Authors:Jules Verne, Frederick Paul Walter, Walter James Mil
Publisher: Bison Books
Keywords: manuscript, bison, frontiers, imagination, original, verne, hunt, first, english, translation, meteor
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2006-10-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0803296347
ISBN-13: 9780803296343

The Meteor Hunt marks the first English translation from Jules Verne’s own text of his delightfully satirical and visionary novel. While other, questionable versions of the novel have appeared—mainly, a significantly altered text by Verne’s son Michel and translations of it—this edition showcases the original work as Verne wrote it. The Meteor Hunt is the story of a meteor of pure gold careening toward the earth and generating competitive greed among amateur astronomers and chaos among nations obsessed with the trajectory of the great golden object. Set primarily in the United States an

Author: James Walter
Publisher: University of New South Wales Press
Keywords: bargain, citizens
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2002-07-01
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0868405140
ISBN-13: 9780868405148

Citizenship is a bargain: what must I do for others, what am I entitled to demand? Every society resolves this relationship differently over time. This book traces differing Australian understandings of this bargain using historical documents. It enables us to understand current politics and to draw on past experience to shape new futures.

Author: James Walter Peirce
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Keywords: chesapeake, sonnets
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2008-10-24
List price: $27.49
ISBN-10: 1438920806
ISBN-13: 9781438920801

Authors:Walter C. Rucker Jr., James N. Upto,
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: american, milestones, african, history, greenwood, volume, race, riots, encyclopedia
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2006-11-30
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0313333017
ISBN-13: 9780313333019

Authors:Walter Adams, James W. Brock,
Publisher: Beard Books
Keywords: wall, street, acquisitions, mergers, pursuits, dangerous
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 2003-05
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1587981890
ISBN-13: 9781587981890

This is a reprint of a previously published work. It deals with the rules of th game of megamergers: the stategies, the legl maneuvers, the daring moves and counter-moves of corporate titans.

Authors:Walter Taylor, James I. Robertson Jr.,
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: lee, general, years, four
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1996-06-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0253210747
ISBN-13: 9780253210746

"... it offers a sure, quick, eyewitness assessment of all Lee’s campaigns." -- Southern PartisanWalter Taylor was "first to last the closest" of all staff officers to General Robert E. Lee, and his intimate relationship with his commander gives Taylor’s writings signal importance in any study of Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia. A recognized classic, Four Years with General Lee first appeared in 1877 and was a collector’s item by the turn of the century. This annotated edition, first published in 1962, was prepared by noted Civil War historian James I. Robertson, Jr., w

Authors:Walter Adams, James W. Brock,
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: moscow, smith, adam
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 1994-07-05
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0691000530
ISBN-13: 9780691000534

Adam Smith Goes to Moscow is a captivating dialogue between the head of a hypothetical, formerly socialist East European country and a fervently market-minded American adviser. Their spirited give-and-take highlights the monumental political as well as economic complexities currently faced by the former Soviet bloc countries as they struggle to transform themselves into free market economies.