While homophobia is commonly characterized as individual and personal prejudice, this collection of essays instead explores homophobia as a transnational political phenomenon. Contributors theorize homophobia as a distinct configuration of repressive state-sponsored policies and practices with their[...]
The housecats of DewClaw Lane have the purr-fect life: long, sunny days filled with napping, grooming, napping, chasing puppies and just lounging around...But beneath the calm exterior, the housecats have another life, one of backbiting, intrigue, cat-fights and territorial disputes. With an up-comi[...]
This beautiful keepsake journal is the perfect place for moms and tween daughters to share stories and dreams, hopes and fears. Advice, guidelines, and prompts by author Meredith Jacobs and her thirteen-year-old daughter Sofie pave the way to discussing everything from friends and school to crushes [...]
This globally focused resource integrates sound research evidence, real-life case scenarios, and effective, practical strategies to address a key health care initiative of the 21st century--optimal quality of life for older adults. Distinguished by its broad and global outlook, the book includes con[...]
If your pressure cooker has been collecting dust, then you need to get Comfortable Under Pressure! Meredith Laurence, the Blue Jean Chef, has been cooking on live television on QVC for over ten years. By sharing tips, tricks and techniques with the QVC customers while equipping their kitchens with Q[...]
The smash-hit spinoff comic series based Cartoon Network's top-rated cartoon, Adventure Time, is here Join fan-favorite characters Marceline and Princess Bubblegum for riot grrl rock-fueled excitement in this brand-new ADVENTURE TIME mini-series Thanks to a newfound interest in music, Princess Bubb[...]
When it comes to living longer, scientists are discovering that less is more. By following Calorie Restriction, a revolutionary diet that provides the body with fewer calories than is traditionally required, people are getting dramatic benefits. Now, with The CR Way, you too can slow the aging proce[...]
Through the publication of her first book, Kelly Cutrone has built an army of young women who feverishly look to her to provide unfettered guidance on their lives. Her first book introduced Kelly as a mentor for young women looking to get their feet in the door, establishing her role as guru. Now Ke[...]
It's never been like this before.Leah has always followed the road paved for her by family and tradition--Miss Popularity, homecoming queen, valedictorian--until she locks eyes with the dark and mysterious Porter.Now Leah's life is heading for a detour, and for the first time ever, she's the driver.[...]
Interactions/Mosaics Silver Edition is a fully integrated, 18-book series that prepares students for academic success. Language proficiencies are articulated from the beginning through advanced levels within each of the four language skill strands. Chapter themes articulate across the four skill str[...]
Virginia Woolf said of The Egoist: 'Meredith pays us a supreme compliment to which as novel-readers we are little accustomed ...He imagines us capable of disinterested curiosity in the behaviour of our kind.' In this, the most dazzlingly intellectual of all his novels, Meredith tries to illuminate t[...]
Firebirds is more than simply an anthology -- it is a celebration of wonderful writing. It gathers together sixteen original stories by some of today's finest writers of fantasy and science fiction. Together, they have won virtually every major prize -- from the National Book Award to the World Fant[...]
So far this year isn't going the way she planned but it "is" undeniably memorable.
Kelsey Finkelstein is starting her freshman year of high school and she's determined to begin with a clean slate. Her arch-nemesis moved away this summer, finally giving her the chance to stand out on the soccer [...]
Jan, the prince of the unicorns, is high-spirited, reckless-and the despair of his mighty father, Korr. Reluctantly, Korr allows Jan to accompany the other initiate warriors on a pilgrimage. Soon Jan's curiosity leads him, along with his friend Dagg, and their mentor, the female warrior Tek, into th[...]
Volume Two of the Firebringer Trilogy
"Carefully plotted, with satisfying action and fully developed, intriguing characters, this is sure to please fantasy lovers."--Booklist
He was the youngest prince the unicorns had ever known: Aljan son-of-Korr, Dark Moon. A silver crescent on his brow[...]
Jan, the prince of the unicorns, uses his knowledge of fire to form a historic alliance between his people and their former enemies and to return the unicorns to their ancestral homeland. Reprint.[...]
A magnificent volume of short novels and an essential World War II report from one of America's great twentieth-century writers
On the heels of the enormous success of his masterwork "The Grapes of Wrath"?and at the height of the American war effort?John Steinbeck, one of the most prolific and i[...]
Familiar to many as the Stanley Kubrick film starring Kirk Douglas, "Paths of Glory" explores the perilous complications involved in what nations demand of their soldiers in wartime. Humphrey Cobb's protagonists are Frenchmen during the First World War whose nightmare in the trenches takes a new and[...]
One of the great World War I antiwar novels--honest, chilling, and brilliantly satirical Based on the author's experiences on the Western Front, Richard Aldington's first novel, "Death of a Hero," finally joins the ranks of Penguin Classics. Our hero is George Winterbourne, who enlists in the Britis[...]