Neither The Sea Nor The Sand (1972)

It is the fifteenth century, and the tumultuous Hundred Years’ War rages on. France is under siege, English soldiers tear through the countryside destroying all who cross their paths, and Charles VII, the uncrowned king, has neither the strength nor the will to rally his army. And in the quiet of her parents’ garden in Domrémy, a peasant girl sees a spangle of light and hears a powerful voice speak her name: Jehanne. “Impressive… Cutter evokes the novel’s medieval world with striking details.” —New York Times Book Review

This book is a study of ancient views about "moral luck." It examines the fundamental ethical problem that many of the valued constituents of a well-lived life are vulnerable to factors outside a person's control, and asks how this affects our appraisal of persons and their lives.

A Scotland Yard detective is investigating a string of robberies and a murder, and the information he uncovers leads him to the estate of a wealthy but strange English family, who share their mansion with a group of nuns. The detective comes to suspect that neither the family nor the nuns is quite what they seem to be.

A telecommunications expert says a free market promotes the information superhighway.
Developments in telecommunications are moving at breakneck speed, yet the American people are being deprived of the full benefits of the information revolution because government continues to regulate electronic communications. Telecompetition: The Information Age Imperative is a lively and optimistic book showing that bureaucrats have neither the information nor the incentive to intelligently guide the information revolution, and therefor the only alternative is the free market.