Ross Kemp risks all to tell the story of the British soldier in "Ross Kemp on Afghanistan". He has played an East End hardman, an SAS soldier and investigated vicious world gangs. Now Ross Kemp is taking on perhaps his hardest assignment of all - the Taliban. In order to prepare for this life-threat[...]
Sueellen Ross is passionate about depicting animals that are dear to her.
That passion shines through in her kitten paintings. She starts each one with a detailed graphite drawing, then uses India ink to fill in dark areas, watercolors to add color, and finally colored pencils to achieve textur[...]
At last, the brilliant successor to Hammett and Chandler in a definitive collector's edition: Revered by such contemporary masters as Sue Grafton, George Pelecanos, and James Ellroy, Ross Macdonald (the pseudonym of Kenneth Millar) brought to the crime novel new levels of social realism and psycholo[...]
The various chemicals used in beekeeping have, for the past decades, held Varroa Destructor, a mite, and other major pests at bay, but chemical resistance is building and evolution threatens to overtake the best that laboratory chemists have to offer. In fact, there is evidence that chemical treatme[...]
Alex Ross has made his home at Dynamite Entertainment for the past several years with the creation of his own universe in "Project Superpowers". Having produced many other illustrations for Dynamite comic books like "Green Hornet" and "Vampirella", and having reunited with his "Marvels" collaborator[...]
Drawing on 30 years of experience, the author of "The Diet Cure" presents a natural approach to emotional well-being that starts within 24 hours.
Weâre in a bad mood epidemic, but Julia Rossâs plan provides a natural cure. Drawing on thirty years of experience, she presents [...]
The Dhammapada, the Pali version of one of the most popular texts of the Buddhist canon, ranks among the classics of the world's great religious literature. Like all religious texts in Pali, the Dhammapada belongs to the Therevada school of the Buddhist tradition, adherents of which are now found p[...]
In the 1980s, a series of child sex abuse cases rocked the United States. The most famous case was the 1984 McMartin preschool case, but there were a number of others as well. By the latter part of the decade, the assumption was widespread that child sex abuse had become a serious problem in Americ[...]
Everyone has heard of George Balanchine. Few outside Russia know of Leonid Yakobson, Balanchine's contemporary, who remained in Lenin's Russia and survived censorship during the darkest days of Stalin. Like Shostakovich, Yakobson suffered for his art and yet managed to create a singular body of revo[...]
Not all damaging stereotypes are obvious. In fact, the pictorial stereotypes in the media that we don't notice could be the most harmful because we aren't even aware of the negative, false ideas they perpetrate. This book presents a series of original research essays on media images of groups includ[...]
Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar provides an innovative reference guide to Mandarin Chinese, combining traditional and function-based grammar in a single volume. The Grammar is divided into two parts. Part A covers traditional grammatical categories such as phrase order, nouns, verbs and specifiers.[...]
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D., is the woman who has transformed the way the world thinks about death and dying. Beginning with the groundbreaking publication of the classic psychological study On Death and Dying, through her many books and her years working with terminally ill children, AIDS patients [...]
Introduces the tools, materials, and techniques of painting, and offers sixty step-by-step demonstrations of landscape and seascape painting[...]
"The Lexicon Of Stupidity" is an over-stuffed dictionary of quotes, banalities, actual book titles, hold up notes, menu items, TV listings, and more, each meeting one exacting criterion: they're so jaw-droppingly dumb you can't help but laugh. It's the wit of the witless. The comedy of the clueless.[...]
""I want to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon, but I want to stay alive.""" Madonna, on inspiring people" Beloved for over 20 years, "The 365 Stupidest Things Ever Said" delivers a hilarious nugget of jaw-dropping inanity every day. Here are sports stars, entertainers, and politi[...]