"Funny, poignant, sad and wistful…This is a very fine book—about a person, and a city, growing up."—Philadelphia Inquirer"This delightful yet poignant memoir is highly recommended for both public and academic libraries."—Library Journal (starred review)"The charming Hotel Kid is as luxurious as the lobby in a five-star hotel."—San Francisco ChronicleA Manhattan landmark for fifty years, the Taft in its heyday in the 1930s and '40s was the largest hotel in midtown, f...

The harsh realities of village life in Colonial New England are fertile ground for gossip and superstition. Catherine Williams, a wealthy widow and midwife, refuses to believe that an Irish Catholic servant girl is to blame for the mysterious death of a newborn infant Catherine delivered. With the help of her Native American assistant, Massaquoit, she must use the town's own religious prejudices to discover the truth. Historical Mystery by Stephen Lewis; originally published as a Berkley Prim...

Economic Policy and Industrial Growth in Pakistan (1969 ) is a both quantitative and analytical survey on the economic development of Pakistan. The basis of the analysis is a simple empirically verifiable model of the growth of an ‘infant industry’, since all of Pakistan’s industries were young when the country itself was formed. The author carefully explores the intentions of government policy makers, as revealed both in their statements of policy and in their actions in setting ...

Art restorer Giovanni Fabrizzi is haunted by an unsigned renaissance portrait. Obsessed to learn the truth of its origin, he becomes increasingly convinced the painting could be the work of one of history's greatest artists, which if true, would catapult its value to the stratosphere. But in learning of the painting's past, he is faced with a dilemma. He believes the portrait was stolen during the greatest art heist in history -- the Nazi plunder of European artwork. If true and a survivin...

HERO ON THREE CONTINENTS is a chronicle of a century with the protagonist Henry Brown participating in events both cataclysmic and personal, and interfacing with characters both famous and imaginary. From the jazz age of the 1920s to the war-torn 1940s, to the international crises of oil and terrorism in the 70s, this novel makes history intimate, the work of any epic. The world needs a hero, and Henry Brown is such a man. Maitland-Lewis demonstrates the importance of uncompromising resear...

While humanists have pondered the subject of love to the point of obsessiveness, philosophers have steadfastly ignored it. One might wonder whether the discipline of philosophy even recognizes love. The word philosophy means “love of wisdom,” but the absence of love from philosophical discourse is curiously glaring. So where did the love go? In The Erotic Phenomenon, Jean-Luc Marion asks this fundamental question of philosophy, while reviving inquiry into the concept of l...

Now in paperback, Jean-Luc Marion's groundbreaking philosophy of human uncertainty.In Negative Certainties, renowned philosopher Jean-Luc Marion challenges some of the most fundamental assumptions we have developed about knowledge: that it is categorical, predicative, and positive. Following Descartes, Kant, and Heidegger, he looks toward our finitude and the limits of our reason. He asks an astonishingly simple—but profoundly provocative—question in order...

The Scorched team has taken a few knocks recently and someone on the team has had enough. Is this the end of the Scorched? Another engaging issue of this series delivers new developments, unexpected turns, evolving dynamics, and moments that keep readers curious for more.

Members of SPAWN, REDEEMER, GUNSLINGER, MEDIEVAL SPAWN, and SHESPAWN, and more heroes wait in the wings in the fourth paperback volume of THE SCORCHED! Jessica revamps the Scorched team with new members and goals, but change brings risk. The Horsemen's destructive plans cause chaos, and the Monolith's violent tendencies add tension. Can the Scorched withstand such a powerful force? The fate of the world hangs in the balance as they battle Terminus and the Planet Eaters. Despite a victory, ...

Jessica is rebuilding the Scorched team from the ground up. New members and new missions—what could possibly go wrong? Another engaging issue of this series delivers new developments, unexpected turns, evolving dynamics, and moments that keep readers curious for more.

A modern classic cherished by many of the greatest artists of our time, The Gift is a brilliant, life-changing defense of the value of creative labor.Drawing on examples from folklore and literature, history and tribal customs, economics and modern copyright law, Lewis Hyde demonstrates how our society—governed by the marketplace—is poorly equipped to determine the worth of artists’ work. He shows us that another way is possible: the alternative economy of the gift