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Dead Sexy | In The Still Of The Night The city is in a panic. In the still of the night, a vicious killer is leaving a trail of mutilated bodies drained of blood. A chilling M.O. that puts ex-vampire hunter Regan Delaney on the case, her gun clip packed with silver bullets, her instincts edgy. But the victims are both human and Un... | Amanda Ashley | Fiction |
Arnolds Bodyshaping for Women | A three-month program to help the body realize its maximum potential for beauty, health and fitness uses weights and calisthenics to reshape women and to maintain women in the best shape of their lives | Arnold Schwarzenegger, Douglas Kent Hall | Health & Fitness |
How to Become a Winner In Your Relationship: Let No One Move You from the Place God Put You | Sebastian Monroe is a man with a past... The leader of a Pirate band, Monroe has spent the past twenty years trying to appease the ghosts of another life. Now, sinister forces have gathered on the waters of the Lake Huron intent upon destruction and domination. Summoned by an American Hero, Monroe embarks on a desperat... | Wallace Welch | Religion |
The Unquiet Grave | This enduring classic is "a book which, no matter how many readers it will ever have, will never have enough" (Ernest Hemingway). | Cyril Connolly | Biography & Autobiography |
Isaac Asimov: Master of Science Fiction (People to Know) | Details the life and career of this prolific writer of both science fiction and non-fiction who, at the time of his death, had written close to five hundred books. | Karen Judson | Juvenile Nonfiction |
The Mask of Priam | A collection of post-modern, post-structural poetry that will delight anyone who loves serious word games that actually have a meaning behind them. | Jon Aristides | Poetry |
The Ears of Corn (Ike and Mem Story) | When Ike and his little sister Mem spend the weekend at their grandparents' farm, they resent all the work they must do, until they realize that there is more to their visit than just doing chores, and that everyone must cooperate and pitch in if they are to get along. | Patrick Jennings | Juvenile Fiction |
Goliath | The award-winning journalist and best-selling author of Republican Gomorrah assesses the takeover of Israel by extremists from the Jewish Right, examining how they have restricted constitutional protections for minorities and dissidents and how they are being bankrolled by American right-wing interests. (This book was ... | Max Blumenthal | History |
Brain-Based Learning: The New Science of Teaching and Training, Revised Edition | The author presents research on how the brain processes information and offers practical methods to infuse your teaching and training with a renewed sense of purpose. | Eric Jensen | Education |
Inside Oscar: the Unofficial History of the Academy Awards | FINALLY, A SEQUEL AS GOOD AS THE ORIGINAL! Enlivened by humorous incidents, brewing controversies, and deeply moving personal dramas, Inside Oscar 1995-2000 offers the complete lowdown on six more years of Academy Awards glory . . . from Braveheart in 1995 through Gladiator in 2000, with the Titanic phenomenon and the ... | Damien Bona | Performing Arts |
Itten The Elements of Color | Includes color circles, spheres, and scales as well as suggested exercises. | Johannes Itten | Architecture |
RETRIEVER TRAINING FOR THE DUCK HUNTER | Milner's book is much more than a comprehensive method for the training of retrievers--it focuses on that special relationship that develops between a hunter and his dog. | Robert Milner | Juvenile Nonfiction |
Infants, Children, and Adolescents (with Interactive Companion Website) (4th Edition) | Taught well, Health and Physical Education can provide purposeful, stimulating and challenging learning experiences. It can help children to develop sophisticated understanding, skill and capabilities through their bodies and to see greater meaning in not only what they are learning but also their wider lives; and it c... | Dean Dudley, Amanda Telford, Claire Stonehouse, Louisa Peralta, Matthew Winslade | Health education |
Nudes | An impressive sampling of life drawings by 45 of the art world's greatest masters, from Dürer and Michelangelo to Modigliani and Derain. Other artists include Raphael, Rubens, Gauguin, Matisse, Rodin, and others. | Carol Belanger Grafton | Art |
