Author: Michael Winder
Publisher: HCI
Keywords: point, return, west, junkie, officer
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2008-01-30
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 075730639X
ISBN-13: 9780757306396

Michael Winder longed to be a part of America’s elite—to stand in The Long Gray Line as an officer in the United States Army. His quest for academic, athletic, and leadership excellence began as a cadet at the prestigious United States Military Academy at West Point. But before the end of his sophomore year, Winder buckled under pressure, and in search of an escape, he turned to alcohol and recreational drugs—eventually plummeting into debilitating and self-destructive abuse. Despite his inability to function without hourly doses of narcotics and alcohol chasers, Winder managed to gr

Author: Aldous Huxley
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Keywords: point, literature, counter, british
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 1996-10-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1564781313
ISBN-13: 9781564781314

Aldous Huxley’s lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest expression both thematically and formally in his masterpiece Point Counter Point. By presenting a vision of life in which diverse aspects of experience are observed simultaneously, Huxley characterizes the symptoms of "the disease of modern man" in the manner of a composerthemes and characters repeated, altered slightly, and played off one another in a tone that is at once critical and sympathetic. First published in 1928, Huxley’s satiric view of intellectual life in

Author: Gore Vidal
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: point, vintage, navigation, memoir
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-10-09
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0307275019
ISBN-13: 9780307275011

In a witty and elegant autobiography that takes up where his bestelling Palimpsest left off, the celebrated novelist, essayist, critic, and controversialist Gore Vidal reflects on his remarkable life.Writing from his desks in Ravello and the Hollywood Hills, Vidal travels in memory through the arenas of literature, television, film, theatre, politics, and international society where he has cut a wide swath, recounting achievements and defeats, friends and enemies made (and sometimes lost). From encounters with, amongst others, Jack and Jacqueline Kennedy, Tennessee Williams, Eleanor Roosevelt,

Author: Harry Clary Jones
Publisher: Negley Press
Keywords: point, methods, conductivity, boiling, freezing
Number of Pages: 76
Published: 2007-10-26
List price: $26.45
ISBN-10: 1408603055
ISBN-13: 9781408603055

Freezing-Point, Boiling-Point, A N D - Conductivity Methods - PREFACE - I have been impressed, in teaching the physical chemical methods in the laboratory, with the fact, that there is no readily accessible place in which they are treated satisfactorily

Author: Council of Europe
Publisher: Council of Europe
Keywords: law, point, view, international, rights, violation, human, guantanamo
Number of Pages: 110
Published: 2007-08
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 9287162948
ISBN-13: 9789287162946

What are the rights of the prisoners held by the United States at the base in Guantanamo Bay? Is their imprisonment lawful? Should we be thinking about strengthening the Geneva Conventions and changing international law? The Parliamentary Assembly, and hence the 47 member states of the Council of Europe, has spoken with one voice, condemning this flagrant violation of human rights and demanding the closure of the Guantanamo detention centre."Guantanamo: Violation of Human Rights and International Law?" contains all the Assembly’s arguments, along with the study by the European Commission

Author: Jane Roessner
Publisher: Northeastern
Keywords: point, harbor, history, community, columbia, place, live, decent
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2000-06-22
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1555534368
ISBN-13: 9781555534363

"A Decent Place to Live is a fabulous piece of work. Well-written, candid and engaging, its honesty is refreshing; nothing is swept under the rug. The voices of the tenants carry the story forward, but the transformation of Columbia Point is set in a political context and the impact of government policies is explored. A valuable resource for urban planners, architects, housing policy makers, and developers." -- Hubert E. Jones, Assistant Chancellor for Urban Affairs, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Author: Aldous Huxley
Publisher: Curzon Press
Keywords: point, counter
Number of Pages: 612
Published: 2008-05-18
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1409723658
ISBN-13: 9781409723653

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.