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A "striking lesbian manifesto and a deft parody" by the acclaimed author of Nightwood. (-Library Journal)Nearly 100 years after its original 1928 publication sent shockwaves through the literary scene, Ladies Almanack reigns as a brilliant modernist composition and one of the most audacious lesbian texts of the 20^th century. At once a scathing social satire and a love letter to the wealthy expatriates of Paris high society, the book delights in its cast of characters, who are clear analogues to Barnes' lesbian literary contemporaries--and the book's first readers.Arranged by month and written in a pastiche of Restoration literature, Ladies Almanack records the life and lovers of Dame Evangeline Musset, a pseudonymous stand-in for Natalie Clifford Barney. Accompanied for the first time by Barnes' original Elizabethan-style woodcut illustrations, this new edition also features a sharp, impassioned introduction by Sarah Schulman reflecting on the ways in which lesbian lives have changed--and haven't--since the 1920s. After decades out of print, Dalkey Archive is proud to revive the Ladies Almanack for contemporary readers: a classic that delivers all the salacious drama of The L Word with the literary wit and wordplay of Shakespeare.

Finished just before his untimely death in November 2006, legendary University of Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler provides lessons on leadership, motivation, responsibility, and values.

This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 3; Original Published by: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & co., ltd. in 1908 in 341 pages; Subjects: Military art and science; War; Fiction / Classics; History / Military / General; History / Military / Strategy; Technology & Engineering / Military Science;

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Michael Bergin's account of the years he and Carolyn Bessette shared--revisiting the years dramatized in FX's Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette

Would she be alive today? Would we be together? Would we have been happy?

Before she was Mrs. John F. Kennedy Jr. -- before the wedding dress, the cameras, the mythology -- Carolyn Bessette was a woman of remarkable presence. Independent, stylish, and far more complex than the tabloids ever allowed her to be.

She was also, for a time, deeply in love with someone other than America's most eligible bachelor.

Michael Bergin was a small-town kid from Connecticut who came to New York with nothing and became one of the most recognizable faces in the world. When he and Carolyn found each other in 1992, it was immediate and intense -- a connection neither of them could fully let go of, even as their lives pulled them in different directions. Then John Kennedy walked in.

But this is not a story that ends with a wedding.

In The Other Man, Bergin breaks his silence on one of the most talked-about relationships of the 1990s, offering an intimate glimpse into the private Carolyn so few people were permitted to see -- her warmth, her restlessness, her contradictions -- and the passion the two of them shared long after the world had written its own version of her story.

Honest, tender, and at times devastating, The Other Man is a testament to the pull of a love that doesn't follow the script -- and a portrait of a woman who deserved to be known on her own terms.

A hopeful look at coping with the ravages of serious chronic illness by an accomplished journalist, a contributing columnist for the New York Times, and former senior producer of the CBS Evening News

Richard Cohen, a veteran journalist, has lived with multiple sclerosis for 30 years. Diagnosed with colon cancer twice in recent years, Cohen chronicles and celebrates a life brimming over with accomplishment and adversity, while struggling for emotional health.

Autobiographical at its roots, reportorial, and expansive, Blindsided explores the effects of illness on raising three children and his relationship with wife Meredith Vieira (host of ABC's The View). He tackles the nature of denial and resilience and the redemptive effects of a loving family, and does so with grace, humor, and lyrical prose.

One of the greatest novels ever written, "Anna Karenina" follows the self-destructive path of a beautiful, popular, and sensual Russian aristocrat. The lovely Anna seems set in a respectable marriage with the powerful statesman Karenin, yet their lack of passion breeds the discontent she fully faces upon meeting the elegant and affluent officer Count Vronsky. Soon convinced that allowing herself to deeply love this man will enable her to find the meaning and truth of her life, Anna defies the conventions of Russian society and leaves her husband and children for her lover. Tolstoy juxtaposes this ill-fated couple with the melancholy Levin and his new wife Kitty. Levin is also searching for the fulfillment and happiness in his life, and he ultimately finds a happiness that Anna's love does not. A portrait of marriage and infidelity in imperial Russia, "Anna Karenina" explores love, life, and the depths of the human soul in a tale as illuminating as it is tragic. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper, follows the translation of Constance Garnett, and includes an introduction by Nathan Haskell Dole.

