Readers met the comical Kevin in "Liar, Liar" and" Flat Broke." Kevin gets serious about Tina Zabinski, the Most Beautiful Girl in the World. Finally, finally, he's worked up his courage--he's going to ask her out. Or will his trademark scheming get in his way?[...]

Digital Russia provides a comprehensive analysis of the ways in which new media technologies have shaped language and communication in contemporary Russia. It traces the development of the Russian-language internet, explores the evolution of web-based communication practices, showing how they have b[...]

Sarny, the young slave girl who learned to read in "Nightjohn," is now a young widow. She flees the plantation in the last days of the Civil War, a free woman in search of her sold-away children. Sarny's story gives a panoramic view of America in a time of tragedy, trial, and hoped-for change, until[...]

Francis Tucket and his adopted family, Lottie and Billy, are heading west in search of Francis's parents on the Oregon Trail. But when winter comes early, Francis turns south to avoid the cold, and leads them right into enemy territory--the Mexican War of 1848. Francis and the children are captured [...]

In this book, first published in 2003, the reader is provided with a tour of the principal results and ideas in the theories of completely positive maps, completely bounded maps, dilation theory, operator spaces and operator algebras, together with some of their main applications. The author assumes[...]

Recreates the mythology of U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves, a black man born into slavery who became the most successful lawman of the Wild West, bringing hundreds of fugitives to justice with such courage and honor that he became a legend. An ALA Notable Book. Jr Lib Guild. Reprint.[...]

Roped into wacky attempts to break world records, imitate scenes from books, and other inspired ideas, Riley and Reed follow their fearless leader Henry into the wilderness, the bull-riding ring, a haunted house, cataclysmic collision with explosive life forms, and off the roof of a house on a bike.[...]

"We want you to do it again."
These words, spoken to Brian Robeson, will change his life. Two years earlier, Brian was stranded alone in the wilderness for 54 days with nothing but a small hatchet. Yet he survived.
Now the government wants him to go back into the wilderness so that astronaut[...]

Having been stolen away from his comfortable life with his loving family, Buck is forced to work on a dog sled team in the fierce conditions of the Klondike, where he must forget his happy past and turn to his animal instincts in order to survive in his new surroundings. Reprint.[...]

Here comes the winning team for exam preparation: "Sobotta - Atlas of Human Anatomy" with online access. Volume 1 "General Anatomy and Musculoskeletal System" includes the following topics: General Anatomy; Trunk; Upper Extremity; and, Lower Extremity. Access to the Sobotta website complements your [...]

"Volume 2: Internal Organs" includes the following topics: Viscera of the Thorax; Viscera of the Abdomen; and, Pelvis and Retroperitoneal Space. Access to the Sobotta website complements your personal exam preparation with additional contents for Volume 2. This title includes: Image database: All So[...]