Only two Americans held positions of great influence throughout the Cold War. The two men embodied opposing strategies for winning the conflict. Yet they dined together, attended the weddings of each other's children, and remained lifelong friends.Paul Nitze was a consummate insider who believed the[...]
OS Explorer is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map and is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking, horse riding and off-road cycling. The OS Explorer range of OL maps now includes a digital version of the paper map, accessed through the OS smartphone app, OS Maps. Providi[...]
OS Explorer is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map and is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities such as walking, horse riding and off-road cycling. The series provides complete GB coverage and can now be used in all weathers thanks to OS Explorer - Active, a tough, versatile version[...]
Whether teaching or learning UX Design, activities often sink in deeper than lectures. And game-like activities with a lesson included both engage and instruct. This book contains fun and challenging activities to help participants learn core concepts in user experience, from sketching, to photo saf[...]
When the Normans invade and sweep across Saxon England in 1066, lovely Aislinn of Darkenwald watches her father murdered outside her home. Wulfgar, the Iron Wolf of Normandy, arrives to rule Darkenwald, and one look at Aislinn leads him to claim her as his own. She hates the Norman conquering forces[...]
In this lyric narrative inspired by history, a former US Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winner imaginatively re-creates the life of a nineteenth-century virtuoso violinist. The son of a white woman and an 'African Prince' travels to Vienna to meet Beethoven. The composer's subsequent sonata is ded[...]
The title of the collection serves as an umbrella for the intimate concerns expressed in the forty-eight poems; in music, grace notes are those added to the basic melody, the embellishments that-if played or sung at the right moment with just the right touch-can break your heart. Isn't this what eve[...]
The "Textual Appendix" includes notes on the novel s textual history and lists all substantive revisions that James made to the novel, both in 1902 and in1909. "The Author and the Novel," introduced by editorial commentary and new to the Second Edition, includes selections from James s notebooks, le[...]
When photographer Shelby Johnson is murdered during the San Celina, California, Heritage Days celebration, her friend Benni Harper, dedicated quilter, rancher-turned-museum curator, and new wife of Police Chief Gabe Ortiz, searches for the killer[...]
Phaet Theta fled the Moon and has been hiding on Earth with her friend Wes and his family. But Phaet's past catches up with her when the Lunar Bases attack the community and reveal that Phaet is a fugitive. She's torn between staying on Earth with Wes-whom she's just discovered her feelings for-and [...]
Offers support for various abilities with stretch and challenge activities for A2 students. This book and CD-ROM includes case study material giving real world examples.[...]
Supporting the OCR Geography specification; these resources use real-world examples in case study material. They provide support for various abilities with stretch and challenge activities for A2 students.[...]
The Dove...
She'd been bought for a strip of land, then abandoned: a bartered bride, married by proxy, determined to wreak revenge. As innocent Sara Bishop she'd paid dearly for freedom from her cruel, mocking family. As flame-haired, jade-eyed Sabre Wilde, she would scandalize Queen El[...]
A new edition of Henry James's classic novel featuring a new afterword.
Milly Theale, an American heiress in London, is young, hungry for life, and terminally ill. There she meets the dazzling beauty Kate Croy. Unbeknownst to Milly, Kate is madly in love with an old acquaintance of hers, Merton [...]
Phaet Theta has lived her whole life in a colony on the Moon. She's barely spoken since her father died in an accident nine years ago. She cultivates the plants in Greenhouse 22, lets her best friend talk for her, and stays off the government's radar.
Then her mother is arrested.
The only wa[...]
Phaet Theta is a fugitive.
Hiding in plain sight with her friend Wes s family on the drowned planet Earth, Phaet discovers the rugged beauty of the world her ancestors once called home. All her life, she s been taught to fear the Earthbound, and their generosity and kindness surprise and touch [...]
The action-packed finale of this explosive sci-fi series for fans of Ender s Game and Star Wars.
Shy, introverted Phaet Theta has gone from being a top student to an interplanetary fugitive to the reluctant but fierce leader of a revolution. With the Earthbound on their side, she and her fri[...]
Rank high, save your family - lose yourself. Shy but brilliant Phaet ("Fate") Theta has spent fifteen years living a quiet existence in a lunar colony founded by scientists generations before. But when her mother is imprisoned and accused of treason, Phaet must save her sibilings from a grim orphan'[...]
An incisive introduction by Brenda Wineapple complements James's classic novel of romantic suspense, about a young couple, Kate Croy and her lover, journalist Merton Densher, who plan to extort money from a naive and trusting American heiress who is terminally ill. Reissue.[...]
The Bible was translated into English for the first time in the late 1300s by John Wyclif and his supporters. In the first study of the Wycliffite Bible for nearly a century, Mary Dove explains why people wanted an English translation, why many clergy opposed the idea, and why the Church's attempt t[...]
A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-- winning classic, "Lonesome Dove, "the third book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy, is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness of America. Journey to the dusty little Texas town of Lones[...]
A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic "Lonesome Dove," the third book in the "Lonesome Dove" tetralogy, is the grandest novel ever written about the last, defiant wilderness of America. Journey to the dusty little Texas town of Lones[...]