 | Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Statics
Publication Date: January 13, 2012| ISBN-10: 0077402286 | ISBN-13: 978-0077402280| Edition: 10 Continuing in the spirit of its successful previous editions, the tenth edition of Beer, Johnston, Mazurek, and Cornwell's Vector Mechanics for Engineers provides conceptually accurate and thorough coverage together with a significant refreshment of the exercise sets and online delivery of homework problems to your students.Nearly forty percent of the problems in the text are changed from the previous edition. The Beer/Johnston textbooks introduced significant pedagogical innovations into engin...
 |  | Leading With My Chin
Publication Date: October 1996The host of The Tonight Show, whose comedy has won him the #1 spot in his time slot and an Emmy, here shares his funniest stories. For all those who tune in for Jay Leno's trademark monologue, his entertaining skits, and his warm and funny banter with celebrities, Leading with My Chin offers hours of hilarious reading. ...
|  | Bus Stop: A Three-Act Romance
Publication Date: October 1, 1956Upon hitting Broadway in 1955 Bus Stop was an immediate commercial & critical success. During a winter storm a busload of weary travelers are forced to shack up at a roadside diner until morning. Inge was renowned for his in-depth character studies, Bus Stop is no exception and offers a warm play about the intersecting lives of eight ordinary people. A L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Megan Anderson, Terrence Currier, Rachel Miner, Anson Mount, Kyle Prue, Lynnie Raybuck, Jefferson A. Russell and Gary Sloan. --This text refers to the Audio C...
|  | Deadpool Max
Publication Date: November 28, 2012| Series: Deadpool Deadpool uncensored! Government agent Wade Wilson is a valuable assassin, but the unstable killer needs the guidance of a steady hand. It's Bob's job to make sure Deadpool completes his missions - by any means necessary. Unfortunately, Deadpool considers him something of a sidekick, and it's always the sidekick who takes one for the team. Then, Deadpool gets married! But things spiral straight down the tubes when his blushing bride goes on a murder spree that threatens to destroy Deadpool's newly formed nuclear family. Plus: Deadpool and ...
|  | Adams Fall
Publication Date: October 9, 2000With the fall of his senior year at the College upon him, the nameless protagonist of Adams Fall finds himself under the great strain of senior year with a thesis to write, a Marshall to apply for, and a girlfriend to elude. It is a full, but manageable plate for one of "the country's best and brightest."A resident of Adams house's reportedly haunted B-entry, he is familiar with tales of phantom footsteps, vanished laundry, lurking shadows. But when he begins to find himself the object of the house's cruel attentions his world quickly begins to unravel. As th...
|  | The Troublesome Amputee: Scarred Edition
Publication Date: December 1, 2006Welcome to one of the meatiest collections of grizzly, grotey, bizarro poetry you'll come across. In other words, "the good stuff." The stuff you like to read. The guilty pleasure stuff that's hard to come by. Not the stuff you used to read from your lovers or childhood heroes, or the stuff you were made to read by your teachers or parents. The stuff you genuinely like to spend time with, musing and mulling and mashing. The stuff that makes you guffaw with laughter and want to read out loud to other unsuspecting people. The Scarred Edition includes the out-o...
|  | Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not)
Release Date: June 27, 2006In more than a century since its appearance, José Rizal's Noli Me Tangere has become widely known as the great novel of the Philippines. A passionate love story set against the ugly political backdrop of repression, torture, and murder, "The Noli," as it is called in the Philippines, was the first major artistic manifestation of Asian resistance to European colonialism, and Rizal became a guiding conscience—and martyr—for the revolution that would subsequently rise up in the Spanish province. This new translation includes an extensive introduct...
|  | Leo Africanus
Publication Date: March 25, 1998"I, Hasan the son of Muhammad the weigh-master, I, Jean-Leon de Medici, circumcised at the hand of a barber and baptized at the hand of a pope, I am now called the African, but I am not from Africa, nor from Europe, nor from Arabia. I am also called the Granadan, the Fassi, the Zayyati, but I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road, my country is the caravan, my life the most unexpected of voyages."Thus wrote Leo Africanus, in his fortieth year, in this imaginary autobiography of the famous geographer, adventurer, and scholar Has...
