"What a fantastically funny piece of writing. I absolutely loved it....All I can say is brilliant, excellent and highly recommended." - Julie Elizabeth Powell, author of "Julie's Quick Picks," The LL Book Review. THINGS HAPPEN TO LYLE. Lyle is a fictional correspondence-course editor who writes letters to a friend in the Midwest USA. Sounds ordinary? Just ask the Human Sexuality Professor, Ivanta Mora Menn, when Lyle is clueless to her advances. Ask the Wellness Center SWAT team or the formidable cafeteria lady, Samella. Or ask his traumatized coworkers after Lyle invents new games for the...
"What a fantastically funny piece of writing. I absolutely loved it....All I can say is brilliant, excellent and highly recommended." - Julie Elizabet...
The Maldives is a small and beautiful archipelago south of India, more renowned for luxury resorts than experiments in democracy. It is a country of contradictions, where tourists sip cocktails on the beach while on nearby islands local women are flogged for extramarital sex and blackmarket vodka costs $140 a bottle. Until 2008 the Maldives also hosted Asia's longest-serving dictator, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom. A former political prisoner, Mohamed Nasheed, an environmental activist, journalist, and politician, brought Gayoom's thirty-year autocracy to a sudden end, in the Maldives' first...
The Maldives is a small and beautiful archipelago south of India, more renowned for luxury resorts than experiments in democracy. It is a country of c...
This book describes an important advance in international social science research—the first cooperative survey of representative samples of the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. It identifies changes in the time-use patterns of both cities during the last two decades.
This book describes an important advance in international social science research—the first cooperative survey of representative samples of the ...