The International Bookseller

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044092540863

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The International Bookseller by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433069135121

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International Bookseller by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sheila Markham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
ISBN : 0954799712

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A Book of Booksellers by Sheila Markham Pdf

The last resort of the English eccentric, the antiquarian book trade is rich in colourful and entertaining characters. Since 1991 Sheila Markham has been interviewing some of its most influential figures. In this volume, 50 dealers each tell their own story and express their personal philosophy.

Author : James Clegg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Booksellers and bookselling
ISBN : WISC:89101440626

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The International Directory of Second-hand Booksellers and Bibliophile's Manual by James Clegg Pdf

Author : Jonathan Cohn
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781250270948

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The Ten Year War by Jonathan Cohn Pdf

Jonathan Cohn's The Ten Year War is the definitive account of the battle over Obamacare, based on interviews with sources who were in the room, from one of the nation's foremost healthcare journalists. The Affordable Care Act, better known as “Obamacare,” was the most sweeping and consequential piece of legislation of the last half century. It has touched nearly every American in one way or another, for better or worse, and become the defining political fight of our time. In The Ten Year War, veteran journalist Jonathan Cohn offers the compelling, authoritative history of how the law came to be, why it looks like it does, and what it’s meant for average Americans. Drawn from hundreds of hours of interviews, plus private diaries, emails and memos, The Ten Year War takes readers to Capitol Hill and to town hall meetings, inside the West Wing and, eventually, into Trump Tower, as the nation's most powerful leaders try to reconcile pragmatism and idealism, self-interest and the public good, and ultimately two very different visions for what the country should look like. At the heart of the book is the decades-old argument over what’s wrong with American health care and how to fix it. But the battle over healthcare was always about more than policy. The Ten Year War offers a deeper examination of how our governing institutions, the media and the two parties have evolved, and the dysfunction those changes have left in their wake.

Author : Madeline B. Stern,Leona Rostenberg
Publisher : Main Street Books
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307874535

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Old Books, Rare Friends by Madeline B. Stern,Leona Rostenberg Pdf

Louisa May Alcott once wrote that she had taken her pen for a bridegroom. Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stern, friends and business partners for fifty years, have in many ways taken up their pens and passion for literature much in the same way. The "Holmes & Watson" of the rare book business, Rostenberg and Stern are renowned for unlocking the hidden secret of Louisa May Alcott's life when they discovered her pseudonym, A.M. Barnard, along with her anonymously published "blood and thunder" stories on subjects like transvestitism, hashish smoking, and feminism. Old Books, Rare Friends describes their mutual passion for books and literary sleuthing as they take us on their earliest European book buying jaunts. Using what they call Finger-spitzengefühl, the art of evaluating antiquarian books by handling, experience, and instinct, we are treated to some of their greatest discoveries amid the mildewed basements of London's booksellers after the Blitz. We experience the thrill of finding one of the earliest known books printed in America between 1617-1619 by the Pilgrim Press and learn about the influential role of publisher-printers from the fifteenth century. Like a precious gem, Old Books, Rare Friends is a book to treasure about the companionship of two rare friends and their shared passion for old books.

Author : Jalal Barjas
Publisher : Interlink Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1623718201

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The Bookseller's Notebooks by Jalal Barjas Pdf

Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2021 After losing his job and refuge, Ibrahim al-Warraq, a bookseller, decides to live with the homeless people in his city and assuming the identities of the heroes of the novels he has read. Set between 1947 and 2019, this novel is based on several notebooks of stories about people facing different hardships, such as losing their homes or not knowing who their families are. Their interwoven destinies reveal the value of the house, as a symbol of one’s homeland, as opposed to the surrounding ruination. The central character is Ibrahim the bookseller, a cultured man, and voracious reader of novels who takes on the identity of the protagonists in novels which appeal to him. He becomes a professional thief who robs banks and the very wealthy in order to help the abject poor and impose his own form of justice like Robin Hood. But due to his isolation, loneliness, and maltreatment by a cruel world, he suffers mental illness and descends into full schizophrenia. He attempts suicide, before meeting a mysterious woman who will change his life. As events unfold, Barjas opens up many surprises for his reader, illustrating through his flawed characters the ruined state and complete emptiness of the world. In intensely poetic language, he throws light on a totally schizophrenic reality in his country, and brilliantly uses all the tools of emotional stress and engagement and of psychological exploration of human behavior that narration necessitates.

