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Elementary Differential Equations
Elementary Differential Equations, 10th Edition is written from the viewpoint of the applied mathematician, whose interest in differential equations may sometimes be quite theoretical and sometimes intensely practical. The authors have sought to combine a sound and accurate exposition of the elementary theory of differ...
William E. Boyce, Richard C. DiPrima
Mathematics
Environmental Science: Toward A Sustainable Future (8th Edition)
Resource added for the Solar Energy Technology program 104824.
Richard T. Wright, Bernard J. Nebel
Science
Everyday Magic: The Power of Memes
Shows you how to systematically examine and understand your memes (attitudes, beliefs, decisions) and examine your life patterns to change the everyday magic in your life.
Ken Renshaw
Body, Mind & Spirit
Brilliant Bead Rings (Crafts)
No outfit is complete without accessories! A chunky necklace can give jeans and a T-shirt a little more style while a pair of sparkly earrings can communicate a love for all things glam! Whatever their style, readers will find plenty of fun jewelry to make, from funky hair clips made from old toys to cool handmade bead...
Annalees Lim
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Women Creating Lives: Identities, Resilience, And Resistance
There is no other published book in English studying the constitution of the Roman Republic as a whole. Yet the Greek historian Polybius believed that the constitution was a fundamental cause of the exponential growth of Rome's empire. He regarded the Republic as unusual in two respects: first, because it functioned so...
Abby J Stewart
Social Science
Emotional Honesty & Self-Acceptance
There is no excuse for not teaching preventive, healthy coping strategies to prepare kids for their teenage years. -- Ronald R. Brill In his innovative book, Emotional Honesty & Self-Acceptance, Ronald Brill, a former university professor and health educator, argues that youth can learn how to self-manage upsetting and...
Ronald R. Brill
Psychology
Little Critter: Just a School Project
Little Critter studies caterpillars as his project for the science fair.
Mercer Mayer
Caterpillars
Tu Beb: desde la Concepcin hasta los 12 meses (Spanish Edition)
Een hoog IQ biedt geen garantie op een gelukkig leven; minstens even belangrijk is het EQ, het ‘emotiequotiënt’. In 'Emotionele intelligentie' laat Daniel Goleman ons kennismaken met het voelende deel van ons brein, dat zorgt voor zelfbeheersing, zelfkennis, geestdrift en het vermogen eigen emoties te herkennen en onsz...
Daniel Goleman
Business & Economics
TV Wonderland: The Enchantment of Early Television
From big screens to high-definition, America's obsession with the television started more than 50 years ago when the first TV catalogs and print advertisements began defining the suburban family by the size, color, and features of its television. TV WONDERLAND looks at the unique history of the television through the l...
Brad Schepp, Debra Schepp
Design
The Story Of Civilization (Eleven Volumes, Complete)
The Story of Civilization, Volume VII: A history of European civilization in the period of Shakespeare, Bacon, Montaigne, Rembrandt, Galileo, and Descartes: 1558-1648. This is the seventh volume of the classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning series.
Will Durant, Ariel Durant
History
Kenny Doin Just Fine
KENNY DOIN' JUST FINE Miriam Greenfield, a proud and intellectual young woman, is stuck in the Los Angeles ghetto of Boyle Heights, where poverty and responsibility to her family stiffle all her personal ambitions and lead her further and further away from her dream of achieving a life in the world of literature. When ...
Sadie Wernick Hurwitz
Fiction
The Pocket Book of Ogden Nash
The experimental, philosophical, and humorous aspects of Nash's personality are revealed in an anthology of his poetry
Ogden Nash
Fiction
Harry on the Rocks
Harry and his boat become stranded on an island, where he discovers an egg which hatches into a strange lizard with wings.
Susan Meddaugh
Juvenile Fiction
Being a Man: A Guide to the New Masculinity
In To be a man behandelt Robert Augustus Masters levensvragen waar mannen mee worstelen. "Ik heb alles: een mooi huis, een goede baan, een leuke vrouw en lieve kinderen, waarom ben ik dan toch zo ontevreden?" "Hoe kan ik krachtiger overkomen, zonder dat anderen mij meteen een eikel vinden?" "Waarom lukt het me maar nie...
