- Do you misuse and mispronounce some words?
- Do you sometimes find yourself at a loss to express "exactly" what you mean?
- Do you fail to comprehend complex words while reading?
- Are you tired of having people seemingly talk "above" you?
If you answered YES to any of these quest[...]
Music of a Distant Drum marks a literary milestone. It collects 129 poems from the four leading literary traditions of the Middle East, all masterfully translated into English by Bernard Lewis, many for the first time. These poems come from diverse languages and traditions--Arabic, Persian, Turkish,[...]
A Rogues' Gallery is a journey through the past half-century, charting the ups and downs of leading writers and actors, thinkers, entertainers, gurus, politicians and public non-conformists. It collects the snapshots gathered during one journalist's long and varied career of the famous and infamous,[...]
Meadow-making helps preserve our fragile environment from further decline but it requires knowledge and skill to create a successful meadow. In this timely book, Pam Lewis's passion for traditional pasture management and the preservation of our native species of plants and her extensive meadow-makin[...]
Meadow-making helps preserve our fragile environment from further decline but it requires knowledge and skill to create a successful meadow. In this timely book, Pam Lewis's passion for traditional pasture management and the preservation of our native species of plants and her extensive meadow-makin[...]
More Vegan. More Vengeance. More Fizzle. Ten years ago a young Brooklyn chef was making a name for herself by dishing up amazing vegan mealsno fuss, no b.s., just easy, cheap, delicious food. Several books later, the punk rock priestess of all things tasty and animal-free returns to her rootsand we'[...]
"Work is not just a job. It is the sum of all our purposeful activities. Seen in this light, work is our whole life." -- from "A Whole Life's Work" What is work in the truest sense of the word? For Buddhist priest and acclaimed author Lewis Richmond, work is more than just having a job, or a means t[...]
J. David Lewis-Williams is world renowned for his work on the rock art of Southern Africa. In this volume, Lewis-Williams describes the key steps in his evolving journey to understand these images painted on stone. He describes the development of technical methods of interpreting rock paintings of t[...]
This is a "how to" book on qualitative methods written by people who do qualitative research for a living.... It is likely to become the standard manual on all graduate and undergraduate courses on qualitative methods' - Professor Robert Walker, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of N[...]
An intimate memoir by the legendary funny man recalls his long-time partnership with crooner Dean Martin; their remarkable decade-long success as a team of performers in radio, TV, film, the theater, and nightclubs; their traumatic breakup and individual careers; and the effects of their estrangemen[...]
Exercises designed to develop vocabulary skills present words together with their pronunciations, definitions and use in sentences[...]
The story behind the making of the album that signaled the descent of Sylvester Sly Stone Stewart into a haze of drug addiction and delirium is captivating enough for the cinema. In the spacious attic of a Beverly Hills mansion belonging to John and Michelle Phillips (of the Mamas and the Papas) dur[...]
The Fourth Edition of this history shows the amazing continuity of Somali forms of social organisation and the ingenuity with which the Somali way of life has adapted to all forms of modernity.BR> North America: Ohio U Press[...]
Celebrated internationally as artists and gardeners, Little and Lewis open the gates to their renowned Puget Sound garden and share their personal wisdom for what informs and inspires their wild fantasia of plants, hardscape, and art. Water features, oversized and broadleaved plants, expansive use o[...]
This is the only book that teaches all aspects of modern mathematical modeling and that is specifically designed to introduce undergraduate students to problem solving in the context of biology. Included is an integrated package of theoretical modeling and analysis tools, computational modeling tech[...]
a poignant description of Cambodia, Laos & Vietnam in 1950, with all their beauty, gentleness, grandeur and intricate political balance intact - Restores this lost world, like a phoenix, from the ashes of the Vietnam war and its aftermath - shows the Vietnamese guerilla movement in its infancy, rang[...]
Includes the piece of journalism Norman was most proud of, an article on the devastation of Amerindian populations in Brazil, which resulted in the establishment of Survival International, which campaigns to protect tribal people and their environments. Travel writing that makes you laugh, but also [...]
Guide to a rich and varied orchid flora under increasing pressure from the accelerating and widespread destruction of the forests of the Pacific islands. Illustrated with 80 full-page line drawing and 16 pages of colour photographs.[...]