Cognitive Development (Routledge Modular Psychology) | Cognitive Development provides a detailed and accessible account of three main areas: theories of cognitive development, the development of measured intelligence and the development of moral understanding. The theories of Piaget, Vygotsky, Eisenburg and Bruner are discussed. The book is suitable for the AQA-A A2 level ... | Lisa Oakley | Psychology |
Shackle and Sword | A former slave and innkeeper's son becomes a master slave and swordsman, returning to the land of his upbringing to free a queen from his old master. By the author of Leopard Lord. Original. | Alanna Morland | Fiction |
Eco-Terrorism & Eco-Extremism Against Agriculture | This book scrutinizes the growth of the ‘eco-terrorism’ movement operating on a global scale, focusing on the main groups and their more radical offshoots, both historically and those currently active. These include Earth First!, the Earth Liberation Front, the Animal Liberation Front and the Sea Shepherd Conservation ... | Gerry Nagtzaam | Ecoterrorism |
Encyclopedia of Software Engineering. Volumes I & II | Software engineering requires specialized knowledge of a broad spectrum of topics, including the construction of software and the platforms, applications, and environments in which the software operates as well as an understanding of the people who build and use the software. Offering an authoritative perspective, the ... | Phillip A. Laplante | Computers |
Witches Way, The | With in-depth explorations of nature magick and divination, this follow-up to the wildly successful Wiccapedia, written by the authors of that book, is a must for Wiccans. It covers everything from different kinds of witches and their practices; cosmic helpers; enhancing your magick with color; developing your sixth se... | Shawn Robbins, Leanna Greenaway | Body, Mind & Spirit |
Deadville | In the year 1833, two young brothers journey into the Wild West to seek their fortune; little do they know they’re embarking on the adventure of their lives. Expecting to stumble upon riches as they make their way westward, sixteen-year-old Dillon Griffith and his older brother Owen instead encounter hardship after har... | Robert F. Jones | Fiction |
The Tao of I Ching: Way to Divination | A new and refreshing way to understand and utilize the I Ching. | Tsung Hwa Jou | Body, Mind & Spirit |
Days of Grass | The free humans lived underground, secretive, like rats. Above, the world was a fearsome place for them - the open sky a terror, the night so black, and the striding machines from space so laser-flame deadly. Esther dared the open; she saw the sky; she saw the Enemy. And she was taken - captive - to the vast alien empt... | Tanith Lee | Fiction |
Muchas vidas, muchos sabios | El doctor Brian Weiss -- psiquiatra del hospital Mount Sinai de Miami, EE.UU.—relata en este libro su experiencia con Catherine, una paciente a quien trato bajo hipnosis, luego de intentar sin exito durante un ano la terapia convencional. En estado de trance profundo -- solo un 15% de los hipnotizados logran llegar a e... | Brian L. Weiss | Body, Mind & Spirit |
New sounds: A listeners guide to new music | Offers profiles of modern composers and musicians, discusses new trends in music, and looks at the influence of ethnic, folk, and electronic music | John Schaefer | Music |
Old-Fashioned Ckbk | Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press This book explains how to build the right kind of fire for the best results with a minimum of time and effort. Tempting recipes for hungry fishermen and hunters include pot roasts, mulligan stews, and dishes made from fish of various kinds, bear meat, buf... | Don Holm | Cooking |
Musings of an Eccentric Dreamer: An Anthology of Love Poetry | In het koninkrijk Alban gaat het volk gebukt onder het schrikbewind van koning Keldec. Het gebruik van magie is er verboden. Contact met een van de vele magische wezens die het land bevolken, wordt steeds vaker met de dood bestraft. De vijftienjarige Neryn is samen met haar vader op de vlucht voor de krijgers van Kelde... | Juliet Marillier | Fiction |
Introduction To Mathematics for Life Scientists | A few decades ago mathematics played a modest role in life sciences. Today, however, a great variety of mathematical methods is applied in biology and medicine. Practically every mathematical procedure that is useful in physics, chemistry, engineering, and economics has also found an important application in the life s... | E. Batschelet | Mathematics |
