 | You May Ask Yourself: An Introduction to Thinking Like a Sociologist (Second Edition)
Publication Date: January 10, 2011| ISBN-10: 0393935175 | ISBN-13: 978-0393935172| Edition: Second Edition The “untextbook” that teaches students to think like a sociologist.You May Ask Yourself emphasizes the “big ideas” of the discipline, and encourages students to question what they've taken for granted most of their lives. Author Dalton Conley captures students with his conversational style, explaining complex concepts through personal examples and storytelling, and integrating coverage of social inequality throughout the textbook. His irreverent approach to t...
 |  | Dawn Land
Publication Date: August 29, 1995This acclaimed first novel starring Young Hunter, an Abenaki dedicated to becoming a pure hunter, provides readers with an unforgettable story and a greater understanding of Native American peoples. ...
|  | Wise Children
Release Date: January 1, 1993Dora and Nora Chance are a famous song-and-dance team of the British music halls. Billed as The Lucky Chances, the sisters are the illegitimate and unacknowledged daughters of Sir Melchoir Hazard, the greatest Shakespearean actor of his day. At once ribald and sentimental, glittery and tender, this rambunctious family saga is Angela Carter at her bewitching best. ...
|  | Love Takes Wing (Love Comes Softly Series #7)
Publication Date: February 1, 2004Book 7 of the bestselling Love Comes Softly series.Belinda Davis had trained as a nurse to assist her older brother, Doctor Luke. But as time goes by and she sees those she's grown up with getting married and settling into their own lives, Belinda becomes restless. What had seemed exciting and fresh becomes dull and routine. When she meets an elderly woman who needs nursing care, Belinda jumps at the invitation to go to Boston--a large, "civilized" city with cultural opportunities she's never even dreamed of in her little prairie town. But in spite...
|  | The Book of Sorrows
Release Date: August 8, 1996This sequel to the award-winning The Book of the Dun Cow stands on its own as a powerful work of literature. In this absorbing, highly original fantasy, Chauntecleer, Pertelote, and the other familiar characters of the Coop struggle to piece together their shattered lives in the aftermath of the terrible conflict with the dreaded Wyrm. But their respite is short-lived: Into this struggling community, Wyrm again insinuates himself, with dire consequences for all. The reappearance of the dog Mundo Coni unveils a darker mystery yet -- and the threat of a final horror...
|  | The Messenger: A Novel
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|  | Slow Poison: A Novel (Voices of the South)
Publication Date: May 1998| Series: Voices of the South "Set in and around New Orleans, mostly from 1958 to the late '60s, this bitter-sweet, episodic novel pierces Southern manners and mores with fierce tenderness".--"Publishers Weekly" (starred review). ...
|  | The Folklore of Spain in the American Southwest: Traditional Spanish Folk Literature in Northern New Mexico and Southern colorado
Publication Date: March 15, 1990| ISBN-10: 0806122498 | ISBN-13: 978-0806122496The region of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado holds a unique place in the world of Spanish folk literature.Isolated from the rest of the Spanish-speaking world for most of its history since its first settlement in 1598, it has retained, even into our own time, much of its Hispanic folkloric heritage from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries-ballads, songs, poems, folktales, sayings, anecdotes, proverbs, riddles, and folk drama.In this book, written in the late 1930s and never before published, Aur...
|  | The Essential Max M
Publication Date: November 15, 2002Max Müller is often referred to as the “father of Religious Studies,” having himself coined the term "science of religion" (or religionswissenschaft) in 1873. It was he who encouraged the comparative study of myth and ritual, and it was he who introduced the oft-quoted dictum: “He who knows one [religion], knows none.” Though a German-born and German-educated philologist, he spent the greater part of his career at Oxford, becoming one of the most famous of the Victorian arm-chair scholars. Müller wrote extensively on Indian...
|  | Ciclo de la primavera / Spring's Cycle (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Manga Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
Publication Date: April 1, 2007| Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Beowulf (MAXNotes Literature Guides)
Publication Date: June 13, 1995| ISBN-10: 0878919988 | ISBN-13: 978-0878919987| Edition: 1 MAXnotes offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature, presented in a lively and interesting fashion.Written by literary experts who currently teach the subject, MAXnotes will enhance your understanding and enjoyment of the work. MAXnotes are designed to stimulate independent thought about the literary work by raising various issues and thought-provoking ideas and questions.MAXnotes cover the essentials of what one should know about each work, including an overall summary, character lists, an e...
|  | Heinrich Von Kleist Word into Flesh: A Poet's Quest for the Symbol
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|  | Mutualities in Dialogue
Publication Date: January 26, 1996| ISBN-10: 0521495954 | ISBN-13: 978-0521495950| Edition: 1St Edition Dialogue has developed from more primitive forms of communication during evolution.In Mutualities in Dialogue, "dialogue" refers to face-to-face interaction between two or more individuals using a system of signs.It asks the question "What is it that we share in the course of a dialogue?", arguing that mutualities of language, culture and some interpersonal information are prerequisite for effective communication.Even in instances of noncooperation or of asymmetrical dialogue elementar...
|  | Asking for the Moon (Dalziel and Pascoe Mysteries)
Release Date: April 6, 1998| Series: Dalziel and Pascoe Mysteries Spanning the careers of two of crime fiction's most esteemed police detectives, these four short mysteries are revelatory episodes in the complex relationship between Dalziel and Pascoe. In the opening tale, the chilling start of the Dalziel and Pascoe partnership--never before revealed--is cemented by a killer and his shotgun. In another, the duo investigates the fate of a woman no one has seen for a year, except her brother, who claims he is being haunted by her ghost. Then the detectives kee...
|  | How We Saw the World (Native Legends)
Release Date: August 12, 1993| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Colors (Hullaballoo/Vhs Video)
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| | Underwater Fun
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|  | Classic Starts: Ballet Stories (Classic Starts Series)
Publication Date: February 2, 2010| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
Publication Date: May 1, 2003| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Readers today are still fascinated by “Nat,” an eighteenth-century nautical wonder and mathematical wizard. Nathaniel Bowditch grew up in a sailor’s world—Salem in the early days, when tall-masted ships from foreign ports crowded the wharves. But Nat didn’t promise to have the makings of a sailor; he was too physically small.Nat may have been slight of build, but no one guessed that he had the persistence and determination to master sea navigation in the days when men sailed only by “...
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