Best of
Modern

1983

The Green King


Paul-Loup Sulitzer - 1983
    Within six days he began his first company. Within six months he'd established fifty-eight more. Within ten years Reb Michael Klimrod would be a billionaire, an enigmatic genius dealing in real estate, gold mines, hotels, oil, and tankers in a bid to possess more money and power than anyone else in the world.Yet only a small, select group of men would know his real name, recognize his face. And not even they knew what he planned for the Nazis who had betrayed his youth ... for the woman he loved ... and for the entire unsuspecting earth.

Tales from the South China Seas


Charles Allen - 1983
    Drawn into the colonial territories scattered around the South China Sea, they found themselves in an exotic, intoxicating world. It was a land of rickshaws and shanghai jars, sampans and Straits Steamers, set against a background of palm-fringed beaches and tropical rain-forests. But it was also a world of conflicting beliefs and many races, where the overlapping of widely differing moral standards and viewpoints created a heady and dangerous atmosphere.

Second from Last in the Sack Race


David Nobbs - 1983
    Born into poverty, saddled with a born loser and parrot-strangler for a dad, short sighted and ungainly, young Henry Pratt doesn't exactly have a head start in life.But in David Nobbs's brilliantly funny evocation of a Yorkshire boyhood, unathletic and over-imaginative little Pratt proves he can stick up for himself with the stoic good nature of the great British underdog

Modern India, 1885 1947


Sumit Sarkar - 1983
    The shift in focus towards tribals, peasants and workers is shown to involve important charges in our whole understanding of modern Indian history. Modern India contains reading list for those who wish to examine the plethora of research work on subject. (13th reprinted)

Understanding Islam Through Hadis: Religious Faith or Fanaticism?


Ram Swarup - 1983
    

In the Spirit of Hegel


Robert C. Solomon - 1983
    In this book, Solomon captures the bold and exhilarating spirit, presenting the Phenomenology as a thoroughly personal as well as philosophical work. He begins with a historical introduction, which lays the groundwork for a section-by-section analysis of the Phenomenology. Both the initiated and readers unacquainted with the intricacies of German idealism will find this to be an accessible and exciting introduction to this great philosopher's monumental work.

To Hold in My Hand: Selected Poems, 1955-1983


Hilda Morley - 1983
    Poems consider mortality, grief, loneliness, violence, religion, the past, art, nature, and love.

The Town That Moved (Carolrhoda on My Own Books)


Mary Jane Finsand - 1983
    Describes how the houses and buildings of a small town in northern Minnesota were moved to another location when iron ore was discovered in the ground beneath the town.

Pay Any Price


Ted Allbeury - 1983
    The Kennedy killings meant trouble - trouble for the Mafia, trouble for the Cubans, and trouble for the CIA.When Grabowski hides the CIA's hypnosis experts away in a remote Northumbrian safe house, there is only one catch: the British.SIS have a problem just across the Irish Sea that needs to be dealt with, and they are determined to use their American guest's 'expertise' developed during Project MKULtra for their own purposes.

The Space of Half an Hour


Keith Waldrop - 1983