 | Desmoronamiento (Andanzas/ Adventures) (Spanish Edition)
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 |  | Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
Publication Date: May 1, 2001| Series: Hercule Poirot Mysteries On the long train ride from Istanbul to Paris, detective Poirot must find the killer of a much-hated millionaire among 13 suspects with reasons to kill. ...
|  | The End of Sparta: A Novel
Release Date: October 11, 2011In this sweeping and deeply imagined historical novel, acclaimed classicist Victor Davis Hanson re-creates the battles of one of the greatest generals of ancient Greece, Epaminondas. At the Battle of Leuktra, his Thebans crushed the fearsome army of Sparta that had enslaved its neighbors for two centuries.We follow these epic historical events through the eyes of Mêlon, a farmer who has left his fields to serve with Epaminondas-swept up, against his better judgment, in the fever to spread democracy even as he yearns to return to his pastoral hillside.With a...
|  | Youngin'
Publication Date: May 5, 2007Brian Moore is suffering a mid-life crisis at the age of eighteen. His life revolves around getting money. For him, that means armed robberies and stick-ups. He has baby mama and baby mama family drama.The only thing stable in his life is his fiancée, Sonia. She s a college student with a relentless passion to make it out of the hood with or without Brian. For the first time in his life, Brian can t straddle the fence. He has to make a decision. Will he be loyal to the streets which raised him and made him who he is today? Or will he be loyal to a girl who i...
|  | Micro (en espanol) (Vintage Espanol) (Spanish Edition)
Release Date: August 14, 2012| Series: Vintage Espanol En Parque Jurásico Michael Crichton nos enseñó un nuevo mundo terrorífico. En Micro nos descubre un universo demasiado minúsculo para verlo, pero demasiado peligroso para ignorarlo. En la densa selva de Oahu, Hawai, un grupo de científicos de los laboratorios Nanigen MicroTechnologies se dedica a estudiar las drogas naturales presentes en trillones de microorganismos y miles de bacterias con la intención de aprovechar todas las aplicaciones comerciales posibles. Con este fin, Nanigen ...
|  | Shadow Point
Publication Date: December 14, 2010It wasn’t easy getting to Shadow Point. Turns out it’s even harder to leave.Madison McPeake, not in the best mood most of the time, has just been not-quite fired, told her brother is dead, discovered she’s responsible for a five-year old niece she’s never met and realized she has to go all the way to San Diego to see to her brother's affairs.Isolated from the world by geography and a navy base bristling with security, Shadow Point is scarcely habitable—at least Madison thinks so. Coping with the living conditions while getti...
|  | Lincoln Legends: Myths, Hoaxes, and Confabulations Associated with Our Greatest President
Release Date: October 12, 2007In the more than 140 years since his death, Abraham Lincoln has become America's most revered president. The mythmaking about this self-made man began early, some of it starting during his campaign for the presidency in 1860. As an American icon, Lincoln has been the subject of speculation and inquiry as authors and researchers have examined every aspect -- personal and professional -- of the president's life. In Lincoln Legends, noted historian and Lincoln expert Edward Steers Jr. carefully scrutinizes some of the most notorious tall tales and distorted ideas a...
|  | Cunning-Folk: Popular Magic in English History
Publication Date: May 16, 2003Local practitioners of magic, providing small-scale but valued services to the community, cunning-folk were far more representative of magical practice than the arcane delvings of astrologers and necromancers. Mostly unsensational in their approach, cunning-folk helped people with everyday problems: how to find lost objects; how to escape from bad luck or a suspected spell; and how to attract a lover or keep the love of a husband or wife. While cunning-folk sometimes fell foul of the authorities, both church and state often turned a blind eye to their existence ...
|  | From the Bowery to Broadway: Lew Fields and the Roots of American Popular Theatre
Publication Date: October 28, 1993Before Ziegfield launched his Follies, before the Shubert brothers built their empire, Lew Fields' productions were the toast of Broadway. For the "smart set" in silk hats and evening gowns in the luxury box seats, and the shopkeepers and clerks in the gallery, an evening at the Weber & Fields Music Hall was the hottest ticket in town. The five year old named Moses Schoenfeld who crossed the Atlantic in steerage with his family in 1872 had grown up to become an innovative genius who helped raise the Broadway musical to the pinnacle of show business. Fields' ...
|  | Azaleas: A Book of Poems (Weatherhead Books on Asia)
Publication Date: April 3, 2007| ISBN-10: 023113973X | ISBN-13: 978-0231139731Available for the first time in English,Azaleas is a captivating collection of poems by a master of the early Korean modernist style. Published in 1925,Azaleas is the only collection Kim Sowol (1902-1934) produced during his brief life, yet he remains one of Korea's most beloved and well-known poets. His work is a delightful and sophisticated blend of the images, tonalities, and rhythms of traditional Korean folk songs with surprisingly modern forms and themes. Sowol is also known for his unique and sometimes u...
