The Least of It tells the seemingly placid tale of a man reunited with a longtime friend after years of estrangement. At the heart of their disaffection is his friend's ex-wife, Simin, a brilliant, headstrong woman with whom the narrator has always been in love, a love unrequited, except in the confidences she has shared with him over the years, secrets that have compromised his relationship with his friend, rendering him all but incapable of speech.Spanning a single day in Mexico ...

Initially conceived of as a literary correspondence between them, authors George Ovitt and Peter Nash set out to chronicle their reading experiences in a series of short essays about the literature they love. Ultimately, in just over five years, they wrote more than 350 such essays, their favorite of which they've assembled in this collection under the title, Trotsky's Sink: Ninety-Eight Short Essays About Literature.The essays included here provide the avid reader a glimpse of the ...

Improve the Effectiveness of your Product Control FunctionEffective Product Control is a detailed how-to guide covering everything you need to know about the function. Considered essential reading for:New controllers entering the professionAuditors and regulators reviewing product controlEstablished controllers wanting a refresher on the latest skills and core controls within the industry.Encompassing both a...

Each of us has a desperate yearning for meaning and purpose but very few of us find it or are able to live it out in the organisations we work for. This book explains the process organisations go through to discover their purpose and then through an authentic and sustained leadership commitment embed it into their culture and make it their new way of organisational life. Ultimately, this book is about transformation that shapes a whole new organisational identity from the inside out and ad...

Jacob Luria is asked by his good friend, Mary Daly, to spy on her husband, whom she has long suspected of infidelity. Obsessed by his love for her, by his hope that her marriage will finally fail, Luria is troubled in this assignment by the all-but-certain prospect of his own abasement and pain. Ghost Story is a novel about truth and deception, hope and despair, and the strange, often inexorable, ways we are haunted by those we love.

In 1941, the popular Austrian Jewish writer, Stefan Zweig, with his young wife, Lotte Altmann, went into hiding from the Nazis in Brazil, where less than six months later they committed suicide in a final act of despair. The Perfection of Things is a novel that opens in February of 2004 in the Brazilian town of Petrópolis where a dying American biographer, Adam Ribeira, has been living in a last, desperate effort to complete a critical biography of Zweig, which he has been writing...

Parsimony is a novel about fathers and sons, about the twisted manifestations of politics and history in the lives of a particular Jewish American family. When the novel opens, David Ansky, a divorced and disaffected New York architect, has gone to Florida to move his father into a local nursing home. He has never been close to the man and dreads the responsibility, intending to dispatch with the matter as swiftly as possible. Yet things do not go as planned, so that quickly he finds himse...

There are a few different ways to peruse a card and it takes understanding.At times it takes quite a while of training to ace the specialty of perusing the cards preciselyAs we go into considering the Tarot inside and out, we should look from each edge and component of the cards to all the more completely comprehend the basic significance. Each card delineates different images inside each card. These speak to the components, bearings, planetary impacts and energi...

Discover the incredible secrets of Tarot with this powerful beginner’s guide!particularly if you are either new or a fan, searching for more knowledge and understanding? It is constantly important to instruct yourself with the truth of Tarot Card Reading and to completely value their inception and reason, and why they appeared. There is a lot of misunderstanding and reservation with regards to having a tarot reading, and this is exclusively down to the ...

There are a few different ways to peruse a card and it takes understanding. At times it takes quite a while of training to ace the specialty of perusing the cards preciselyAs we go into considering the Tarot inside and out, we should look from each edge and component of the cards to all the more completely comprehend the basic significance. Each card delineates different images inside each card. These speak to the components, bearings, planetary impacts and energies present in our ...

Discover the incredible secrets of Tarot with this powerful beginner’s guide!particularly if you are either new or a fan, searching for more knowledge and understanding? It is constantly important to instruct yourself with the truth of Tarot Card Reading and to completely value their inception and reason, and why they appeared. There is a lot of misunderstanding and reservation with regards to having a tarot reading, and this is exclusively down to the lack of fitting knowledge and...

Get the Full Benefits of the Intermittent Fasting, Burns Body Fats and Weight LossThis book can be divided into three parts. The first part will give you a brief introduction about intermittent fasting. It will talk about what the intermittent fasting is, the mechanism behind it, and how to apply it in your life. The second aspect will about the benefit and how to maximize it. It will also talk about how to get started on intermittent fasting and what are the dos and don'ts of it...