הוצאת Moyer Bell
הספרים של הוצאת Moyer Bell
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Lifemanship:Some Notes on Lifemanship with a Summary of Recent Research in Gamesmanship
מאת Stephen Potter
What does Lifemanship mean? Easy question to pose, difficult to answer in a phrase. A way of life pervading each thought and conditioning our every action? Yes, but something much more, even though it only exists, as pervasive, intermittently. "How to live"--yes, but the phrase is too negati...
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A House Divided, the third volume of the trilogy that began with The Good Earth and Sons, is a powerful portrayal of China in the midst of revolution. Wang Yuan is caught between the opposing ideas of different generations. After 6 years abroad, Y... |
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The story of Tzu Hsi is the story of the last Empress in China. In the novel Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck recreates the life of one of the most intriguing rulers during a time of intense turbulence. Tzu Hsi was born into one of the lowly ranks of the Imperial dynasty. According ... |
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Mandala: A Novel of India (Buck, Pearl S. Oriental Novels of Pearl S. Buck, 10th,)
מאת Pearl S. Buck News reaches the couple [Maharana Prince Jagat and his wife, Moti] that their only son, Jai, has been killed by the Chinese in a border skirmish, an inconsolable Moti sends Jagat out to bring the boy's spirit home. On the journey, the prince becomes involved with a beautiful and mysteriou... |
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Second in the trilogy that began with The Good Earth, Buck's classic and starkly real tale of sons rising against their honored fathers tells of the bitter struggle to the death between the old and the new in China. Revolutions sweep the vast nation, leaving destruction and death in their wake, yet ...
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In the early 1970's, the Federal Government undertook to investigate corruption penetrating the entire criminal justice system in New York, particularly the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) of the narcotics division of the New York Police Department. Young and enthusiastic detective Rober... |
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I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can was a huge best seller. It was made into a movie starring Jill Clayberg. The book was way ahead of its time when first published. When the book was written the danger of addiction to prescription drugs was barely recognized and the authority of doc...
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Middle-aged Jane is the well-intentioned but far from perfect clergyman's wife and mother. Prudence, who at 29 is teetering at the edge of spinsterhood, is an attractive, educated working girl. The two best friends share memories of their carefree days at Oxford, leisurely lunches, and gossip, but t...
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Close Quarters: A Novel (Thirkell, Angela Mackail, Angela Thirkell Barsetshire Series.)
מאת Angela Mackail Thirkell
In the 17th volume of the beloved Barsetshire series, widowed Margot (Phelps) Macfadyen is in search of a house. As she calls on her numerous friends, readers find themselves in the midst of another Thirkellian social whirl. When the dust settles, Teddy Parkinson is installed in his new vicarship, M...
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Pym introduces Dulcie Mainwaring, one of those seemingly selfless women who always help others and never look out for themselves, especially in matters of love. When Dulcie's young niece becomes the object of absentminded Professor Aylwin Forbes's amorous designs, Dulcie whisks away her friend Viola...
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Completed barely two months before her death, Pym's last novel is an incisive and wry portrait of life in an English village in Oxfordshire. It is also certain to be considered by many her masterwork.
In A Few Green Leaves the author combines the rural setting of her earliest nov... |
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This title features nineteen different translations of a single poem with comments on each version by Eliot Weinberger and an introduction contributed by Octavio Paz....
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This translation of a Chinese classic (14th Century) is the epic tale of a band of patriots in China during the latter part of Sung Dynasty and is considered by most to be one to the three or four greatest novels in Chinese literature. Shui hun chuan (water margin chronicles) is t... |
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The Politics of War: The Story of Two Wars Which Altered Forever the Political Life of the American Republic 1890-1920
מאת Walter Karp
Describes the emergence of the United States as a world power between the years 1890 and 1920 - their contrivance of the Spanish-American War and gratuitous entrance into World War 1 - and by filling in the back story of an era in which 'mendacious oligarchy' organised the USA's politics in a manner...
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Angela Thirkell (1890-1961) wrote 40 novels of life and love, most set in the imaginary country of Barsetshire, England. Among discussions of gardens, dogs, and pressing issues of economic and political import, Thirkell details everyday personal concerns of her characters--revealing that human natur...
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The capable and forthright Lydia Merton, wife of the esteemed Noel Merton, chairs the local committee preparing for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. What follows is pure Angela Thirkell - squabbles, jealousies, and high jinks aplenty. As always, romance brews amidst the eccentricity....
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