The classic collection by one of the greatest essayists of our time.
Updated to include newly released letters written between 1976 and 1985, a thirtieth anniversary edition shares the New Yorker writer's and classic author's thoughts about such topics as the uncertainty of the future, his marriage, and his relationships with such colleagues as James Thurber, Groucho[...]
Charlotte's Webpictures by Garth WilliamsThe Newbery Honor-winning story of a remarkable pig and the spiderwho changed his life.Stuart Littlepictures by Garth WilliamsA most unusual mouse sets out on the adventure of a lifetime.The Trumpet of the Swannew pictures by Caldecott Honor Artist Fred Marce[...]
Historian, journalist, educator, and civil rights advocate W.E.B. Du Bois was perhaps most accomplished as a sociologist of race relations and of the black community in the United States. This volume collects his sociological writings from 1898 to 1910. The 18 selections include five on Du Bois's co[...]
Lu fühlt sich so müde! Mitten im Französisch-Unterricht kippt sie um. Das Untersuchungsergebnis ist niederschmetternd: Ihre Krankheit klingt nicht nur hässlich, sondern ist es auch - sie kann tödlich enden. Und tatsächlich wird Lu auch immer schw[...]
There has been a resurgence of interest in representations of symmetric groups as well as other Coxeter groups. This topic can be approached: by applying results from the general theory of group representations, by employing combinatorial techniques, or by using symmetric functions. This book brings[...]
This book explores the Quantum Principle. It focuses on analyzing the underlying principles of quantum mechanics and explaining the conceptual and theoretical underpinning of quantum mechanics.[...]
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Chronicles the progress in the research and development of lightwave communications since the early 1970s. This title brings a fresh look to many essential topics and focuses on network management and services. It is suitable for R&D engineers and managers, optical systems implementers, and universi[...]
The Japanese mafia - known collectively as yakuza - has had a considerable influence on Japanese society over the past fifty years. Based on extensive Japanese language source material and interviews with criminals, police officers, lawyers, journalists, and scholars, this is the first English langu[...]
Part of a series of literature guides designed for GCSE coursework requirements, this book contains - author details, background to the work, summaries of the text, critical commentaries, analysis of characterization, and sample questions with guideline answers.[...]
This classic book tells the story of the development of Income Tax from its beginning in 1799 to the present day and relates it to the social, economic and political history of the period. There have been studies of Income Tax at various stages in its growth; studies of finance and taxation in gene[...]
"This book is a breakdown of the structure of banks and how they work for investors and prospective borrowers. Analyzing bank financial statements, such as Uniform Bank Performance Report (UPBRs), requires considerable knowledge of bank operations. Borrowers and other bank customers should need this[...]
This is the first comparative study of Roman architecture on the Iberian peninsula, covering six centuries from the arrival of the Romans in the third century B.C. until the decline of urban life on the peninsula in the third century A.D. During this period, the peninsula became an influential cultu[...]
The high-achieving Type E woman -- the woman who is trying to excel in multiple roles and be everything to everybody -- is the victim of her own success. The more she shows she can do, the more others demand of her. And the cost to her physical and mental health can be enormous. By understanding [...]
"The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume XIII: A Vision" is part of a fourteen-volume series under the general editorship of eminent Yeats scholar George Bornstein and formerly the late Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper. One of the strangest works of literary modernism, "A Vision" is Ye[...]