Europe is close to war and spies are everywhere. Richard Hannay, bored and world-weary in London, encounters Scudder, an American stranger who has discovered a plot to assassinate the Greek Premier which could lead the world into war. When Scudder is found dead, Hannay is the obvious suspect. Burdened with this terrible secret he must run.

'It wouldn't be pleasant sharing my flat with a dead body, but there was nothing else I could do.'

Nel racconto dello scozzese John Buchan, straordinario ibrido di politico aristocratico e popolarissimo scrittore, Ottaviano Augusto è soprattutto l'eroe dell'idea imperiale. La biografia si concentra sul passaggio dalla Repubblica all'Impero, quegli anni di scontro feroce che vedono emergere il genio politico del pronipote di Giulio Cesare. Magistrale nel fondere la ricostruzione degli eventi e dei caratteri con l'analisi storica, la narrazione dipana pazientemente l'intricata matassa delle lotte che dilaniavano Roma. Questo lo sfondo sul quale Ottaviano impara le arti della guerra e del compromesso, fino al gennaio del 24 a.C., quando ottiene il titolo di Augusto e segna una svolta decisiva nella storia dell'Occidente. Lo stratega lascia allora il posto al riformatore rigoroso, all'interprete acuto degli equilibri mondiali e al protettore delle arti. Per Augusto, sensibile nella scelta dei suoi collaboratori e ambizioso portatore di pace, Buchan non nasconde la propria ammirazione. Eppure il suo libro - scritto nel 1937, quando l'autore era governatore del Canada - ci consegna un ritratto sfaccettato del primo imperatore e, insieme, un'attenta e modernissima riflessione sulla gestione del potere.

Richard Hannay è un eroe vulnerabile, una persona quasi ordinaria che tuttavia non si tira indietro e sa districarsi, forte dei suoi principi e della sua intelligenza, nel 'grande gioco' dello spionaggio internazionale. Ispirato alla spia scozzese Edmund Ironside e alle esperienze personali dell'autore, che aveva collaborato con l'intelligence durante le guerre boere e la Prima Guerra Mondiale, l'agente segreto Richard Hannay è stato creato da John Buchan nel 1915. I romanzi contenuti in questa raccolta, i primi tre dei cinque che lo vedono protagonista, rappresentano una sorta di ideale trilogia sulla Grande Guerra. Da 'I trentanove scalini', ambientato a Londra alla vigilia del conflitto, Alfred Hitchcock trasse uno dei suoi più celebri film. 'Il Mantello Verde' e 'Mr Standfast' si svolgono invece nel pieno della guerra, il primo sul fronte turco, dove politica e religione si mescolano pericolosamente, il secondo dietro le linee tedesche, impegnando l'agente britannico in una delicata missione sotto copertura. Perfetto equilibrio di suspense e di realismo, le avventure di Richard Hannay hanno portato la spy story nell'età adulta.

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Inclusive Growth explores a new synthesis of social and economic policy for Australia. It is based on the 'Inclusive Growth' roundtable hosted by the University of Melbourne – Brotherhood of St Laurence partnership in October 2011. The hosts brought together leading thinkers from key institutions including the Workplace Research Centre University of Sydney (WRC), the Social Policy Research Centre (UNSW), the Grattan Institute, the Business Council of Australia, and the Australian Council of Trade Unions, who have all been engaged with this policy challenge. Inclusion and growth can indeed be compatible. Numerous leaders of the economics profession have been calling for some time for the reinvigoration of the radical reform ethos of the late twentieth century. This book shares that sense of imperative, but not the ethos that saw welfare as harmful to growth. The authors detail the way in which the benefits of growth were skewed to the rich. To enjoy legitimacy, any new Australian economic reform agenda must have a stronger role for social policy and redistribution. This book investigates what an inclusive growth strategy might look like in Australia in five parts: the national and international policy context; the question 'has growth been good for the poor?'; meeting the productivity challenge; social infrastructure and productivity; and labor market flexibility and social security.

Richard Hannay enters the British Secret Service accidentally after he finds a murdered neighbor in his apartment.

The original and best adventure story ever told, with spies, thrilling chase scenes and explosions.
With an Introduction by Stella Rimington.

May 1914. Britain is on the eve of war with Germany. Richard Hannay is living a quiet life in London, but after a chance encounter with a mysterious stranger he stumbles into a hair-raising adventure -- a desperate hunt across the country and against the clock, pursued by the police and a cunning, ruthless enemy. Hannay's life and the security of Britain are in grave peril, and everything rests on the solution to a baffling enigma: what are the thirty-nine steps?

Charts the rise and fall of confrontational hedge fund activism in Japan.

