Leopold: 240 books

Today’s industrialized nations are still limping toward recovery in the aftermath of the Great Recession in 2007, and the world is watching the many resulting social revolutions. History has seen this before; in fact, titanic revolutions have been cyclical responses to the horrific financial conditions...

In one of the most thickly populated parts of Melbourne city, where poverty and vice struggle for breathing space, and where narrow lanes and filthy thoroughfares jostle each other savagely, there stood, surrounded by a hundred miserable hovels, a gloomy house, which might have been likened to a sullen...

I am truly glad to see you; this meeting has warmed my heart. It is one of life's pleasantest experiences to shake the hand of an old friend, and to learn from his own lips that he has not forgotten you in his wanderings. I am sorely grieved to hear that you have lost your faithful mate, the dear...

My earliest distinct remembrances are of a mean and common home in London, in which I lived with my parents and a servant named Fortress. She was a young woman, her age being twenty-four or five, but her manners were as sedate as those of a matron who had a distaste for frivolity and tittle-tattle. She...

A pioneering study of landform development under processes associated with running water, this text encompasses both field and laboratory research. Topics include the landscapes of mountains, rivers, and seacoasts; studies of weathering, climate, and erosion; and coverage of geochronology, drainage patterns, channel changes, and the evolution of hill slopes. 1964 edition.

First published in 1989. In the decade before this book was originally published, employee share ownership and profit sharing had increased markedly as successive governments introduced fiscal legislation promoting their uses. Yet how successful had ‘people’s capitalism’ been? The Glasgow...

Originally published in 1921, this book was written in an attempt to, 'give the serious teacher and student the practical benefit of the knowledge acquired during a lifetime's playing the violin, including mechanical means and technical procedure as well as the ideas and ideals of art'. With a wealth...

Wie wel het allermooist vertellen kan? Dat is de sprookjesfee. Die moest jullie eens kunnen hooren! Maar hoe krijg je die te hooren? Ja, dat is maar zoo gemakkelijk niet. Ik weet er maar één, die haar heeft horen vertellen; maar dat was dan ook eene prinses, en die prinses.... Neen, ik wil van voren af aan beginnen.

Abstract from the year 2015 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,00, , language: English, abstract: This reading log contains a summary and a characterization of all characters of John Green's bestseller 'The Fault in Our Stars'. It was written as part of a project of a grammar school...

This meticulously edited horror collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Mortal Immortal… John William Polidori: The Vampyre Bram Stoker: Dracula The Jewel of Seven Stars… Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera Marjorie...

Venus in Furs describes the obsessions of Severin von Kusiemski, a European nobleman who desires to be enslaved to a woman. Severin finds his ideal of voluptuous cruelty in the merciless Wanda von Dunajew. This is a passionate and powerful portrayal of one man's struggle to enlighten and instruct...

Syncretism - the fusion of different beliefs into one religious system - has long been controversial in scholarship. It is widely held that religion, culture and ethnicity are pure entities that may become mixed in encounter and lead to impure, hybrid forms. 'Syncretism in Religion' presents a selection...

A true story of how a teenage Hutu relates his boyhood journey of courage and faith through the atrocities and hardships of tribal warfare.

Plus qu'un classique, La Vénus à la fourrure, paru en 1870, est un texte majeur de la soumission érotique. Cette pratique tire d'ailleurs son nom de l'auteur de ce roman, Léopold Von Sacher-Masoch... Séverin, un jeune homme aux idées romantiques, est obsédé par la figure de l'antique...