From the world's #1 dining destination, New York's three-Michelin-starred restaurant Eleven Madison Park, comes a limited edition, signed and numbered, two-volume collection of more than 100 stories and watercolors (volume 1), and more than 100 recipes and food photographs (volume 2), from celebrate[...]
This book, the first in the field for two decades, looks at the relationships between geography and religion. It represents a synthesis of research by geographers of many countries, mainly since the 1960s. No previous book has tackled this emerging field from such a broad, interdisciplinary perspect[...]
De-Westernizing Media Studies brings together leading media critics from around the world to address central questions in the study of the media. How do the media connect to power in society? Who and what influence the media? How is globalization changing both society and the media?[...]
This book provides a wide ranging overview of Turkey and its people in the contemporary world. In particular it seeks to place them within the context of a rapidly globalizing work and includes chapters on politics, economics, international relations, the Turkic world, religion and recent historical[...]
More than twenty years after the Bruntland Commission report, Our Common Future, we have yet to secure the basis for a serious approach to global environmental governance. The failed 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development showed the need for a new approach to globalization and sustainability. [...]
In this book Hyunjoon Park puts the critical stereotypical views of education in Japan and Korea under the microscope to decipher whether or not they are true, or unfounded, based on empirical evidence which uses international student achievement data as its core. As such, Park offers a balanced vie[...]
Heritage tourism has become an increasingly significant component of the global tourism industry, particularly in countries striving to diversify away from sea, sand and sun. This growth has had profound influences on the presentation and representation of both tangible and intangible heritage withi[...]
Hiyaku: An Intermediate Japanese Course provides a progressive intermediate course in Japanese, incorporating modern teaching methods and practicing all four language skills. Hiyaku provides content-based instruction, with authentic and semi-authentic dialogues and readings, all carefully selected t[...]
First published in 1989, Chernobyl: The Long Shadow offers a balanced review of what happened there, why and how it happened, and what the main lessons and implications of the accident are. It looks back on events during and after the disaster, in particular reviewing how it and the radiation fallo[...]
This book proposes the idea of fictional International Relations (IR) and engages with feminist IR by contextualising the case of a woman spy in Korea in the Cold War. Fictional imagination and feminist IR encourage one to go beyond conventional or standard ways of thinking; it reshapes taken-for-g[...]
As a midwife in the turn-of-the-century tenements of New York City, Sarah Brandt has seen her share of suffering and joy, birth and death. Now, she learns that crime doesn't discriminate, when the highest echelons of society are rocked by murder... A Gaslight Mystery At a summons from Detective Serg[...]
Coronation Day, 1902. Charles and Kate Sheridan are pleased to be at the crowning of their king. But when an anarchist accidentally blows himself up with a bomb meant for their monarch, Charles and Kate turn up a number of intriguing--and disturbing--questions. For example, what is mysterious, beaut[...]
A "scrumptious" Gourmet Girl mystery.
Chloe Carter is helping her chef boyfriend with his new restaurant on Boston's posh Newbury Street when a crabby waitress is found dead in a fish truck. Was this a prank gone awry? Or did somebody want her to sleep with the fishes?
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Still smarting over the break-up with her boyfriend, Josh, Chloe Carter takes a job as a cookbook writer's assistant-a job that puts her in contact with Josh's chef friend, Digger. But when Digger dies in a supposed grease fire, Chloe starts mixing ingredients to find out how he really died-and who [...]
"Snow had fallen in the night, and now the great house, standing at the head of the valley, ""seemed like a five-hundred-year old ship sailing in a white ocean..."
For the Cavendish family, Rutherford Park is much more than a place to call home. It is a way of life marked by rigid rules and lav[...]
"I found myself addicted to "Rutherford Park," much as I was to "Downton Abbey"" (Margaret Wurtele on "Rutherford Park"). Now comes the new novel of Rutherford Park by the acclaimed Elizabeth Cooke...
"When May came that year in Rutherford, it was more beautiful than anyone could ever remember. [...]
From beloved author, director, and actress, Amber Benson...
"Unbeknownst to most of humankind, a powerful network of witches thrives within the shadows of society, using their magic to keep the world in balance. But they are being eliminated--and we will all pay if their power falls..."
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In the second Witches of Echo Park novel, one coven must keep the world in balance and stand against a rising darkness.
Lyse MacAllister did not step into an easy role when she took over as master of the Echo Park coven of witches after her great-aunt Eleanora s death. As she begins to forge the[...]
Investigative reporter, and author of "Nobody's Women, " Steve Miller makes a thoroughly researched inquiry into a murder that rocked the privileged world of Grosse Pointe, Michigan.
Bob Bashara: husband, father, Rotary Club president and community leader.
Bob Bashara: slumlord, philanderer a[...]
Give your young children the best start to learning English with Jamboree Storytimes interactive, play-based approach!One of ten beautifully illustrated Readers in the Jamboree Storytime series - the storybooks provide engaging and lively stories in authentic English with strong visual support.Jam[...]
Scooby-Doo and the gang decide to take a break from mystery-solving and have some fun at a water park. But, it turns out that the park has been abandoned...because it's haunted! Can the terrified tail-wagger and his buddies get to the bottom of this watery weirdness - before it swallows them up?[...]
It's the end of the ride--for now Fright-master R.L. Stine saves the most shocking surprises for last as all of HorrorLand's secrets are revealed
The kids who are trapped in HorrorLand thought they had reason enough to panic. That was before they reached Panic Park.
It seemed like the only [...]
While working on a project for an after-school club, Julia Song, a Korean-American girl, and her friend Patrick learn not just about silkworms, but also about tolerance, prejudice, friendship, patience, and more. Reprint.[...]
In a starred review, Publishers Weekly called this YA mystery a "haunting psycological thriller" and "profound, provocative commentary on what it means to grow up in the age of Facebook."
When Wendy Geller's body is found in Central Park after the night of a rager, newspaper headlines scream,"De[...]