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Edgar Wallace

One of the most prolific writers of the twentieth century, Edgar Wallace was an immensely popular author, who created exciting thrillers spiced with tales of treacherous crooks and hard-boiled detectives. In total Wallace is credited with over 170 novels, almost 1,000 short stories, and 18 stage plays. This comprehensive work presents a collection of nine short stories, primarily detective fiction of Edgar Wallace. These are largely adventure narratives with elements of crime or mystery, and usually combine a bombastic sensationalism with hammy violence. The stories are well written and definitely a product of their time and place.

Fire Over England

A.E.W. Mason

In 1588, relations between Spain and England are at the breaking point. British sea raiders regularly capture Spanish merchantmen bringing gold from the New World with the support of Queen Elizabeth I. Fire Over England is the story of Robin Aubrey, a supposedly orphaned Etonian whose ambition in life is to both serve his queen and avenge his father who fell foul of the The Spanish Inquisition. He assembles a small fleet with a view to help fight off the Spanish Armada. However, his apparent free-hand in his own destiny is over-ridden by Elizabeths advisor, Walsingham, who targets young Aubrey and sends him off to Spain as a spy for Her Majesty. A fun, romantic spy story full of action and intrigue and set in an interesting period of history.

Shorty Bill

H.C. McNeile

Sapper stories focus on the individuals than overall strategy. They describe what the things are like for the soldiers in the trenches. The story of an excellent young man, noble and deeply versed in the intricacies of etiquette. Most of the human race was unaware of its existence; but the ladies and gentlemen in the Mogmoth Emporium of Mogg considered him the ultimate arbiter of elegance. There is no direct story about the war, but there is a story about the man who helped many after the war.

Jan of the Jungle

Otis Adelbert Kline

Led to believe that his natural mother is a chimpanzee Chicma, a young boy knows only the savage ways of the great apes. Kept in a cage, he is systematically trained to become a savage killer by the fiendish Dr. Bracken. But the young boy, Jan, is clever enough to escape from the lab and make it out into the surrounding swamp with his chimp mentor at his side and emerge near the Lost Empire of Mu. The swamplands offer Jan has his first taste of freedom. He grows up fast, and has several run-ins with the wildlife of the swamps-crocodiles, snakes, bears, etc.... With all his fighting skill, there remained only one challenge to Jan: trace his origins and locate his man-parents. Full of intrigue and adventure, this classic from Otis Adelbert Kline is a must for adventure-pulp literature fans!

The Elephant Man - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library

Vicary, Tim

A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Tim Vicary. He is not beautiful. His mother does not want him, children run away from him. People laugh at him, and call him 'The Elephant Man'. Then someone speaks to him - and listens to him! At the age of 27, Joseph Merrick finds a friend for the first time in his life. This is a true and tragic story. It is also a famous film.

Topper

Thorne Smith

Thorne Smith best-remembered for humorous novels, many turning on some fantastic plot device which thrusts the protagonist into grotesque predicaments, often via unwitting transformation. The 1926 publication of Topper brought the author immediate acclaim. Elegant, fun-loving George and Marion Kerby are the toast of the town, until they wreck their flashy car and discover theyve become, well, ghosts. Making the best of a bad situation, they decide that being dead is the perfect opportunity to liven up stuffy Cosmo Topper. The capricious ghosts make it their mission to rescue the law-abiding, mild-mannered bank manager from the staid summer of suburban Sundays that is his life. With their ectoplasmic reappearances and whimsically insane actions, they leave Topper, and anyone else who crosses their path, in a whirlwind of discomfiture and delight.

Dead Man's Island - With Audio Level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library

Escott, John

A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by John Escott. Mr Ross lives on an island where no visitors come. He stops people from taking photographs of him. He is young and rich, but he looks sad. And there is one room in his house which is always locked. Carol Sanders and her mother come to the island to work for Mr Ross. Carol soon decides that there is something very strange about Mr Ross. Where did he get his money from? How can a young man buy an island? So she watches, and she listens - and one night she learns what is behind the locked door.

Wielowymiarowa Analiza Zachowań Organizacyjnych (WAZO) w polskich przedsiębiorstwach

Katarzyna Januszkiewicz i zespół

 Złożoność i niejednorodność problematyki zachowań organizacyjnych sprawia, iż badania tego obszaru wymagają podejścia wielowymiarowego. Z jednej strony należy bowiem uwzględnić specyfikę rozwiązań organizacyjnych i warunkowane nimi zachowania, z drugiej zaś, ich zróżnicowane aspekty. Prezentowane w książce wyniki badań oparte zostały na koncepcji WAZO (Wielowymiarowej Analizy Zachowań Organizacyjnych), której założenia teoretyczne zawarto w monografii: K. Januszkiewicz i zespół, Zachowania ludzi w organizacji. Uwarunkowania i kierunki ewolucji, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2012. W badaniu wykorzystano kwestionariusz WAZO składający się z dwóch części. Część I, Rozwiązania organizacyjne, pozwala na diagnozę rozwiązań organizacyjnych dla organizacji jako całości, jak też dla poszczególnych wymiarów. Część II, Zachowania organizacyjne, umożliwia przedstawienie zachowań organizacyjnych w ujęciu ogólnym dla pracownika oraz na tle poszczególnych wymiarów (K. Januszkiewicz, I. Bednarska-Wnuk, M. Czajkowska, M. Kołodziejczak, M. Michalak, I. Świątek-Barylska, M. Zalewska-Turzyńska, Kwestionariusz WAZO – metodyka i narzędzie badawcze, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2016]. Książka skierowana jest do osób zainteresowanych tematyką zachowań ludzi w organizacji, a w szczególności wpływem rozwiązań organizacyjnych na zachowania pracowników. Wielowymiarowość podejmowanej analizy sprawia, iż ma ona charakter interdyscyplinarny, zatem jej odbiorcami mogą być zarówno teoretycy, jak i praktycy zarządzania, psychologii pracy, czy socjologii organizacji.