DescriptionHenry Grey doesn't particularly care for having been born the heir to an earldom. he is a reserved young man whose greatest problem is his mother's match-making plots and whose greatest joy is to ride as an amateur steeplechase jockey. But on a sudden impulse, he throws in his respectable desk job to join a firm which transports racehorses all over the world. Yardman Transport proves to be Henry's passport to many things, not the least the girl he loves, and a tidy little racket which brings him face to face with death.
DescriptionProfile of the iron-willed and stone-faced general who led American troops to victory in World War I. After his days as a frontier Indian fighter chasing Geronimo, Pershing took America's 128, 000-man regular army and built it into a four-million-man juggernaut. Biography tells the story of Pershing's enormous triumphs and bitter tragedies, including the fire that killed his beloved wife and three daughters.
DescriptionNeil Klugman and pretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin - he of poor Newark, she of suburban Short Hills - meet one summer and dive into an affair that is as much about social class and suspicion as it is about love. Goodbye, Columbus is accompanied by 5 other short stories, including The Conversion of the Jews, Defender of the Faith, Epstein, You Can't Tell a Man by the Song He Sings, and Eli, the Fanatic . They range in tone from the iconoclastic to the astonishingly tender, and illuminate the subterranean conflicts between parents and children and neighbors in the new postwar America of the '40s and '50s. Philip Roth is the author of more than 20 books, including Operation Shylock, I Married a Communist, Sabbath's Theater, and Pulitzer-Prize winner American Pastoral .
DescriptionThis lively and engaging book is the ideal introduction for anyone who has ever been puzzled by what philosophy is or what it is for. Edward Craig argues that philosophy is not an activity born from another planet; learning about it is just a matter of broadening and deepening what most of us do already. He shows that philosophy is no mere intellectual pastime: thinkers such as Plato, Buddhist writers, Descartes, Hobbes, Hume, Hegel, Mill, and de Beauvoir were responding to real needs and events, much of their work shapes our lives today and many of their concerns are still ours.
DescriptionIn this breakthrough audio experience, which features a mixture of live and studio recordings, vibrational healer and revolutionary psychic Sonia Choquette reveals the secrets to awakening your intuitive voice and shows you how to "trust your vibes". With the techniques presented in this program, you'll shift your identity from being ego based; become attuned to the unseen world; and learn to live in a higher, more harmonious way.