Robert Masters
Body, Mind & Spirit
Cambridge Practice Tests for IELTS 1 Self-study Students Book (IELTS Practice Tests)
Cambridge Practice Tests for IELTS 1 is written by experienced IELTS examiners, one based in Britain and one based in Australia. The Student's Book contains an introduction to the different modules of the exam together with an explanation of the different IELTS question types and how to approach them. The inclusion of ...
Vanessa Jakeman, Clare McDowell
Foreign Language Study
Marshall Hollenzer is Driving
What if you believed that "for the price of a cup of coffee you could save a child's life?" What if your life closely resmbled the life of a caged budgie bird? What if the most real part of your life were the words in books? Would you let your world shatter?
Owen Egerton
Fiction
Saint Martin de Porres
The close friend of St. Rose of Lima; he became a Dominican lay brother at 15 and spent his life (died at 61) helping those in need. Many great anecdotes telling how he raised the dead; multiplied food; cured the sick; healed wounded animals; visited those in need through bilocation; did extreme penance and gained the ...
Giuliana Cavallini, Caroline Holland
Biography & Autobiography
The Bruce Lee Story
The widow of the late martial arts star traces his life from his childhood in Hong Kong, to his education in the United States, his career as an actor, and his untimely death
Linda Lee, Mike Lee
Biography & Autobiography
Sweet Dream Baby
Sent to live in the humidity of rural Florida with his grandparents and his sixteen-year-old Aunt Delia for the summer, twelve-year-old Travis becomes absorbed in the closed ways of small-town life. Captivated by Delia, Travis watches her attempt to find a place for herself in the socially stunted, gossip-driven town. ...
Sterling Watson
Fiction
A Tally of Types
Stanley Morison provided the impetus and judgement behind the programme of typographical revival carried through by the Monotype Corporation in the 1920s and early 1930s. The Tally is an account, historical, critical and functional, of the types cut under Morison's direction during this period.
Stanley Morison, Cambridge University Press
Language Arts & Disciplines
The MIDI Companion: The Ins, Outs and Throughs
(Book). Here's your complete guide to using MIDI synthesizers, samplers, soundcards, sequencers, computers and more! The MIDI Companion shows how a MIDI system or systems for a wide range of situations can be assembled quickly, easily and trouble-free. Describes how to synchronize MIDI sequencers, drum machines, multit...
Jeffrey Carl Rona
Music
His Grace Endures (Regency Romance)
While trying to help her younger sister-in-law find a respectable mate in London, Deirdre Broghan finds herself beset by the man she once left standing at the altar, the devilish and devilishly handsome Duke of Conover. Original.
Emma Jensen
Fiction
Vino Para Dummies
Wine enthusiasts and novices, raise your glasses! The #1 wine book has been extensively updated! If you’re a connoisseur, Wine For Dummies, Fourth Edition will get you up to speed on what’s in and show you how to take your hobby to the next level. If you’re new to the world of wine, it will clue you in on what you’ve b...
Ed McCarthy, Mary Ewing-Mulligan
Cooking
Enterprise Resources Planning and Beyond: Integrating Your Entire Organization (Resource Management)
To achieve success in today's business climate you must do more than provide high quality low cost products to customers when and how they want them. Customers and suppliers require fully integrated information - throughout the supply chain or value chain. You must integrate your organization so completely that executi...
Gary A Langenwalter
Business & Economics
Spousal Support In Network Marketing
Ever run into someone who is negative toward Network Marketing? Then this book is for you! The purpose of this book is to help spouses of network marketers to understand the industry and the reasons their spouse is involved. It will also assist people in the recruiting process when encountering the occasional "negative...
Donna Fason
Business & Economics
The California Heritage Cookbook
Food - its cultivation, preparation and communal consumption - has long been considered a form of cultural heritage. A dynamic, living product, food creates social bonds as it simultaneously marks off and maintains cultural difference. In bringing together anthropologists, historians and other scholars of food and heri...
Ronda L. Brulotte, Michael A. Di Giovine
Social Science
Tequila: A Natural and Cultural History
This comprehensive guide to tequila's varieties, production and history shares marks of distinction for connoisseurs and highlights the link between artisanal agave cultivation and final flavor, arguing for a return to cultivation of heritage crops.
