The story that inspired the classic musical, The Sound of Music. Baroness Trapp tells the dramatic story of the family, her own marriage to Baron Von Trapp, a widower with seven children, and the family's successful singing career both before and after they fled Austria after the Nazi invasion.[...]

Una guia de sabiduria inspiracional que nos ayudara aacercarnos a la gracia y el amor de la Virgen MariaConocida en todo el mundo bajo diferentes nombres, la Virgen Maria siempre ha sido la traedora de consuelo, esperanza y fe a la Tierra. Esta obra nos presenta a la Maria de la Biblia y de las escr[...]

German poet Rainer Maria Rilke(1875-1926) enjoys ever-increasing popularity. His Duino Elegies is considered on of the greatest long poems of the twentieth century. Yet translations from his native German have always presented challenges: the elusiveness of Rilke's imagery, the playful way he both d[...]

Raised by working-class immigrant parents and later exposed to Hollywood's most elite experts in every field, Access Hollywood's, Today's, and Nightly News's reporter Maria Menounos reveals her EveryGirl secrets on everything: her systems to organize life, manage time, and ascend the ladder of succe[...]

"Designing with One and Two Colors" is the first book of its kind to illustrate how colour (and budget) restraints can inform some of the most inventive designs in the marketplace today. From business cards to brochures, magazine layouts to book covers, this comprehensive volume features select work[...]

Maria Dahvana Headley's soaring YA debut is a fiercely intelligent, multilayered fantasy where Neil Gaiman's Stardust meets John Green's The Fault in Our Stars in a story about a girl caught between two worlds . . . two races . . . and two destinies. Aza Ray Boyle is drowning in thin air. Since she [...]

Maria Dahvana Headley's soaring YA debut is a fiercely intelligent, multilayered fantasy where Neil Gaiman's Stardust meets John Green's The Fault in Our Stars in a story about a girl caught between two worlds ...two races ...and two destinies. Aza Ray Boyle is drowning in thin air. Since she was a [...]

Tannie Maria ( tannie meaning auntie, a respectful Afrikaans address) is a middle-aged widow who likes to cook and eat. She is a recipe columnist until the local paper decides its readers are hungrier for advice on matters of the heart.When a woman contacts Tannie Maria desperate to escape an abusiv[...]

This is a comprehensive single-volume text on clinical dermatology. Featuring a strong focus on diagnosis and treatment, Clinical Dermatology is a concise yet thorough guide to 100 of the most common dermatologic conditions. This latest addition to the Lange Clinical series is enriched by a full-col[...]

As the best-selling introductory Spanish textbook in the United States, Puntos de partida has long been a favorite of instructors across the country. For this new edition, the authors and editors of Puntos have turned to those very instructors to help formulate a plan that would respond to the needs[...]

"All Quiet on the Western Front" is probably the most famous anti-war novel ever written. The story is told by a young 'unknown soldier' in the trenches of Flanders during the First World War. Through his eyes we see all the realities of war; under fire, on patrol, waiting in the trenches, at home o[...]

From the detention centre on Ellis Island, Ludwig Somner looks across a small stretch of water to the glittering towers of New York, which whisper seductively of freedom after so many years of wandering through a perlious, suffering Europe. Remarque's final novel, left unfinished at his death, tells[...]

In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the 'glorious war'. With the fire and patriotism of youth they sign up.[...]