Follow in the footsteps of much-loved authors, including Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac, Jane Austen, and many more. For vacationers who crave meaningful trips and unusual locales, cue National Geographic's Novel Destinations--a guide for bibliophiles to more[...]
Peck's favorite trail mix is slowly disappearing throughout the day Help him catch the trail mix thief in this Level Pre-1 reader[...]
Louis L'Amour, one of American's most beloved Western writers, wrote over 100 novels in a thirty-year career. With over 100 million books sold, he is one of the most popular writers ever to put pen to paper. His novels were written in a clean flowing style and featured highly detailed Western settin[...]
Learn to observe, sketch, and paint nature from an award-winning outdoor artist and art teacher *Explains how to "see" color depending on time of day, season, atmosphere, and more *More than 170 illustrations, featuring iconic national parks *Improve your nature painting skills or learn a fun new[...]
A frank and honest memoir by Britain's former ambassador to Kabul which provides a unique, high-level insight into Western policy in Afghanistan.[...]
Includes chapters on process synthesis, computer-aided design, and design of chemical reactors. Emphasising on computer use in design, economic evaluation, and optimization, this book contains numerous real examples, including computer or hand solutions, and often both. Concepts, strategies, and app[...]
"In this Caldecott Medal winner, Mosquito tells a story that causes a jungle disaster. "Elegance has become the Dillons' hallmark. . . . Matching the art is Aardema's uniquely onomatopoeic text . . . An impressive showpiece."
"-Booklist," starred review.[...]
The heartwrenching "New York Times" bestseller about the only known person born inside a North Korean prison camp to have escaped North Korea's political prison camps have existed twice as long as Stalin's Soviet gulags and twelve times as long as the Nazi concentration camps. No one born and raised[...]
Written by locals, Fodor's travel guides have been offering expert advice for all tastes and budgets for more than 80 years. A slender necklace of landfalls off the southern tip of Florida, the Florida Keys are nirvana for anglers, divers, literature lovers, and Jimmy Buffet wannabes. The favorite o[...]
For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the world is steadily becoming less democratic. The true culprits are dictators and counterfeit democrats. But, argues Klaas, the West is also an accomplice, inadvertently assaulting pro-democracy forces abroad as governments in Washington, London an[...]
The Slave Coast, situated in what is now the West African state of Benin, was the epicentre of the Atlantic Slave Trade. But it was also an inhospitable, surf-ridden coastline, subject to crashing breakers and devoid of permanent human settlement. Nor was it easily accessible from the interior due t[...]
Defense of the Baltic gained unprecedented prominence in the West after 2014. The West's East presents a historical-strategic perspective on the region's 800 year geopolitical significance and applies strategic theory to analyze the contemporary strategic balance and potential dynamics of armed conf[...]
An assessment of the explanatory utility of different approaches to account for post-Soviet Russia's foreign policy towards the West, arguing that only by focusing both on external constraints and changes in the Russian leadership's foreign policy thinking can we explain major facets of Russia's con[...]
The first edition of "The New Cold War" was published to great critical acclaim and Edward Lucas has established himself as a top expert in the field, appearing on numerous programs, including Lou Dobbs, MSNBC, NBC Nightly News, CNN, and NPR. In this new revised and updated edition, Lucas reveals: <[...]
Introducing the incredible story of Shin Dong-hyuk - the only person born in a North Korean gulag ever to escape ...[...]
Exploring the origins, organization, subject matter, and performance contexts of singers and singing, Women's Songs from West Africa expands our understanding of the world of women in West Africa and their complex and subtle roles as verbal artists. Covering Cote d'Ivoire, the Gambia, Mali, Niger, N[...]
West Africa's Women of God examines the history of direct revelation from Emitai, the Supreme Being, which has been central to the Diola religion from before European colonization to the present day. Robert M. Baum charts the evolution of this movement from its origins as an exclusively male traditi[...]
Born Cicely Fairfield in 1892, as a young woman - and a budding actress - Rebecca West changed her name to that of the feminist heroine in Ibsen's play, Rosmersholm . West was a passionate suffragist, a socialist and fiercely intelligent and her long career as a writer began when she was barely out [...]
The forgotten story of how the U.S. Army was created to fight a crucial Indian warIn 1783, with the signing of the Peace of Paris, the American Revolution was complete. And yet even as the newly independent United States secured peace with Great Britain, it found itself losing an escalating military[...]
An insightful look at the future of China's relations with the West and the United StatesFor anyone who wants to better understand China and its economic and political relations to the West, "On Equal Terms" offers front-row insight. It explores China's state-capitalist economic model and the unique[...]
15 delightful fables from the world of the Green Forest will entertain and educate young readers as they find out why Johnny Chuck doesn't like Blacky the Crow and why Ol' Mistah Buzzard has a bald head. They'll learn what is in Mrs. Possum's big pocket and even discover who stole Mrs. Grouse's eggs[...]
The second volume in Burgess's popular Green Forest series, this collection of heartwarming tales recounts the adventures of Reddy Fox, Grandfather Frog, Jimmy Skunk, and other endearing characters. Suffused with gentle humor and embellished by Kerr's illustrations from the original 1911 edition, th[...]