Ana Guadalupe Valenzuela Zapata, Gary Paul Nabhan
History
The Gun Digest Book of the 1911: A Complete Look at the Use, Care & Repair of the 1911 Pistol, Vol. 1
Does Your 1911 Stack Up? &break;&break;When John Browning designed the Model 1911 pistol for Colt's Manufacturing Co. he created the standard by which pistols have been judged for more than 90 years. &break;&break;Now Patrick Sweeney provides the first in-depth look at the Model 1911 in all its forms, complete with inf...
Patrick Sweeney
Sports & Recreation
Healing Triangle of Light
A complete method for bringing the healing light of the soul, the Solar angel, and the angelic healers into the physical body. taught in workshops for many years, these easy-to-learn processes have helped thousands to heal and upgrade the cells in their body.
LaUna Huffines
Body, Mind & Spirit
Memoirs of China
This unprecedented volume contains the memoirs of a Chinese diplomat as he remembers the events surrounding World War II. Concerned that the West is basically ignorant about what occurred in China during the 1930s and 1940s, Dr. Li, former Major General in the Chinese Nationalist Army and one time aide de camp of Actin...
Tsi-gziou Li, Roman Rome
History
Advertising and a Democratic Press
In this provocative book, C. Edwin Baker argues that print advertising seriously distorts the flow of news by creating a powerfully corrupting incentive: the more newspapers depend financially on advertising, the more they favor the interests of advertisers over those of readers. Advertising induces newspapers to compe...
C. Edwin Baker
Business & Economics
Rakaposhi
The western Himalayas and the Karakoram range ' earthquakes ' landslides ' the world's highest paved international highway (dangerous, too) - ethnic tensions ' ancient cultures ' staggering beauty: 'Around Rakaposhi' is an account of two and a half years of living, working, and travelling among the Muslim people of the...
Brian H. Jones
Travel
Jean Paul Sartres No Exit and the Flies
English translations of four plays which dramatize the theme of man's responsibility for his own actions, by the leader of French existentialism
Jean-Paul Sartre
Drama
Point/Counterpoint: Opposing Perspectives on Issues of Drug Policy
MySearchLab provides students with a complete understanding of the research process so they can complete research projects confidently and efficiently. Students and instructors with an internet connection can visit www.MySearchLab.com and receive immediate access to thousands of full articles from the EBSCO ContentSele...
Charles F. Levinthal
Psychology
Mother S Table Father S Chair
Supplementing the narratives of her informants with her own commentary and interpretations, Thursby clarifies the role of women in the transformation of Basques into Basque Americans.
Jacqueline S. Thursby
Social Science
The National Review Treasury of Classic Childrens Literature
A collection of over forty stories, tales, poems, and fables by American writers from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, originally published in "St. Nicholas Magazine."
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Juvenile Fiction
Transforming Social Work Practice.
This book offers students a solid grounding in the core knowledge and skills of communication needed for effective practice. It takes the key theories and explains them in a systematic and practice-related way, to help undergraduate and postgraduate students develop a critical understanding of the subject.
Juliet Koprowska
Social Science
Country of Exiles: The Destruction of Place in American Life
Analyzes two contradictory patterns of American behavior--a willingness to pull up stakes and the determination to put down roots--and their influence on history
William Leach
History
The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home
Forget glossy period dramas, here is the real story of Britain's super-rich from the First World War to the end of the 'roaring' twenties.
Pamela Horn
History
Music with the Brain in Mind
... With sections devoted to theory, as well as practical strategies and applications for the classroom ... a primer on how the body hears music to music's impact on stress level, perceptual-motor skills, memory, and emotional intelligence ... Included are tips for choosing music and the various benefits of various mus...
Eric Jensen
Education
Writing for Myself (and ticking everybody else off!)
Selections from the author's weekly newspaper column "The Clarion Call." Covers Genesee Valley history and politics from the years 1989-2002, as well as personal and business struggles and opinions on state, national and international issues.
Corrin Strong
Livingston County (N.Y.)