Guns for General Washington: A Story of the American Revolution (Great Episodes) | Seymour Reit re-creates the true story of Will Knox, a nineteen-year-old boy who undertook the daring and dangerous task of transporting 183 cannons from New York’s Fort Ticonderoga to Boston—in the dead of winter—to help George Washington win an important battle. | Seymour Reit | Juvenile Fiction |
The Living Company | With a light touch and an interesting variety of examples, de Geus employs biological metaphors in order to analyze corporate management. | Arie de Geus | Business & Economics |
You Can Do It! Cheerleading | Do you become the most talented cheerleader on the squad? The one that everyone admires, looks up to, even envies? Just imagine what life would be like if you were the best cheerleader in town: With your skill and talent, you could join any squad you wanted. You could take any position that you felt like - flyer, spott... | Janey Trishon | Sports & Recreation |
Riverworld and Other Stories | Three stories of a world shared by resurrected humans from all times and places—plus ten more tales by the Hugo Award–winning author of the World of Tiers series. On author Philip José Farmer’s Riverworld, humans from every era and culture have been simultaneously resurrected. Ancient Hebrews, medieval warriors, Spanis... | Philip José Farmer | Fiction |
A grand romance: A play | THE STORY: The place is the Nebraska home of Susan and Robert Atwater. Robert has left his wife and gone off to California with a younger woman, and Susan has taken in her aged, increasingly cantankerous mother, Harriet, who has recently suffered a | David Wiltse | Drama |
Tomorrow Will Be Better: A True Story of Love and One Familys Triumph over the Horrors of World War II | Tells the story of Zdena Kapral's struggle during the German attacks and Nazi horror, the postwar Soviet takeover, and the partition of the Indian subcontinent | Zdena Kapral | Czechoslovakia |
The Klutz Book of Jacks | A 36-page, full-colour, spiral-bound collection of 20 of the most time-honoured, neighbourhood-approved, playground-tested, tournament-quality jacks games. Pigs in the Pen, Scatter, Slugsnail, and Seisnialp (that's 'plainsies' backward)-they're all here, and more. The Klutz Book of Jacks details all the finer points of... | Klutz | Juvenile Nonfiction |
Forging the Prairie West (Illustrated History of Canada) | This second volume in the Illustrated History of Canada series relates the eventful, occasionally violent history of the three prairie provinces (Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta). Covering exploration as well as economic, political, and social history, it presents a detailed account of the region's importance in Ca... | John Herd Thompson | History |
Poems of the Pearl Manuscript (Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies) | For students of Middle English, Andrew and Waldron's The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript has been the key edition of the four Pearl poems for over thirty years. With the changing needs of today's university student in mind, The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript is presented in a fully updated and comprehensively revised vers... | Malcolm Andrew, Ronald Waldron | Literary Collections |
Immaterial Facts: Freuds Discovery of Psychic Reality and Kleins Development of His Work | First published in 1999. Shows how Melanie Klien's studies of sexuality aggression, unconscious phantasy and identification in children extended and corrected Freud's theories of the development of the superego and early stages of the Oedipus complex. | Robert Caper | Psychology |
The Monkeys Paw | Jacobs was the author of 13 volumes of short stories, and 18 of these stories have been brought together for the first time in this gripping collection of macabre fiction. This book features Gothic narratives, stories of the macabre and supernatural tales. Many of them are also infused with shrewd and sardonic humour o... | W. W. Jacobs | Fiction |
My World and Welcome to It | A collection of humorous essays and stories, some previously published in magazines. | James Thurber | American wit and humor |
