Kirjahaku

As the title implies, this is an anthology, a book of short stories, something less than novel length, but are complete stories in themselves. They range across a time span extending from the start of World War II in 1939, describing planes being ferried across the Atlantic by inexperience women pilots, to a bridge construction failure in Florida. They include a story about the Flying Tigers in early 1940; Florida real Estate in the 1950's and police tracking down a slippery hit and run killer in remote Montana in the 1980's. The tales are sometimes erotic, steamy, sexy, romantic, adventious and mysterious covering many decades of the twentieth century when life was different and unencumbered by the electronic revolution of the present day.

As the title implies, this is an anthology, a book of short stories, something less than novel length, but are complete stories in themselves. They range across a time span extending from the start of World War II in 1939, describing planes being ferried across the Atlantic by inexperience women pilots, to a bridge construction failure in Florida. They include a story about the Flying Tigers in early 1940; Florida real Estate in the 1950's and police tracking down a slippery hit and run killer in remote Montana in the 1980's. The tales are sometimes erotic, steamy, sexy, romantic, adventious and mysterious covering many decades of the twentieth century when life was different and unencumbered by the electronic revolution of the present day.

This is a novel with a different perspective on the first Vietnam war. It is an adventuristic story of action, suspense and romance told during the time at the end of World War II when the French were struggling to maintain control of their foreign possession. It describes the desires of the French high command, a mercenary soldier and a strong mined Eurasian business woman who come together trying to achieve their own purposes.

This is the first volume (text and plates) of the analytically legible seals (ca. 1,162) retrieved through many thousands of full or partial impressions preserved on the 2,087 Elamite administrative tablets recovered during the 1930s excavations at Persepolis, Iran, and published by Richard T Hallock (OIP 92) in 1969. The tablets are dated by date formulae in the texts to the years 509-494 BC in the reign of Darius the Great. Volume I introduces the archive and documents the 312 seals of heroic encounter (retrieved via 1,970 impressions) with high quality composite drawings and a separate volume of 291 halftone and line plate illustrations presented at a scale of 2:1. Entries provide commentary on administrative, social, stylistic, and iconographical features of the seals as well as systematic analysis of seal application patterns. The thirty-four seal inscriptions are presented by Charles E Jones. Twelve appendices synthesize formal and iconographical data and integrate the seals with their associated texts. Volume I is in two parts: Part 1: text 562pp; Part 2: plates 1-291 318pp