|  | The Making of Theodore Roosevelt
Publication Date: February 9, 2011The true story of how two Maine woodsmen taught Theodore Roosevelt to stand on his own two feet in the northern woods. Fiction. 1878 ...
|  | Enemies & Allies
Release Date: September 28, 2010It was a time of international tensions, a time of hope and fear—when Elvis, Howdy Doody, UFOs, and the Communist menace preoccupied America. It was the first time in history when human beings had the power to destroy their world. A time when heroes were needed more than ever.Evil is loose in the world. As the United States and the Soviet Union race to build their nuclear stockpiles, two extraordinary men are called upon to form an uneasy alliance. Studies in opposites—shadow and light—a Dark Knight and a Man of Steel must overcome the...
|  | Candide (French Edition)
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|  | Vinegar Soup
Publication Date: April 5, 1999As though Martin Amis had been written by Henry Green and David Cook."" - The Times Literary Supplement.""Savagely black comedy along Evelyn Waugh lines with its merriments even kinkier."" - The Observer.Full of dark comic invention, teasing eroticism, and culinary joie de vivre, Vinegar Soup is spicy and delectable, a fantasy with a flavor all its own about food and sex, growing up and growing old. Gilbert Firestone, fat and fifty, works in the kitchen of the Hercules Café and dreams of travel and adventure. When his wife drowns in a pan of soup he abando...
|  | The Cambridge Companion to Rudyard Kipling (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Publication Date: October 17, 2011| Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is among the most popular, acclaimed and controversial of writers in English. His books have sold in great numbers, and he remains the youngest writer to have won the Nobel Prize for literature. Many associate Kipling with poems such as 'If-', his novel Kim, his pioneering use of the short story form and such works for children as the Just So Stories. For others, though, Kipling is the very symbol of the British Empire and a belligerent approach to other peoples and races. This Companio...
|  | Poetas de Hispanoamerica
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|  | Algo De Lo Sagrado / Something of the Sacred
Publication Date: September 1, 2007Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Kristin Dykstra and Roberto Tejada, featuring an essay by Kristin Dykstra. "Omar Perez Lopez (1964-) was born in the city of Havana and has lived most of his life to date in Cuba. A former journalist, Perez has explored a wide array of literary genres, particularly poetry, translation, and the essay...At the center of SOMETHING OF THE SACRED is the exploration of displacement. Perez sees poetic metaphor as 'the subtle displacement of something objective'...His apparent strangeness, particularly i...
|  | Beatrix Potter (Twayne's English Authors)
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|  | Dante and the Making of a Modern Author
Publication Date: April 29, 2011Leading scholar Albert Russell Ascoli traces the metamorphosis of Dante Alighieri - minor Florentine aristocrat, political activist and exile, amateur philosopher and theologian, and daring experimental poet - into Dante, author of the Divine Comedy and perhaps the most self-consciously 'authoritative' cultural figure in the Western canon. The text offers a comprehensive introduction to Dante's evolving, transformative relationship to medieval ideas of authorship and authority from the early Vita Nuova through the unfinished treatises, The Banquet and On Verna...
|  | Essays on Anglo Indian Literature: Reminiscent of the Vignettes That Were Published in Victorian England
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|  | Wait Until...
Publication Date: May 7, 2012When Darcy finds Lizzy crying over the thought of her sister being lost because of her elopement, he decides to offer his help. ...
|  | The Vampire's Secret
Release Date: March 27, 2007“A masterly tale . . . dark, seductive, disturbingly erotic.”–L. A. Banks, author of The Vampire Huntress Legends series, on The Vampire’s SeductionOnce a mortal with a beloved family, William Cuyler Thorne is now a vampire on the prowl for blood and beautiful women. He has the perfect cover as an admired citizen of Savannah society. Though Reedrek, the ruthless old-world vampire who tried to destroy William has been defeated, he still has his followers–and they will settle for nothing less than all-out war.To counter this viciou...
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