Malcolm: 1208 books

In this elegiac account that is part travelogue, part memoir, British poet and writer Malcolm Ritchie recounts his and his wife's unforgettable three-year-sojourn in Sora, a remote farming and fishing village on the Japan Sea coast. Ritchie weaves together anecdotes, conversations, lyrical...

Choice Outstanding Academic Title Everything began to unravel on October 5, 1986, when a Nicaraguan soldier downed an American plane carrying arms to “Contra” guerrillas, exposing a tightly held U.S. clandestine program. A month later, reports surfaced that Washington had been covertly...

Você já ficou intrigado pensando no que faz com que um produto, um serviço ou mesmo atitudes virem moda da noite para o dia? Já imaginou que tipo de mudança faz, por exemplo, com que livros desconhecidos se transformem em best-sellers? Ou o que explica o aumento do consumo de cigarros entre os...

Emphasising the influence of Raymond Chandler's English background, Malcolm Noble encourages a new generation of Chandler readers to look further into this writer's life and work.    "There is so much in Chandler's work that deserves to be expanded, debated and, in most cases, celebrated....

1916 was a year of killing. The British remember the Somme, but earlier in the year the heart of the French army was ripped out by the Germans at Verdun. The garrison city in northeastern France was the focus of a massive German attack; the French fought back ferociously, leading to a battle that...

Devler göründükleri kadar güçlü değildir.Adını, kutsal metinlerde de söz edilen meşhur düellodan alan Davut ve Golyat, sıradan insanlarla devlerin kadim mücadelesine dair bir kitap. "Dev" ile kastedilen ise her türden güçlü rakip: Ordular, kudretli savaşçılar, engellilik, talihsizlik...

Witchcraft is a subject that fascinates us all, and everyone knows what a witch is - or do they? From childhood most of us develop a sense of the mysterious, malign person, usually an old woman. Historically, too, we recognize witch-hunting as a feature of pre-modern societies. But why do witches...

In the middle of the turbulent 1960s Malcolm Boyd's Are You Running With Me, Jesus? appeared on the scene and broke the mold from which devotional texts had previously been made. Boyd's prayers engaged traditional Christian themes with a decidedly contemporary voice—honest, direct, insightful—while...

'Manpot's Tales of the Tropics' drifts on the Caribbean tradewinds through the white sand beaches and ramshackle bars where we meet a gang of colourful characters that seem to thrive in those 'little latittudes'. From Hollywood superstars Michael Jackson and Marlon Brando to local legends Big Red...

How should we expect multiple interpretations of the Bible to be kept in check? Each of the contributors, experts in the field, considers one parameter of responsibility, which may act as a constraint on the validity of competing biblical interpretations. Stanley E. Porter considers theological resposibility;...

Despite the enormous amount of material on the subject of Nazism, there has been no substantial work on its emblem, the swastika. This original and controversial contribution examines the role that the swastika played in the construction of the Aryan myth in the nineteenth century, and its use in...

From the author of In the Freud Archives and The Journalist and the Murderer comes an intensive look at the practice of psychoanalysis through interviews with “Aaron Green,” a Freudian analyst in New York City. Malcolm is accessible and lucid in describing the history of psychoanalysis and its...

A behind-the-scenes look at the organization that transformed Congress—and became a force for female empowerment. In 1985, aware of the near-total absence of women in Congress, Ellen Malcolm launched EMILY’s List, a powerhouse political organization that seeks to ignite change by getting...

Duncan's Masonic Ritual And Monitor by Malcolm C. Duncan "This book presents details of Masonic initiation rituals, along with grips, passwords and regalia. Written in the 19th century, Duncan's Ritual, as it is known, has been republished numerous times. It includes the three basic degrees...