The Ball at Sceaux

Honoré de Balzac

Emilie de Fontaine is a spoiled and pround brat. She rejects all suitors her father proposes. Emilie has incredibly high standards for the man she will marry, and at the top of her unreasonable list of criteria is that he absolutely must be a peer of France. Leaving Paris for the summer, as all good families do, they go to Sceaux. At the local ball, Emilie falls in love with a charming, beautifully mannered, elegant young man. Is he noble? Will he bestow a title on his wife? Will it matter if he turns out to be a commoner? One of the pieces of Balzacs La Comédie Humaine, this work reflects the narrow-mindedness of the peerage of French society. The mind-set of people is presented in an elucidating manner that reflects their thinking. The whims and fancies of youthful maidens and young gentlemen and their frivolous attitudes to life are depicted in an interesting manner.

The Barbarians

Robert W. Chambers

This is the story of what happened to a dozen malcontents who could no longer tolerate dirty business in Europe and politicians at home. This is an exciting story that will keep you in suspense until the end of the story.

The Barrier

Rex Beach

Many men were indebted to the trader in Flambeau, and many considered him a friend. The latter never explained why, other than that he did them a favor, and in the North that matters a lot.

The Bars of Iron

Ethel M. Dell

Avery Denys, the novels heroine, lost her husband and her blind daughter. But in response to these tragic events, Avery simply reflects that she was left with nothing to do, and finds a job that allows her to act out the mother role she now misses. A rock to her female friends, Avery is rational yet caring, but also submissive in the face of her eventual second husbands violence towards her and others. There are many characters with the usual misunderstandings that result in separation for the couple. Healing and reconciliation come with the intervention of two special friends and the children of the minister. The Bars of Iron (1916) is an excellent bestsellers book in the United States in 1916 for individuals who are looking for the best one to read. A contemporary classic. Full of passion and love.

The Battle of Basinghall Street

E. Phillips Oppenheim

The story of a young man, Lord Sandbrook, who takes revenge against the directors of a company he holds responsible for the deaths of his father and mother. The battlefield is Basinghall Street, where the offices of Woolito, Limited, are situated. A textile business is the center of strange machinations suicides, failures, conflagrations, disaster to various directors, finally a raid on the stock, and the president is a ruined man. In this story Mr. Oppenheim takes a vacation from international intrigue in a Monte Carlo setting and devotes himself to describing a big business battle in London. The story is told with the usual Oppenheim flourish, a great deal of action, many details of personality and adventures.

The Battle of Life

Charles Dickens

The Battle of Life - a novel by Charles Dickens, an English writer who is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.   Two sisters, Grace and Marion, live happily in an English village with their two servants, Clemency Newcome and Ben Britain, and their good-natured widower father Dr Jeddler. Dr Jeddler is a man whose philosophy is to treat life as a farce. Marion, the younger sister, is betrothed to Alfred Heathfield, Jeddler's ward who is leaving the village to complete his studies. He entrusts Marion to Grace's care and makes a promise to return to win Marion's hand.  

The Battle of Life. A Love Story

Charles Dickens

While The Battle of Life is one of Charles Dickens Christmas Books his annual release of a story just before Christmas this one breaks the tradition by not being concerned with Christmas. Rather, its subtitle, A Love Story, reveals more of the plot. The setting is an English village that stands on the site of a historic battle. Some characters refer to the battle as a metaphor for the struggles of life, hence the title. This novel basically depicts the battles one faces in life and winning them. Grace and Marion are sisters, saying goodbye to their childhood friend, Alfred, who has just come of age after growing up as a ward to the girls father, Dr. Jeddler. Alfred promises to come back someday to marry Marion when he has finished medical school and made his fortune. The years pass, but their happy plans take a sorrowful turn, and it will take all their courage to survive the battle of life...

The Beast in the Jungle

Henry James

At the reception in the rich manor there are not the first youth mister and also not a young lady anymore. Both belong to the same circle of birth, but the financial affairs of a man are in somewhat better condition. It all seems to him that he is meant for something great and terrible that will destroy his own life and the lives of loved ones like a sudden fit of madness or, yes, how many anything can be options. It is like seeing yourself as a thicket in which the beast is hiding for the time being.

The Beasts of Tarzan

Edgar Rice Burroughs

“The Beasts of Tarzan“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.   This is the third novel in a series of twenty-four books about the title character Tarzan. The story follows Tarzan's adventures, from his childhood being raised by apes in the jungle to his eventual encounters with other humans and Western society.  

The Beautiful and Damned

F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgeralds second novel, first published in 1922, which brilliantly satirizes a doomed and glamorous marriage of would-be Jazz Age aristocrats Anthony and Gloria Patch: they are beautiful, shallow, pleasure-seeking, and vain. As they await the inheritance of his grandfathers fortune, their reckless marriage sways under the influence of alcohol and avarice and disintegrates under the weight of their expectations, dissipation, jealousy and aimlessness...

