The Vice-Consul Condition:Very Good winner of the 1954 Caldecott

winner of the 1954 Caldecott Medal

Honoring her many guises

His invaluable advice includes ways * Develop poise * Gain self-confidence * Improve your memory * Make your meaning clear * Begin and end a talk effectively * Interest and charm your audience * Improve your diction * Win an argument without making enemies Dale Carnegie's methods have helped millions of people worldwide

This edition includes extra diary entries and an afterword by the author

Bandit Saints of Java delves deep under the surface of modern Indonesia

The Vice-Consul Condition:Very Good winner of the 1954 CaldecottThe Vice Consul is a bleak, enigmatic novel. Set in the steamy monsoon heat of Calcutta, it brings together three suffering characters. There is Anne Marie Stretter, beautiful wife of the French ambassador, seeking the love of younger men as if desperate for a carefree youth she never had. One of those men who falls for her is the former Vice Consul of Lahore, an awkward, solitary man prone to violent, irrational rages. And there is a mysterious