Rodin in His Time: The Cantor Gifts to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art | The sculpture of Auguste Rodin has become such an important part of our visual culture that it seems to have been with us always. The universal appeal of Rodin's work springs from its emotional expressiveness, its astonishingly lifelike vitality, and its passionate mirroring of the human condition. With his impressioni... | Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Mary L. Levkoff | Rodin, Auguste, -- 1840-1917 |
Florida Birds: An Introduction to Familiar Species (State Nature Guides) | Focusing on the North American continent, this book, the first of its kind, identifies and describes major field guides in all scientific subject areas (from plants, animals, and insects to astronomy and weather, geology and fossils, and man-made objects). Organized by topic, it offers complete bibliographic informatio... | Diane Schmidt | Nature |
Plain And Simple - A Womans Journey To The Amish | "I had an obsession with the Amish. Plan and simple. Objectively it made no sense. I, who worked hard at being special, fell in love with a people who valued being ordinary." So begins Sue Bender's story, the captivating and inspiring true story of a harried urban Californian moved by the beauty of a display of quilts ... | Sue Bender | Religion |
Space Stations and Graveyards | Space Stations and Graveyards is a collaborative effort involving three of the most talented young horror writers today. Space Stations and Graveyards is a collection of 24 stories that reflect their love of science fiction and horror. And many of the stories within are actually an amalgam of the two genres. This book ... | Brannon Jason, S. Brown Eric, Grover John | Fiction |
Guide to Owning a Burmese Cat (Popular Cat Library) | A guide to the history, feeding, grooming, exhibition, temperament, health, and breeding of Burmese cats. | "Justine OFlynn" | Juvenile Nonfiction |
The History and Theory of Rhetoric: An Introduction (2nd Edition) | The History and Theory of Rhetoric offers discussion of the history of rhetorical studies in the Western tradition, from ancient Greece to contemporary American and European theorists that is easily accessible to students. By tracing the historical progression of rhetoric from the Greek Sophists of the 5th Century B.C.... | James A. Herrick | Language Arts & Disciplines |
Baseball Prospectus: 2001 Edition | Extensively updated for the 2001 season, the "Baseball Prospectus" analyzes every top player in each organization--all the way down to rookie ball--with objective, intelligent commentary and irreverent humor. | Jeff Bower, Joseph Sheehan, Clay Davenport, Gary Huckabay, Chris Kahrl, Rany Jazayerli, Keith Law, Mat Olkin, Dave Pease | Sports & Recreation |
I Spy: 4 Picture Riddle Books (School Reader Collection Lvl 1: (Scholastic Reader Collection) | Rhyming verses ask readers to find hidden objects in the photographs. | Jean Marzollo, Walter Wick | Juvenile Nonfiction |
Napoleon (A Mentor book) | A concise history of Napoleon's life and times, recreated from period documents and decoded diaries. | Felix Maurice Hippisley Markham | Biography & Autobiography |
The Jesters Quest (Winds of Light, Book 7) | No description available. | Ann Ann Howey | History |
Voices in Summer | A phenomenal, heartwarming tale by the much-loved Rosamunde Pilcher. Laura, newly married and ever conscious she may be living in the shadow of her husband Alec's first wife, decides to take a holiday with his family in Cornwall. Through the long hot summer days she is slowly charmed by the beautiful old house and the ... | Rosamunde Pilcher | Fiction |
Last Words of Saints and Sinners | This collection of 700 quotes includes the last words of commoners, atheists, poets, and politicians along with noted Christians and martyrs. Ready reference source for the pastor or public speaker. | Herbert Lockyer | Religion |
The Urban Primitive: Paganism in the Concrete Jungle | In this alternative guide to Magick for Pagan city folk, the authors include practical recommendations not found anywhere else in a tone that is humorous and irreverent but full of serious information. | Raven Kaldera, Tannin Schwartzstein | Body, Mind & Spirit |
Ancient Israel | Considered the leading book on the subject, this book is an authoritative exploration of the complete history of ancient Israel--from Abraham, the first Hebrew, to the Roman destruction of the Second Temple in 70 A.D. It offers superlative authorship from acknowledged leaders in their specialties, from a wide range of ... | Hershel Shanks | Religion |