La Quinta Disciplina es el primer libro de Management del siglo XXI. Una obra precursora sobre la construcción de organizaciones inteligentes, abiertas al aprendizaje. A partir de un auténtico enfoque interdisciplinario, Peter Senge, Director de Pensamiento de Sistemas y Aprendizaje Organizacional del MIT, despliega su singular visión y nos ubica en las fronteras del pensamiento organizativo, mostrando cómo serán las Organizaciones capaces de sobreponerse a las dificultades y cómo reconocer amenazas y enfrentar nuevas oportunidades. Su lectura es una cautivante invitación a revisar nuestra forma de pensar la organización. Peter M. Senge es director de Pensamiento de Sistemas y Aprendizaje Organizacional de la Sloan School of Management del MIT y socio fundador de la consultora Innovation Associates, de Massachusetts. Ha formado cientos de gerentes en empresas como Ford, Digital, Apple, Procter & Gamble, AT&T, Herman Miller, Hanover Insurance y Shell.

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION The changed form in which Hegel's lectures on the Philosophy of History are reissued, suggests the necessity of Bome explanation respecting the relation of this second edition both to the original materials from which the work was compiled, and to their first publication. The lamented Professor Gans, the editor of the Philosophy of History, displayed a talented ingenuity in transforming Lectures into a Book; in doing so he followed for the most part Hegel's latest deliveries of the course, because they were the most popular, and appeared most adapted to his object. He succeeded in presenting the lectures much as they were delivered in the winter of 18H; and this result might be regarded as perfectly satisfactory, if Hegel's various read ings of the course had been more uniform and concordant, if indeed they had not rather been of such a nature as to supplement each other. For however great may have been Hegel's power of condensing the wide extent of the phenomenal world by Thought, it was impossible for him entirely to master and to present in a uniform shape the immeasurable material of History in the course of one semester. In the first delivery in the winter of 1811, he was chiefly occupied with unfolding the philosophical Idea, and showing how this constitutes the real kernel of History, and the impelling Soul of World-Historial Peoples. In proceeding to treat of China and India, he wished, as he said himself, only to show by example how philosophy ought to comprehend the character of a nation; and this could be done more easily in the case of the stationary nations of the East, than in that of peoples which have a bond fide historyand a historical development of character. A warm predilection made him linger long with the Greeks, for w...

The star of Roberto Bolaño's hair-raising novel Distant Star is Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an air force pilot who exploits the 1973 coup to launch his own version of the New Chilean Poetry, a multimedia enterprise involving sky-writing, poetry, torture, and photo exhibitions.

For our unnamed narrator, who first encounters this "star" in a college poetry workshop, Ruiz-Tagle becomes the silent hand behind every evil act in the darkness of Pinochet's regime. The narrator, unable to stop himself, tries to track Ruiz-Tagle down, and sees signs of his activity over and over again. A corrosive, mocking humor sparkles within Bolaño's darkest visions of Chile under Pinochet. In Bolaño's world there's a big graveyard and there's a big graveyard laugh. (He once described his novel By Night in Chile as "a tale of terror, a situation comedy, and a combination pastoral-gothic novel.")

Many Chilean authors have written about the "bloody events of the early Pinochet years, the abductions and murders," Richard Eder commented in the The New York Times: "None has done it in so dark and glittering a fashion as Roberto Bolaño."

Adolph Verloc leads a double life. As well as running his seedy Soho shop, he is also a secret agent, operating for an underground anarchist cell - and his job is about to get far more dangerous. When his leaders instruct him to plant a bomb at Greenwich Observatory, his plans go terribly awry, with tragic repercussions for him and his family.

Learn the art of Japanese gardening with this classic, fascinating text.

The Sakuteiki, or "Records of Garden Making," was written nearly one thousand years ago. It is the oldest existing text on Japanese gardening--or any kind of gardening--in the world. In this edition of the Sakuteiki, the authors provide an English-language translation of this classic work and an introduction to the cultural and historical context that led to the development of Japanese gardening. Central to this explanation is an understanding of the sacred importance of stones in Japanese culture and Japanese garden design.

Written by a Japanese court noble during the Heian period (794-1184), the Sakuteiki includes both technical advice on gardening--much of which is still followed in today's Japanese gardens--and an examination of the four central threads of allegorical meaning, which were integral features of Heian-era garden design. For those seeking inspiration to build a rock garden or just better understand the Japanese stone garden, the Sakuteiki is an enduring classic.