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Biography of Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
A rich blend of stories and poems can be found within the pages of this compilation. These stories are dramatic and comedic in nature. Tales such as the The Chai Pot allow the customs of the West to confront traditions of the East when a European physician brings modern medicine to a village in India. The reader will then be entertained by other exciting tales. Two poor children dream of escaping to a rich land in Yaguine and Fode. However, their journey is fraught with danger. In The Family Nest, a young man is about to leave for college. But, he soon finds out in a humorous way that it is not easy to leave home. In Woman,You Are Mine!, a man tries to find the ultimate love in his life but instead finds something completely different. In the story The Eclipse, a family deals with the loss of a loved one in the September 11, 2001 tragedy. Finally, the poem The Soul Tree takes us to a place between night and day. It is a place that shows us the ultimate theme that binds the stories within this book. It is a theme of humanity and the value of life.
The only official guidebook to horse breed standards and conformation in North America, with breed history and information on gait and distinctive traits, temperament, colors, and variations.
Brilliantly comic and almost unbearably moving, Jerry Pinto's Em and the Big Hoom is one of the most powerful and original fiction debuts of recent years. She was always Em to us. There may have been a time when we called her something ordinary like Mummy, or Ma, but I don't remember. She was Em, and our father, sometimes, was the Big Hoom. In a tiny flat in Bombay Imelda Mendes - Em to her children - holds her family in thrall with her flamboyance, her manic affection and her cruel candour. Her husband - to whom she was once 'Buttercup' - and her two children must bear her 'microweathers', her swings from laugh-out-loud joy to dark malevolence. In Em and the Big Hoom, the son begins to unra...
LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
Insider trading. Savings and loan scandals. Enron. Corporate crimes were once thought of as victimless offenses, but now—with billions of dollars and an increasingly global economy at stake—this is understood to be far from the truth. The International Handbook of White-Collar and Corporate Crime explores the complex interplay of factors involved when corporate cultures normalize lawbreaking, and when organizational behavior is pushed to unethical (and sometimes inhumane) limits. Featuring original contributions from a panel of experts representing North America, Asia, Europe, and Australia, this timely volume presents multidisciplinary views on recent corporate wrongdoing affecting econ...