 | Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach (6th Edition)
Publication Date: February 24, 2012| ISBN-10: 0132856204 | ISBN-13: 978-0132856201| Edition: 6 &>Computer Networking continues with an early emphasis on application-layer paradigms and application programming interfaces (the top layer), encouraging a hands-on experience with protocols and networking concepts, before working down the protocol stack to more abstract layers.This book has become the dominant book for this course because of the authors’ reputations, the precision of explanation, the quality of the art program, and the value of their own supplements.Visit ...
 |  | Pennsylvania Dutch Halloween Scherenschnitte
Release Date: July 7, 2011A fun display of Halloween folk art. Combining intricate artwork with short poems, this collection captures Halloween themes with poems of spiders, bats, and pumpkins. Each original entry is displayed in the Pennsylvania Dutch dialect with an English translation. The artwork, a traditional style of scissor cutting, is cut from black paper, overlaying an orange background. A brief introduction reveals how this group came to celebrate October 31, and an instructional page includes a pattern for readers to make their own Halloween paper cutting. ...
|  | Death: Mine. Heart and Soul.
Publication Date: May 30, 2008Change can be a frightening thing. To sacrifice what one believes in order to make that change can be terrifying. After finding herself lost in the freezing mountains of Romania, Amanda McLaurin finds herself faced with just such a situation.The mysterious castle would be a welcomed refuge from the weather outside if not for the deaths of the other guests following blatant displays of sexual favors. And it all seems related to a painting of the Tarot card known as Death. Worst of all, it seems to be watching her!Ryan Noceo, the sexy owner of the castle, tries to...
|  | Edgewater Angels: A Novel
Release Date: August 13, 2002Set in the projects of Los Angeles, California, Edgewater Angels chronicles the adolescence of Sunny Toomer, a streetwise young man endlessly sandwiched between the right and wrong thing to do. In a neighborhood where an absentminded stare might be mistaken for a silent challenge for turf, and asking someone if they have a problem may cost you your life, Sunny ekes out survival amidst an incomparable cast of characters, including a husbandless mother, violence-prone uncles, and a cadre of strangely endearing men either headed for jail or out on parole. Written in...
|  | Beyond the Ocean's Edge: A Stone Island Sea Story
Publication Date: May 2, 2012Is it possible to sail beyond the ocean's edge to another world?In 1802 Royal Navy Lieutenant Edward Pierce is ashore on half pay because of the Peace of Amiens.He fortunately gains command of a vessel searching for a lost, legendary island.When the island is found, Pierce and his shipmates discover that it exists in an entirely different but similar world.Exploring the seas around Stone Island, HMS Island Expedition sails headlong into an arena of mistaken identities, violent naval battles, strange truces, dangerous liaisons, international intrigue, superstition...
|  | Remember Me: A Rosewood Novel (Rosewood Trilogy)
Release Date: January 26, 2010| Series: Rosewood Trilogy (Book 1) CAN A LOVE BE LOST THAT WAS MEANT TO BE? A rising star in the modeling world, Margot Radcliffe hasn’t forgotten the hurt that sent her running from Rosewood, the beautiful Virginia horse farm where she was raised. Travis Maher, a ruggedly handsome rebel and gifted horse trainer with a hard-knock past, had once captured Margot’s heart—only to break it.But when tragedy strikes her family, Margot is forced to set aside her skyrocketing career and return to a place she never expected to see again, where t...
|  | Tales from the Thousand and One Nights (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: August 30, 1973| Series: Penguin Classics The tales told by Shahrazad over a thousand and one nights to delay her execution by the vengeful King Shahriyar have become among the most popular in both Eastern and Western literature. From the epic adventures of "Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp" to the farcical "Young Woman and her Five Lovers" and the social criticism of "The Tale of the Hunchback", the stories depict a fabulous world of all-powerful sorcerers, jinns imprisoned in bottles and enchanting princesses. But despite their imaginative extravagance, the Tales are anchored t...
|  | Readings in the Western Humanities, Volume 1
Publication Date: July 14, 2000| ISBN-10: 0767415965 | ISBN-13: 978-0767415965| Edition: 4 An anthology for use with The Western Humanities, Fourth Edition, by Roy T. Matthews and F. DeWitt Platt, this Volume I covers literature from the Epic of Gilgamesh through The Prince. The readings are accompanied by extensive contextual headnotes. ...
|  | Cabaret Performance: Europe, 1890-1920. Volume 1: Sketches, Songs, Monologues, Memoirs (PAJ Books)
Publication Date: July 1, 2001| Series: PAJ Books A splendid introduction to the world of the European cabaret in the first period of its meteoric rise as a form of artistic creativity."--Harold Segel, author of Turn-of-the-Century Cabaret. ...
