The Ad-Makers looks at the cinematic form where commerce and creativity collide most dramatically: the TV commercial. Featuring interviews from top professionals in the field, the book provides the kind of behind-the-scenes expertise that it usually takes a lifetime of professional practice to acqui[...]
Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik are About to Declare War on the Competition. . . . "THE OBJECTIVE"
A fourth consecutive "New York Times "bestseller for "Tom Clancy's Op-Center
THE HARDWARE: "
A blockbuster thriller armed with cutting-edge technology (a.k.a. everything a Clancy fan wants)
They are floating cities with crews of thousands. They are the linchpins of any military strategy, for they provide what has become the key to every battle fought since World War I: air superiority. The mere presence of a U.S. naval carrier in a region is an automatic display of strength that sends [...]
A novel from the author of "The Leftovers"
Tracy Flick wants to be President of Winwood High. She's one of those ambitious girls who finds time to do it all: edit the yearbook, star in the musical, sleep with her English teacher. But another teacher, staunch idealist Jim McAllister (aka "Mr. M.[...]
Tom Clancy's Op-Center: Call to Treason is yet another gripping addition to the bestselling series masterminded by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik. The Op-Center's budget is slashed, leaving General Mike Rodgers in the market for a new job. When presidential candidiate Senator Donald Orr recruits Rod[...]
This eminently practical volume demystifies legal writing, outlines the causes and consequences of bad writing, and prescribes straightforward, easy-to-apply remedies that will make your writing readable. Complete with usage notes that address lawyers' most common errors, this well-organized book is[...]
With their team of contemporary scholars, the editors present a thorough coverage of fundamental topics necessary for obtaining an up-to-date understanding of the biology of ferns and lycophytes. The book is organized into major topics that build from the individual and its biochemistry and structur[...]
This study of the Gospel of Mark provides invaluable background detail and a wealth of information to help the reader understand each passage in a richer way. The implication of the text for the life of the modern reader is also explored.[...]
This entirely new and approachable translation of the Gospel of Luke provides invaluable background detail and a wealth of information to help the reader understand each passage in a richer way.[...]
Tom Wright's eye-opening comments on these letters are combined, passage-by-passage, with his fresh and inviting new translation of the Bible text. Making use of his true scholar's understanding, yet writing in an approachable and anecdotal style, Wright captures the tension and excitement of the ti[...]
The translation of this Bible text is underpinned by deep scholarship, but has an immediacy and freshness that makes it easy to read, and sets it apart from other modern-language translations.[...]
Wright explores the Gospel of John, and the way the long story which began inGenesis reached the climax the Creator had always intended.[...]
Making use of his scholar's understanding, yet writing in an approachable and anecdotal style, Tom Wright shows us the liveliness of cosmopolitan Corinth and reveals the wisdom and challenge of Paul's writing, bringing out the pastoral sensitivity and deep insight that make this letter one of Paul's[...]
Writing in an approachable and anecdotal style, Wright guides readers around the letter to the Hebrews, one of the most challenging writings in the New Testament.[...]
An examination of the ways in which all breeds of horses communicate their needs, wishes, and moods surveys various equine postures and gestures and what they reveal about equine intellience and behavior[...]
Could you retain your faith even if it meant losing your life? Your family's lives? To many Christians in the Middle East today, a "momentary, light affliction" means enduring only torture instead of martyrdom. The depth of oppression Jesus followers suffer is unimaginable to most Western Christian[...]
Over the past twenty years, two men from different parts of the United States have followed and developed a friendly connection with the mysterious ape-like creature known as Bigfoot. Now, with forty-plus years worth of combined field study, these experienced investigators present a detailed collect[...]
A martial artist and Chinese sports medicine expert shares ancient Eastern remedies for acute and chronic injuries commonly experienced by active people, in a guide that outlines a range of healing strategies, identifies the items needed to create a Chinese first-aid kit, and provides supplemental d[...]
They were Britain's Second World War 'Band of Brothers', a secret army of fifty handpicked, cross-Channel raiders who carried the fight to the enemy shore long before D-Day. Created after the fall of Dunkirk, they commandeered a Brixham fishing boat and planned clandestine attacks on German warships[...]