Takes you to a journey into the world of the superheroes. This title draws on history, art, mythology, and the author's own journeys through this alternate universe to provide the chronicle of the superhero - why they matter, why they will always be with us, and what they tell us about who we are.[...]
a- How are the emerging economies of China and India affecting the global business environment? a- What impact has the global financial crisis had on the way businesses operate? a- How should business leaders in the age of the multinational enterprise approach their social and ethical responsibil[...]
In this innovative study, Lucille P. Fultz explores Toni Morrison's rich body of work, uncovering the interplay between differences - love and hate, masculinity and femininity, black and white, past and present, wealth and poverty - that lie at the heart of these vibrant and complex narratives. Much[...]
Looks at the history of rockabilly music, profiling such greats as Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Malcolm Yelvington, and Roy Hall[...]
James Morrison's "Roman Polanski" offers one of the most comprehensive and critically engaged treatments ever written on Polanski's work. Tracing the filmmaker's remarkably diverse career from its beginnings to the present, the book provides commentary on all the major films in their historical, cul[...]
This clearly illustrated explanation the basic principles of crystals may be used as a text or supplementary sourcebook by high-school students (for which it was originally written), students at the junior college or undergraduate level, or the general reader with an interest in science.[...]
This well-established text provides an authoritative and comprehensive overview of the practice and supporting systems relating to the storage and supply of materials, from elementary principles and simplest methods to the most advanced automated operations. It is an invaluable guide to inbound l[...]
An Introduction to Health Psychology, Third edition givesyou a comprehensive and lively introduction to this interesting field.Retaining the highly praised approach of the first and second editions, each chapter outlines and describes the theory and research before moving on to explore applications [...]
The year 2007 marked the 150th anniversary of the design of Central Park, the first and arguably the most famous of America's urban landscape parks. In October 1857, the new park's board of commissioners announced a public design competition, and the following April the imaginative yet practicable '[...]
When singer Amy Winehouse was found dead at her London home in 2011, the press inducted her into what Kurt Cobain's mother named the 27 Club. "Now he's gone and joined that stupid club," she said in 1994, after being told that her son, the front man of Nirvana, had committed suicide. "I told him not[...]
Think "Woodstock" and the mind turns to the seminal 1969 festival that crowned a seismic decade of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. But the town of Woodstock, New York, the original planned venue of the concert, is located over 60 miles from the site to which the fabled half a million flocked. Long be[...]
When singer Amy Winehouse was found dead at her London home in 2011, the press inducted her into what Kurt Cobain's mother named the 27 Club. "Now he's gone and joined that stupid club," she said in 1994, after being told that her son, the front man of Nirvana, had committed suicide. "I told him not[...]
Think "Woodstock" and the mind turns to the seminal 1969 festival that crowned a seismic decade of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. But the town of Woodstock, New York, the original planned venue of the concert, is located over 60 miles from the site to which the fabled half a million flocked. Long be[...]
Sethe, an escaped slave living in post-Civil War Ohio with her daughter and mother-in-law, is haunted persistently by the ghost of the dead baby girl whom she sacrificed, in a new edition of the Nobel Laureate's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. 25,000 first printing.[...]
America's most celebrated novelist, Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison extends her profound take on our history with this twentieth-century tale of redemption: a taut and tortured story about one man's desperate search for himself in a world disfigured by war.
Frank Money is an angry, self-loathing[...]
What happens when a coffee-drinking, cigarette-smoking, steak-eating twenty-five-year-old atheist decides it is time to get in touch with her spiritual side? Not what you'd expect...
When Suzanne Morrison decides to travel to Bali for a two-month yoga retreat, she wants nothing more than to be [...]
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When Frank Money joined the army to escape his too-small world, he left behind his cherished and fragile little sister, Cee. After the war, his shatter[...]