103 Great Poems: A Dual-Language Book (Dover Dual Language German) (German and English Edition) | Exceptionally fine poetry by Germany's greatest literary figure, from his earliest, "An den Schlaf" ("To Sleep"), written when he was 18, to his last great poem, "Verdächtnis" ("Legacy"), written when he was 80. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Foreign Language Study |
Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy | The story of Sister Benedetta Carlini, Abbess of the Convent of the Mother of God, and Sister Bartolomea Crivelli represents the earliest documented lesbian relationship in Western history. | Judith C. Brown | Social Science |
La Doctora: The Journal of an American Doctor Practicing Medicine on the Amazon River | This doctor still makes house calls. In 1990, Dr. Linnea Smith went on vacation. The result? She abandoned a thriving medical practice in Wisconsin to serve the Yagua Indians in the deepest part of the Amazon rainforest of Peru alone. Today, Dr. Smith routinely hears the midnight cry of "Doctora!" from patients facing ... | Linnea Smith | Biography & Autobiography |
Heartwood: Tricksters Game #1 | Year after year, season after season, for as long as Darak's people could remember, the battle of the Oak and the Holly had taken place, bringing an end to Winter and the rebirth of Spring. But this year the battle went wrong as Darak's brother became possessed by the spirit of the Holly. To free him, Darak must undert... | Barbara Campbell | Fiction |
Born In Secret (Firstborn Sons) (Silhouette Intimate Moments) | "I've courted danger all my life." –Walker James, international spy | Kylie Brant | Fiction |
The Stone that the Builder Refused: A Novel | The Stone that the Builder Refused is the final volume of Madison Smartt Bell’s masterful trilogy about the Haitian Revolution–the first successful slave revolution in history–which begins with All Souls' Rising (a finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award) and continues with Master of the Crossro... | Madison Smartt Bell | Fiction |
A Field Guide to Butterflies of Texas (Texas Monthly Field Guide Series) | Meet the wild world of common Texas insects with this colorful and thorough introduction. Now you can identify that critter that just crawled under your bed or landed in your backyard. This extensive guide is packed with 384 color photos, thousands of facts and figures, and dozens of illustrations. | John A. Jackman, Bastiaan M. Drees | Nature |
Lost Indianapolis (IN) (Images of America) | A history of the city, told through the stories of the icons of the past, this book contains a collection of picture postcards, photographs and maps which provide a unique view of life in historic Indianapolis. | John McDonald, John P. McDonald | History |
Eyewitness Travel Phrase Book: European (14 languages) | Explore this vast and beguiling country, from peaceful Darjeeling and vibrant Kolkata to Kanha National Park and its tigers, the idyllic Kerala backwaters and the majestic Taj Mahal. Seven itineraries help you to plan your trip, including the unmissable places to see in Delhi, a tour of the Golden Triangle and how to d... | DK Travel | Travel |
Conversations With Lincoln | A Lincoln book that says something new is a rarity. Conversations with Lincoln is just such a book. In it Charles M. Segal has collected and presented more than one hundred interviews with Lincoln as President-elect and President. As a revelation of the intimate, human side of Abraham Lincoln, it will be a source of en... | Abraham Lincoln | History |
Thomas Paine : Collected Writings : Common Sense / The Crisis / Rights of Man / The Age of Reason / Pamphlets, Articles, and Letters (Library of America) | Thomas Paine was the impassioned democratic voice of the Age of Revolution, and this volume brings together his best-known works: Common Sense, The American Crisis, Rights of Man, The Age of Reason, along with a selection of letters, articles and pamphlets that emphasizes Paine's American years. “I know not whether any... | Thomas Paine | History |
Howard Zinn on History | Howard Zinn began work on his first book for his friends at Seven Stories Press in 1996, a big volume collecting all his shorter writings organized by subject. The themes he chose reflected his lifelong concerns: war, history, law, class, means and ends, and race. Throughout his life Zinn had returned again and again t... | Howard Zinn | History |
