Marshall: 1961 books

Michael Marshall Smith’s surreal, groundbreaking, and award-winning debut which resonates with wild humour interlaced with dark recollections of an emotional minefield. Now part of the Voyager Classics collection. May we introduce you to Stark. Oh, and by the way — good luck. Stark is the private...

Ann Carter is very attractive, and a very competitive golfer. She is unhappily married. She wants to win the club championship. She tries to elicit the help of an older, misogynistic, Zen oriented caddy. His name is Jack "Three Iron" Shaw, a former golf pro. Ann tries every trick in the book: bribery,...

Sous une nouvelle couverture, enrichie d'un important chapitre sur la médiation et la résolution des conflits, voici la troisième édition de l'ouvrage phare de la Communication NonViolente, traduit dans plus de 30 langues et vendu à 170 000 exemplaires en France. Grâce à des histoires, des...

Experts explore current theory and practice in the application of digitally enabled open networked social models to international development. The emergence of open networked models made possible by digital technology has the potential to transform international development. Open network structures...

The Mandate of Heaven was originally given to King Wen in the 11th century BC. King Wen is credited with founding the Zhou dynasty after he received the Mandate from Heaven to attack and overthrow the Shang dynasty. King Wen is also credited with creating the ancient oracle known as the Yijing or...

Marshall Sahlins centers these essays on islands—Hawaii, Fiji, New Zealand—whose histories have intersected with European history. But he is also concerned with the insular thinking in Western scholarship that creates false dichotomies between past and present, between structure and event, between...

If you were to look around you, and I mean really open your eyes and look around, a revolutionary change is being prayed for before we destroy this world.Jesus is back and he is preparing to take over the presidency, and run the most powerful military in the world. He is willing to jeopardize his...

When Western scholars write about non-Western societies, do they inevitably perpetuate the myths of European imperialism? Can they ever articulate the meanings and logics of non-Western peoples? Who has the right to speak for whom? Questions such as these are among the most hotly debated in contemporary...

Agnes Surriage, it turns out, was more Pygmalion than Cinderella. Her role models were the fiercely independent “codfish widows,” wives of the early Marblehead fishermen who managed home and family seven months a year without their husbands. In Agnes’s version of My Fair Lady, she had to act as...

Canine atopy can be a most distressing allergic condition, equally for your itchy-scratchy-sad dog and for you. There are few conditions that have so many different treatment options and approaches as canine atopy or atopic dermatitis. And the responses to these treatments are just as varied and individual.Get...

When you are waiting on God and it is truly your heart’s desire to hear from Him, in the midst of life and all the hustle and bustle, we have to put ourselves in a position of discernment to be able to slow down, be still long enough to hear that sweet, small voice that has your destiny and purpose...

This handbook will guide you through assembling an emergency kit. It is broken into a weekly format to be completed over a six week period. You’ll learn the items needed to keep your family safe and comfortable in case of an emergency. The first step to being prepared for an emergency is...

In this pithy two-part essay, Marshall Sahlins reinvigorates the debates on what constitutes kinship, building on some of the best scholarship in the field to produce an original outlook on the deepest bond humans can have. Covering thinkers from Aristotle and Lévy- Bruhl to Émile Durkheim and David...

Adam isn't Green. It's not that he doesn't believe in Climate Change, he just doesn't think it should apply to him. If he can afford to run an expensive, gas-guzzling car, why shouldn't he? If he wants the heating on high so that he wakes up to a warm house every morning, that's his right. Or so...