Author: Sun Tzu
Publisher: Shambhala
Keywords: war, art
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2005-01-11
ISBN-10: 1590302257
ISBN-13: 9781590302255

Conflict is an inevitable part of life, according to this ancient Chinese classic of strategy, but everything necessary to deal with conflict wisely, honorably, victoriously, is already present within us. Compiled more than two thousand years ago by a mysterious warrior-philosopher, The Art of War is still perhaps the most prestigious and influential book of strategy in the world, as eagerly studied in Asia by modern politicians and executives as it has been by military leaders since ancient times. As a study of the anatomy of organizations in conflict, The Art of War applies to competition

Author: J. Holland Rose
Publisher: G. Bell and sons, ltd
Keywords: revival, national, pitt, william
Published: 1915
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IN the course of the session of 1782, when the American War was dragging to its disastrous close and a change of Ministers was imminent, one of the youngest members of the House of Commons declared that he would accept no sub­ ordinate office in a new administration. At the close of 1783, during a crisis of singular intensity, he became Chief Minister of the Crown, and thenceforth, with one short interval, controlled the destinies of Great Britain through twenty-two years marked by grave complications, both political and financial, social and diplomatic, ending in wars of unexampled magnitude.

Author: Clyde Fitch
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: acts, four, play, hale, nathan
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2008-12-09
ISBN-10: 0559748647
ISBN-13: 9780559748646

At the back are two smallish windows through which are seen trees and the blue sky ; between them is a big blackboard. At the right of the room is a small, slightly raised -platform on which is the teacher s desk; on the latter are papers, quill pens, an old ink-well,pamphlets, and books. A large globe of the world stands beside the platform. On the wall behind hangs a " birch." In front of the platform, and to one side, is a three-legged dunce s stool, unoccupied for the present. Two long, low benches for the classes are placed beneath the blackboard, and the desks and benches for the schol a

Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Signet Classics
Keywords: christmas, stories, carol
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2008-11-04
ISBN-10: 0451531094
ISBN-13: 9780451531094

Dickens most beloved story, A Christmas Carol is as much a part of Christmas as mistletoe and carolers and with A Christmas Tree, Christmas Dinner, as well as the Christmas chapters from The Pickwick Papers, this collection is a perfect gift.

Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Pocket
Keywords: cities, tale
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2004-04-27
ISBN-10: 0743487605
ISBN-13: 9780743487603

ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP Dickens’s epic novel of freedom, love, and the burning chaos of the French Revolution. EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: A concise introduction that gives readers important background information A chronology of the author’s life and work A timeline of significant events that provides the book’s historical context An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations Detailed explanatory notes Critical analysis, including contemporary and

Author: Aesop
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Classics
Keywords: fables, aesop
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2003-11-01
ISBN-10: 159308062X
ISBN-13: 9781593080624

Aesop’s Fables, by Aesop, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today’s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings

Author: Professor Solomon
Publisher: Top Hat Press
Keywords: island, coney
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 1999-05-01
ISBN-10: 0912509082
ISBN-13: 9780912509082

Once renowned as a funspot, Coney Island has been largely forgotten. Does it still exist? What has survived of the place? And what was it like? In his new book CONEY ISLAND, Professor Solomon takes us there to find out. Roaming about, he interviews old-timers’ searches for antiquities, explores what is left of the amusement area. (Among his finds: a man who remembers seeing the first human cannonball, shot into the air at Coney Island; the remains of Steeplechase Park; and a ride "the Wonder Wheel"that began as a perpetual-motion machine.) He also provides a history of Coney Island, from