Mackay: 432 books

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions - Volume II Charles Mackay, scottish poet, journalist, author, anthologist, novelist, and songwriter (1814-1889) This ebook presents «Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions - Volume II», from Charles Mackay. A dynamic table of contents enables...

Meticulously accurate line drawings and fascinating text trace Manhattan's growth from a tiny Dutch outpost to the commercial, financial, and cultural heart of the world. This book explains construction above and below ground, including the excavation of subway lines and the building of bridges...

First published in 1841, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is often cited as the best book ever written about market psychology. This Harriman House edition includes Charles Mackay's account of the three infamous financial manias - John Law's Mississipi Scheme, the South Sea Bubble,...

Fires of Driftwood Isabel Mackay, canadian writer (1875-1928) This ebook presents «Fires of Driftwood», from Isabel Mackay. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book -02- PART I. FIRES OF DRIFTWOOD -03- PART II. FIRES OF DRIFTWOOD

**"Malcolm Mackay has created his own world." --The Sunday Times [UK] "A sharp-edged morality play delivered with the relentless intensity of machine gunfire."--Library Journal** Oliver Peterkinney and Alex Glass, two friends from Glasgow's desperate fringes, become...

"Don't pick up a Mackay book unless you've got spare time. They're habit-forming." - Janet Maslin, The New York Times Martin Sivok is in trouble. Tied to a chair, plastic strips biting his wrists, inside a deserted warehouse. . . There are only so many ways this scenario can end,...

In this novel set on the fictitious island of Norday in the Orkneys, George Mackay Brown beckons us into the imaginary world of the young Thorfinn Ragnarson, the son of a crofter. In his day-dreams he relives the history of this island people, travelling back in time to join Viking adventurers at...

A Lover’s Litanies Eric Mackay, English minor (1851-1898) This ebook presents «A Lover’s Litanies», from Eric Mackay. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book -02- VIRGO DULCIS -03- VOX AMORIS -04- AD TE...

A memorable collection of weather sayings, beautifully arranged in story form and illustrated by renowned paper artist Elly MacKay. Red sky at night, sailor's delight. And, the next morning, when the dew is on the grass, no rain will come to pass. These are the perfect conditions for a grandfather...

This is an ebook-exclusive omnibus of all three books in Janis Mackay's award-winning Time Traveller trilogy: The Accidental Time Traveller, The Reluctant Time Traveller and The Unlikely Time Traveller. In the first book, Saul is on his way to the corner shop when a girl appears out of nowhere. Agatha...

Award-winning author Scott Mackay delivers an “intriguing alternate history” of conquest, rebellion and the destiny of humanity… (Booklist). Two thousand years ago, as the Roman Empire beat back the rise of Christianity, the saviors of mankind arrived. And they weren’t Jesus of Nazareth...

The “provocative” science fiction novel from an award-winning author about the future of humankind—and the future of non-human kind… (New York Times Book Review) The asteroid Ceres was a place where children born in space could grow in a more Earth-like atmosphere. Then a group of genetically-enhanced...

A “hard-hitting apocalyptic thriller” from award-winning author Scott Mackay in which mankind discovers that it is not alone in the universe—and that it is far from the highest form of life…(Booklist) At a lunar research station on Earth’s moon, scientists are stunned to witness the...

Two dangerously opposite civilizations collide in award-winning author Scott Mackay’s “pulse-pounding tale of discovery” (Philadelphia Weekly Press). On a massive oceanic world, two separate intelligent species have evolved on the only two continents. Paras is a rich, vibrant realm...