Bent Northrop Memorial Library

First published in 1911, "The Principles of Scientific Management" by the American mechanical engineer and efficiency expert Frederick Winslow Taylor, is the highly influential study on industrial organization and management theory. Taylor is often referred to as the "Father of Scientific Management" and his approach to decision-making and management to optimize efficiency is often referred to as "Taylor's Principles", or "Taylorism". The impact on...

Michael Pearson writes about his travels to places of literary import: Frost's Vermont, Faulkner's Mississippi, Flannery O'Connor's Georgia, Hemingway's Key West, Steinbeck's California, and Twain's Missouri.

This early work by G. K. Chesterton was originally published in 1908. Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London in 1874. He studied at the Slade School of Art, and upon graduating began to work as a freelance journalist. Over the course of his life, his literary output was incredibly diverse and highly prolific, ranging from philosophy and ontology to art criticism and detective fiction. However, he is probably best-remembered for his Christian...

Dekker, back from space, found great physical changes in the people of Earth; changes that would have horrified him five years before. But now, he wanted to be like the rest, even if he had to lose an eye and both ears to do it.

Extrait : "Ce jour-là, - le 29 septembre 1856, - vers trois heures de l'après-midi, l'Académie des sciences de Lyon était en séance et dormait unanimement."

Tremendous Trifles is comprised of 39 chapters, each functioning as their own essay or story. With whimsical, light-hearted prose, vivid figurative language, and unparalleled insight, Chesterton covers a variety of philosophical principles of everyday life. Chesterton often used ordinary events and objects to explain deeper matters. Using relatable and accessible examples, Tremendous Trifles also test biases and preconceived ideas, specifically in...

Une édition de référence d'Une page d'amour d'Émile Zola, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques. « Mon Dieu! Et ne savoir que faire! Comme ça, brusquement, dans la nuit. Pas même de lumière. Ses idées se brouillaient. Elle continuait de causer à sa fille, l'interrogeant et répondant pour elle. C'était dans l'estomac que ça la tenait; non, dans la gorge. Ce ne serait rien. Il fallait du calme. Et elle faisait...

Une édition de référence de Le Ventre de Paris d'Émile Zola, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques. « Non, la faim ne l'avait pas quitté. Il fouillait ses souvenirs, ne se rappelait pas une heure de plénitude. Il était devenu sec, l'estomac rétréci, la peau collée aux os. Et il retrouvait Paris, gras, superbe, débordant de nourriture, au fond des ténèbres ; il y rentrait, sur un lit de légumes ; il y roulait,...

Collection of speeches spanning more than four decades, which covers the gamut of Twain's interests. Selections include controversial pieces, current events, and social commentaries.

"In time for the one-year anniversary of the Trump Inauguration and the Women's March, this provocative, unprecedented anthology features original short stories from thirty bestselling and award-winning authors--including Alice Walker, Richard Russo, Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Cunningham, Mary Higgins Clark, and Lee Child--with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen"--