Reproduction of the original: The Reckoning by Robert W. Chambers
An award-winning historian presents a wide-ranging history of accounting, discussing how basic auditing and double-entry bookkeeping have shaped kingdoms and empires as well as how misuse of this system caused the 1929 Crash and the 2008 ...
Buford Provine, the Bannings' longtime foreman, began stopping by the jail each morning for a cigarette with Pete. They usually met outdoors behind the jail, with Buford leaning against a tree while Pete stretched his legs on the other ...
According to Aubrey, Warner's left hand was missing: 'he had only a stump with five warts upon it' and he 'wore a cuff on it, like a pocket'. Hariot and Warner, together with the geographer Robert Hues, came to be known as the Earl of ...
Truitt snapped at Milt Muncie. “And you can't make me vote.” Muncie shot back angrily, ready to either throw a punch or take one. Truitt looked around the room, counted quickly, and announced, “I count ten. That's two-thirds, enough for ...
Only two weeks ago, life was all too predictable.
Detective Constable Maeve Kerrigan returns to investigate the disappearance of a mobster's daughter with ties to cases better left untouched in Jane Casey's stunning follow-up to "The Burning."
When they reached the small stone fountain in the Talmas town center, they had yet to see a single living thing. Renoir and Isaiah filled the meager pair of canteens they had between them. The rest of them slumped against the fountain, ...
As the Reckoning begins, Detective Nick Kavanaugh and his wife, Kate, a family lawyer, have accepted that reality in Nicevilleis not normal. Seemingly they've fought Nothing to a draw.
An enormous amount of healing must be done to rebuild our lives, our faith in leadership, and our hope for this nation. It starts with The Reckoning.
This translation of the full text of The Reckoning of Time includes an extensive historical introduction and a chapter-by-chapter commentary.