An expanded and updated edition of the revolutionary marketing classic identifies the fastest growing markets, discusses recession strategies, modern consumers, targeted prospects, technology, and management; and furnishes new sections on Internet marketing, the use of new technologies, and cultivat[...]
Focusing on the civilizations--the art and religion as well as the political and social--this compelling history explores the four countries of modern East Asia: China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam. From their traditions and commonalties in 1600, through trends toward industrialization and state buildin[...]
Elizabeth Bennet's chances of happiness are endangered by the foibles of human nature in this classic nineteenth-century novel[...]
A young Englishman branded as a coward seeks personal redemption for an act of selfishness
Joseph Conrad's long experience as a working seaman enriched and deepened his literary gifts, making him the most brilliant and convincing writer of seafaring's greatest age. In the three sea stories collected here, he makes deft use of the maritime setting to enact moral dramas of men tested by the[...]
Describes a band of frustrated revolutionary exiles in Geneva. This book is a study of individuals under pressure, and it remains a telling account of the fugitive life - especially in its portrait of Razumov, heir to the long line of Russian anti-heroes in Gogol, Dostoyevsky and Turgenev.
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In its marvelously perceptive portrayal of two young women in love, "Sense and Sensibility "is the answer to those who believe that Jane Austen's novels, despite their perfection of form and tone, lack strong feeling.
Its two heroines, Marianne and Elinor--so utterly unlike each other-both under[...]
A novel, in which Charles Gould returns to South America determined to make a success of the inheritance left to him by his father, the San Tome mine. But his dreams are thwarted as the country is plunged into revolution.
Conrad's foresight and his ability to pluck the human adventure from compl[...]
This is the only novel that Conrad set in London, and it communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894. Verloc, (a Russian spy who is also working for the police) is ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho. [...]
In a novella which remains highly controversial to this day, Conrad explores the relations between Africa and Europe. On the surface, this is a horrifying tale of colonial exploitation. The narrator, Marlowe journeys on business deep into the heart of Africa. But there he encounters Kurtz, an ideali[...]
This is It, is the never-before told and often shocking inside story of the King of Pop, Michael Jackson and his personal physician Dr. Conrad Murray. Told by Murray who was far more than Jackson's doctor. He was one of Jackson's closest friends and his only confidante. It was to Dr. Murray that Jac[...]
With works such as La Boheme and Madame Butterfly Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) created some of the world's most popular and widely performed operas. His colourful orchestrations, beautiful melodies, rare theatrical sensibility and often daring choices of subject matter combined to produce timeless st[...]
Period mystery thriller set on board a Cunard steamship in the early part of the last century. Only a few short months after crossing the Atlantic aboard the Lusitania, George Porter Dillman and Genevieve Masefield are back in Liverpool to embark on the first voyage of the Mauretania. Again working [...]
Period mystery thriller set on board an ocean-going steamship in the early part of the last century. Temporarily forsaking the Cunard Line to work as private detectives aboard the Minnesota, a combination freighter and passenger ship owned by the Great Northern Steamship Company, the couple are eage[...]
In 1907, the world applauds as the Cunard Line launches a history-making ship. The magnificent Lusitania, hoping to capture the Blue Riband for the fastest crossing from Liverpool to New York, attracts both the beautiful and the damned for its maiden voyage. Among its privileged passengers strolls t[...]
After touring the Access 2007 user interface, this guide walks through the process of creating desktop application databases and tables, designing queries to analyze and update data, building forms and reports in a desktop application, automating an application with macros and Visual Basic, and publ[...]
You're "beyond" the basics, so dive right in and really put your database skills to work This supremely organized reference is packed with hundreds of timesaving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds. It's all muscle and no fluff. Discover how the experts tackle Access 2010 -- and challe[...]