Roderick: 284 books

Roderick Jones adopts a very practical approach to both consecutive and simultaneous interpreting, providing detailed illustrations of note-taking, reformulation, the 'salami' technique, simplification, generalization, anticipation, and so on, including numerous tricks-of-the-trade such as how to...

A long-term study providing rare insights into the precarious career and ordinary working culture of professional footballers. Away from the celebrity-obsessed media gaze, the work of a professional footballer is rarely glamorous and for most players a career in football is insecure and short-lived. A...

A central political figure in the first post-Revolutionary generation, Felix Grundy (1775--1840) epitomized the "American democrat" who so famously fascinated Alexis de Tocqueville. Born and reared on the isolated frontier, Grundy rose largely by his own ability to become the Old Southwest's greatest...

Return to the River remains one of the finest books ever written about the salmon and has won its place as an angler’s and naturalist’s classic. Drawn back again to spawn in the stream that hatched them, the deep-sea salmon, the great silver chinooks, return as inevitably as the September rains....

A must read for everyone interested in the sport of snowmobiling! Outdoor Sportswriter and veteran snowmobiling expert Rod Fraser shares his love of the sport of snowmobiling through stories, insights and advice for snowmobilers of all levels of expertise. Rod Fraser grew up riding snowmobiles in...

It’s not what you say, but how you say it. Solving problems with words is the essence of politics, and finding the right words for the moment can make or break a politician’s career. Yet very little has been said in political science about the elusive element of tone. In Political Tone,...

An "Indispensable" Book of The Black World Today website Much has been written about the Black Power movement in the United States. Most of this work, however, tends to focus on the personalities of the movement. In We Are Not What We Seem, Roderick D. Bush takes a fresh look at Black Power...

This book relates the tragic tale of the efforts of Paul Johnson Moore to locate his step-mother and his disabled sister, both of whom went missing during the devastating Great Hurricane of 1938. Together with 40 other houses on Fort Road on Napatree Point in Watch Hill, the Moore cottage was swept...

Situated between myth and history, the Shang has been hailed both as China's first historical dynasty and as one of the world's primary civilizations. This book is an up-to-date synthesis of the archaeological, palaeographic and transmitted textual evidence for the Shang polity at Anyang (c.1250–1050...

Trying to Get There: Navigating Your Success is an inspiring "one-on-one" discussion for all who are fighting the fight to be successful. It is the story of Roderick A. Hardamon, a young, talented financial services executive who reached the upper echelon of Wall Street in just 10 years. Reflecting his...

In 1920's London Victoria's hedonistic lifestyle has caught up with her. Abortion is illegal and Dr Mason offers a special service to the wealthy with problems to solve. Victoria no only has a problem, but is a problem and she doesn't know it. Lives will be lost, souls destroyed and surviving maybe the worst things she's ever done.

There is a convent full of secrets in the East End of London. Novice nun Mary is tormented by her past and a mystery that is seeing her sisters disappear one by one. The praying never stops and it's driving nails into her head. It may be she can save the convent, yet all she has ever done is...

Apprentice plumber Prina discovers something strange on Stourmouth Docks. What she does about it will change her or at least get her wet.

Sie heißt Emilia Ness und arbeitet bei Interpol. Er heißt Avram Kuyper und ist Profikiller. Gemeinsam jagen sie einen bestialischen Mörder. Jeder auf seine Weise.Nach dem ersten Band "Tränen aus Blut" verfolgen Profikiller Avram Kuyper und Interpol-Ermittlerin Emilia Ness noch immer...