[PDF] A Fine Conundrum eBook

Author : Arnie Greenberg
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 25,41 MB
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781475936933

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In the late summer of 1970, its hot in Montreal, Canadaand getting hotter. Between the high temperatures and the political unrest in the city, the heat is on for private investigator Joey Fine. Short on work and long on bills, Fine needs a case and fast. It arrives in the form of a knock-out dame named Martha Dawes. She wants Fine to investigate the missing funds from her fathers will, believing her younger half-brother has left town and taken the cash with him. Fine agrees to help and plunges into a crime that takes several twists and turns, involving some of Montreals politicians. When Marthas brother turns up dead and theres no sign of the money, however, Fine realizes theres more to this case then mere embezzlement. He uncovers a slew of illegal dealings with some of the seediest underworld characters hes ever imagined. Worse, Marthas husband, Jerry, is somehow involved. This isnt exactly what Fine signed up for. Even so, he keeps diggingbut what he finds just might make him wish Martha Dawes had never walked through his office door.

Author : Jan Morris
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 48,34 MB
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1590177126

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One of the first-ever books on gender transition, this poignant memoir by a trans woman is “the best first-hand account ever written by a traveler across the boundaries of sex” (Newsweek). “A profoundly poetic story.” —The New York Times “An exquisite read.” —Maria Popova, The Marginalian The great travel writer Jan Morris was born James Morris. James Morris distinguished himself in the British military, became a successful and physically daring reporter, climbed mountains, crossed deserts, and established a reputation as a historian of the British empire. He was happily married, with several children. To all appearances, he was not only a man, but a man’s man. Except that appearances, as James Morris had known from early childhood, can be deeply misleading. James Morris had known all his conscious life that at heart he was a woman. Conundrum, one of the earliest books to discuss transsexuality with honesty and without prurience, tells the story of James Morris’ hidden life and how he decided to bring it into the open, as he resolved first on a hormone treatment and, second, on risky experimental surgery that would turn him into the woman that he truly was.

Author : Jan Morris
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 24,2 MB
Release : 2006-05-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781590171899

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One of the first-ever books on gender transition, this poignant memoir by a trans woman is “the best first-hand account ever written by a traveler across the boundaries of sex” (Newsweek). “A profoundly poetic story.” —The New York Times “An exquisite read.” —Maria Popova, The Marginalian The great travel writer Jan Morris was born James Morris. James Morris distinguished himself in the British military, became a successful and physically daring reporter, climbed mountains, crossed deserts, and established a reputation as a historian of the British empire. He was happily married, with several children. To all appearances, he was not only a man, but a man’s man. Except that appearances, as James Morris had known from early childhood, can be deeply misleading. James Morris had known all his conscious life that at heart he was a woman. Conundrum, one of the earliest books to discuss transsexuality with honesty and without prurience, tells the story of James Morris’ hidden life and how he decided to bring it into the open, as he resolved first on a hormone treatment and, second, on risky experimental surgery that would turn him into the woman that he truly was.

Author : E. Phillips Oppenheim
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 43,55 MB
Release : 2023-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1479447072

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Evan Weir was a n artist. When he rescues a millionaire from a street fight, he finds himself involved in a strange affair—for old Mr. Deaves intends to show him how to make money...

Author : Edith B. Ordway
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 20,65 MB
Release : 2018-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3732686191

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Reproduction of the original: The Handbook of Conundrums by Edith B. Ordway

Author : Adam Fforde
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 32,39 MB
Release : 2014-01-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134711360

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Important parts of development practice, especially in key institutions such as the World Bank, are dominated by economists. In contrast, Development Studies is largely based upon multidisciplinary work in which anthropologists, human geographers, sociologists, and others play important roles. Hence, a tension has arisen between the claims made by Development Economics to be a scientific, measurable discipline prone to wide usage of mathematical modelling, and the more discursive, practice based approach favoured by Development Studies. The aim of this book is to show how the two disciplines have interacted, as well as how they differ. This is crucial in forming an understanding of development work, and to thinking about why policy recommendations can often lead to severe and continuing problems in developing countries. This book introduces Development Economics to those coming from two different but linked perspectives; economists and students of development who are not economists. In both explaining and critiquing Development Economics, the book is able to suggest the implications of these findings for Development Studies, and more broadly, for development policy and its outcomes.