Authors:Paul B. Farrell, Nick Summers (narrator),
Publisher: Listen & Live Audio, Inc.
Keywords: abridged, investing, guide, person’s, lazy
Number of Pages: 1
Published: 2006-06-26
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 159316078X
ISBN-13: 9781593160784
At last, a book perfectly designed to deal with the common anxieties most people have about handling their financial investments-without taking up all of their time. In today’s volatile market, jittery nerves are the normwhen it comes to saving and investing for the future. But with these keep-it-simple, easy-to-understand, and time-tested strategies that-best of all-take very little time or energy to maintain, readers can relax. Dr. Farrell has reviewed all of the successful investment strategies and distilled them so that even the most inexperienced investor can plan a successful finan
Author: A. Adu Boahen
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: africa, general, history, abridged, univ, version, domination, california, vii, vol, unesco, colonial
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 1990-06-25
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0520067029
ISBN-13: 9780520067028
Volume VII of this acclaimed series is now available in an abridged paperback edition. The result of years of work by scholars from all over the world, The UNESCO General History of Africa reflects how the different peoples of Africa view their civilizations and shows the historical relationships between the various parts of the continent. Historical connections with other continents demonstrate Africa’s contribution to the development of human civilization. Each volume is lavishly illustrated and contains a comprehensive bibliography.
Author: Richard Wright
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Keywords: abridged, son, native
Number of Pages: 398
Published: 2003-10-01
List price: $12.99
ISBN-10: 006053348X
ISBN-13: 9780060533489
Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Richard Wright’s novel is just as powerful today as when it was written -- in its reflection of poverty and hopelessness, and what it means to be black in America. This abridged edition includes an introduction, "How Bigger Was Born," by the author, as well as an afterw
Author: Edward O. Wilson
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: abridged, sociobiology
Number of Pages: 380
Published: 1980-03-12
List price: $42.00
ISBN-10: 0674816242
ISBN-13: 9780674816244
In this text, Wilson’s work on the biological basis of social behavior in all species from amoeba colonies to human societies has been trimmed to its essential argument and most compelling examples.
Author: Oswald Spengler
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: abridged, west, decline
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2006-04-11
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1400097002
ISBN-13: 9781400097005
Since its first publication more than eighty years ago, The Decline of the West has ranked as one of the most widely read and talked about books of our time. A sweeping account of Western culture by a historian of legendary intellect, it is an astonishingly informed, forcefully eloquent, thrillingly controversial work that advances a world view based on the cyclical rise and fall of civilizations. This abridgment presents the most significant of Oswald Spengler’s arguments, linked by illuminating explanatory passages. It makes available in one volume a masterpiece of grand-scale history and
Author: Lohren Green
Publisher: Atelos
Keywords: abridged, dictionary, poetical
Number of Pages: 104
Published: 2003-09-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1891190172
ISBN-13: 9781891190179
Poetry. Lohren Green’s POETICAL DICTIONARY concludes with chaos and begins with acrobatics. In between these he presents us with "both a book of words and a cosmos"; a linguistic gas cloud bounded by the universal and the particular. Green’s project departs from the traditional dictionary, a peculiar contraption of sense and order. In the preface, he reviews the architectures of these teetering, teeming, linguistic edifices. His attitude towards words is almost that of a material scientist, exploding an individual specimen of language-"bulwark" "heft" "oyster" "purple" "torpid" "fo
Author: Louis Massignon
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: abridged, martyr, mystic, hallaj
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1994-07-05
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0691019193
ISBN-13: 9780691019192
Abridged from the four-volume The Passion of al-Hallaj, one of the major works of Western orientalism, this book explores the life and teaching of a famous tenth-century Sufi mystic and martyr, and in so doing describes not only his experience but also the whole milieu of early Islamic civilization. Louis Massignon (1883-1962), France’s most celebrated Islamic specialist in this century and a leading Catholic intellectual, wrote of a man who was for him a personal inspiration. From reviews of the four-volume translation:
