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L. Frank Baum
Meet Dorothys new friends, the Shaggy Man, Button Bright and Polychrome, as you travel with them to the Emerald City. Share their adventures with the Musicker and the Scoodlers. See how they escape from the Soup-Kettle and what they found at the Truth Pond. Their adventures include: the secret behind the love magnet, entering the town of Foxville, the queen of the Scoodlers, the Truth Pond, Ozmas birthday party, why the way to Butterfield got split 7 ways, etc.... Find out how they are able to cross the Deadly Desert and finally get to the Emerald City of Oz. The Road to Oz invite you to make an amazing trip to the magical land of Oz, which was born as a result of the irrepressible imagination of the great American writer Lyman Frank Baum, whose books were beloved by more than one generation of children around the world. The fifth story of Oz and the fourth detailing the magical travels of Dorothy.
George Orwell
In the 1930s, George Orwell was sent by a socialist book club to investigate the appalling mass unemployment in the industrial north of England. Orwell went further than just studying unemployment not wanting to watch from the outside, he learned what it is: to be a miner, live in slums, eat poorly and do backbreaking work in the mines. Everything he saw and wrote down helped him to clarify his feelings towards socialism. In this book, he explains why socialism, the only possible escape from the shocking conditions of life that he saw, turns off so many normal, respectable citizens.
George Orwell
“The Road to Wigan Pier“ is a book by George Orwell, an English novelist, essayist, and journalist. He is best known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. The Road to Wigan Pier is a book by the English writer George Orwell, first published in 1937. The first half of this work documents his sociological investigations of the bleak living conditions among the working class in Lancashire and Yorkshire in the industrial north of England before World War II. The second half is a long essay on his middle-class upbringing, and the development of his political conscience, questioning British attitudes towards socialism.
Ethel M. Dell
First published in 1913, The Rocks of Valpré is a novel by the British writer Ethel M. Dell. While readers adored Ethel M. Dells novels, critics hated them with a passion; but she did not care what the critics thought. She considered herself a good storyteller nothing more and nothing less. Ethel M. Dell continued to write novels for a number of years. The Rocks of Valpré novel is set in the mid-nineteenth century when an officer wrongly imprisoned on Devils Island escapes and heads to Europe to rescue the love of his life from the villain. Like many of Dells stories and novels this harkens back to the day when marriage was a binding promise and considered both morally and legally until death. It is a touching love story that shows true love as selfless love.
The role and functions of controllers in organization management
Marta Kawczyńska, Tomasz Wnuk-Pel
The main objective of this monograph is to determine on the basis of the survey the role of controllers in contemporary Polish companies. The study confirmed that same of the tasks performed by contemporary controllers in Polish companies are the same as those performed by their counterparts around the world although same differences were also identified. Comparing the current role of controllers in Polish organizations with their role in foreign companies can contribute to improving the controller’s image in the organizations, and change the attitude of other employees to management accountants. This may lead to better cooperation between individual departments and controllers, and therefore to the mare efficient functioning of the company.
George Griffiths
George Griffiths has written many science fiction novels. Each is unique in itself. The Romance of Golden Star is one of those. At the heart of the plot is a story about researchers who go in search of a Lost Inca tribe in Peru.
Mary Cholmondeley
There are eight unrelated shorts in this book. The author tells us about the cottage she lives in and the memorable experience she had during the war.
The Romance of Lust. A Classic Victorian Erotic Novel
Autor anonimowy
First published in 1873 of anonymous authorship and written during the years 18731876, this novel may well represent the highest moment in nineteenth-century sexual imagination. The four volumes included in this edition make this novel one of the longest and best erotic story ever written. It follows the exploits of Charlie, a virile and well-endowed young man with an apparently boundless appetite for sex. He chronicles his various sexual encounters involving his sisters Eliza and Mary, his governesses, and other various male and female friends. An unabashed portrait of a classic erotic drama, it is considered by critics of the form to be an unparalleled and wholly satisfying reading experience. The Romance of Lustl is a classic Victorian erotic novel not to be missed by fans and collectors of the genre.