|  | Coloured Stars: Versions of Fifty Asiatic Love Poems
Publication Date: April 8, 2012The poems in this first of its kind collection range from short meditations on erotic moments to heady songs of love, written by poets from India, Arabia, Persia, and Japan, among other romantic lands. These 50 stirring love poems were personally collected and translated by the legendary Edward Powys Mathers.Mathers gained widespread fame in the early 20th century as a translator of numerous works from both the near and far east. Mathers, inventor of the modern crossword puzzle, spent years selecting these poems, and carefully translated them taking pains to ...
|  | Sinfon
Publication Date: July 13, 2012Juan Sánchez Lamouth (1929-1968), poeta dominicano, una de las primeras voces de la negritud. Recuperó e introdujo alientos esenciales en la poesía dominicana, como los de Whitman, Eliot y Vallejo. Se considera un "poeta maldito" por su vida tan radical y excepcional. Voz crítica de los órdenes dictatoriales, la suya es uno de las aurorales de la modernidad dominicana. ...
|  | sexions
Publication Date: March 15, 2005In this deeply evocative début anthology, Renée Sigel takes the reader on a journey through a richly textured labyrinth of truth and contradiction. Her words and imagery delve into the core nature of self - of belonging, of sexuality, of displacement: Five African Songs and Sexions, selections from life and love, alternately weave through the intense and tenacious fabric of the African soul and its convergence with suburban ordinariness. Hottentot Venus traces the tragic true life story of a young woman, Sara Baartman, which mirrors the current reali...
|  | The Early Stuart Masque: Dance, Costume, and Music
Publication Date: June 15, 2006| ISBN-10: 0199286590 | ISBN-13: 978-0199286591The Early Stuart Masque: Dance, Costume, and Music studies the complex impact of movements, costumes, words, scenes, music, and special effects in English illusionistic theatre of the Renaissance. Drawing on a massive amount of documentary evidence relating to English productions as well as spectacle in France, Italy, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire, the book elucidates professional ballet, theatre management, and dramatic performance at the early Stuart court. Individual studies take a fresh look at works by B...
|  | Stage Fright: Modernism, Anti-Theatricality, and Drama
Publication Date: August 31, 2011| ISBN-10: 1421403994 | ISBN-13: 978-1421403991| Edition: 1 Grounded equally in discussions of theater history, literary genre, and theory, Martin Puchner'sStage Fright: Modernism, Anti-Theatricality, and Drama explores the conflict between avant-garde theater and modernism. While the avant-garde celebrated all things theatrical, a dominant strain of modernism tended to define itself against the theater, valuing lyric poetry and the novel instead. Defenders of the theater dismiss modernism's aversion to the stage and its mimicking actors as one more form ...
|  | The romance of writing: From Egyptian hieroglyphics to modern letters, numbers, and signs
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|  | Formula D2
Publication Date: August 30, 2005When technology is worth killing for based on a “true story,” teenager, Hans Larson, during WWII becomes the carrier for the most innovative form of alternative energy: “Cold Fusion!” Years later after running for his life to escape the wrath of Adolph Hitler’s Third Reich, headed by the infamous branch of Germany’s military police: the “Gestapo,” Hans develops and proves an energy concept consisting of alternative fuel to power today’s vehicles for 100,000 miles, without refueling on seventeen ounces (17 oz.) of a...
|  | Expert in Murder, An: A Josephine Tey Mystery
Release Date: June 16, 2009 March 1934. Revered mystery writer Josephine Tey is traveling from Scotland to London for the final week of her play Richard of Bordeaux, the surprise hit of the season, with pacifist themes that resonate in a world still haunted by war. But joy turns to horror when her arrival coincides with the murder of a young woman she had befriended on the train ride—and Tey is plunged into a mystery as puzzling as any in her own works. Detective Inspector Archie Penrose is convinced that the killing is connected to the play, and that Tey herself is in danger of beco...
|  | Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Illustrated Short Stories: All 56 Stories with Original Illustrations from The Strand Magazine
Publication Date: May 28, 2002They're among the most influential, enduring, and popular short stories in the English language; marvelous mysteries that feature the "most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has ever seen." Here are all 56 Sherlock Holmes tales in one very handsome collection, accompanied by the original artwork in facsimile reproduction. Every short story is here--grouped into series (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Last Bow), each containing several adventures. Among the highlights: "A Scandal in Bohemia," where the gr...
|  | Japanese Geishas Stained Glass Coloring Book (Dover Stained Glass Coloring Book)
Publication Date: June 15, 1998| Age Level: 3 and up...
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