Peter - Libros y biografía

*Early Novels and Short Fiction* is the first of three volumes covering Peter Cowlam's adventures into fiction, dating from the mid-1970s and into the twenty-first century. *Early Novels and Short Fiction*...

Student Marcus Fyer is at odds with both family and campus life, and is about to quit university and just take off. His father arranges a course of therapy to see him through his crisis, though Marcus...

Classic literary influences abound in this diverse blend of stories about the corporate world. Essential reading for those working in or with IT departments, this themed collection examines the conflicts,...

At seven, Karl Stevenson is too young to grasp death. When his parents tell him Uncle Douglas passed away last night in their house, he doubts them and believes his beloved uncle will return to keep a...

Bruce, negli anni '70, rileva una società di consulenza finanziaria fondata dal padre, mentre Marisa eredita la proprietà della nonna, con uno strabiliante salto di generazione (il padre di Marisa è 'scavalcato',...

The frayed lives of an American man, and a young woman from Ukraine, both painfully impacted by the 9/11 attacks, converge in 2002, and do so again, fifteen years later, with the discovery of their personal...

A Forgotten Poet follows the fortunes of diffident and reluctant man of letters, Harold Humber, from his early life in the English Midlands, through his post-war career as economist, jazz aficionado,...

The 1970s. Bruce takes over a financial consultancy firm founded by his father, while student Marisa inherits property. Love, lust and money drive them both, until their relationship ends, with Bruce...

A Novelistic Foray Into Ineptitude.Newly retired Raymond Tibbett volunteers his IT career experience to resolve his condo board's floundering efforts to replace the WiFi provider. Only to realize the...

On March 13, 1905, Mata Hari launches her famous career to great acclaim, although her origins remain a mystery. Except to Wim Brink, a Dutchman who is appalled by her performance, but more horrified...

A devastating fire in remote Tasmania precipitates the extinction of the Kiltepper family dynasty. Only a slim hope exists for Andy, the last male survivor, in an affair that ended badly twelve years...

Stories hearkening back over a generation to the start of the millennium, a time without smart phones and social media. When subtle insecurities, frailties, and idiosyncrasies weren't easily masked by...

'Opus Thirty Three Bagatelles', a collection of finely crafted miniatures, haikuesque in character, sees each little poem designed to be read as a single screen. 'To be honest / all I recall / of home...

Winner of the 2018 Quagga Prize for Literary Fiction. The novel is set in the late 1990s, in the months up to and after the death of Princess Diana. It is narrated by its principal character Humfrey Joel,...

Student Marcus Fyer is at odds with both family and campus life, and is about to quit university and just take off. His father arranges a course of therapy to see him through his crisis, though Marcus...

Bums is the intimate story of one of the most beloved franchises ever, told by the men who lived it, and brilliantly compiled by the master of baseball oral histories, Peter Golenbock. From the building...

The Forever Boys is the funny, heartbreaking, authentic story of the men who played in the short-lived Senior Professional Baseball Association.Peter Golenbock spent the season with the league champion...

This first book by best-selling author Peter Golenbock is the inside story of the legendary Yankee teams of the Mantle/Berra/Ford/Stengel era, which appeared in an amazing 14 of 16 World Series, winning...

Few years in baseball history matched the drama of 1978 and few player diaries tore the cover off a season like Sparky Lyle's THE BRONX ZOO. Now available for the first time in eBook is the best-selling...

Qua sự phân tích độc đáo của Peter Drucker, cuốn sách này mang lại một cơ hội hiếm có để nhìn lại những bước chuyển biến lớn trong cơ cấu các tổ chức, giúp ta hiểu rõ hơn vai trò của nhà quản lý trong...

Este livro se divide em quatro seções. Os primeiros dois capítulos formam uma visão geral da análise funcional. Este capítulo fornece uma introdução ao campo. O capítulo 2 apresenta uma revisão seletiva...

The fountain pen as we know it today developed over thousands of years, from the simple stylus used for cutting marks into clay tablets, to the brush, through the reed, the quill and the steel-nib dip...

MANDELA WAS LATE traverses the inner universe of a satiric genius who maybe should be getting out of the house a little more often. Wrapped in his cocoon of Hollywood residuals, battling his own (mounting?)...

Arnie Pepper is having the worst day of his life. The Pulitzer-prize winning sports columnist for the Washington Post has lived a thrilling, prestigious and (mostly) blameless existence over nearly four...

On Peter Kravitz' first day as a teacher in an inner-city New York public school, a veteran principal taught him the mantra that would carry him through his next thirty-two years in front of classes:...

NFL Wide Receiver Rae Carruth, the women who loved him, and the one he wanted dead. Love, sports, murder-for-hire, and a courageous victim who, thanks to a haunting, 12-minute emergency call made to 911,...

Segundo as palavras de Salvador Allende: "milhões de pessoas no mundo querem o socialismo, mas não querem ter de enfrentar a tragédia da guerra civil para consegui-lo". A resposta do próprio Allende e...

Erster Teil einer Autobiografie eines überaus wechselhaften Lebens. Ein Buch aus Liebe zu mir selbst geschrieben, trotz der Suchtvergangenheit, des Elends, das ich einst lebte. Aus Angst und Verzweiflung...

Dieses Handbuch ist ein unverzichtbares Werkzeug für alle, die den Einbürgerungstest der Bundesrepublik Deutschland absolvieren möchten. Es enthält den vollständigen Satz von 310 Fragen, einschließlich...

Bike Easy is an essential book for new and returning cyclists. It will help you buy the right bike and show you how to get truly comfortable riding it. It covers adults and children's bikes, cycling clothes,...