The Beautiful White Devil

Guy Boothby

This novel, filled with lots of action and romance, talks about the exploits of an attractive criminal mastermind who steals the heart of the main character of a fairy tale. The heroine is a first class woman. She is smart, beautiful, commanding and respected. She is all that a leader should be, demonstrates courage in the face of danger, and has never even been portrayed in any way not ideal.

The Beauty of the Purple. A Romance of Imperial Constantinople Twelve Centuries Ago

William Stearns Davis

There are typical characters in this book: the villains are very evil, while the heroes and heroines are beautiful, brave and wise. However, there is romance, adventure and suspense in this book, all against the backdrop of Constantinople during the Byzantine Empire.

The Bedford Row Mystery

J.S. Fletcher

The main character in the story is a detective story. He is investigating a mysterious murder. Detective and young Richard Marchmont soon discover that there is a triangle of financial intrigue that needs to be unraveled before the truth can be found out, and that in the hour of crime, not one suspicious person was hiding near the Marchmont house, but several.

The Benson Murder Case

S.S. Van Dine

The Benson Case is the first case, the first detective from the Philo Vens series. Again, we are dealing with an amateur detective who has his own Watson and Lestrade, a first-person narrator who is present at all events and a good acquaintance of Vance, the New York City Police Attorney Markham. In this book, he still does not particularly believe in Vances ability to psychologically unwind potential victims of murder suspects.

THE BEST OF LUST 2022: 10 najpopularniejszych opowiadań erotycznych

LUST authors

"Henrik nie odpowiedział, tylko klęknął przed nią na podłodze i rozsunął jej kolana. Chwycił ją za uda i przyciągnął do siebie, tak że sukienka powędrowała w górę, a ona szybko nabrała tchu, gdy gwałtownie ściągnął jej majtki. Zdążyła pomyśleć, że nigdy wcześniej tego nie robił, ale nim w jej głowie pojawiła się kolejna myśl, przyciągnął jej cipkę do twarzy i pochylił się w nią." Marja i Henrik od wielu lat są po ślubie. Wiodą zwyczajne życie, tworząc szczęśliwy, tradycyjny dom, a ich małżeństwo jest pod każdym względem udane. Brakuje w nim jednak żaru, a w sypialni od dawna panuje rutyna. Przełomem okazuje się przewrotny pomysł stworzenia kalendarza adwentowego z seksualnymi atrakcjami na każdy dzień aż do wigilii. Gdy para zaczyna wspólnie eksperymentować, próbując coraz to pikantniejszych zabaw, płomień pożądania rozpala się na nowo, i to z nieznaną im dotąd siłą. To będą święta, których długo nie zapomną. Seks z kalendarza" to jedno z najchętniej czytanych opowiadań erotycznych LUST. Z myślą o wszystkich miłośniczkach i miłośnikach zmysłowych lektur zebraliśmy top 10 najpopularniejszych w 2022 roku opowiadań erotycznych. Przygotuj się na wyjątkowe doznania! Zbiór zawiera następujące opowiadania: Seks z kalendarza Boże Narodzenie z Joeleen W kąpieli z panią Nilsen Dziewczyna z działu z bielizną Bohema Zdrada kontrolowana Viola Lokatorzy Kosmiczny orgazm W imię zasad mafii 1: Aranżowane małżeństwo

The Best Practice of Marketing Management in Polish and International Enterprises. The Marriage of Science and Business - Case Studies

Kamila Szymańska

Książka stanowi prezentację teoretycznych założeń dobrych i najlepszych praktyk zarządzania marketingowego oraz przykładów ich implementacji w biznesie. Dobrane przykłady stanowią ilustrację aktualnych wyzwań, jakie stoją przed organizacjami polskimi i międzynarodowymi, a także odpowiedzi organizacji for profit i non profit, które mogą stanowić wzór do naśladowania dla innych podmiotów. Publikacja stanowi kontynuację podręcznika wydanego pod redakcją Grażyny Golik-Góreckiej pod tytułem Mariaż nauki z praktyką. Najlepsze praktyki zarządzania marketingowego w polskich i międzynarodowych przedsiębiorstwach. Studia przypadków (Wyd. UŁ, Łódź 2020). Niniejszy podręcznik powstał dzięki współpracy pracowników naukowych z Katedry Marketingu na Wydziale Zarządzania Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, praktyków biznesu oraz byłych już studentów programów Erasmus i Mobility, którzy uczestniczyli w warsztatach "Marketing Management in Practice" na Wydziale Zarządzania UŁ. * Publikacja zawiera ciekawe studia wielu przypadków z różnych obszarów społecznych oraz gospodarczych. Analizy te są atrakcyjne z wielu powodów - metodycznych, poznawczych, a także są ważnymi ilustracjami procesów, które można wykorzystać w dydaktyce. Prezentowane przypadki mają też wartość pragmatyczną - mogą służyć praktykom prowadzącym różnorodne przedsiębiorstwa. Z recenzji Jacka Otto

The Betrayal

E. Phillips Oppenheim

Guy Ducaine is a recent graduate of Oxford University. Through a series of unfortunate events he is penniless and starving in the rural town of Brasters. Seeking to make a few shillings, he schedules a lecture on local history. On the same time, Lord Rowchester invites the officer and explorer Colonel Mostyn Ray to the village to speak. Ducaines lecture fails and he returns to his small house and collapses from hunger. Found there by Ray, and Rowchesters lovely daughter, Lady Angela, they revive him and set in motion a complicated, entertaining, and devious plot. With many twists and turns Ducaine eventually works as secretary to a War Preparations Committee which is chronically leaking plans to the enemy and saves the nation!

