| The Norton Field Guide to Writing with Readings and Handbook (Second Edition) Publication Date: December 14, 2009| ISBN-10: 0393933822 | ISBN-13: 978-0393933826| Edition: Second Edition The most successful new rhetoric in a generation, with a reader and a handbook—everything students need, in one book.Easy to use, flexible, and a great value. With just enough detail — and color-coded links that send students to more detail if they need it — this is the rhetoric that tells students what they need to know and resists the temptation to tell them everything there is to know. The first rhetoric designed for easy reference — with menus, direc...
| | Silent Spring Publication Date: October 22, 2002Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in June of 1962. The book appeared in September of that year and the outcry that followed its publication forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. Carson’s passionate concern for the future of our planet reverberated powerfully throughout the world, and her eloquent book was instrumental in launching the environmental movement. It is without question one of the landmark books of the tw...
| | Contracts: Examples & Explanations, 5th Edition Publication Date: December 17, 2010| ISBN-10: 073558852X | ISBN-13: 978-0735588523| Edition: 5th A favorite among successful students, and often recommended by professors, the unique Examples & Explanations series gives you extremely clear introductions to concepts followed by realistic examples that mirror those presented in the classroom throughout the semester. Use at the beginning and midway through the semester to deepen your understanding through clear explanations, corresponding hypothetical fact patterns, and analysis. Then use to study for finals by reviewing the hypotheticals a...
| | Beautiful Ruins: A Novel Release Date: June 12, 2012 The story begins in 1962. On a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and spies an apparition: a tall, thin woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an actress, he soon learns, an American starlet, and she is dying. And the story begins again today, half a world away, when an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie studio's back lotsearching for the mysterious woman he last saw at his hotel decades earlier. What unfolds is...
| | Merriam-Webster's Spanish-English Dictionary Publication Date: April 10, 2002| ISBN-10: 0877799164 | ISBN-13: 978-0877799160| Edition: 1 Merriam-Webster's Spanish-English Dictionary is a completely new dictionary designed to meet the needs of English and Spanish speakers in a time of ever-expanding communication among the countries of the Western Hemisphere. It is intended for language learners, teachers, office workers, tourists, business travelers--anyone who needs to communicate effectively in the Spanish and English languages as they are spoken and written in the Americas. ...
| | The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson Release Date: May 1, 2012| ISBN-10: 0679405070 | ISBN-13: 978-0679405078| Edition: First Edition Book Four of Robert A. Caro’s monumental The Years of Lyndon Johnson displays all the narrative energy and illuminating insight that led the Times of London to acclaim it as “one of the truly great political biographies of the modern age. A masterpiece.” The Passage of Power follows Lyndon Johnson through both the most frustrating and the most triumphant periods of his career—1958 to1964. It is a time that would see him trade the extraordinary power he...
| | Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative Publication Date: February 28, 2012You don’t need to be a genius, you just need to be yourself. That’s the message from Austin Kleon, a young writer and artist who knows that creativity is everywhere, creativity is for everyone. A manifesto for the digital age, Steal Like an Artist is a guide whose positive message, graphic look and illustrations, exercises, and examples will put readers directly in touch with their artistic side.When Mr. Kleon was asked to address college students in upstate New York, he shaped his speech around the ten things he wished someone had told him when...
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| | Modernist Cuisine at Home Publication Date: October 8, 2012The culinary revolution that has transformed restaurant menus around the world is also making its way into home kitchens. The Cooking Lab, publisher of the encyclopedic six-volume set Modernist Cuisine, which immediately became the definitive reference for this revolution, has now produced a lavishly illustrated guide for home cooks, complete with all-new recipes tailored for cooking enthusiasts of all skill levels.Modernist Cuisine at Home, by Nathan Myhrvold with Maxime Bilet, is destined to set a new standard for home cookbooks. The authors have collected ...
| | America: A Narrative History (Eighth Edition)(Vol. 1) Publication Date: October 15, 2009| ISBN-10: 0393934063 | ISBN-13: 978-0393934069| Edition: Eighth Edition A book students will read.America, now in its twenty-fifth year, has sold more 1.2 million copies over the past seven editions and remains the most affordable history text on the market. The narrative wins students over with compelling storytelling, colorful anecdotes and biographical sketches that make the material more memorable. The text includes helpful in-text study aids, and a host of electronic media resources to help teachers teach and students learn. ...
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