Goal | Practical Goal Programming is intended to allow academics and practitioners to be able to build effective goal programming models, to detail the current state of the art, and to lay the foundation for its future development and continued application to new and varied fields. Suitable as both a text and reference, its n... | Dylan Jones, Mehrdad Tamiz | Business & Economics |
Voices of earth and sky; the vision life of the native Americans and their culture heroes | -- The Vision Life of the Native Americans by Vinson Brown. The purpose of the vision search is not only to find a vision, but to find in it help for yourself to lead a better life. Several chapters tell of past great Sacred Beings, chiefs, and medicine men; others tell how they prepared for the vision search, the prel... | Vinson Brown | Religion |
Social Research Methods: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches (4th Edition) | Includes bibliographical references and index. | William Lawrence Neuman | Social Science |
Own Face (Sun & Moon Classics) | First published in 1978 by United Artists, Own Face represents a growing shift of that period of Coolidge's career from a more structurally based, abstract writing to a more personal and lyrical work. In this long out-of-print collection, one can glimpse an important shift in Coolidge's remarkable poetic career, spanni... | Clark Coolidge | Poetry |
The Maxwell Leadership Bible Developing Leaders From The Word Of God | The people, events, and teachings of the Bible are a treasury of wisdom and guidance for anyone who has been called to be a leader, to develop leaders, or to work with leaders-in church, business, commerce, or anyplace else. The Maxwell Leadership Bible shows us what God's Word has to say to people of all kinds about l... | John C. Maxwell | Bibles |
World War II and the American Indian | "Crossing the Pond also chronicles the unsuccessful efforts of Nazi propagandists to exploit Native Americans for the Third Reich, as well as the successful efforts of the United States government and the media to recruit Native Americans, utilize their resources, and publicize their activities for the war effort. Atte... | Jere Bishop Franco | History |
The Castle in the Attic | The classic children's story about a young boy, his toy castle, and a magical adventure that reveals the true meaning of courage When his beloved caretaker Mrs. Phillips tells him she's leaving, William is devastated. Not even her farewell gift of a model medieval castle helps him feel better—though he has to admit it'... | Elizabeth Winthrop | Juvenile Fiction |
Francis Hodgson Burnett: The Unexpected Life of the Author of The Secret Garden | The personal and professional life of British writer Frances Hodgson Burnett is chronicled in a biography that ranges from her early days in Manchester, England, to her life in post-Civil War Tennessee, eventually writing fifty-two books and writing and producing thirteen plays. | Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina | Biography & Autobiography |
Family Tightrope | In recent years the popular media have described Vietnamese Americans as the quintessential American immigrant success story, attributing their accomplishments to the values they learn in the traditional, stable, hierarchical confines of their family. Questioning the accuracy of such family portrayals, Nazli Kibria dra... | Nazli Kibria | Social Science |
SPELLBINDER: NIGHTWORLD | Two witch cousins fight over their high school crush. It's a battle between black magic and white magic in "Spellbinder." | L.J. Smith | Juvenile Fiction |
Pennant race, | From the author of The Long Season—considered by many to be the greatest baseball book of all time—comes another classic sports memoir by legendary pitcher Jim Brosnan, which chronicles how his team, the Cincinnati Reds, went on to win the 1961 National League pennant. With legendary pitcher Jim Brosnan’s first book, T... | James P. Brosnan | Sports & Recreation |
Lonely Planet India & Bangladesh Travel Atlas | Lonely Planet’s India is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Marvel at the intricate floral designs on the Taj Mahal and listen to monks chanting in the shadow of the mighty Himalaya in Ladakh – all with your trusted travel companion. | Lonely Planet, Michael Benanav, Joe Bindloss, Lindsay Brown, Stuart Butler, Mark Elliott, Paul Harding, Trent Holden, Anirban Mahapatra, Bradley Mayhew, Daniel McCrohan, John Noble, Kevin Raub, Sarina Singh, Iain Stewart, Isabella Noble | Travel |
