This is a tale of ruthless ambition, staggering greed and the making of a nation. One hundred and forty years ago, four men rose from being Sacramento merchants to become the force behind the American transcontinental railway and became wealthy beyond measure. To sustain their power, they lied, bribed, wheedled and, when necessary, arranged for ...
Con artist Oscar Hartzell enjoyed a fabulous career during the Jazz Age, bilking thousands of innocent Midwesterners out of their money by spinning elaborate tales about the lost fortune of Sir Francis Drake. Journalist Rayner tells the colorful story in DRAKE'S FORTUNE.
Working as an architect during the growth boom of McCarthy-era Las Vegas, Maurice Valentine is seduced by the beautiful Mallory Walker and fears that she may be using him to get close to a powerful mobster, a situation for which Valentine finds himself rendered a pawn in a mysterious game of revenge. By the author of The Cloud Sketcher.
John Constantine is an unconcerned, amoral occultist with a British working-class background. He's an anti-hero who manages to come out on top through a combination of luck, trickery and genuine magic skill. V For Vendetta illustrator David Lloyd provides painted artwork for the tale of an encounter with a strange woman who is the embodiment of ...
A Cambridge alumnus details his life and crimes, beginning with his boarding school childhood--spent lying about his father, a con artist who faked his death. Rayner continues through his college years, where he forged checks, stole first editions of books, gambled, burgled, and graduated. As a would-be writer in London, the cons continued ...
'About as noir as it can be...excellent' Frances Fyfield, Daily Telegraph The city is Los Angeles, the birthplace of the American dream, a city that has come to symbolize both heaven and hell. Billy McGrath is an enigma, half American, half English, who once dreamed of pursuing a career as an academic philosopher, but for the last fifteen years ...
A Cambridge alumnus details his life and crimes, beginning with his boarding school childhood--spent lying about his father, a con artist who faked his death. Rayner continues through his college years, where he forged checks, stole first editions of books, gambled, burgled, and graduated. As a would-be writer in London, the cons continued ...
Set in the 1920s, this huge novel stars a Finnish boy named Esko, blinded in one eye, who grows up to be a New York architect in the early days of skyscrapers. In the big city, he also finds the Russian girl he fell in love with when they were teenagers--the beautiful Katerina, who is a professional photographer engaged to one of the wealthiest ...
Admired by plant enthusiasts, botanists, and nature lovers of all ages, wildflowers comprise one of the most beloved - and diverse - groupings of flora in South Carolina. Although relatively small in size, the Palmetto State hosts a remarkable variety of wildflower species, from the trillium and bloodroot that brighten its forests to heliotrope ...
The first volume in the series considers cognitive style, which may well prove to be the missing link in the study of individual differences. The purpose of the book is to reflect academic debate focusing on key models of style.
This text offers an international perspective on contemporary theory and research in self-perception. It brings together perspectives on individual differences in psychology. Drawing upon an international field of established and contemporary researchers, the work presents both theoretical and applied work looking at individual difference in human ...
An instant success and bestseller in Kenya, which ran into 6 reprints, this prize-winning novel marked the beginning of popular literature in Kenya. Mangua's novel is a fictional, autobiographical account of the son of a prostitute. The male narrator describes his life as the orphan of a prostitute in the slums of Nairobi, a young man frequenting ...
This volume reviews and integrates research on style differences in learning behaviour and describes the "cognitive styles analysis" which provides a simple and effective method of assessing style in children and adults. As both a textbook and a source of reference for professionals working in a range of contexts, it aims to help teachers and ...
Depression-era Chicago: a city riding a tide of liquor and blood, ruled by guns, graft, and gangsters. At the top of the heap is Al Capone... and Capone's most feared hitman is Michael O'Sullivan, known to friends and enemies alike as the "Angel of Death". But when Sullivan's eight-year-old son witnesses a gangland execution, father and son find ...
These spectacular, complex, mixed-media paintings fuse such disparate sources as medieval European religious painting and 1960s pop art to create haunting and sometimes bizarre scenes that alternately mock and celebrate various aspects of human behavior.
"Middlesbrough's Unseen History" is far from the standard football information guide. Far from stale facts and tired anecdotes, Artist In Residence and DC Comics illustrator Richard Piers-Raynor has created a selection of witty and charming illustrations that capture all those events that have defined the club but escaped the gaze of the camera. ...
Eighteen hundred amusing lies and not a scrap of truth to be seen. Judged as being "extraordinarily witty" by The Revd. Charles Chlamydia (1823-1881) while Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) said "I don't get it, and anyway I've been dead 113 years, why are you asking me?"
This work features illustrations of textiles for fashion (including headscarves) and furnishings designed by artists living or working in Britain for British companies during the period 1945-1970. This was a time of belief in "art for the people" in the new democratic spirit of post-war Britain and has parallels in other media such as school ...
"The Elephant" is Bradford, a man in the death business and also his son, a fantasist and liar who is named after a cricket field. It is about versions of the truth, the mystery of names, sexual hysteria and a fear of not-feeling. By the author of "Los Angeles Without a Map".
In the years following World War II, young artists and designers looked to the future for their inspiration. "Austerity to Affluence" covers British furniture, textiles and haute couture, ceramics, glass, metalwork, domestic equipment and product design, graphic design, and fine art, witnessing the development of Contemporary design. 220 ...
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