Search Results: Authors starting with V from Emily Green Books

Profile Books, 2005 Photos included in listing. About the book: Everyone wants to make sure they look after their money as efficiently and profitably as possible, bearing in mind their likely future needs and their attitude to risk. This is the book that they need to be able to do just that. Written in plain English, it is in two main parts. Part one looks at general principles of saving and investment, different types of risk, their effect and what you can do about them, and keeping track of your investments. Part two looks at all the different types of investment you can make from annuities through guaranteed income and growth bonds, all the way to With profit bonds. It explains what each is, highlights the good and bad factors associated with an investment, the charges that come with it, how you buy and sell it, the tax treatment, and alternatives to consider. And finally the guide contains a detailed fact file of useful addresses and other information.. Soft cover. Fine.

Penguin, 2013 Photos included in listing. About the book: Geza Vermes, translator and editor of The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls and worldwide expert on the life and times of Jesus, tells the enthralling story of early Christianity and the origins of a religion. The creation of the Christian Church is one of the most important stories in the development of the world's history, yet one of the least understood. With a forensic, brilliant re-examination of all the key surviving texts of early Christianity, Geza Vermes illuminates the origins of a faith and traces the evolution of the figure of Jesus from the man he was - a prophet in the tradition of other Jewish holy men of the Old Testament - to what he came to represent: a mysterious, otherworldly being at the heart of the official state religion of the Roman Empire. Christian Beginnings pulls apart myths and misunderstandings to focus on the true figure of Jesus, and the birth of one of the world's major religions. Reviews: 'A beautiful and magisterial… Read More

Royal Historical Society, 1995 A selection from The Diaries of Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby (1826-93) Camden Fifth Series Volume 4 (1994). Hardcover. Fine.

Penguin Classics, 2010 Photos included in listing. About the book: One of the greatest poems of the classical world Virgil's Georgics is a glorious celebration of the eternal beauty of the natural world, now brought vividly to life in a powerful new translation. "Georgic" means "to work the earth," and this poetic guide to country living combines practical wisdom on tending the land with exuberant fantasy and eulogies to the rhythms of nature. It describes hills strewn with wild berries in 'vine-spread autumn'; recommends watching the stars to determine the right time to plant seeds; and gives guidance on making wine and keeping bees. Yet the Georgics also tells of angry gods, bloody battles and a natural world fraught with danger from storms, pests and plagues. Expansive in its scope, lush in its language, this extraordinary work is at once a reflection on the cycles of life, death and rebirth, an argument for the nobility of labour and an impassioned reflection on the Roman Empire of Virgil's times.… Read More

Chatto & Windus, 2012 About the book: This devastating dossier of savage stories takes us to the crimes that never reach the newspapers: small-town atrocities where the mundane lurches into the macabre and ordinary people find themselves at the heart of horrific crimes, all the more compelling on account of their truth. Opening with an attack on a waitress by a band of musicians in a beer tent, we are led through the rituals of the Illuminati by a violent schoolboy sect, and invited to look into a briefcase full of photographs of mutilated corpses. There is the saga of a bungled drug heist involving a stolen car and a dog full of laxatives; the jealous husband who almost bludgeons his wife's lover to death; and the final chilling story of an eccentric madman who cleverly turns the tables on his own defence lawyer.Ferdinand von Schirach enacts this very same reversal on us: to read his disturbing accounts, told in cool, exacting prose, is to lose one's innocence and come to the frightening… Read More

Chatto & Windus, 2011 Soft cover. New.

Vintage Classics, 2009 About the book: First published on the anniversary of kurt vonneguts death, armageddon in retrospect is a collection of twelve new writings - a fitting tribute to the author, and an essential contribution to the discussion of war, peace and humanitys tendency towards violence imbued with vonneguts trademark rueful humour, the pieces range from a visceral non-fiction recollection of the destruction of dresden - to a painfully funny short story about three soldiers and their fantasies of the perfect meal. 1st Edition. Soft cover. New.

Vintage, 2010 About the book: Look at the Birdie evokes a world in which squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town Lotharios struggle to adapt to changing technology, moral ambiguity, and unprecedented affluence. In "Confido," a family learns the downside of confiding their deepest secrets into a magical invention. In "Ed Luby's Key Club," a man finds himself in a Kafkaesque world of trouble after he runs afoul of the shady underworld boss who calls the shots in an upstate New York town. In "Look at the Birdie," a quack psychiatrist turned "murder counsellor" concocts a novel new outlet for his paranoid patients. The stories are cautionary they also brim with his trademark humour. Wry, ironic, satirical and poignant Look at the Birdie reflects the anxieties of the postwar era in which they were written and provides an insight into the development of Vonnegut's early style. Soft cover. New.