Provides subjects aimed at attracting and sustaining reluctant readers, particularly boys. This work includes illustrations and photography, and a variety of non-fiction features to help support NLS non-fiction objectives, and a Take-Home card to support your Home-School agreement. It is part of the[...]

Provides subjects aimed at attracting and sustaining reluctant readers, particularly boys. This work includes illustrations and photography, and a variety of non-fiction features to help support NLS non-fiction objectives, and a Take-Home card to support your Home-School agreement. It is part of the[...]

Provides subjects aimed at attracting and sustaining reluctant readers, particularly boys. This work includes illustrations and photography, and a variety of non-fiction features to help support NLS non-fiction objectives, and a Take-Home card to support your Home-School agreement. It is part of the[...]

Annie Leibovitz's extraordinary career took off in San Francisco in 1970 when she first submitted a portfolio to Rolling Stone magazine. By 1973 she was the magazine's chief photographer. Since 1983 Annie Leibovitz has worked closely with Vanity Fair, who will be producing a special music issue to c[...]

Few large institutions have changed as fully and dramatically as the US healthcare system since World War II. Compared to the 1930s, healthcare now incorporates a variety of new technologies, service-delivery arrangements, financing mechanisms and underlying sets of organizing principles. This book [...]

Chushingura (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers), also known as the story of the Forty-Six (or Forty-Seven) Ronin, is the most famous and perennially popular of all Japanese dramas. Written around 1748 as a puppet play, it is now better known through Kabuki theater performances. Donald Keene's transl[...]

Archives, monuments, celebrations:there are not merely the recollections of memory but also the foundations of history. Symbols, the third and final volume in Pierre Nora's monumental Realms of Memory, includes groundbreaking discussions of the emblems of France's past by some of the nation's most [...]

"To be a philosopher and to be a feminist are one and the same thing. A feminist is a woman who does not allow anyone to think in her place."-from Hipparchia's Choice A work of rare insight and irreverence, Hipparchia's Choice boldly recasts the history of philosophy from the pre-Socratics to the[...]

This introduction to programming places computer science in the core of a liberal arts education. Unlike other introductory books, it focuses on the program design process. This approach fosters a variety of skills--critical reading, analytical thinking, creative synthesis, and attention to detail--[...]

This major survey of mathematics, featuring the work of 18 outstanding Russian mathematicians and including material on both elementary and advanced levels, encompasses 20 prime subject areas in mathematics in terms of their simple origins and their subsequent sophisticated development.[...]