A Fine Conundrum
A Fine Conundrum

Author: Arnie Greenberg

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2012-08-01

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 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.

Conundrum
Conundrum

Author: Jan Morris

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Published: 2006-05-16

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 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.

The Seven Conundrums
The Seven Conundrums

Author: E. Phillips Oppenheim

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Published: 2023-10-01

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 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...

The Handbook of Conundrums
The Handbook of Conundrums

Author: Edith B. Ordway

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-04-25

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13:

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This is a book about riddles and puns. The author has taken a historical view of her subject and also a literary one, using examples from Shakespeare, mythology and legend to illustrate her points. It opens with a collection of jokes based on puns or wordplay and in later chapters looks at the conundrum itself.

Understanding Development Economics
Understanding Development Economics

Author: Adam Fforde

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-01-03

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 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.

Northern Rebel
Northern Rebel

Author: Jennifer Labrecque

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2013-04-23

Total Pages: 447

ISBN-13: 0373797524

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Midnight special: Somewhere on the train is a key witness to a high-profile crime...and reporter Marni Clare will do whatever it takes to get the story. Crashing in a sleeper car - she wakes to find herself curled up with the man she's seeking...and he's hot enough to derail all her plans! FBI special agent Hunter won't complain about the beautiful blonde in his arms. And maybe it's the medication he's on, but he's even agreed to share his room for the entire journey with her.