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BONES AND I, OR THE SKELETON AT HOME

G. J. WHYTE-MELVILLE

Bones and I, or The Skeleton at Home is a humorous novel written by G. J. Whyte-Melville, a 19th-century British author known for his sporting and comedic works. This novel was first published in 1868. The story is a satirical and comedic exploration of the experiences of the protagonist, Jack Raggles, who comes into possession of a human skeleton. Jack, a country squire with a...

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LOCAL HERO

JONATHAN MELVILLE

It's not a high concept movie, there's actually no story there really. It’s what happens in between the story that’s important' – Bill Forsyth The story of an American businessman sent to buy the Scottish village of Ferness with the aim of turning it into an oil refinery, Local Hero is one of Scotland’s most beloved, and most misunderstood, films. When Bill Forsyth’s incredible...

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COACHING AND MENTORING

ERIC PARSLOE / MELVILLE LEEDHAM

How can coaching and mentoring approaches be applied in individual, team and organizational contexts to increase performance? Coaching and Mentoring offers a complete resource for developing and implementing the latest theories and models in your organization. Featuring tips, tools and checklists throughout, this book covers all the key aspects of the process, from delivering f...

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I AND MY CHIMNEY

HERMAN MELVILLE

The truth is, my wife, like all the rest of the world, cares not a fig for my philosophical jabber. Thus wrote Melville in 1856, in the house where he had penned 'Moby-Dick" some six years earlier (Arrowhead in Pittsfield, Massachusetts). An allegorical tale that reveals a very unsettling home life and professional life for this American genius, who by the time this story was p...

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THE CONFIDENCE-MAN HIS MASQUERADE

HERMAN MELVILLE

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, first published in New York on April Fool's Day 1857, is the ninth book and final novel by American writer Herman Melville. Centered on the title character, The Confidence-Man portrays a group of steamboat passengers. Their interlocking stories are told as they travel the Mississippi River toward New Orleans. The novel's title refers to its c...

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MARDI AND A VOYAGE THITHER VOLUME 1 & 2

HERMAN MELVILLE

American novelist Herman Melville’s cryptic third work about uncontrollable waves of human desire and their ability to set a person adrift in a sea of spiritual, philosophical, and artistic chaos. An unnamed narrator, U.S. sailor (and thinly-veiled Melville), and his Norwegian side-kick Jarl jump ship from their whaling vessel in the South Pacific in search of freedom but quick...

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THE PIAZZA TALES

HERMAN MELVILLE

The Piazza Tales is a collection of six short stories by American writer Herman Melville. This works contains some of Melville’s best known shorter works, consisting of six short stories: “The Piazza,” “Bartleby,” “Benito Cereno,” “The Lightning-Rod Man,” “The Encantadas” and “The Bell-Tower,” and a brief biographical sketch that contributes to one’s reading of the texts. While...

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ISRAEL POTTER HIS FIFTY YEARS OF EXILE

HERMAN MELVILLE

Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile is the eighth book by American writer Herman Melville. When Israel Potter leaves his plow to fight in the American Revolution, he's immediately thrown into the Battle of Bunker Hill, where he receives multiple wounds. However, this does not deter him, and after hearing a rousing speech by General George Washington, he volunteers for furth...

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THE APPLE-TREE TABLE, AND OTHER SKETCHES

HERMAN MELVILLE

The various prose sketches here reprinted were first published by Melville, some in Harper's and some in Putnam's magazines, during the years from 1850 to 1856. "Hawthorne and His Mosses," the only piece of criticism in this collection, is particularly interesting viewed in the light of Melville's friendship with Hawthorne while they were neighbors at Pittsfield, Massachusetts....

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REDBURN HIS FIRST VOYAGE

HERMAN MELVILLE

Redburn: His First Voyage is the fourth book by the American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1849. The book is semi-autobiographical and recounts the adventures of a refined youth among coarse and brutal sailors and the seedier areas of Liverpool. Unable to find employment at home, young Wellingborough Redburn signs on the Highlander, a merchantman out of N...