Alias Billy the Kid: The Man Behind the Legend (Western Legacy Series)
Traces the brief and violent life of the outlaw who gained notoriety throughout the West
Donald Cline
Biography & Autobiography
Wet Work
Charley Becker, head of one of America’s biggest conglomerates, is a man on a mission. His only granddaughter, the beloved Natasha, has been found dead in her flat after taking an accidental overdose of cocaine and now he wants revenge. Determined to find the men responsible, Charley starts by tracking down Natasha’s b...
Christopher Buckley
Fiction
Midnight Flame (Heartfire)
Convinced that she was responsible for his uncle's death, Tony Duvalier decides to use his love affair with Laurel Delaney to enact his revenge
Lynette Vinet
Fiction
In Service to American Pharmacy: The Professional Life of William Procter Jr. (History Amer Science & Technol)
The position of the pharmacist in the structure of health care in the United States evolved during the middle half of the 19th century, roughly from the founding of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 1821 to the passage of meaningful pharmaceutical legislation in the 1870s. Higby examines the professional life of ...
Gregory J. Higby
Biography & Autobiography
The New Revised Standard Version Bible with Apocrypha
Though they are regularly used in both Protestant and Roman Catholic congregations, the books of the Apocrypha are difficult to find in affordable English Bibles today--until now Readers will enjoy the NRSV's contemporary, literal translation and the easy-to-read text. Churches that reference the Apocrypha in liturgy a...
Hendrickson Publishers
Bibles
Sharks/Other Scary Predators (Giant Book of)
Surveys animals who hunt on land and in the sea, including big cats, bears, crocodiles, snakes, and sharks.
Jim Pipe
Juvenile Nonfiction
Sandwich Glass
A history of and collectors guide to nineteenth-century glass manufacturing in South Boston"
Joan E. Kaiser
Antiques & Collectibles
At The Feet Of The Master
The privilege is given to me, as an elder, to pen a word of introduction to this little book, the first written by a younger Brother, young in body verily, but not in Soul. The teachings contained in it were given to him by his Master in preparing him for Initiation, and were written down by him from memory - slowly an...
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Religion
RCA
This manual provides instructions for implementing PL 95-192 the Resources Conservation Act of 1977 (RCA).
United States. Soil Conservation Service
Soil conservation
Pictures of the Night
Are you a night owl looking to make stunning images of streetscapes, fireworks, or the night sky? Do you like to bend time with long exposure photography? Do star trails or lightning strikes inspire you? Then this book is for you! In Night Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots, photographer Gabriel Biderman brings...
Gabriel Biderman, Tim Cooper
Photography
Desktop Yoga
For most of us, our desk is like a second home. In fact, we probably spend more time glued to our desks than at home. This often results in severe backache, frozen shoulder, difficulty in walking and body pain. All this affects the quality of life and work, yet we don't do anything about it and keep putting it off. Des...
Bharat Thakur
Health & Fitness
A Kids Guide to Building Forts
Presents a brief history of forts, step-by-step instructions for building indoor and outdoor forts, hints on where to obtain materials, and safety tips.
Tom Birdseye, Bill Klein
Juvenile Nonfiction
ZOMBIE LOVER (XANTH)
Something’s rotten in the land of Xanth—and it’s not just the undead—in this “cheeky” adventure in the New York Times–bestselling series (Publishers Weekly). Horrors and hilarity collide as a fate far worse than death awaits a vivacious young visitor to “the Florida-shaped fantasy land where anything goes and the puns ...
Piers Anthony
Fiction
Teach Yourself 101 Key Ideas: Philosophy
This series offers lively overviews of compelling topics. Perfect for students or general interest readers, each title provides an interesting and informative account of 101 key ideas, arranged in alphabetical order. No need to read cover to cover-readers can just dip in and find the explanation they need.
Paul Oliver
Philosophy
Adult Leukemia: A Comprehensive Guide for Patients and Families
Defines leukemia; describes symptoms and diagnosis; explains tests; and discusses prognosis, treatment options, side effects, support needs, financial aspects, and research aids.
Barbara B. Lackritz
Family & Relationships
The Night the Monster Came
After finding giant footprints in the snow, Andy is sure that Bigfoot is stalking his house.
Mary Calhoun
Bears
Body Self: take ACTION in your quest for Positive Body Image & More Self-Confidence
(see back cover image that I sent.)
Melissa Dodd
Self-Help
Best Laid Schemes (Regency Romance)
Presents a comprehensive guide for librarians and readers' advisors, provides a brief history of the romance novel, and offers reading lists and subgenre definitions.
