Maurice: 1983 books

The inspirational story of Kathleen Ferrier, whose reputation as the greatest lyric contralto of the 20th century is something rarely disputed, is told here with compelling insight and perception. Drawing on a variety of sources—from photographs, diaries, and private letters, to the memoirs and...

Throughout life there is expression of music, art, dance, songs. Each of these touches us in many different ways. If a picture is worth a thousand words then what are words worth? The expression of words are powerful as it is the readers interpretation of meaning which can be anything we want it to...

Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation.  Philosophy and Civilization in the Middle Ages is a great overview of the 12th and 13th centuries social history and its influence on the modern world.

I have not yet forgotten the first apiary I saw, where I learned to love the bees. It was many years ago, in a large village of Dutch Flanders, the sweet and pleasant country that rejoices in brilliant flowers; a country that gladly spreads out before us, as so many pretty toys, her illuminated gables and wagons and towers;

Warman's U.S. Stamps Field Guide, 3rd edition, features photographs of nearly 1,000 color stamps, thousands of listings values for U.S. regular-issue and Airmail stamps from 1847-2013, all providing a compact and enjoyable overview of one of the world’s oldest hobbies.

La collection Pause-nouvelle Classique est un rendez-vous avec les grands noms de la littérature. Et dans cette anthologie, ils prennent la plume pour nous dessiner quelques traits d’humour. Certains auteurs sont justement connus pour leurs histoires drôles, parfois burlesques, voire surréalistes,...

Extrait : "Quel livre on ferait sur la Presse !... C'est ce que chacun pense depuis longtemps, et ce livre, cependant, on ne le fait pas. On a bien excursionné dans la Presse, et Balzac, avec son génie, les Goncourt, avec leur sensitivité perçante, nous en ont montré certains côtés. Mais le livre...

Extrait : — Fugue de la jeune personne ? demanda-t-il quand Valnais lui eut, en quelques mots, expliqué la situation. — Mais, dit Vainais indigné, elle en est incapable ! Non, rapt, enlèvement, séquestration. — Fichtre ! dit Thureau. Alors, allons...

Présentation de l'éditeur Pour votre plus grand plaisir vous trouverez dans cette ouvrage une biographie ainsi qu'une bibliographie detaille de l'auteur ceci est un recueil de trois nouvelles  Dans «Le Lapidaire», un vieil homme possède la plus merveilleuse...

This book summary is about a young man who was from a small town of Mc Cormick in South Carolina during the late 1940s and began his education in Columbia, South Carolina, until the age 15 years old, before moving to Washington, DC with his mother. I never imagined that I would make the accomplishments that I made in my life thus far, but they are very admirable.

Ripon's story comes alive on this tour around the city. Evidence of life here hundreds of millions of years ago, with 'Ripon' at the edge of a tropical sea, can be observed at Quarry Moor; bronze age henges are to be found to the north and east of the city; Celts and Anglo-Saxons settled between the...