Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman, a switchboard operator for the Frequent and Vigorous Publishing Company, tries to cope with her great-grandmother's escape from a nursing home, her insanely jealous but not-too-passionate beau, and a cockatiel that spouts psycho-babble, Auden, and Bible quotations. A fir[...]

The "dazzling, exhilarating" ("San Francisco Chronicle") debut novel from one of this century's most groundbreaking writers, "The Broom of the System" is an outlandishly funny and fiercely intelligent exploration of the paradoxes of language, storytelling, and reality.
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This two volume series introduces the fascinating story of philosophy in a lucid, readable style students enjoy reading. Incorporating the most current scholarship, Matson integrates philosophy into the scientific, political, religious, and social context of different periods. The two volumes can be[...]

To European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed with bears, wolves, racoons, beavers, otters, and foxes. Today it is the city of Broadway and Wall Street, the Empire State Building and the Statue of Li[...]

The Emergent Multiverse presents a striking new account of the 'many worlds' approach to quantum theory. The point of science, it is generally accepted, is to tell us how the world works and what it is like. But quantum theory seems to fail to do this: taken literally as a theory of the world, it se[...]

Featuring a fresh look with different covers, new "TreeTops" logo, this title contains parental notes on inside back cover and teaching materials.[...]

Education is of relevance to everyone, but it involves specialized terminology which may be unfamiliar or opaque. This new UK-focused dictionary - with 1,250 authoritative entries - provides clear and accessible definitions of the terms, organizations, qualifications, statutes, and much more, involv[...]

Cities bring together masses of people, allow them to communicate and hide, and to transform private grievances into political causes, often erupting in urban protests that can destroy regimes. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has shaped urbanization via migration restrictions and redistributive po[...]

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