Lees: 116 books
by Andrew Lees
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Scousers believe they live in a special place, one that has more in common with Salvador da Bahia, New Orleans or Gdansk than anywhere in England, and the city has always punched above its weight. In less than a hundred years, however, Liverpool's image has declined from a major mercantile player...
The God Hunter
A Field Ops Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Good Omens meets Office Space in this darkly humorous and suspenseful supernatural thriller by author Tim Lees.
There's an art to capturing gods for electricity, and Chris Copeland is good at his job. Or at least, he was, until his insouciant partner accidentally loosed a pagan god on the world....
by Michael Bloch, James Lees-Milne
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
The diaries of the National Trust's country house expert James Lees-Milne (1908-97) have been hailed as 'one of the treasures of contemporary English literature'. The first of three, this volume, which includes interesting material omitted when the diaries were originally published during the author's...
by James Lees-Milne, Michael Bloch
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
Funny, indiscreet, candid, touching and sharply observed, this second compilation from James Lees-Milne's celebrated diaries covers his life during his sixties and early seventies, when he was living in Gloucestershire with his formidable wife Alvilde. It vividly portrays life on the Badminton estate...
by Meiron Lees
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
D-Stress is one of the world’s first that gives you practical ways to reduce your stress immediately. It is one of the only books of its kind that shows you step by step exactly what you need to do to conquer your stress. These proven “stress busting” techniques can change the way you feel no...
Foundations of the Nineteenth Century. Volume 2
A Translation from the German By John Lees ... With an Introduction By Lord Redesdale
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
This edition is published in 2 volumes sold separately.
Replica of 1911 edition by F. Bruckmann, A. G., München.
Elibron Classics. The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (Die Grundlagen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, 1899) was the best-selling work by Houston Stewart Chamberlain. In...
Oscar Peterson
The Will to Swing
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000
An engaging biography of a living musical legend, Oscar Peterson. A man Duke Ellington once called the " maharajah of the piano." Gene Lees carefully builds up the portrait of Peterson, his childhood and what it meant to be be black and talented in Montreal in the 1940s, hist three marriages and six...
The Second Mystery Megapack
25 Modern & Classic Mystery Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
The Second Mystery Megapack selects 25 more tantalizing mystery tales, by modern and classic authors. Included are: FUNNY STUFF, by Ron Goulart PIT ON THE ROAD TO HELL, by John Gregory Betancourt WHAT IS COURAGE? by Mack Reynolds JUST THE FACTS, by Meg Opperman TEN GRAINS OF SAND, by Christopher B. Booth...
Alfred the Great (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
The Truth Teller, Maker of England, 848-899
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Developing her biography, Lees follows the man and myth of Alfred—a study of Europe before and after the man. A contemporary review in the New York Times praised this 1915 volume as "exhaustive and painstaking . . . revealing at times a nice sympathy with her hero and his time and a noteworthy power of constructive imagination."
Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects
British Malaya, 1786–1941
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects examines the stories of ordinary people to explore the internal workings of colonial rule. Chinese, Indians, and Malays learned about being British through the plantations, towns, schools, and newspapers of a modernizing colony. Yet they got mixed messages from...
Foundations of the Nineteenth Century. Volume 1
A Translation from the German By John Lees ... With an Introduction By Lord Redesdale.
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
This edition is published in 2 volumes sold separately. Elibron Classics. Replica of 1911 edition by F. Bruckmann, A. G., München.
The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (Die Grundlagen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, 1899) was the best-selling work by Houston Stewart Chamberlain. In it he...
When Professionals Have to Lead
A New Model for High Performance
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2007
For too long, professional services firms have relied on the producer-manager” model, which works well in uncomplicated business environments. However, today’s managing directors must balance often conflicting roles, more demanding clients, tougher competitors, and associates with higher expectations...
by Artie Lees
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
When Adam Smith wrote ‘The Wealth of Nations’ he laid the foundations of modern economic theory by exploring the relationship between wealth and money. Over the years this theory has developed but it has almost exclusively concentrated on money at the expense of wealth. This is a pity as the concept...
by Ian Lees
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
The reason for financial planning is to take control of your destiny, first and foremost. Gather all the relevant information, decide what you want to achieve - and make it happen! Ian Lees has spent over 30 years in financial services, from direct sales to broker consultant and latterly as an Independent...