William Arthur: 122 books

"Fallen Among Thieves" is a classic of the early Victorian crime fiction and offers a splendid country-house murder plot featuring detective John Barman. This is part 1 out of 3, A Legacy Of Vengeance

"Fallen Among Thieves" is a classic of the early Victorian crime fiction and offers a splendid country-house murder plot featuring detective John Barman. This is part 3 out of 3, Nemesis!

Although there are several excellent scientific works dealing in a detailed manner with the cacao bean and its products from the various view points of the technician, there is no comprehensive modern work written for the general reader. Until that appears, I offer this little book, which attempts to...

The book is an up-to-date basic reference for natural gas hydrate (NGH) in the Arctic Ocean. Geographical, geological, environmental, energy, new technology, and regulatory matters are discussed. The book should be of interest to general readers and scientists and students as well as industry and...

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index CONTENTS Preface Chronology I. Austens and Leighs, 1600-1764 II. Steventon, 1764-1785 III. Warren Hastings and the Hancocks, 1752-1794 IV. Family Life, 1779-1792 V. Growth and Change, 1792-1796 VI....

Do I know why Tom Donahue is called “Lucky Tom”? Yes, I do; and that is more than one in ten of those who call him so can say. I have knocked about a deal in my time, and seen some strange sights, but none stranger than the way in which Tom gained that sobriquet, and his fortune with it. For I was...

Having narrowly escaped a raft of gambling debts, cad-about-town Captain Dashleigh is sent by a crooked banker to Mostyn Manor, home of wealthy businessman Jonathan Mostyn, there to cheat his way into a share of the Mostyn fortune. Dashleigh's mission is compromised when he unexpectedly falls in love...

Research is never free of pressures and constraints and to understand its results properly these have to be assessed and analyzed. In agriculture, research into biotechnology and GMOs, as well as pesticides and herbicides, is big business - agribusiness. This book looks at the crucial roles of funding...

Inland Waterway Transportation explores how tools of economic analysis can improve the efficiency of both public and private investment in inland waterway transportation. Originally published in 1969, this study investigates how waterway transportation has been affected by public operating policy,...

PREFACE Since 1870-1, when J. E. Austen Leigh published his Memoir of Jane Austen, considerable additions have been made to the stock of information available for her biographers. Of these fresh sources of knowledge the set of letters from Jane to Cassandra, edited by Lord Brabourne, has been by...