Kristin Ramsdell
Language Arts & Disciplines
Mediating Dangerously: The Frontiers of Conflict Resolution
Sometimes it's necessary to push beyond the usual limits of themediation process to achieve deeper and more lasting change.Mediating Dangerously shows how to reach beyond technical andtraditional intervention to the outer edges and dark places ofdispute resolution, where risk taking is essential and fundamentalchange i...
Kenneth Cloke
Family & Relationships
Alaska: Southeast to McKinley
Record of a photographic journey divided into three chapters according to geographic region: southeast, south central and southwest. Each section includes an essay written by an Alaskan specialist, and an introductory chapter deals with the issue of wilderness preservation versus industrial development.
Andrew Jaffe, Lisa Tysen, Sven-Olof Lindblad
Photography
Lenins Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times From the editor of The New Yorker: a riveting account of the collapse of the Soviet Union, which has become the standard book on the subject. Lenin’s Tomb combines the global vision of the best historical scholarship with the immediacy o...
David Remnick
History
Reporting World War II, Part 1: American Journalism, 1938-1944 (Library of America)
Includes the work of nearly ninety writers, including Ernie Pyle, Martha Gellhorn, A.J. Liebling, and Edward R. Murrow, capturing the urgency of events as they happened
Samuel Hynes, Anne Matthews, Nancy Caldwell Sorel
History
White Rock Ways
Enjoy free will, but prepare for destiny. Welcome to Book 2 of Rae Crossmon's White Rock Series. Familiar faces. New players. Ancient conflicts. Fresh battles. One overriding sentiment: Free will is a terrible thing. But it’s better than the alternative. Jessica McConsas is in love with three men. Perhaps one is evil. ...
Rae Crossmon
Fiction
Collected Poems, 1920-1954: Revised Bilingual Edition
A strong, idiomatic translation of Italy's greatest modern poet. Eugenio Montale is universally recognized as having brought the great Italian lyric tradition that began with Dante into the twentieth century with unrivaled power and brilliance. Montale is a love poet whose deeply beautiful, individual work confronts th...
Eugenio Montale
Poetry
Situations: A Casebook of Virtual Realities for the English Teacher
Presents various challenging situations English teachers will most likely face, and provides questions to consider and thoughts on each issue. Covers such areas as lessons that flop, the paper load, curriculum, second-language learners, abused students, and attacks on the teacher's competence.
Betty Jane Wagner, Mark Larson
Education
Crisis and faith
Late pastor Ron Dunn's acclaimed book clarifies the differences between true and counterfeit faith, showing faith's rewards to be more about experiencing God's presence than in earthly blessings.
Ron Dunn
Religion
Hunters & Shooters
The third novel in the Earth's Children series, Jean M. Auel's internationally bestselling epic of life 25,000 years ago when two kinds of human beings, Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon, shared the earth. Leaving the valley of horses with Jondalar, the handsome man she has nursed back to health and come to love, Ayla embarks...
Jean M. Auel
Fiction
Little Scraggly Hair: A Dog on Noahs Ark
At a time when men and dogs are not friendly, Scraggly Hair helps Noah build an ark and round up the pairs of animals it will carry, but conditions on the boat turn his warm, dry nose to a cold, wet one.
Lynn Cullen
Juvenile Fiction
The Brethren A Tale Of The Crusades
This novel by Sir H. Rider Haggard, is a classic tale of love and chivalry, unfolding amidst the touching story of two English knights who are in love with the same maiden. The devotion of these men is tested as they are thrust into epic crusader battles.
H. Rider Haggard
Juvenile Fiction
Flavors of Korea: Delicious Vegetarian Cuisine (Healthy World Cuisine)
Presents traditional Korean recipes - ranging from mild to piquant - that have been handed down through the generations. The book provides low-fat, vegetarian variations of recipes including dumpling soup, red pepper broccoli, sesame bean curd, and honey cookies.
Deborah Coultrip-Davis, Young Sook Ramsay
Cooking
Watershed Management: Practice, Policies, and Coordination
Successful approaches to protecting and improving watershed resources Ensuring a safe and adequate supply of water requires the combined efforts and expertise of resource managers, engineers, planners, technical experts, and policy analysts worldwide. This contributed volume is unique in recognizing this need and provi...
