A noted historian offers a definitive account of the administration of Woodrow Wilson, detailing Wilson's unusual route to the White House, his campaign against corporate interests, his influential shaping of American foreign policy, his political successes and failures, and his decline in popularit[...]
In the summer of 1861, Americans were preoccupied by the question of which states would join the secession movement and which would remain loyal to the Union. This question was most fractious in the border states of Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri. In Missouri, it was largely settled at Wilson's Cr[...]
After several introductory chapters on native trees and on managing trees in the landscape, 650 species and varieties and 500-plus cultivars are profiled, with text and photo description of flowers and fruit, native and adaptive range, culture, problems, and best seasonal features. The photos show d[...]
It is summer and the Canadian Rockies are on fire. Fleeing the fallout of a relationship gone wrong, Alan West returns to the small town in the valley where he grew up. There, his grandfather, Cecil, suffers a heart attack and gives him one last task: he must track down the father he's never known, [...]
This introductory Latin textbook contains fifteen brief sections, each of which explains a basic Latin syntactical construction, followed by two passages for comprehension and two for unseen translation.[...]
When Bill Wilson, with his friend Dr. Bob Smith, founded Alcoholics Anonymous in 1935, his hope was that AA would become a safe haven for those who suffered from this disease. Thirty years after his death, AA continues to help millions of alcoholics recover from what had been commonly regarded as a [...]
The Hardy brothers embark on a freighter trip under mysterious circumstances and find themselves involved with a smuggling ring.[...]
The Hardy boys and two friends take a camping trip to the Rocky Mountains in an attempt to locate a gang of credit-card counterfeiters.[...]
An invaluable, structured approach to the preventive care of children with congenital disorders.
Professor Joan Hoff's A Faustian Foreign Policy: Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush critiques U.S. foreign policy during this period by showing how moralistic diplomacy has increasingly taken on Faustian overtones. As long as the ideological outcome of the Cold War remained in doubt, there was little [...]
No other book covers such a wide scope of this aspect of graph theory.
(NEW TEXT ADDED)This is the epic saga of how Vampires save the planet and the universe from the giant four armed blood thirsty man-eating Korv, and the tiny Tiguns who come to Earth to warn us. It is a story of the oldest most powerful Vampire Brian Garrett and his heir Will Garrett, who with his ti[...]
This is the best-selling field guide that 'sets new standards' ("New Scientist") and 'makes all other field guides for mammals of the United States...and Canada obsolete' ("Journal of Mammalogy") is now even better. Covering 20 species recognized since 2002 and including 13 new color plates, this fu[...]
The best-selling field guide that 'sets new standards' ("New Scientist") and 'makes all other field guides for mammals of the United States...and Canada obsolete' ("Journal of Mammalogy"), is now even better. Covering 20 species recognized since 2002 and including 13 new color plates, this fully rev[...]
"For all students" is a convenient reference covering essential points of Latin grammar. Explanations are concise yet thorough and are accompanied by a wealth of examples to aid in reading and writing Latin. The language of the examples reflects the structures most frequently encountered in literatu[...]
The debut collection by the winner of the BBC National Short Story Award 2011
"Originally published in French as Rapport aux betes by Gallimard, Paris, 2002."
Considered the standard-bearer for the great Franco-Swiss literary tradition, exemplified by authors such as Jacques Chessex and C. F. Ramuz, No lle Revaz may also remind English-language readers of Louis-Ferdinand C line: With the Animals, her shocking debut, is a novel of mud and blood whose lingu[...]