C P : 1000 books

Henry Oliver has achieved stardom in the international dance world at a young age, only to learn through bitter experience that success is no substitute for love. When his lover dies and he learns that his estranged mother is dying, he must return to the mountain community where he grew up, to confront his own emotions and the mysteries of his family's past.

A dark age, illuminated by a moment of hope. A distant father revered by the known world. A mother who dabbles in mystery, whose friends are from an unknown land. War for belief, for territory, for familial power. Envy. Love betrayed, love unrequited, love that goes unrecognized. The ancient and hypnotic...

“ God Created them all” is a collection of fifty five short stories depicting the authors myriad experience spanning 25 years as a doctor, dealing with different personalities in life. Some of the candid moments in the real life of these hapless people are captured truly in these short stories...

A completely revised and updated edition of the bestselling, classic how-to on mastering the art of the interview Getting and winning the interview is the key to being hired. Everything else -- research, resumes, e-mails, phone calls -- is all backup for that crucial meeting. In How to Turn an Interview...

Covering a wide range of popular alternative medicine and health issues, User's Guides are written by leading experts and science writers and are designed to answer the consumer's basic questions about disease, conventional and alternative therapies, and individual dietary supplements.

‘C.P. Surendran bears witness to…what James Agee memorably described as “the cruel radiance of what is”. Anyone who looks directly at that “cruel radiance” is very likely to be wounded; for the poet is not only a pilgrim in a dangerous landscape but also a trespasser in secluded zones,...

The Joy Of Bach is a volume of 46 original keyboard compositions by members of the Bach family. The pieces are in their original form, neither rearranged nor simplified.

A lot of people have told me that I have an amazing attitude on life and ask how I do it? How do I face every challenge and still come out smiling? There are seven life skills that helped me through it all. In fact, you do them each and every day and you probably don’t realize it. Doing them is what can aid you with a successful, happy and healthy life.

Torts--personal injury law--is a fundamental yet controversial part of our legal system. The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law: Torts provides a clear and comprehensive account of what tort law is, how it works, what it stands to accomplish, and why it is now much-disputed. Goldberg and Zipursky--two...

This book is a draft of chapter one of Mr. Beard’s dissertation, The Impact of Constitutional Interpretation on Individual Freedom. He was kicked out of the J.S.D. program by a Dean, who graduated from Harvard Law, because this project was, to put it politely, “politically incorrect;” justification...

Nugget City, a small town in the high desert of Nevada, is heading for extinction, but the mayor is determined to keep the town from turning into one of the state’s 300 ghost towns. To save it he brings back Jason Mann, who’d left town under a cloud of suspicion. Will Jason save it, or destroy...

Inconnu du public qui lira ou qui ne lira pas ces quelques lignes, je me vois dans une position assez difficile. Si j’avais plus d’expérience, si j’étais moins jeune, il m’en coûterait moins de faire connaître publiquement les résultats d’un travail qui intéresse...

An extraordinary literary event: Daniel Mendelsohn’s acclaimed two-volume translation of the complete poems of C. P. Cavafy—including the first English translation of the poet’s final Unfinished Poems—now published in one handsome edition and featuring the fullest literary commentaries available...

C P Snow’s sketches of famous physicists and explanation of how atomic weapons were developed gives an overview of science often lacking. This study provides us with hope for the future as well as anecdotes from history.