Robert J. Reimold
Technology & Engineering
Succeed at Work Without Sidetracking Your Faith: 7 Lessons of Career Excellence for Women
A compilation of practical lessons and career management advice, this resource is a combination of personal and humorous stories, practical lessons and biblical wisdom for women.
Amy Baker
Business & Economics
Munchkins Remember
Profiles the numerous men and women who played the citizens of Munchkinland, offering their perspectives on the creation of "The Wizard of Oz," the film's stars, and their own lives before and after the film
Stephen Cox
Acteurs de cinéma - États-Unis - Biographies
Dr. Bernsteins Diabetes Solution: The Complete Guide to Achieving Normal Blood Sugars Revised & Updated
Originally published in 1997, DR. BERNSTEIN'S DIABETES SOLUTION is a unique resource that covers both adult- and childhood-onset diabetes, explains step-by-step how to normalize blood sugar levels and prevent or reverse complications, and offers detailed guidelines for establishing a treatment plan. Readers will find f...
Richard K. Bernstein
Health & Fitness
Stopped at Stalingrad: The Luftwaffe and Hitlers Defeat in the East, 1942-1943 (Modern War Studies)
A case study in combined arms warfare that fills many of the gaps left by other studies of the eastern war, reconsidering Luftwaffe operation in the Battle of Stalingrad in light of a wider body of documentary sources and analyzing many previously ignored events. Focuses on Hitler's use of the air force as a tactical r...
Joel S. A. Hayward
History
Catching the Thread: Sufism, Dreamwork, and Jungian Psychology
A pioneering work integrating the traditional wisdom of the Sufis with the insights of Jungian psychology.
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Irina Tweedie
Body, Mind & Spirit
West Indians in West Africa, 1808-1880: The African Diaspora in Reverse (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora)
No description available.
Nemata Amelia Blyden
History
The Texas Rangers: The Authorized History
Provides a history of the baseball team's first twenty-five years, including their first visit to postseason play during the 1996 season
Eric Nadel
Sports & Recreation
Walt Disney World with Kids, 2001 (Special-Interest Titles)
All-new information is given on attractions, hotels, and restaurants in Orlando, the number one tourist destination in the world. Revised with updated maps, this guide gives advice and information for a wide range of visitors, from honeymooners to grandparents and children.
Cynthia Tunstall
Travel
Comici spaventati guerrieri: Romanzo (I Narratori/Feltrinelli) (Italian Edition)
‘Levi is een humanist, die in staat was gebleken onder de allerergste omstandigheden zijn waardigheid te behouden.’ NRC Handelsblad De Joods-Italiaanse verzetsstrijder Primo Levi trok in 1943 de bergen in, maar hij werd al na enkele maanden gepakt en naar Auschwitz gedeporteerd. Als een van de weinigen overleefde hij d...
Primo Levi
Biography & Autobiography
Little Critter: Just a Snowman
Join Mercer Mayer’s classic and beloved character, Little Critter®, on his snow day! Snow is piled high and school is cancelled. But before Little Critter can build his snowman, he must help his sister wear her snow boots, his dad shovel the sidewalk, and Gator build a fort. Will Little Critter ever get to build a snow...
Mercer Mayer
Juvenile Fiction
Thunder Heart
Abandoned by the man who was supposed to protect her, Dede Martin and her son are captured by a magnificent Indian, Thunder Heart, who makes her pulse race at a touch. Original.
Cassie Edwards
Fiction
The Weed and the Winter Solstice
In this riveting tale, B conspires with narcs to catch a parolee cultivating marijuana on land the parolee is trying to wrest from B by blackmail. After the parolee is released from prison, events ensue that even B did not count on.
Howard E. Cook
Fiction
The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft
'a brilliant history' The Sunday Times 'makes for riveting reading' The Independent Modern pagan witchcraft is arguably the only fully-formed religion England has given the world, and has now spread across four continents. This second edition of The Triumph of the Moon extensively revises the first full-scale scholarly...
