The New York Times bestselling humorist Michael Perry makes his fiction debut with this hilarious and bighearted tale a comic yet sincere exploration of faith in the face of the modern world.Life is suddenly full of drama for low-key Harley Jackson: A woman in a big red pickup has stolen his bachelo[...]
In his follow-up to Tavern League: Portraits of Wisconsin Bars, Carl Corey turns his camera on Wisconsin family-owned businesses in existence fifty years or longer. The businesses portrayed here--bakeries and barbecue joints, funeral homes and furniture builders, cheesemakers, fishermen, ferry boat [...]
This book explicates the morality of human rights and elaborates three internationally recognized human rights that are entrenched in US constitutional law.[...]
Ext JS evolved from add-on extension for the Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI) to a full-fledged JavaScript application framework - and this book shows you how to take advantage of Ext JS's unique mix of power and flexibility.[...]
Katy Perry is one of the world's most idolized stars and this gift set is packed with facts about the superstar. This beautifully designed book tells the story of pop princess Katy Perry. In her first five years as a commercial recording artist she's won eight Grammy nominations and released a smash[...]
In this digital age of computer-generated graphics and typography, it's refreshing to find typographers who still believe in working by hand. No longer relegated to designer's sketchbooks, hand-drawn type has emerged from the underground as a dynamic vehicle for visual communicationfrom magazine, bo[...]
Pattern can be derived from many sources, if we remember to look closely. While patterns have been around forever, there'sa recent movement, a tendency among designers, to allow patterns to animate their work with colorful and exuberant complexity. Over and Over: A Catalog of Hand-Drawn Patterns col[...]
This manual is a condensed and didactic "how to" book, demonstrating surgical procedures in a step by step manner. It is fully comprehensive and highly illustrated (in colour, using mostly operative photographs), restricted solely to the surgical management of maxillofacial trauma, but includes most[...]
Does it ring a bell? The first-person narrator, a cultivated man of middle age, looks back on the story of an amour fou. It all starts when, travelling abroad, he takes a room as a lodger. The moment he sees the daughter of the house, he is lost. She is a pre-teen, whose charms instantly enslave him[...]
Tells the story of the Death Star, from the start of its construction to its final destruction at the hands of Luke Skywalker and the Rebel Alliance. This book is suitable for Star Wars fans - not just the core fans who read everything the so-called 'expanded universe' has to offer, but also all tho[...]
Introduction to Philosophy: Classical and Contemporary Readings, Sixth Edition, is the most comprehensive topically organized collection of classical and contemporary philosophy available. The text includes sections on God and evil, knowledge and reality, the philosophy of science, the mind/body pro[...]
The members of a small medical unit serving on the jungle world of Drongar, a beleaguered planet torn apart by brutal warfare over control of a priceless native plant, confront their individual challenges as they struggle to save lives in the midst of the conflict. Original.[...]
An embattled medical unit in the steamy Jasserak jungle is confronted by overwhelming odds as the Separatists' unstoppable battle droids wreak havoc on the forces of the Republic and the members of the team take a shocking and unprecedented risk that could be their only chance of survival. Original.[...]
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This book elaborates and defends the political morality of liberal democracy: the moral convictions and commitments that in a liberal democracy should govern decisions about what laws to enact and what policies to pursue.[...]
Neither the morality of human rights nor its relation to the law of human rights is well understood. In this book, Michael Perry addresses three large issues. There is undeniably a religious ground - indeed, more than one religious ground - for the morality of human rights. But is there a secular gr[...]
When the Empire falls, a New Republic rises After the events of RETURN OF THE JEDI, Emperor Palpatine is dead--but can his faithful Hand, Mara Jade, complete her final mission of revenge? Replica droid assassin Guri has also lost her master...but as she struggles for humanity, her android brain mak[...]
Although it lasted only a single term, the presidency of George H. W. Bush was an unusually eventful one, encompassing the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the invasion of Panama, the Persian Gulf War, and contentious confirmation hearing[...]
Historical observations of abolition have ranged from perspectives of contempt to acclamation, and now show signs of a major change in interpretation. The literature often has been dominated by hostile appraisals of William Lloyd Garrison and other abolitionist leaders until the 1960s, when historia[...]
In the period since the end of the Second World War, there has emerged what never before existed: a truly global morality. Some of that morality - the morality of human rights - has become entrenched in the constitutional law of the United States. This book explicates the morality of human rights an[...]