The Big Four

Edgar Wallace

Best remembered for penning the screenplay for the classic film King Kong, author Edgar Wallace was an astoundingly popular luminary in the action-adventure genre in the early twentieth century. The Big Four is a story packed with intrigue, treachery, assassinations, and machinations, and it highlights Wallaces unmatched skill in setting a pulse-pounding pace. Wallace was an extremely prolific writer who wrote over 175 novels, plus numerous plays, essays and journalistic articles. During the peak of his success during the 1920s, it was said that a quarter of all books read in England were written by him. Many of his novels were made into films and TV dramas.

The Biographical Experience of Entering the Academic Profession. Popular-Class Lecturers at the Post-Socialist University

Kamil Łuczaj

This book is devoted to upwardly mobile university lecturers or people who "escaped the collective fate of their class". The upward mobility of the academic faculty is under-researched in the peripheries of global knowledge production, although there is a significant interest in the social mobility of students. Up until now, no author has explicitly raised the question of how mobility is possible in a post-socialist higher education system, what emotional mechanisms it involves, and how mobility translates into cultural practices of upwardly mobile individuals.

The biology and ecology of "Betula pendula" Roth on post-industrial waste dumping grounds: the variability range of life history traits

Izabella Franiel

Celem pracy była ocena właściwości populacji B. pendula rosnącej w warunkach zróżnicowanej antropopresji z uwagi na: wybrane cechy life history (np.: parametry wielkości, biomasy osobników, ocena płodności osobników), określenie kondycji osobników brzozy, ocenę czynników abiotycznych i biotycznych odpowiedzialnych za rozmieszczenie siewek w przestrzeni. Do badań wybrano brzozę brodawkowatą gatunek siedliskotwórczy o szerokiej skali ekologicznej, odporny na zanieczyszczenia środowiska. Badania prowadzono w latach 2005–2008 oraz 2009–2010 na 4 powierzchniach badawczych różniących się stopniem antropopresji.   Wyniki prezentowanej pracy mogą stanowić nowe źródło wiedzy na temat sposobu kształtowania się pokrywy roślinnej, która zasiedla zdegradowane tereny nieużytków poprzemysłowych. Tylko rezultaty długoterminowych badań nad procesami zasiedlania przez poszczególne gatunki zwałów poprzemysłowych mogą ułatwić prace planistyczne związane z rekultywacją i zagospodarowaniem takich obiektów.

The Bird Cage

Eimar ODuffy

Eimar Ultan ODuffy (29 September 1893 21 March 1935), born in Dublin in 1893, was a novelist, poet, playwright and satirist. The Irish Theatre Company produced two of his plays, and a later play Bricrius Feast was published, though not produced, in 1919. His other publications include The Wasted Island (1919), King Goshawk and the Birds (MacMillan, 1926) and a series of mystery novels including The Bird Cage, Asses in Clover and The Secret Enemy. In The Bird Cage, a murdered man is discovered in a bedroom at the Grand Hotel in Spurn Cove, an English seaside resort... This is the first American edition of a mystery novel by an Irish writer. Eimar ODuffys mysteries give you just enough information to get you drawn into the story and enough twists and turns to keep you guessing. Highly recommended for fans of mysteries!

The Bird of Paradise

E. Phillips Oppenheim

Mr. Hamer Wildburn, a young American, graduate of Harvard is wintering on the Mediterranean coast of France in his newly purchased yacht The Bird of Paradise, and is puzzled by the desire he finds in visitors coming aboard at different times to buy the vessel from him. One night he is awoken at 3 am by the cries of a beautiful, and wearing priceless emeralds, woman swimming alongside. She comes aboard and offers to buy the yacht for twice what he paid. The next day, the foreign minister of France also makes an offer to buy the yacht at an outrageous price. Soon a known terrorist develops a bomb to utterly destroy the boat and all its inhabitants. And so on, and with the material of conspiracies, French politics, love and adventure the story is woven around the yacht.

The Birds

Aristophanes

Pisfeter manages to convince the birds that their mission is to rule the world. According to his idea, the bird city of Tucekukuyshchyna is being built between heaven and earth; birds give wings to Pisfeter and Evelpid, Pisfeter becomes the ruler of the new city and puts into effect a plan whose goal is to take power from the Olympic gods. Birds intercept the smoke from the sacrifices that the gods feed on, persuade people to honor the birds as new gods and promise them protection for this.

The Bishop and Other Stories

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

One of the last stories of Chekhov. This is the tragedy of a representative of the intelligentsia, whose pursuit of a very successful church career cuts him off from real human intercourse. Until he faces death, the bishop does not understand that something important is missing in his life, namely, love and respect for himself, and not for his title.