Cosa si nasconde dietro la scomparsa del ricchissimo Charles Pitt-Heron? E come si spiega la sua improvvisa e segreta passione per la chimica? Chi sono gli strani personaggi che negli ultimi mesi hanno frequentato assiduamente il suo laboratorio? Il tranquillo avvocato londinese Edward Leithen si ritrova coinvolto nell'intricata vicenda, costretto suo malgrado a interpretare il ruolo dell'investigatore. Finirà per scontrarsi con un potente nemico che ha allungato i suoi tentacoli nei più insospettabili salotti dell'alta società. Avvocato, diplomatico, giornalista, storiografo e scrittore, John Buchan è da sempre considerato uno degli inventori del romanzo giallo. Alfred Hitchcock, che lo cita tra i suoi autori preferiti, ha tratto dalla sua opera più famosa, 'The Thirty-Nine Steps', il film 'Il club dei trentanove'.

Protagonista di questo romanzo breve a metà tra thriller e racconto d'avventura è l'avvocato e membro del parlamento inglese Edward Leithen. Quest'ultimo, nonostante non sia amante della vita movimentata, si ritrova coinvolto in un intrigo internazionale quando si mette sulle tracce di un vecchio amico.

'Every gift good and perfect comes from above.' Cuddle up together and count your little one to sleep with this sweet and simple bedtime tale that introduces children to the bounty of God's blessings.

Featuring Richard Hannay, an all-action hero with a steely determination and an extraordinary knack for getting himself out of sticky situations, this novel charts the electrifying story of an ordinary man caught up in a sinister international plot.

Richard Hannay is tasked to investigate rumours of an uprising in the Muslim world and takes off on a hair-raising journey through German-occupied Europe to meet up with his old friend Sandy Arbuthnot in Constantinople, where they must thwart the Germans' plans to use religion to help them win the war. In Greenmantle John Buchan clearly asserts his mastery of the genre of the espionage thriller, by drawing on his wide first-hand knowledge of the worlds of politics and secret intelligence. Set during World War I, Greenmantle is a powerful meditation on the power of political Islam.

Recently returned from South Africa, adventurer Richard Hannay is bored with life, but after a chance encounter with an American who informs him of an assassination plot and is then promptly murdered in Hannay's London flat, he becomes the obvious suspect and is forced to go on the run. He heads north to his native Scotland, fleeing the police and his enemies. Hannay must keep his wits about him if he is to warn the government before all is too late.

In this catalogue published in conjunction with the namesake exhibition at the Legion of Honor from February 5 through June 5, 2011, 'pulp fashions' refers to intricate costumes of handcrafted paper. D'Alessandro (curator of textile arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco) introduces designs on display from historically-inspired series by Belgian artist Isabelle de Borchgrave: the Papiers á la Mode, Fortuny and Medici collections, plus a new work inspired by a portrait by an Italian Baroque artist at the museum. Includes color illustrations and suggested further reading. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

How I love your morning hug; you nestle in my touch.You wait to hear me whisper low, 'I LOVE YOU THIS MUCH.'Share God's love for his children through this moving story about the love between a parent and child. A perfect cuddle book for young children and the adults who cherish them, I Love You This Much combines warm, endearing illustrations with playful, rhyming prose to reassure young audiences of God's comforting presence in all of our lives.

Introduced by Christopher Hitchens, this is the fourth of the five Richard Hannay novels. After the war and newly knighted, Hannay is living peacefully in the Cotswolds with his wife Mary and son Peter John. Unfortunately, a day arrives when three separate visitors tell him of three children being held hostage by a secret kidnapper. All three seem to lead back to a man named Dominick Medina, a popular Member of Parliament. Hannay uncovers a dastardly plot involving hypnotism and the black arts, as well as the more earthly crimes of blackmail and profiteering.

Introduced by Hew Strachan, Mr Standfast is the third of five Richard Hannay thrillers. Recalled from active service on the Western Front, Richard Hannay is sent undercover on a crucial secret mission to find a dangerous German agent at large in Britain. Disguised as a pacifist, Hannay travels from London to Glasgow to the Scottish Highlands and Islands in his search, which eventually ends in a spectacular climax above the battlefields of Europe. John Buchan's inside knowledge of trench warfare and government intelligence lend a formidable realism to this superlative spy story. This is a nail-biting classic from a master storyteller.

A long-forgotten promise made by Richard Hannay finds him honor-bound to resolve a violent vendetta in which the lives of a young father and his daughter are in danger from unscrupulous and desperate men. Hannay sets out on a high-octane chase from the rural tranquility of his English manor to the Scottish Borders and, ultimately, to Scandinavia. On the remote Island of Sheep, a final confrontation takes place and everything is decided—once and for all. This, the last of the Hannay adventures—and the last of Buchan's novels to be published during his lifetime—is a rare gem of high drama interwoven with Buchan's personal beliefs about the problems of a post-war world.