The Legal Battle: The protagonist becomes embroiled in a legal case that tests their integrity and resilience. The case may involve accusations, trials, and the quest for truth.Personal Struggles: Alongside the legal challenges, the protagonist faces personal issues, including relationships and internal conflicts, which add depth to their character.Quest for Justice: The novel focuses on the protagonist's pursuit of justice, both legally and morally, exploring themes of right and wrong.Res...

In a world obsessed with quick wins and overnight success, "The Long Game - Building a Business That Lasts" offers a refreshing perspective on what it truly takes to build a lasting, resilient business. Whether you’re an entrepreneur starting out, a business owner looking to scale sustainably, or a leader wanting to secure a lasting legacy, this book is your guide to thinking strategically, planning for the future, and staying grounded in what matters most."The Long Game" delves in...

Peter Clark MacFarlane (1871-1924) was an American writer, actor, pastor and novelist.He was frequently published in The American Magazine, Collier's and the Saturday Evening Post where his articles on politics received significant attention, and wrote many novels, including The Quest of the Yellow Pearl (1909), The Centurion’s Story (1910), California, the Promised Land (1913), Held to Answer (1916), The Crack in th...

Emirates Diaries tells the story of how Peter Clark came to love the Emirates and its people. He got to know Abu Dhabi sheikhs and Dubai merchants and people at every level of society. The country was on the cusp of enormous economic expansion and this book is an affectionate picture of the Emirates when it was still like a chain of large informal villages. The people of the UAE were aware of their good fortune and were, he found, open, generous and innovative.Clark arranged for th...

In this "great and necessary addition to the canon of Vietnam War memoirs" the author "is a thoroughly human Virgil guiding us through the hell of combat" ( New York Journal of Books).Peter Clark's year in Vietnam began in July 1966, when he was shipped out with hundreds of other young recruits as a replacement in the 1st Infantry Division. Assigned to the Alpha Company, Clark gives a visceral and vivid account of life in the platoon as he progresses from ...

Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul: these are only three names that have been given to the city that straddles two continents, was the capital of two multinational empires and is today a vibrant commercial and artistic city, the largest in Turkey and, after Moscow, the largest in Europe. After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire nearly a century ago, it played second fiddle to the new capital, Ankara, but in the last twenty years it has enjoyed a renaissance as an exciting international ci...

New and exciting discoveries on either side of the English Channel in recent years have begun to show that people living in the coastal zones of Belgium, southern Britain, northern France and the Netherlands shared a common material culture during the Bronze Age, between three and four thousand years ago. They used similar styles of pottery and metalwork, lived in the same kind of houses and buried their dead in the same kind of tombs, often quite different to those used by their neighbour...

The Woman of the Flask is a most original novel a blend of grim realism and fantasy. Two Iraqi exiles reach Switzerland, having escaped from Saddam's Iraq. One of them, Adam, has brought with him an old flask found among the possessions of his late father who came from the Marshlands of southern Iraq. He polishes it and opens it: a fabulously beautiful nubile young woman appears. She has, it emerges, been the lover of his ancestors going back five thousand years. The novel weaves together ...

First published in 1985, The European Crisis of the 1590s (now with a new preface by Peter Clark on the current literature on crisis and catastrophe) investigates in depth for the first time the origin and scale of the critical problems of the 1590s and their impact on European society. Among the contributors are many leading scholars working on European history during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.The book is divided into two parts. The first analyses the partic...

The essential guide to crafting the winning college admissions essay that only you could write, from America’s favorite writing coach.Most high school students never have received any instruction in how to write a personal essay. Yet at a time when getting admitted to their dream college is more competitive than ever, the admissions essay may turn out to be the single most important thing they will ever write. The stakes are high.In Writing Tools for th...

Why write a nonfiction book in a month? To get the first draft done, that's why.Maybe you have lots of ideas that you haven't gotten down on paper, published, and into the hands of eager readers. Perhaps you think you don't have the time or the skills to become an author. All too often, perfectly capable writers have such misconceptions, and they end up taking years to finish their book-if they finish at all.Don't let that happen to you. Get your brilliant idea out of your ...

A geographical narrative of Charles Dickens’s life in Kent.Few novelists have written so intimately about a city as Charles Dickens wrote about London, but he was intimately connected to Kent more than any other part of Britain. Perhaps Kent meant more to him than the capital. He had an idyllic childhood in Chatham and Kent features in his first works of fiction, Sketches by Boz and The Pickwick Papers, and in his favorite novel, David Copperf...