Including contributions by W. H. Auden - Elizabeth Bishop - John Cheever - Janet Flanner - John Hersey - Langston Hughes - Shirley Jackson - A. J. Liebling - William Maxwell - Carson McCullers - Joseph Mitchell - Vladimir Nabokov - Ogden Nash - John O'Hara - George Orwell - V. S. Pritchett - Lillian[...]

Recipient of the 1994 Turner Prize Antony Gormley (b.1950) is an internationally acclaimed British artist who has revitalized the human figure in sculpture. Often cast from his own body, his lead and iron figures are sites for the exploration of states of being. Generating controversy and passion, G[...]

For Philadelphia homicide detective Matt Payne, the news from an old law-enforcement friend sends a shiver down his spine: a connection between the Mexican drug cartels and the Russian mob. Russian girls are being smuggled in to work in the sex trade, and now some of them are dying or just disappear[...]

Go beyond the typical play-along with Alfred's Jazz Play-Along series, an innovative approach to teaching improvisation. Each volume contains parts for C, B-flat, E-flat, and bass clef instruments and includes a sample written-out jazz solo for you to listen to, study, and play.
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Now in paperback, this major biography of J.E.B. Stuart--the first in two decades--uses newly available documents to draw the fullest, most accurate portrait of the legendary Confederate cavalry commander ever published. - Major figure of American history: James Ewell BrownStuart was the South's mos[...]

Whatever your company's sales revenue, chances are that at least half of it comes from a few crucial accounts. So what does it take to keep them going strong? "The New Successful Large Account Management" shows you how to protect those crucial accounts that you can't afford to lose. This hard-hittin[...]

One of the best books on selling ever published, The New Strategic Selling has changed sales and marketing for ever. Rejecting manipulative tactics and emphasizing "process", Strategic Selling[registered] presented the idea of selling as a joint venture and introduced the influential concept of 'Win[...]

This is the first book to discern the contribution of Du Bois' work to criminology and criminal justice through a comprehensive review of his papers, articles and books. Beginning with reflections from his childhood, the author traces Du Bois' ideas on crime and justice throughout his life. This inc[...]

This text is a comprehensive guide for beginners with minimal experience interpreting ECGs. The chapters provide a basic understanding of the components of an ECG as well as introduce the important topics of acute myocardial infarction, hypertrophy, and bundle branch blocks. Real-life, full-size, [...]

Preface. PART 1: INTRODUCTION.Chapter 1: Introduction. 1.1 Definition of SSR. 1.2 Power System Modeling. 1.3 Introduction to SSR. 1.3.1 Types of SSR Interactions. 1.3.2 Analytical Tools. 1.4 Eigenvalue Analysis. 1.4.1 Advantages of Eigenvalue Computation. 1.4.2 Disadvantages of Eigenv[...]

A "Washington Post" Notable Nonfiction Book for 2011 As he was composing what was to become his most enduring and popular book, E. B. White was obeying that oft-repeated maxim: "Write what you know." Helpless pigs, silly geese, clever spiders, greedy rats-White knew all of these characters in the ba[...]

Speleobiology, the study of cave life, is a relatively new science. The diversity of species that live in caves, springs, and aquifers is just beginning to be documented, and much of the underground world has yet to be explored. The surveys of cave life reported in this book represent an important s[...]

Since its publication in 1952, "Charlotte's Web" has become one of America's best-loved children's books. For fifty years, this timeless story of the pig named Wilbur and the wise spider named Charlotte who saved him has continued to warm the hearts of readers everywhere. Now this classic, a 1953 Ne[...]