland yard man sent to look into this is baffled and clueless to the extent that he was about to believe the ghost theory more than ever. Meanwhile, there is love blossoming even in this gloomy ... Read more

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An English peer is found stabbed in his room with more than a hint of the supernatural playing a hand. This is only reinforced by the curse of the Reckaviles and the sinister members of the lineage. Scotland yard man sent to look into this is baffled and clueless to the extent that he was about to believe the ghost theory more than ever. Meanwhile, there is love blossoming even in this gloomy
... Read more
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Best Friends, Worst Enemies

Understanding the Social Lives of Children

by Michael Thompson, PhD, Catherine O'Neill Grace ...

Narrated by Walter Dixon ...

Unabridged

10 hours 56 min

Friends broaden our children's horizons, share their joys and secrets, and accompany them on their journeys into ever wider worlds. But friends can also gossip and betray, tease and exclude. Children can cause untold suffering, not only for their peers but for parents as well. In this wise and insightful book, psychologist Michael Thompson, PhD, and children's book author Catherine O'Neill Grace ... Read more

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Friends broaden our children's horizons, share their joys and secrets, and accompany them on their journeys into ever wider worlds. But friends can also gossip and betray, tease and exclude. Children can cause untold suffering, not only for their peers but for parents as well. In this wise and insightful book, psychologist Michael Thompson, PhD, and children's book author Catherine O'Neill Grace
... Read more

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The Lines Between Us

Two Families and a Quest to Cross Baltimore’s Racial Divide

by Lawrence Lanahan ...

Narrated by Walter Dixon ...

Unabridged

12 hours 40 min

The crisscrossing stories of Mark, a white devout Christian who sells his suburban home to move to Baltimore’s inner city, and Nicole, a black mother determined to leave West Baltimore for the suburbs, chronicle how the region became so deeply segregated and why these fault lines persist today. Mark and Nicole personify the enormous disparities in access to safe housing, educational opportunities, ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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The crisscrossing stories of Mark, a white devout Christian who sells his suburban home to move to Baltimore’s inner city, and Nicole, a black mother determined to leave West Baltimore for the suburbs, chronicle how the region became so deeply segregated and why these fault lines persist today. Mark and Nicole personify the enormous disparities in access to safe housing, educational opportunities,
... Read more

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Among the Great Masters of the Drama (UNABRIDGED)

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by Walter Rowlands ...

Narrated by Irene Massanelli, Lawrence Truelove, Ryan Renner, Megan Ortega ...

Unabridged

4 hours 12 min

In "Among the great masters of the drama; scenes in the lives of famous actors; thirty-two reproductions of famous pictures with text", Walter Rowlands introduces us to the most famous playwrights and actors that might be seen on the London stages in the 19th century. Many of the playwrights mentioned are very famous until today, like Shakespeare and Molière, some are today less well-known. ... Read more

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In "Among the great masters of the drama; scenes in the lives of famous actors; thirty-two reproductions of famous pictures with text", Walter Rowlands introduces us to the most famous playwrights and actors that might be seen on the London stages in the 19th century. Many of the playwrights mentioned are very famous until today, like Shakespeare and Molière, some are today less well-known.
... Read more