Ronald Hutton
Body, Mind & Spirit
The Handgun in Personal Defense
Provides instructions on how to use handguns for personal defense and protection, describing the types of people who should not own guns, and discussing psychological preparedness, basic tactical self-protection tools, handling and maintenance, ammunition, revolvers, semi-automatic pistols, holsters, safe operation and...
Stephen R. Rementer, Bruce N. Eimer
Reference
Lifetimes: The Beautiful Way to Explain Death to Children
When the death of a relative, a friend, or a pet happens or is about to happen . . . how can we help a child to understand? Lifetimes is a moving book for children of all ages, even parents too. It lets us explain life and death in a sensitive, caring, beautiful way. Lifetimes tells us about beginnings. And about endin...
Bryan Mellonie
Family & Relationships
Strategies for Stillwater
Discusses tackle, flies, locating trout, and recognizing and matching lake food forms
Dave Hughes
Sports & Recreation
Maine Amphibians and Reptiles
Maine Amphibians and Reptiles describes each species in prose that is substantial and authoritative, yet clear and engaging. Where does each species live? What do they eat and what eats them? When, where, and how do they reproduce? These and scores of other questions are covered in accounts for each species, along with...
Malcolm L. Hunter
Nature
Dance of Darkness (Winds of Light #8)
No description available.
Ann Ann Howey
History
Steam: The Untold Story Of Americas First Great Invention
In 1807, Robert Fulton, using an English mail-order steam engine, chugged four miles an hour up the Hudson River, passing into popular folklore as the inventor of the steamboat. However, the true first passenger steamboat in America, and the world, was built from scratch, and plied the Delaware River in 1790, almost tw...
Andrea Sutcliffe
History
Praying the Bible for Your Life
From bestselling and beloved author Stormie Omartian comes a unique collection of prayer insight accompanied by carefully chosen Scripture. Praying the Bible into Your Life gives readers the help they need to draw from God's power, truth, wisdom, and comfort for everyday guidance and decision making. These short but si...
Stormie Omartian
Religion
The Godless Constitution: The Case Against Religious Correctness
Refutes the claims of the religious right that America was founded as a Christian nation, and emphasizes that separation of church and state was designed to guarantee religious freedom
Isaac Kramnick, Robert Laurence Moore, R. Laurence Moore
Church and state
The Magic Jeepney
The genie in Tito's bottle of soda rewards the bus driver with a magic jeepney that never needs gas, never suffers a dent, and can even fly ... all the way to Africa.
Lolo Pedro
Bus travel
Labors untold story,
"Fundamentally, labor's story is the story of the American people. To view it narrowly, to concentrate on the history of specific trade unions or on the careers of individuals and their rivalries, would be to miss the point that the great forces which have swept the American people into action have been the very forces...
Richard Boyer, Richard Owen Boyer, Herbert Montfort Morais
Business & Economics
Haiku Year
A year of haiku moments pares life down to the sparest of language, including contributions from Douglas Martin, Grant Lee Phillips, Tom Gilroy, Anna Grace, Rick Roth, Jim McKay, and others. Original.
Michael Stipe, Tom Gilroy, Douglas Martin
Poetry
Lanterns: A Memoir of Mentors
I am grateful beyond words for the example of the lanterns shared in this memoir whose lives I hope will illuminate my children's, your children's, and the paths of countless others coming behind.--Marian Wright Edelman, from the Preface Marian Wright Edelman, "the most influential children's advocate in the country" (...
Marian Wright Edelman
Biography & Autobiography
Mothman Prophecies
This true account of the aliens who invaded the town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia - first published in 1975 - has been made into a major motion picture starring Richard Gere, Laura Linney and Alan Bates. For thirteen months Point Pleasant was plagued by a dark terror that culminated in a major disaster. Unearthly n...
John A. Keel
Body, Mind & Spirit
The Devil in Silicon Valley: Northern California, Race, and Mexican Americans
This sweeping history explores the growing Latino presence in the United States over the past two hundred years. It also debunks common myths about Silicon Valley, one of the world's most influential but least-understood places. Far more than any label of the moment, the devil of racism has long been Silicon Valley's d...
Stephen J. Pitti
History
California Tree Finder: A pocket manual for identifying California trees
With this handy, easy-to-use book, you'll be able to identify a wide variety of trees along the Pacific Coast in no time.
Tom Watts
Nature