For sixteen years, Daisy has been good. A good daughter, helping out with her autistic younger brother uncomplainingly. A good friend, even when her best friend makes her feel like a third wheel. When her parents announce they're sending her brother to an institution--without consulting her--Daisy's[...]
Born in the rural American south, James Boggs lived nearly his entire adult life in Detroit and worked as a factory worker for twenty-eight years while immersing himself in the political struggles of the industrial urban north. During and after the years he spent in the auto industry, Boggs wrote tw[...]
These are insightful first-hand accounts, first published in 1952, of everyday life in rural Yorkshire in the mid-eighteenth century.[...]
Tough Test Questions? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time? Fortunately for you, there's Schaum's. This all-in-one-package includes more than 1,400 fully solved problems, examples, and practice exercises to sharpen your problem-solving skills. Plus, you will have access to 20 detailed videos featuring S[...]
Carefully graded primary grammar practice course that makes grammar easy to understand and remember.
A long-standing and trusted text containing everything needed for students of the English legal system. This new edition has been thoroughly revised to improve usability and ensure an even closer fit to courses.[...]
Designed to give graduate students an understanding of integrable systems via the study of Riemann surfaces, loop groups, and twistors, this book has its origins in a lecture series given by the internationally renowned authors. Written in an accessible, informal style, it fills a gap in the existin[...]
Providing an account that captures the ebb and flow of debate about Stalin's Russia, this work not only conceptualises the field, offering a synthesis of the secondary literature in the area, but also provides the author's own evaluation of the key issues at stake.[...]
The critically acclaimed, Academy Award-winning film "The Fighter" made the world stand up and cheer for the inspiring true story of "Irish" Micky Ward--a heart-and-soul warrior who overcame the odds to make history in the ring. But that was only part of the tale...
Starting with his first bout[...]
"New York Times" bestselling author J.R. Ward delivers a behind-the-scenes look at her ?to die for?(" Publishers Weekly") Black Dagger Brotherhood series?and a brand-new short story starring Zsadist and Bella.
This is a book no Black Dagger Brotherhood fan should miss?an insider's guide that wil[...]
#1 "New York Times" bestselling author J. R. Ward's "frighteningly addictive" ("Publishers Weekly") series continues as a dutiful twin must choose between two lives....
Fiercely loyal to the Black Dagger Brotherhood, Phury has sacrificed himself for the good of the race, becoming the male respo[...]
The inside story of what really happened at Lehman Brothers and why it failed In The Devil's Casino: Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers, investigative writer and Vanity Fair contributing editor Vicky Ward takes readers inside Lehman's highly charged office[...]
The cold north awaits you...War is coming to Valeron. From the west, the blood-thirsty Wiccans burn and pillage their way towards the capital - where an ill and ineffectual king is beset on all sides by the scheming of ambitious men. His youngest son, Prince Arran, untested in combat and naive to wa[...]
The cold north awaits you...War is coming to Valeron. From the west, the blood-thirsty Wiccans burn and pillage their way towards the capital - where an ill and ineffectual king is beset on all sides by the scheming of ambitious men. His youngest son, Prince Arran, untested in combat and naive to wa[...]
The companion volume to the ten-part PBS TV series by the team responsible for
The Civil War and Baseball.
Continuing in the tradition of their critically acclaimed works, Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns vividly bring to life the story of the quintessential American music?jazz. Born in the [...]
A companion book to the acclaimed PBS series by the team who wrote The Civil War and Baseball furnishes a lavish photographic essay that celebrates the contributions of such artists as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, and John Coltrane. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.[...]
On Methuselah's Trail tells the story of some of the Earth's most remarkable inhabitants living fossils. Labelled 'living fossils' by Darwin, the ancient animals and plants Peter Ward explores have survived with little or no change the cataclysmic events that transformed life on earth. These 'Methus[...]
After decades of work, a brilliant scientist has taken Iran to the threshold of its dream - a nuclear-tipped ballistic missile. Mossad must eliminate the man, but with a spy lurking high in its ranks there is only one option: bring back Slaton. The kidon has vowed to never kill again, but when his w[...]
The Minister's Service Manual is an essential tool for pastors of any denomination in preparing for worship services, weddings, funerals, benedictions, dedications, baptisms, and more. This handy volume now contains updated information throughout and the best of the Minister's Marriage Manual as wel[...]