Stephen Birmingham explores here the fascinating social history of California, showing how the ruling class of California was born from rough hewn mining communities, and how it evolved a lifestyle that continues to fascinate the world.

Ce livre a été écrit pour les professionnels expérimentés de la recherche et du développement qui cherchent des moyens d'être plus efficaces. Les idées qu'il contient sont destinées à vous aider lorsque vous vous sentez dans l'impasse. Ce livre vous donne des idées simples et des concepts de recherche pour illustrer ces besoins et éclairer la stratégie de formation et de développement pour vous, vos clients, vos équipes et la direction de votre entreprise. ...

Edmond Haraucourt's Daâh: The First Human (1914) begins with the proto-humans Dâh and his wives, Hock and Ta, living a solitary existence, and then sketches, episodically, an account of their slow ascent towards civilization. With Daâh serving as a kind of "collective hero," the novel proceeds through a sequence of epiphanies that includes the invention of families, the axe, clothes, religion, fire and, ultimately, a burgeoning awareness of what will someday become our world. Daâh is a milestone in the genre of prehistoric fantasy ...

This volume captures the best of the Shakespearean comedy universe, which is full with funny misunderstandings, deception, and disguises, with men and women switching sexual identities, and where mishaps and errors strangely lead to comical and ultimately happy outcomes. A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, and As You Like It? are five of Shakespeare's best comedies collected in this magnificent book. This deluxe edition is priceless, encased in a magnificent leather-bound edition with gilded edges and ...

Among our country's treasures are its colleges and universities, meccas of culture and higher learning--and paranormal activity.  Haunted Colleges and Universities, a collection of stories of ghosts, mysteries, and paranormal happenings at colleges and universities, will leave readers delightfully frightened. 

A lesser-known figure of America's Lost Generation, Seabrook was a prolific traveller and author. 'Dead Men Working in the Cane Fields' is an excerpt from his 1929 book The Magic Island, a folklore-tinged travelogue about Haiti. Therefore, the stories he reproduces are midway between fact and fictionMany of these zombie stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Germain Nouveau (1851-1920), poet and painter, friend of Rimbaud and Verlaine, discreet disciple of Mallarme, led a vie de boheme while composing poems of both religious and erotic inspiration. This book is both a biographical study and an introduction to the works of a long-neglected poet whose calligraphy is to be found in the manuscript of Rimbaud's famous Illuminations . Breton, Aragon, and Eluard acknowledged their debt to this undervalued precursor of French Surrealism.

What kind and what degree of physical torture did Our Lord suffer during His agony? What was the medical cause of His death? These are the questions the author, an eminent French surgeon, answers in this work, one of the most significant contributions to Christological science in modern times. As he says in his Introduction: "Theologians can imagine and describe the moral sufferings which formed part of the Savior's Passion.... But when the same theologians wish to describe the physical sufferings of Jesus, one is struck with the difficulty which they find ...

“Fiction that satisfies as much at the story level as it does at the idea level” —Orson Scott Card The survivors of the next great war live in isolated farming communities, disdaining technological innovations and creating a deadly mythology around the use of science. People considered to be pursuing the old, evil art of science are burned at the stake because it has become like the witchcraft of old. Yet, there are people who defy the odds and secretly pursue the old arts, including Allen Chandliss, an astronomer hidden in the Idaho ...

Why do around 80% of Mergers ' Acquisition deals fail to deliver the intended financial benefits? One major reason is a failure to fully engage technology teams in the M'A process, which leads to loss of key staff, ideas and knowledge. The big tech CEOs repeatedly tell us it’s a ‘cloud first, mobile first’ world, but M'A has always been a ‘People First’ endeavour. People First is a guide for those who are responsible for delivering post-merger integration projects and want to learn how to: Develop high-performing teams spread ...