The Rise of the Great Powers 1648 - 1815 (The Modern European State System) | The heyday of the European states system was in the century before the First World War. How the system of five great powers in conscious equilibrium came into being is the central theme of this book. | Derek Mckay, H.M. Scott | History |
Knowledge, Power and International Policy Coordination (Studies in International Relations) | Demonstrates that control over knowledge & information is an important determinant of international policy coordination & the difficulty of achieving it. | Peter M. Haas | Political Science |
The Portable Poe: 2 | Presents selected examples of fiction, poetry, literary criticism, and letters by the nineteenth-century American writer | Edgar Allan Poe | Literary Collections |
Philosophic Classics: From Plato to Derrida (3rd Edition) | Forrest Baird's revisions of "Philosophic Classics," Prentice Hall's long-standing philosophy series, continue the tradition begun in 1961, to provide generations of students with anthologies of high quality in the history of Western philosophy. Using the complete works or, where appropriate, complete sections of works... | Forrest E. Baird | Philosophy |
The St. Louis German Catholics | In 1827 Godfried Duden, a travel writer from Cologne, Germany, published a narrative in which he marveled at the similarities between the Mississippi and Missouri River valleys and those of the Rhine valley. This work traces the settlement, growth, and impact of one of St Louis' most enduring communities. | William Barnaby Faherty | History |
Landscape Ecology, Function and Management | This book encapsulates the extensive knowledge developed by CSIRO's National Rangelands Program on how rangeland landscapes function and the implications for management. It looks at the ecology of rangeland landscape processes and deals with what happens when things go wrong, when a landscape loses its ability to effic... | J Ludwig, D Tongway, K Hodgkinson, D Freudenberger, J Noble | Science |
A Tradition Restored: USCs 2003 Championship Season | The 2003 USC Trojans revived the glory of years past. Led by sophomore receiver Mike Williams and surprising quarterback Matt Leinart, the Trojans finished the regular season 11-1 and ranked No. 1 in both the Associated Press and ESPN/USA Today polls. A Tradition Restored follows USC from preseason practice through the... | Dailey News of Los Angeles, Los Angeles Daily News, Press-Telegram | Sports & Recreation |
Acting Across America | This book addresses the historical, social, colonial, and administrative contexts that determine today's U.S. actor training, as well as matters of identity politics, access, and marginalization as they emerge in classrooms and rehearsal halls. It considers persistent, questioning voices about our nation’s acting train... | Ellen Margolis, Lissa Tyler Renaud | Drama |
Outposts | The New York Times bestselling author of Krakatoa and The Professor and the Madman takes readers on a quirky and charming tour of the last outpost of the British empire Originally published in 1985, Outposts is Simon Winchester’s journey to find the vanishing empire, “on which the sun never sets.” In the course of a th... | Simon Winchester | History |
Making Books by Hand: A Step-by-Step Guide | Before the advent of modern mass-production methods, books were bound by hand to remarkably high standards of quality. Beautiful and durable, they appealed to book lovers who appreciated not only a book's content but also the quality and craftsmanship of its binding. Unfortunately, the introduction of machine-binding m... | Aldren A. Watson | Crafts & Hobbies |
The Manikin: A Novel | The Manikin is not a mannequin, but the curious estate of Henry Craxton, Sr. in a rural western New York State. Dubbed the "Henry Ford of Natural History," by 1917 Craxton has become America's preeminent taxidermist. Into this magic box of a world-filled with eerily inanimate gibbons and bats, owls and peacocks, quetza... | Joanna Scott | Fiction |
The Collectors Edition of Victorian Erotica | No-one can read the thousands of erotic books and pamphlets that the English reading public were offered in the 19th Century. This anthology hopes to stimulate readers into exploring further erotic adventures by offering a selection of Victorian pleasures. This anthology of delicious and deviant love combines bawdy, ob... | Major LaCaritilie, Magic Carpet Books | Fiction |
