While in rehab, James Frey finds a father figure in a shady mafia boss called Leonard. When Leonard returns to his dubious, prosperous life in the criminal underworld of Las Vegas, he promises James his support on the outside. Tragedy strikes the day James is released and his world seems set to impl[...]

A guide to "The Turn of the Screw", offering students a guide to contexts, language, criticism and reading the text. It sets "The Turn of the Screw" in its historical, intellectual and cultural contexts, offering analysis of its themes, style and structure, and examining its afterlife in literature,[...]

A personal account about the author's relationship with Leonard, the father figure from A Million Little Pieces, recounts how Leonard helped him recover from drug and alcohol addictions and then encouraged him to pursue a writing career before mysteriously disappearing. Reprint. 1,000,000 first prin[...]

The last great untold story of World War II, the career of Hitler's "Super Fighter" intended to destroy the RAF in the Battle of Britain and why it never succeeded.[...]

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). This deluxe songbook features eleven pages of color photos from the movie, and the instrumental selections from the soundtrack: Hard to Starboard * Hymn to the Sea * Never an Absolution * Rose * Southampton * Take Her to Sea, Mr. Murdoch * Unable to Stay, Unwilling to [...]

Giles of Rome was the archbishop of Bourges and a loyal champion of Pope Boniface VIII during the Franco-papal crisis of 1296--1303. On Ecclesiastical Power was written at the height of the conflict between Pope Boniface VIII and King Philip IV of France and represents the earliest fully articulate[...]

This is the product of research by a team of Harvard Business School authorities on service-firm management. It provides a model that managers should be able to use - with practical guidelines that have been implemented already by high-performing companies. Directly linking profit and growth not onl[...]

Ben Grimm: prisoner Jailed for murder, the Thing finds an unlikely ally while fighting a rogues' gallery of powerhouse villains in prison Meanwhile, with the information he's learned, Johnny Storm's best friend Wyatt Wingfoot is in grave danger, hunted by a mysteriously familiar bowman Who can he[...]

A semi-autobiographical debut novel by the author of Beautiful Losers and Stranger Music describes the odyssey of Lawrence Beavman as he makes his way from precocious adolescence to manhood growing up in Montreal. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.[...]

A reference at once elemental and comprehensive, The Electric Power Engineering Handbook, Third Edition not only describes the field's body of knowledge, but defines it. Written by expert contributors under the leadership of one of the world's most respected and accomplished authorities in power eng[...]

(Curnow Play-Along Book). Christmas Classics is a collection of arrangements featuring new, fresh and dynamic settings of many traditional carols. The arrangements can be used as solos or duets, with any combination of instruments. Works include: Angels from the Realms of Glory, The First Noel, Go T[...]

Over the last decade the physics of black holes has been revolutionized by developments that grew out of Jacob Bekenstein's realization that black holes have entropy. Steven Hawking raised profound issues concerning the loss of information in black hole evaporation and the consistency of quantum mec[...]