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Burner is the study-in-motion of Isaac BenGurian, a cerebral, tortured man to whom both Socrates and Attila the Hun would offer a respectful nod. His grasp of the physical sciences, computer technology, and literature is unparalleled. But these 'tricks of the mind" do not nourish his pride, nor do they define him with any degree of accuracy. To know him, one must look to the nightmare of his personal history, and to the leisure-time pursuit fo...

Excerpt from The Temptations of Employes Who Handle Money: What Can the Employer Do to Protect Himself and Them? Some time ago Mr. John H. Patterson, President of the National Cash Register Company, said to me: You make a study of temptation, of the way employes who are entrusted with money succumb, of the extent and laws of embezzlement. What more than wages does the employer owe to his workmen, when he gives them his money to handle? Perhap...

A city of immense literary mystique, Prague has inspired writers across the centuries with its beauty, cosmopolitanism, and tragic history. Envisioning the ancient city in central Europe as a multilayered text, or palimpsest, that has been constantly revised and rewritten--from the medieval and Renaissance chroniclers who legitimized the city's foundational origins to the modernists of the early twentieth century who established its reputation...