Maurice: 1983 books

Only a couple weeks into his tour in Iraq, Maurice Prince, Blackhawk Pilot and M.D., celebrates his 41st birthday a world away from the states. Being separated from his fiancee is hard enough, but between the relentless Iraqi heat, a soldier with a suspicious back injury, and the constant sounds of...

In this updated fourth edition, author Maurice Levi successfully integrates both the micro and macro aspects of international finance. He sucessfully explores managerial issues and focuses on problems arising from financial trading relations between nations, whilst covering key topics such as: *...

Originally dating from the 1860s, Rathgar is one of the most well-known areas of Dublin, a salubrious suburb, filled with history. In this book, author Maurice Curtis explores the area that was once home to DeValera, JM Synge, and the many other people who have shaped the nation.

Widely regarded as one of New Zealand’s greatest fiction writers, Maurice Gee has written virtually no non-fiction. The exceptions are the two exquisite childhood reminiscences combined here into a memoir in this BWB Text.In this little known work, Gee describes in fascinating detail his...

November 22, 1963 changed the entire world. In a split second, Camelot ended and the lives of countless individuals were permanently altered, including the life of Dallas Police Officer Maurice N. Nick McDonald. This is the story of one ordinary cop who found himself in an extraordinary situation....

Completed hours before Maurice Ward’s shocking murder, this remarkable book is the first autobiography of an Irish criminal. Recording his incarceration in Upton Industrial School, Ward recalls how the violence he suffered at the hands of the religious altered his personality and turned him to crime.  Refreshingly...

The first successful ascent of Mount Everest in 1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa teammate Tenzing Norgay is a familiar saga, but less well known are the tales of many other adventurers who also came to test their skills and courage against the world’s highest and most dangerous mountains....

This introduction to Greek tragedy, the origin of much of our modern drama, is the work of a remarkable scholar who is also a practical man of theater. The author of magisterial studies of Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov and Shaw, and of symbolism in the theater from the nineteenth century to our times,...

In the first full-length treatment of Eric Williams as an intellectual, Maurice St. Pierre shows how the former prime minister's experiences in Trinidad and England radicalized him, leading him both to challenge colonial exploitation of Trinbagonians and to work to educate and mobilize them in the struggle for independence.

With words that edify, entertain, and provoke thought, Strength Like Yours gives its reader a personal eye view into the life and times of a modern-day black man with sensibilities that are solid, traditional, innovative, urban, culturally and spiritually conscious, and always real.

Sherlock Holmes est sans conteste le personnage le plus fascinant, le plus célèbre et le plus emblématique de la littérature policière. Plus de 130 ans après sa première apparition, les admirateurs se rassemblent toujours en club pour lui vouer un culte sans égal, les adaptations de ses aventures...

Trente écueils menaçants cernent l’île de Sarek en Bretagne. Les habitants superstitieux l’appellent «l’île aux trente cercueils». Une légende les hante : trente victimes doivent mourir en croix dont quatre femmes. Véronique d’Hergemont, venue chercher son fils après quatorze ans...

Édition enrichie (Présentation, notes et chronologie) Les aventures d'Arsène Lupin commencent... par son arrestation ! C'est en effet le thème de la première histoire imaginée par Maurice Leblanc en 1905, à la demande d'un directeur de journal, autour de ce personnage appelé à une...

« Ainsi, mon petit monsieur, vous avez pu croire que moi, Charles Rondot, commerçant honorable, et connu comme tel dans le quartier des Batignolles, j’accorderais la main de ma fille à un homme qui n’a pas de père ? » Après de multiples péripéties, c’est à la tête de cinq pères que...