Authors:Anton Chekhov,  Julius West,
Publisher: Digireads.com
Keywords: sisters, three
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2008-01-01
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 1420931296
ISBN-13: 9781420931297

"Three Sisters" is Anton Chekhov’s dramatic play written in 1900 and first performed in 1901. The story concerns the lives of an aristocratic family, the Prozorovs, who struggle to search for meaning in the modern world. The three sisters, Olga, Masha, and Irina, along with their brother Andrei, are living in a small provincial town, yet they long to return to the urban sophistication of Moscow where they grew up. Chekhov’s "Three Sisters" brilliantly depicts the lives and aspirations of the Prozorov family as they struggle to contend with the decline of the privileged class in Rus

Authors:Julius Firmicus Maternus,  Jean Rhys Bram,
Publisher: Astrology Classic
Keywords: libri, viii, matheseos, practice, astrology, theory, ancient
Number of Pages: 337
Published: 2005-03-31
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1933303107
ISBN-13: 9781933303109

The translator, Jean Rhys Bram, writes, "Magic, philosophy, science and theology combine in strange ways in the thinking of the last centuries of the Roman empire..... Firmicus seemed worthy of note for many reasons. He is almost alone as author of works produced both before and after an apparent conversion to Christianity.... He left a lengthy handbook detailing the astrological practices of his day, the only work which has come down to us in its entirety [90% complete: Holden] out of numerous astrological treatises written in the Hellenistic and Roman periods..... This manual was important b

Authors:F. Scott Fitzgerald,  James L. W. West III,
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: scott, fitzgerald, works, paradise, cambridge
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 1996-01-26
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 0521402344
ISBN-13: 9780521402347

Fitzgerald’s first novel, reprinted in the handsome Everyman’s Library series of literary classic, uses numerous formal experiments to tell the story of Amory Blaine, as he grows up during the crazy years following the First World War. It also contains a new introduction by Craig Raine that describes critical and popular reception of the book when it came out in 1920.F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise is the opening statement of his literary career. Published originally in 1920, the novel captures the rhythm and feel of the gaudy decade that was to follow in America.

Authors:F. Scott Fitzgerald,  James L. W. West III,
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: scott, fitzgerald, works, cambridge, philosophers, flappers
Number of Pages: 430
Published: 1999-12-13
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0521402360
ISBN-13: 9780521402361

Flappers and Philosophers was F. Scott Fitzgerald’s initial encore--his first collection of short fiction, published in 1920 to capitalize on the success of This Side of Paradise, the novel that had made him famous at the age of twenty-three. Flappers and Philosophers contains some of Fitzgerald’s best early stories: "The Offshore Pirate," "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," "The Ice Palace," and "Benediction." In these narratives Fitzgerald presented his prototypical Jazz-Age heroines, beautiful and willful young women who later became trademarks of his fiction. This Cambridge Edition contai

Authors:Rebecca West,  Samuel Hyne,
Publisher: Penguin Classic
Keywords: century, classics, twentieth, penguin, soldier, return
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 1998-06-01
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 014118065X
ISBN-13: 9780141180656

It would be a crime to give away even the barest outline of Rebecca West’s apparently simple, always agonizing first novel. We shall say only that The Return of the Soldier concerns the title character and three very different women to whom he is linked in very different ways--by blood, by marriage, and by love. It is also an imaginative study (one drenched in realism) of intimacy and illusion, possession and a terrible, destructive snobbery. On one estate outside London, even as the Great War and familial loss are taking their toll, the inhabitants strive for a measured, outwardly exqui

Authors:Theodore H. Moran, Gerald T. West,  Keith Mart
Publisher: World Bank Publicatio
Keywords: international, risk, management, political, challenges, future, anticipating, meeting, needs, present
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2007-10-19
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0821370014
ISBN-13: 9780821370018

This volume is the latest in a series based on the MIGA (Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency)-Georgetown University Symposium on International Political Risk Management, with contributions from experts from the international investment, finance, insurance, and legal fields. Highlights include a treatment of regulatory risk in emerging markets by three distinguished lawyers, a proposal for a new type of war risk insurance coverage, the examination of the risk management needs of the international power sector from both legal and user perspectives, and a discussion of the future of the inte

Authors:Alfred Sommer, Keith P. West,  James A. Olson,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: vision, survival, health, deficiency, vitamin
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 1996-02-29
List price: $81.00
ISBN-10: 0195088247
ISBN-13: 9780195088243

Over the past decade and a half many studies have implicated vitamin A status as an important determinant of health. The World Bank now estimates that vitamin A intervention programs may be one of the most cost-effective health strategies in all of medicine. This new book, writtenby the leading investigators of this development, is the first to synthesize the many important studies to date and to identify and quantify the biological, clinical and public health impact of vitamin A deficiency on childhood growth, mortality and morbidity, including anemia and blindness. It deals with the epidemio