|  | Richard II(MAXNotes Literature Guides)
Publication Date: June 6, 1996| Series: MAXnotes Literature Guides REA's MAXnotes for William Shakespeare's Richard IIThe MAXnotes offers a comprehensive summary and analysis of Richard II and a biography of William Shakespeare. Places the events of the play in historical context and discusses each act in detail. Includes study questions and answers along with topics for papers and sample outlines. ...
|  | Collected Stories (Everyman's Library)
Release Date: October 26, 1993(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Franz Kafka’s imagination so far outstripped the forms and conventions of the literary tradition he inherited that he was forced to turn that tradition inside out in order to tell his splendid, mysterious tales. Scrupulously naturalistic on the surface, uncanny in their depths, these stories represent the achieved art of a modern master who had the gift of making our problematic spiritual life palpable and real.This edition of his stories includes all his available shorter fiction in a collection edited, arranged, and introduc...
|  | Reveries of the Solitary Walker (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: February 28, 1980| ISBN-10: 0140443630 | ISBN-13: 978-0140443639| Edition: Reprint After a period of forced exile and solitary wandering brought about by his radical views on religion and politics, Jean-Jacques Rousseau returned to Paris in 1770. Here, in the last two years of his life, he wrote his final work, "The Reveries." In this eloquent masterpiece the great political thinker describes his sense of isolation from a society he felt had rejected his writings - and the manner in which he has come to terms with his alienation, as he walks around Paris, gazing at plants, ...
|  | Storm of Visions (Chosen Ones, Book 1)
Release Date: August 4, 2009Master romantic storyteller Christina Dodd delivers STORM OF VISIONS, book 1 in a seductive new paranormal series about an ancient rivalry that lives in the world today ... When the world was young, twins were born. One brought light to a dark world; the other, darkness and danger. Their powers could not be denied, and they gathered others around them, men and women destined to use their gifts for good or evil. Today, their descendents walk the earth as the Chosen ... and the ultimate battle is about to begin. Jacqueline Vargha has always run from her gi...
|  | Simple Genius (King & Maxwell)
Publication Date: October 8, 2008| Series: King & Maxwell David Baldacci's much-loved protagonists Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are having trouble adjusting to life in the wake of the terrible events that drove them to the brink in HOUR GAME. Dogged by hidden demons from her past, then almost killed in a barroom brawl, Michelle agrees to try therapy at a mental-health facility, where she simultaneously busts a ring of drug-dealers. Sean, hoping to right their shared career in the private security sector, accepts an offer to investigate a mysterious death at a scientific think tank called B...
|  | K is for Killer (A Kinsey Millhone Mystery, Book 11)
Publication Date: May 15, 1994Lorna Kepler was beautiful and willful, a loner who couldn't resist flirting with danger. Maybe that's what killed her.Her death had raised a host of tough questions. The cops suspected homicide, but they could find neither motive nor suspect. Even the means were mysterious:Lorna's body was so badly decomposed when it was discovered that they couldn't be certain she hadn't died of natural causes. In the way of overworked cops everywhere, the case was gradually shifted to the back burner and became another unsolved file.Only Lorna's mother kept it alive, consumed...
|  | The Mystery Fancier (Vol. 9 No. 6) November-December 1987
Publication Date: August 19, 2010The Mystery Fancier Volume 9 Number 6, November-December 1987, contains: "Cornell Woolrich, The Last Years (Conclusion)," by Francis M. Nevins Junior, "Further Gems from the Literature," by William F. Deeck, and "Mystery Mosts," by Jeff Banks. ...
|  | The Shaman Sings (Charlie Moon Mysteries)
Release Date: August 28, 2007| Series: Charlie Moon Mysteries (Book 1) The shocking death of a female physics student has shattered the peaceful community of Granite Creek, Colorado--and police chief Scott Parrish has a hunch he can't even begin to explain. He saw the killing…in his dreams. Daisy Perika experienced the same visions. An aged Ute shaman who lives in a trailer on the lonesome highlands, hers is the realm of the Native American spirit. But Daisy doesn't need scientific proof to know that the student's breakthrough discovery was to kill for. And it isn't over yet.Par...
|  | WINX Club, Vol. 4
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|  | Beyblade: Official Handbook: Metal Fusion and Metal Masters
Publication Date: January 1, 2012| Age Level: 7 and up...
|  | The Hired Hand: An African-American Folktale
Release Date: May 1, 1997| Age Level: 5 and up At a busy sawmill in Virginia, a stranger tells Old Sam he wants to learn the trade. Old Sam happily hires the man. His son, Young Sam is glad to have someone to boss around. But when Young Sam tries to imitate the new hand in the name of greed, he causes an old woman's death. When he repents, the new hand finds a way to make everything right again. Full color. ...
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