Author : G.A. Henty
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752320855

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By Conduct and Courage by G.A. Henty Pdf

Reproduction of the original: By Conduct and Courage by G.A. Henty

Author : James Clegg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : PRNC:32101063802175

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The International Directory of Booksellers and Bibliophile's Manual by James Clegg Pdf

Author : Torbjorn L. Knutsen,Torbjørn L. Knutsen
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1997-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 071904930X

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History of International Relations Theory by Torbjorn L. Knutsen,Torbjørn L. Knutsen Pdf

Torbjorn L. Knutsen introduces ideas on international relations expressed by thinkers from the High Middle Ages to the present day and traces the development of four ever-present themes: war, peace, wealth and power. The book counters the view that international relations has no theoretical tradition and shows that scholars, soldiers and statesmen have been speculating about the subject for the last 700 years. Beginning with the roots of the state and the concept of sovereignty in the Middle Ages, the author draws upon the insights of outstanding political thinkers - from Machiavelli and Hobbes to Hegel, Rousseau, and Marx and contemporary thinkers such as Woodrow Wilson, Lenin, Morgenthau and Walt - who profoundly influenced the emergence of a discrete discipline of International Relations in the twentieth century. Fully revised and updated, the final section embraces more recent approaches to the study of international relations, most notably postmodernism and ecologism.

Author : Nevine Marchiset
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
ISBN : 1584563737

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The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers by Nevine Marchiset Pdf

This history of the International League of International Booksellers is written in the form of an annotated index of important subjects, services, decisions, and events that together chronicle the 70 years of the ILAB. The author, ILAB Bookseller Nevine Marchiset, has devoted tireless energy to the functioning of the ILAB over the years, and here she has compiled a concise but comprehensive account from the records of ILAB Congresses and meetings since its inception. With an Introduction by ILAB President Gonzalo Fernandez Pontes and a Foreword by Member of Honour Keith Fletcher. Designed by Scott Vile at the Ascensius Press and printed in an edition of 500 copies. Dedicated to Bob Fleck, whose efforts in behalf of ILAB are recorded herein.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Bibliography of bibliographies
ISBN : STANFORD:36105027505416

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The International Directory of Booksellers and Bibliophile's Manual by Anonim Pdf

Author : Asne Seierstad
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004-10-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0316159417

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The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad Pdf

This mesmerizing portrait of a proud man who, through three decades and successive repressive regimes, heroically braved persecution to bring books to the people of Kabul has elicited extraordinary praise throughout the world and become a phenomenal international bestseller. The Bookseller of Kabul is startling in its intimacy and its details - a revelation of the plight of Afghan women and a window into the surprising realities of daily life in today's Afghanistan.

Author : Catherine Banner
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385686297

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The House at the Edge of Night by Catherine Banner Pdf

A sweeping, propulsive family saga set on a romantic and beautiful Italian island, for fans of Captain Corelli's Mandolin and Beautiful Ruins. On the tiny, idyllic island of Castellamare, off the coast of Sicily, lies The House at the Edge of Night, an ancient bar run by the Esposito family. There, over the course of three generations--from the eve of World War One to the aftershocks of the 2008 financial crisis--the Esposito women will fight to hold their family together against the threats that break across their shores. As lush and magical as the island at its centre, The House at the Edge of Night is a story of love and secrets, endurance, loss and, ultimately, triumph.

Author : George Alfred Henty
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Children
ISBN : 9781465603319

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The Dragon and the Raven; Or, The Days of King Alfred by George Alfred Henty Pdf

Living in the present days of peace and tranquility it is difficult to picture the life of our ancestors in the days of King Alfred, when the whole country was for years overrun by hordes of pagan barbarians, who slaughtered, plundered, and destroyed at will. You may gain, perhaps, a fair conception of the state of things if you imagine that at the time of the great mutiny the English population of India approached that of the natives, and that the mutiny was everywhere triumphant. The wholesale massacres and outrages which would in such a case have been inflicted upon the conquered whites could be no worse than those suffered by the Saxons at the hands of the Danes. From this terrible state of subjection and suffering the Saxons were rescued by the prudence, the patience, the valour and wisdom of King Alfred. In all subsequent ages England has produced no single man who united in himself so many great qualities as did this first of great Englishmen. He was learned, wise, brave, prudent, and pious; devoted to his people, clement to his conquered enemies. He was as great in peace as in war; and yet few English boys know more than a faint outline of the events of Alfred's reignÑevents which have exercised an influence upon the whole future of the English people. School histories pass briefly over them; and the incident of the burned cake is that which is, of all the actions of a great and glorious reign, the most prominent in boys' minds. In this story I have tried to supply the deficiency. Fortunately in the Saxon Chronicles and in the life of King Alfred written by his friend and counsellor Asser, we have a trustworthy account of the events and battles which first laid Wessex prostrate beneath the foot of the Danes, and finally freed England for many years from the invaders. These histories I have faithfully followed. The account of the siege of Paris is taken from a very full and detailed history of that event by the Abbe D'Abbon, who was a witness of the scenes he described.