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In 1911, G. K. Chesterton published this first collection of twelve short stories featuring Father Brown, a priest turned detective who combines philosophical and spiritual reasoning with scientific observation to solve crimes. Father Brown, as he is referred to by Chesterton, is a short, stumpy Roman Catholic priest with shapeless clothing, a big umbrella, and an uncanny insight into the criminal mind. Characteristically humble and usually ra...

When Jerusha Abbott, an eighteen-year-old girl living in an orphan asylum, was told that a mysterious millionaire had agreed to pay for her education, it was like a dream come true. For the first time in her life, she had someone she could pretend was "family." But everything was not perfect, for he chose to remain anonymous and asked that she only write him concerning her progress in school.Who was this mysterious gentleman and would Jerusha ...

The Pickwick Papers was Charles Dickens first novel, and became a comic masterpiece that catapulted its twenty-four-year-old author to immediate fame.Readers were captivated by the adventures of the poet Snodgrass, the lover Tupman, the sportsman Winkle &, above all, by that quintessentially English Quixote, Mr. Pickwick, & his cockney Sancho Panza, Sam Weller. From the hallowed turf of Dingley Dell Cricket Club to the unholy fracas of the Eat...

Selling more than 300, 000 copies the first year it was published, Stowe's powerful abolitionist novel fueled the fire of the human rights debate in 1852. Denouncing the institution of slavery in dramatic terms, the incendiary novel quickly draws the reader into the world of slaves and their masters.Stowe's characters are powerfully and humanly realized in Uncle Tom, a majestic and heroic slave whose faith and dignity are never corrupted, Eliz...

One of the most globally admired novels, Pride and Prejudice tells the story of the courtship between Elizabeth Bennet, the daughter of a county squire with four sisters and no great fortune and Fitzwilliam Darcy a gentleman who's admiration turns into ardent love. Set in the English countryside during the reign of George III, this novel takes the reader from ballroom to county lane and back again, as we follow the two lovers in their endeavou...

Most books on sailing theory are incomprehensible at best. Unfortunately, in this technical sport, seat-of-the-pants sailors are no longer able to compete. This instructional from one of Britain's leading competitive sailors and the technical editor of several leading sailing publications interprets the sports theories in an easy-to-read and lively style that's completely illustrated with photographs and diagrams. The authors show readers how ...

In this second volume of his study of the Anglo-Irish novelist Lawrence Durrell (following the appearance in 1988 of The Dandy and the Herald: Manners, Mind and Morals from Brummell to Durrell Richard Pine examines in detail Durrell's unique contribution to the development of the modern novel, concentrating in particular on the evidence of Durrell's private notebooks and diaries. Pine's twenty-year friendship with Burrell has resulted in an in...

The Springer Handbook of Auditory Research presents a series of comprehen­ sive and synthetic reviews of the fundamental topics in modern auditory research. The volumes are aimed at all individuals with interests in hearing research including advanced graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and clinical investigators. The volumes are intended to introduce new investi­ gators to important aspects of hearing science and to help established ...

Based on the research and clinical work presented at the Sixth International Symposium, Vascular Surgery 1992, this book gathers contributors from renowned clinicians and researchers and outstanding young investigators from around the world.

In the past ten years, there has been much progress in understanding the global dynamics of systems with several degrees-of-freedom. An important tool in these studies has been the theory of normally hyperbolic invariant manifolds and foliations of normally hyperbolic invariant manifolds. In recent years these techniques have been used for the development of global perturbation methods, the study of resonance phenomena in coupled oscillators, ...

Examines the policies of corporations such as insurance companies, banks, and credit card firms that regularly process medical, financial, and consumer data. According to Jeff Smith, many companies lack comprehensive policies regulating the access to and distribution of personal data, and where stated policies do exist, actual practices often conflict.

The book contains a comprehensive review of all aspects of credit control: analysis and presentation for a decision, structure, monitoring, and damage limitation. It also has chapters on training, computers and capital adequacy. It recognises that different types of banks will apply the basic principles in ways reflecting their overall strategy and nature of their business. It adapts to these, but stresses strong warnings on certain policies o...

This volume contains a fascinating series of letters written by Catholic theologian-philosopher Romano Guardini in the mid-1920s in which he works out his sense of the challenges to humanity in a culture increasingly dominated by the machine. This title is part of a new series entitled: Ressourcement: Retrieval and Renewal in Catholic Thought.

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Bernd G. Langin combines sprightly sketches of Amish origins with charming reports from his months of living with an Amish family in Indiana. Langin is able to explain many aspects of Amish life because of his grasp of their Swiss-German language and their European customs. He sees the Amish example of cohesive faith and life as an alternative to modern pessimism.