The Red Box
Author : Rex Stout
Publisher : Crimeline
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 38,9 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553249194
Author : Rex Stout
Publisher : Crimeline
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 38,9 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553249194
Author : Patrick McEachern
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 38,77 MB
Release : 2010-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0231526806
North Korea's institutional politics defy traditional political models, making the country's actions seem surprising or confusing when, in fact, they often conform to the regime's own logic. Drawing on recent materials, such as North Korean speeches, commentaries, and articles, Patrick McEachern, a specialist on North Korean affairs, reveals how the state's political institutions debate policy and inform and execute strategic-level decisions. Many scholars dismiss Kim Jong-Il's regime as a "one-man dictatorship," calling him the "last totalitarian leader," but McEachern identifies three major institutions that help maintain regime continuity: the cabinet, the military, and the party. These groups hold different institutional policy platforms and debate high-level policy options both before and after Kim and his senior leadership make their final call. This method of rule may challenge expectations, but North Korea does not follow a classically totalitarian, personalistic, or corporatist model. Rather than being monolithic, McEachern argues, the regime, emerging from the crises of the 1990s, rules differently today than it did under Kim's father, Kim Il Sung. The son is less powerful and pits institutions against one another in a strategy of divide and rule. His leadership is fundamentally different: it is "post-totalitarian." Authority may be centralized, but power remains diffuse. McEachern maps this process in great detail, supplying vital perspective on North Korea's reactive policy choices, which continue to bewilder the West.
Author : Peter Sís
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 20,30 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Tibet (China)
ISBN : 9781865081571
One of the most brilliant illustrators of our time takes us on a magical journey into his father's past in the once hidden kingdom of Tibet.
Author : Stacy Lande
Publisher : Last Gasp
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 24,30 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780867195002
Last Gasp is proud to present this new book featuring the works of Los Angeles-based artist Stacy Lande.
Author : Nevil Shute
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 39,89 MB
Release : 2010-02-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307476987
"The most shocking fiction I have read in years. What is shocking about it is both the idea and the sheer imaginative brilliance with which Mr. Shute brings it off." THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE They are the last generation, the innocent victims of an accidental war, living out their last days, making do with what they have, hoping for a miracle. As the deadly rain moves ever closer, the world as we know it winds toward an inevitable end....
Author : Rex Stout
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 37,23 MB
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0553386034
A grand master of the form, Rex Stout is one of America’s greatest mystery writers, and his literary creation Nero Wolfe is one of fiction’s greatest detectives. Here, in Stout’s third and fourth complete Wolfe mysteries, the arrogant, gourmandizing, sedentary sleuth and his trusty man-about-town, Archie Goodwin, solve two of their most baffling cases. The Rubber Band What do a Wild West lynching and a respected English nobleman have in common? On the surface, absolutely nothing. But when a young woman hires his services, it becomes Nero Wolfe’s job to look deeper and find the connection. A forty-year-old pact, a five-thousand-mile search, and a million-dollar murder are all linked to an international scandal that could rebound on the great detective and his partner, Archie, with fatal abruptness. The Red Box Murder by chocolate? That’s the premise Nero Wolfe must operate from when a beautiful woman is poisoned after indulging in a box of candy. It’s a case that the great detective—no stranger himself to overindulgence—is loath to take for a variety of reasons, including that it may require that he leave his comfortable brownstone. But he and Archie are compelled by a mystery that mixes high fashion and low motives…and a killer who may have made the deadliest mistake.
Author : Goodman Games
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 47,32 MB
Release : 2018-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781946231352
The Borderlands. An untamed wild region far flung from the comforts and protection of civilization.
Author : John Arthur Hamilton
Publisher :
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 22,9 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Axholme, Isle of (England)
ISBN :
Author : Norman Bridwell
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 43,90 MB
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 054552993X
Clifford saves the day -- and learns a few tricks along the way! Emily Elizabeth is taking Clifford to dog school. His teacher tries to show Clifford how to heel. But the leash is too short and she's swept off her feet. Then she tells clifford to sit. He sits-on top of a passing stranger! Poor Clifford-he just can't get anything right! But when Emily Elizabeth forgets to look both ways before crossing the street, Clifford comes to her rescue. And Emily Elizabeth realizes that, although he's not the most well-trained dog, he's perfect just the way he is.
Author : Paul C. Ditzel
Publisher : Squire Boone Village
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 36,93 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780925165022