"Writing at Work" is for people who do or will write while on the job whether the writing be an interoffice memo, e-mail, a status report, a lab report, marketing materials, or a letter to a customer. The philosophy behind "Writing at Work" is that such writing needn't be stale and unoriginal but ca[...]
Richard M Weaver, a thinker and writer celebrated for his unsparing diagnoses and realistic remedies for the ills of our age, is known largely through a few of his works that remain in print. This new collection of Weaver's shorter writings, assembled by Ted J Smith III, Weaver's leading biographer,[...]
In Diary of an Eating Disorder, Chelsea Smith bravely comes forward with a day-to-day account of her life with an eating disorder. This book provides enlightening insights into the mind of a person affected with anorexia and bulimia.[...]
Wally and Barbara Smith spent 6 months cycling 8000 kilometers in Cuba to provide detailed directions for 50 days of cycling. The rides vary in length, many combining to create multi-day loops. Detailed directions describe rides leaving Havana to the west and east. Subsequent rides are clustered in [...]
This thrilling "prequel" to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic pirate tale imagines how Captain Flint and Murray sacked the Spanish galleon and buried their ill-gotten treasure on the Dead Man's Chest and on Treasure Island[...]
Remember how to make a spool tank? How to whip apples? What to do with a discarded umbrella? Whether "pennies" comes before or after "spank the baby" in mumbly-peg? And your kid never knew any of these things in the first place, to forget in the second place? Robert Paul Smith remembers, and he has [...]
A detective in the wild.
Precious Ramotswe gets a very special treat. She gets a trip to visit her Aunty Bee at a safari camp. On her first day in camp, a new lion arrives. But this is no average lion: Teddy is an actor-lion who came with a film crew. When Teddy escapes, Precious and her resourc[...]
In his 1987 work Paratexts, the theorist Gerard Genette established physical form as crucial to the production of meaning. Here, experts in early modern book history, materiality and rhetorical culture present a series of compelling explorations of the architecture of early modern books. The essays [...]
Climate change is not just a scientific fact, nor merely a social and political problem. It is also a set of stories and characters that amount to a social drama. This drama, as much as hard scientific or political realities, shapes perception of the problem. Drs Smith and Howe use the perspective o[...]
This two-volume work (1907-8), spanning more than fourteen centuries, expertly elucidates the topography, economics and history of ancient Jerusalem.[...]
Put "engage" front and center in your social media marketing engagement strategies When you focus on the engagement side of a social media marketing strategy, you'll build and grow relationships with followers and customers, craft content just for them, analyze how they're responding, and refocus an[...]
Draws on the expertise of Spencer Stuart, the world's leading executive recruiting firm, to explain what it takes to become a success in today's volatile business environment, examining the patterns of success exhibited by notable corporate leaders to provide practical guidelines for individuals in [...]
The original Green Arrow, Oliver Queen, reemerges after years of being assumed dead. But many people, including Black Canary, his ex-lover, Arsenal, his ex-partner, Connor Hawke, his son and temporary successor and Batman, the Dark Knight Detective, want to know how Green Arrow survived the airplane[...]
In three separate stories, Lulu learns important lessons--that she can do anything she puts her mind to, she is her own best friend, and the dark is not so scary after all--from her animal friends.[...]
Does the magic of Jane Austen hold its power across borders, languages and cultures? Armed with only a suitcase and dozens of copies of Austen's novels, professor Amy Elizabeth Smith took to the road to find out, organizing book clubs in six different Central and South American countries. Along the[...]
Detective Thomas P. Stanwick is back! And you are about to be challenged by 30 exciting mysteries that he been charged to solve. Each one takes only about five minutes to read. Each puzzle combines features of the traditional detective "whodunit" (physical clues, red herrings, means, motive, opportu[...]