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TYPEE A ROMANCE OF THE SOUTH SEAS

HERMAN MELVILLE

Typee is the first book by American writer Herman Melville, published in the early part of 1846, when Melville was 26 years old. Considered a classic in travel and adventure literature, the narrative is based on the author's actual experiences on the island Nuku Hiva in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands in 1842, supplemented with imaginative reconstruction and research from o...

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WHITE JACKET, OR THE WORLD ON A MAN-OF-WAR

HERMAN MELVILLE

White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War is the fifth book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1850. The book is based on the author's fourteen months' service in the United States Navy, aboard the frigate USS Neversink (actually USS United States). The novel takes its title from the outer garment that the eponymous main character fashions for hi...

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PIERRE, OR, THE AMBIGUITIES

HERMAN MELVILLE

Pierre; or, The Ambiguities is the seventh book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in New York in 1852. The novel, which uses many conventions of Gothic fiction, develops the psychological, sexual, and family tensions between Pierre Glendinning; his widowed mother; Glendinning Stanley, his cousin; Lucy Tartan, his fiancée; and Isabel Banford, who is revealed to...

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BARTLEBY, THE SCRIVENER A STORY OF WALL-STREET

HERMAN MELVILLE

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville. In the story, a Wall Street lawyer hires a new clerk who, after an initial bout of hard work, refuses to make copies or do any other task required of him, refusing with the words "I would prefer not to." Numerous critical essays have been published about the story, which sc...

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MOBY DICK

HERMAN MELVILLE

Die Matrosen Ismael und Queequeg sind im amerikanischen Walfängerhafen New Bedford in Massachusetts auf der Suche nach einem Job. Sie freunden sich an. Im benachbarten Walfängerhafen Nantucket heuern sie auf der »Pequod« an. Kapitän Ahab, den wohl bekanntesten Charakter des Romans »Moby Dick«, bekommen sie erst nach einigen Tagen zu Gesicht. Ahab hat in einem früheren Kampf mit...

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VIRTUES AS INTEGRAL TO SCIENCE EDUCATION

WAYNE MELVILLE / ‎DONALD KERR

By investigating the re-emergence of intellectual, moral, and civic virtues in the practice and teaching of science, this text challenges the increasing professionalization of science; questions the view of scientific knowledge as objective; and highlights the relationship between democracy and science. 　 Written by a range of experts in science, the history of science, educati...

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BILLY BUDD

HERMAN MELVILLE

While 'Moby Dick' is Herman Melville’s best known book, 'Billy Budd, Sailor' is considered by many to be his greatest work. Billy, a foundling from Bristol, has an innocence, good looks and a natural charisma that make him popular with the crew. His only physical defect is a stutter which grows worse when under intense emotion. He arouses the antagonism of the ship’s master-at-...

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THE GLASNOST PAPERS

ANDREI MELVILLE / GAIL W LAPIDUS

This unique compendium of Soviet thought and dialogue introduces Western readers to the broad range of current debates in the Soviet Union concerning the past, present, and future of the country and its people. Andrei Melville, the Soviet academic who spearheaded this work, is convinced that Mikhail Gorbachev's initiatives have led his country to the brink of a domestic transfo...

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CRIME, JUSTICE AND THE MEDIA

IAN MARSH / GAYNOR MELVILLE

Crime, Justice and the Media examines and analyses the relationship between the media and crime, criminals and the criminal justice system. This expanded and fully updated third edition considers how crime and criminals have been portrayed by the media throughout history, applying different theoretical perspectives to the way crime, criminals and justice are reported. It also i...

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TYPEE

HERMANN MELVILLE

First published in 1985. Typee, originally published in 1846, was Melville's first book. Full of romance and adventure, it is also largely autobiographical. It was an immensely popular and controversial book in its day and made Melville the literary discoverer of Polynesia. It tells the story of Tommo, a sailor, and his adventures on the Marquesas Islands. The book contains muc...

