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No Ending is a layered murder-mystery featuring a classic hard-boiled detective with a twist-lead detective Frank Gennaro is the brother- in-law of the latest victim of what may or may not be the work of a serial killer. And he just might have been having an affair with Holly Baker, his sister-in-law, discovered dead at the novel's outset. At once the lead investigator and a potential suspect, Gennaro is emblematic of a plot loaded with decept...

No Ending is a layered murder-mystery featuring a classic hard-boiled detective with a twist-lead detective Frank Gennaro is the brother- in-law of the latest victim of what may or may not be the work of a serial killer. And he just might have been having an affair with Holly Baker, his sister-in-law, discovered dead at the novel's outset. At once the lead investigator and a potential suspect, Gennaro is emblematic of a plot loaded with decept...

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This book examines tradition, the authority of the past, by tracing the process through which emotion and imagination transform everyday experience into an awareness of one's dependence on the work of predecessors. The King Arthur legend serves as a case study, outlining how this authority of tradition creates and sustains meaningful structures of social order.

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Allan's Illustrated Edition of Tyneside Songs and Readings: With Lives, Portraits, and Autographs of the WritersHe wears a blue bonnet, blue bonnet, blue bonnet, He wears a blue bonnet, a dimple in his chin And weel may the keel row, the keel row, the keel row.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important ...

Excerpt from Memoir of Colonel John Allan, an Officer of the Revolution: Born in Edinburgh Castle, Scotland, Jan. 3, 1746, Died in Lubec, Maine, Feb. 7, 1805, With a GenealogyPeace with France being fully restored by the treaty of Aix la Chapelle, in 1748, the British government began to devise ways and means of providing for the large number of soldiers and sailors discharged from the service, and of all the plans proposed, none seemed more p...

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Excerpt from Memoir of Colonel John Allan, an Officer of the Revolution: Born in Edinburgh Castle, Scotland, Jan. 3, 1746, Died in Lubec, Maine, Feb. 7, 1805, With a GenealogyPeace with France being fully restored by the treaty of Aix la Chapelle, in 1748, the British government began to devise ways and means of providing for the large number of soldiers and sailors discharged from the service, and of all the plans proposed, none seemed more p...

Excerpt from Life of Sir Walter Scott: With Critical Notices of His WritingsFor I was wayward, bold, and wild, A self-will'd imp, a grandame's child, But half a plague and half a jest, Was still endured, beloved, carest.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art...

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Excerpt from Allan's Illustrated Edition of Tyneside Songs and Readings: With Lives, Portraits, and Autographs of the WritersHe wears a blue bonnet, blue bonnet, blue bonnet, He wears a blue bonnet, a dimple in his chin And weel may the keel row, the keel row, the keel row.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important ...

In an era when most colleges and universities have become vocational schools, their improvement measured in terms of cost reduction or instructional efficiency, the essential values of higher education are too often overlooked. Students are being filled with knowledge, but are not learning how to use it wisely, nor even understanding that it's important to do so.According to philosopher and educator George Allan, what is most important about a...

The third volume in a trilogy by George Allan, The Patterns of the Present argues that organisms, persons, and cultures are all meaningful systems, and that the ontological conditions necessary for their sustained systemic unity provide a normative standard--ideals of virtue and responsibility--by which individuals can judge how best to live their lives and seek a common good. Allan, whose views are influenced by his distinctive interpretation...