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[...]
Spare and unsparing, "God Help the Child"--the first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current moment--weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult.
At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black ski[...]
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[...]
Soon to be a major motion picture, directed by Anand Tucker and starring Colin Firth and Jim Broadbent
And when did you last see your father? Was it last weekend or last Christmas? Was it before or after he exhaled his last breath? And was it him really, or was it a version of him, shaped by you[...]
Morrison and DeCiani use a real-life theme to prepare students to handle the everyday ethical situations facing legal assistants. Several learning features expand upon this theme. Focus On features offer interviews with practicing paralegals. Paralegals in the Spotlight summarize real-life ethical s[...]
The third book in a three-level science series covering the lower secondary grades and designed for children in English-medium schools, for whom English is not the first language.[...]
The first book in a three-level science series covering the lower secondary grades and designed for children in English-medium schools, for whom English is not the first language.[...]
The second book in a three-level science series covering the lower secondary grades and designed for children in English-medium schools, for whom English is not the first language.[...]
Comprehensive coverage of the international sections of the Standard Grade syllabus
The epitome of a group of women's ideals about love, fatherhood, and friendship, wealthy hotel owner Bill Cosey finds his life compromised by his troubled past and his feelings about a spellbinding woman named Celestial. 500,000 first printing.[...]
The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature.
It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove -- a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others -- who pray[...]
"The first Doors biography that feels like it was written for the right reasons, and it is easily the most informed account of the Doors' brief but brilliant life as a group." -- The New York Times Book Review[...]
Perfect for newly independent readers--the amazing true story of Michaela DePrince, one of America's top ballerinas.
At the age of three, Michaela DePrince found a photo of a ballerina that changed her life. She was living in an orphanage in Sierra Leone at the time, but was soon adopted by a f[...]
Wildlife Study Design provides researchers and resource managers with a comprehensive guide to planning new studies by covering all aspects of study design, including surveys of major types of studies and variables, impact assessment, statistics, sampling techniques, inventorying and monitoring, and[...]
A guide to a rich and fascinating subject: algebraic curves and how they vary in families. Providing a broad but compact overview of the field, this book is accessible to readers with a modest background in algebraic geometry. It develops many techniques, including Hilbert schemes, deformation theor[...]
Stone forms a framework and a sense of permanence that transforms a garden. Whether in the form of walls, walkways or as boulders at the edge of a pond, stone lends focus, providing the perfect foil to plants. In this book, readers are inspired to think creatively and practically about the role ston[...]
The author of Song of Solomon now sets her extraordinary novelistic powers on a striking new course. Tar Baby, audacious and hypnotic, is masterful in its mingling of tones--of longing and alarm, of urbanity and a primal, mythic force in which the landscape itself becomes animate, alive with a wild,[...]
Toni Morrison--author of Song of Solomon and Tar Baby--is a writer of remarkable powers: her novels, brilliantly acclaimed for their passion, their dazzling language and their lyric and emotional force, combine the unassailable truths of experience and emotion with the vision of legend and imaginati[...]
Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the "Oregon "return in the extraordinary new novel in the #1 "New York Times" bestselling series by the grand master of adventure.
In 1902, the volcano Mt. Pelee erupts on the island of Martinique, wiping out an entire city of thirty thousand and sinking a ship carr[...]
This guide takes the form of a sourcebook, combining reprinted contextual and critical documents with extensive introductory comment and annotation by the volume editor.[...]
Toni Morrison's visionary explorations of freedom and identity, self and community, against the backdrop of African American history have established her as one of the foremost novelists of her time; an artist whose seriousness of purpose and imaginative power have earned her both widespread critica[...]
Suitable for students on teacher training courses in the UK - Early Years, Primary and Secondary, this book focuses on the quality of teaching and learning and considers the policy changes and guidelines that ensures that it fits comfortably within TDA and OfSTED frameworks without being too prescri[...]
Shows how to use social networking tools in course design, including coverage of designing for a distributed environment, the strengths and weaknesses of delivering content in various format, and consideration of such specific media as podcasting and webc asting.[...]