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COMPREHENSIVE CITY PLANNING

MELVILLE BRANCH

The author’s classic text focuses on the development of cities and how they have been planned and managed through the ages. The tie between land use and municipal administration is explored throughout. Topics include the roots of city management and planning; physical and socioeconomic views of cities; how city planning works within city government; the ties between planning an...

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LOST CHILDREN OF THE EMPIRE

PHILIP BEAN / JOY MELVILLE

Originally published in 1989. The extraordinary story of Britain’s child migrants is one of 350 years of shaming exploitation. Around 130,000 children, some just 3 or 4 years old, were shipped off to distant parts of the Empire, the last as recently as 1967. For Britain it was a cheap way of emptying children’s homes and populating the colonies with ‘good British stock’; for th...

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TOWARDS THE CREATIVE TEACHING OF ENGLISH

MAGGIE MELVILLE / LOU SPAVENTA / LYDIA LANGENHEIM / MARIO RINVOLUCRI

Originally published in 1980. This book is a collection of language learning activities in the area of drama, mime, roleplay, problem solving, group work, music and song – all classroom tested and ready for use in teaching English, no matter the level. The exercises are designed to promote and stimulate real language communication and to involve teachers and students on a perso...

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MEN WHO MANAGE

MELVILLE DALTON

This is a classic study of how managers interpret and engage problems as they are experienced and felt at various points and levels in factories and businesses. Melville Dalton, drawing on ethnographic data, examines both positive and negative interactions among managers, between managers and between workers, and managers and firms. He discusses the consequences for each group ...

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INSPECTIONS AND REPORTS ON DWELLINGS

IAN MELVILLE / IAN GORDON

Inspections and Reports on Dwellings is a series of four books, the first three of which have already been published to considerable success. This concluding book covers reports prepared before dwellings are put on the market for sale, whether as a legal requirement or on a voluntary basis. All take into account guidelines laid down by the Courts for this type of work. Sellers’...

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COACHING AND MENTORING

ERIC PARSLOE / MELVILLE LEEDHAM

Start measuring the impact of coaching activities and align coaching and mentoring to an organization's overall business strategy. Over the last 15 years, Coaching and Mentoring has become the go-to guide for anyone looking to develop their coaching and mentoring skills at individual, team or organizational level. Clear and accessible, it uses practical tools and best practice ...

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MOBY DICK

HERMAN MELVILLE

Call me Ishmael, Moby-Dick begins, in one of the most recognizable opening lines in Western literature. The name has come to symbolize orphans, exiles, and social outcasts - in the opening paragraph of Moby-Dick, Ishmael tells the reader that he has turned to the sea out of a feeling of alienation from human society. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab has one purpose on this voyage:...

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BARTLEBY, THE SCRIVENER

HERMAN MELVILLE

Bartleby is a kind of clerk, a copyist, "who obstinately refuses to go on doing the sort of writing demanded of him." During the spring of 1851, Melville felt similarly about his work on Moby Dick. Thus, Bartleby can be seen to represent Melville's frustration with his own situation as a writer, and the story itself is "about a writer who forsakes conventional modes because of ...

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INSPECTIONS AND REPORTS ON DWELLINGS

IAN A. MELVILLE / IAN A. GORDON

This new edition of Reporting for Buyers provides guidance for the surveyor on setting out the findings of the inspection in a clear, unambiguous and unequivocal way. The book provides a full, critical look at the current situation, describing the various types of report currently available to the public for commissioning. The limitations and attributes of these reports are dis...

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THE STRANGE SCHEMES OF RANDOLPH MASON

MELVILLE DAVISSON POST

Thrilling stories starring America’s smartest—and most unscrupulous—lawyer During the gold rush, Richard Warren and Samuel Walcott set out from New York to strike it rich. When fortune does not find them, Samuel saves himself from the gutter by marrying a saloonkeeper’s daughter. Jealous of his friend’s beautiful wife, Richard kills Samuel and flees the desert with the woman an...

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