"Shadow Tribe" offers the first in-depth history of the Pacific Northwest's Columbia River Indians - the defiant River People whose ancestors refused to settle on the reservations established for them in central Oregon and Washington. Largely overlooked in traditional accounts of tribal dispossessio[...]
Throughout his life, Pablo Picasso had close friendships with writers and an abiding interest in the written word. This groundbreaking book, which draws on the collections of Yale University, traces the relationship that Picasso had with literature and writing in his life and work.Beginning with the[...]
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- Make your trip to the Greece unforgettable with 38 maps, 10 illustrated features, and 280 color photos.
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Life is both sweet and cruel to strong-willed young Shabanu, whose home is the windswept Cholistan Desert of Pakistan. The second daughter in a family with no sons, she's been allowed freedoms forbidden to most Muslim girls. But when a tragic encounter with a wealthy and powerful landowner ruins the[...]
The "New York Times" bestsellerAfter almost sixty years as an actor, William Shatner has become one of the most beloved entertainers in the world. It was the original "Star Trek "series, and later its films, that made Shatner an internationally known figure, but he neither began nor ended his career[...]
Looks at gender-related themes in ninety-six of the most frequently taught works of fiction, including "Anna Karenina," "Brave New World," "Great Expectations," and "Lord of the Flies."[...]
"Once again, Abbott and Fisher provide a book that I'll be giving to our engineers. It's an essential read for anyone dealing with scaling an online business." --Chris Lalonde, VP, Technical Operations and Infrastructure Architecture, Bullhorn "Abbott and Fisher again tackle the difficult problem o[...]
This highly effective text has chapters arranged in seven functional modules to emphasize how legal topics relate to business functions like marketing, finance, human resources, accounting and manufacturing.[...]
Pilates body conditioning is today's fitness buzzword, and following the storming success of Lynne Robinson and Gordon Thomson's original "Body Control: The Pilates Way", a variety of books have appeared - none as authoritative, practical, safe and geared towards solving your body's problems as this[...]
Incorporates advice on teaching, including working with different kinds of learners, with groups, and individual tutoring. This book provides an introduction to key concepts relating to learning and assessment. It contains a critical overview of theoretical frameworks for work-based learning, focusi[...]
Offers various strategies for promoting learning that meets the needs and interests of Key Stage 1 pupils. This title covers various issues such as: the place of play in Key Stage 1; organising the learning day to include child-initiated activity; observation and assessment; planning; and, the role [...]
Teaching and Learning in the Foundation Stage. 4th edition.
Incarceron - a futuristic prison, sealed from view, where the descendants of the original prisoners live in a dark world torn by rivalry and savagery. It is a terrifying mix of high technology - a living building which pervades the novel as an ever-watchful, ever-vengeful character, and a typical me[...]
The chauffeur stood still for a moment, then moved his broad hand up towards the button on his tight uniform jacket. His voice was low and hypnotic. 'I can give you anything you want, Francesca,' he whispered. 'And I think I know what you want.' When Francesca Leeman is invited to catalogue a privat[...]
So firmly based upon a close reading of the secondary literature and printed documents, as well as upon archival soundings and interviews, and told with such a sense for the essential drama of the story, that it is easily the most comprehensive and the most interesting history of the Nazi-Soviet pac[...]
The body's intelligence is largely an untapped resource in psychotherapy, yet the story told by the "somatic narrative"-- gesture, posture, prosody, facial expressions, eye gaze, and movement -- is arguably more significant than the story told by the words. The language of the body communicates impl[...]
Here is the complete history of angling, as well as a comprehensive guide to every aspect of the sport: advice on tackle and accessories, instructions on casting and fly-tying, tips on locating likely trout spots, and more. Full-color photos.[...]
Getting to Yes offers a concise, step-by-step, proven strategy for coming to mutually acceptable agreements in every sort of conflict--whether it involves parents and children, neighbors, bosses and employees, customers or corporations, tenants or diplomats. Based on the work of the Harvard Negotiat[...]
On an April day in 1953, renowned American naturalist, author, and illustrator Roger Tory Peterson met his British friend James Fisher, an authority on seabirds, in Newfoundland. There they began a strenuous and thrilling hundred-day field trip around the edge of the continent. Part travelogue, part[...]