OHiggins and Don Bernardo | Fictional biography of Ambrosio O'Higgins, Marques del Osorno, Spanish viceroy in Chile, and of his son Bernardo O'Higgins, who liberated the country. | Edna Deu Pree Nelson | Chile |
Island | Anne Cholawo was a typical 80s career girl working in a busy London advertising agency, when in 1989, holidaying in Skye, she noticed an advert for a property on the Isle of Soay - 'Access by courtesy of fishing boat'. She had never heard of Soay before, let alone visited it, but something inexplicable drew her there. | Anne Cholawo | Biography & Autobiography |
Raising Gifted Kids: Everything You Need to Know to Help Your Exceptional Child Thrive | Raising an extremely bright child - quick, curious, sensitive, and introspective - is a daunting challenge. Parents need insight into their own motivations (as well as those of their children), and the courage and ability to make tough decisions about their child's development. "Raising Gifted Kids" will help parents u... | Barbara Schave Klein | Family & Relationships |
Frank Lloyd Wright: Visionary Architect (People to Know) | Examines the life and career of the American architect, detailing the evolution of his innovative design and the structures which won him fame around the world. | David K. Wright | Juvenile Nonfiction |
The Top Ten List for Christians with Leaders Guide: Priorities for Faithful Living | Jim Moore says that the first and best Top Ten list is called the Ten Commandments and is just as relevant today as it was in ancient times. This book offers a "contemporary" Top Ten list of important things for Christians to remember as we make our way through life's journey. Acknowledging that we all need guideposts ... | James W. Moore | Religion |
Pla/Cebo | The placebo effect is a fascinating but elusive phenomena. Although no standard definition of the placebo effect exists, it is generally understood as consisting of responses of individuals to the psychosocial context of medical treatments or clinical encounters, as distinct from specific physiological effects of medic... | Franklin G. Miller, Luana Colloca, Ted J. Kaptchuk | Medical |
You Can Have Your Cheese and Eat It Too!: A Complete Guide for Closing the Gap Between Where You Are and Where You Want to Be | African-Americans are experts in stretching everything except their money. Acquiring wealth does not just happen; it requires planning, commitment, and consistency. If you are struggling to make ends meet, credit challenged, or have difficulty developing and achieving your financial goals, Rags to Riches is the book fo... | Foshanta L. Garth, Deanita H. McCall | Business & Economics |
ASEANs Diplomatic and Security Culture: Origins, Development and Prospects | Member states of ASEAN - the Association of South-East Asian Nations - have developed a distinctive approach to political and security co-operation, which builds on the principles of sovereign equality, non-intervention and non-interference, quiet diplomacy, mutual respect, and the principle of not involving ASEAN in m... | Jurgen Haacke | History |
The Handsome road | A saga of Louisiana by an author who “belongs among those Southern novelists who are trying to interpret the South and its past in critical terms” (The New York Times). Published in the late 1930s by New York Times–bestselling author Gwen Bristow, the Plantation Trilogy is an epic series of novels that bring to life th... | Gwen Bristow | Fiction |
The Organic Codes: An Introduction to Semantic Biology | The genetic code appeared on Earth with the first cells. The codes of cultural evolution arrived almost four billion years later. These are the only codes that are recognized by modern biology. In this book, however, Marcello Barbieri explains that there are many more organic codes in nature, and their appearance not o... | Marcello Barbieri | Medical |
The Lost Village of Central Park (Mysteries in Time) | In Seneca Village, a thriving neighborhood of African Americans and recent immigrants in the middle of New York City in the 1850s, friends Kayla and Sooncy face separation when the city announces that by eminent domain it plans to take their land to build Central Park. | Hope Lourie Killcoyne | Juvenile Fiction |
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