 | NEC 2011 (NFPA 70)
Publication Date: September 24, 2010| ISBN-10: 0877659141 | ISBN-13: 978-0877659143| Edition: 1 Safe, efficient, code-compliant electrical installations are made simple with the latest publication of this widely popular resource. Like its highly successful previous editions, the National Electrical Code 2011 softcover version combines solid, thorough, research-based content with the tools you need to build an in-depth understanding of the most important topics.New to the 2011 edition are articles including first-time Article 399 on Outdoor, Overhead Conductors with over 600 volts, first-...
 |  | Ancient, Ancient: Short Fiction
Publication Date: May 1, 2012Ancient, Ancient collects the short fiction by Kiini Ibura Salaam, of which acclaimed author and critic Nalo Hopkinson writes, ''Salaam treats words like the seductive weapons they are. She wields them to weave fierce, gorgeous stories that stroke your sensibilities, challenge your preconceptions, and leave you breathless with their beauty.'' Indeed, Ms. Salaam's stories are so permeated with sensuality that in her introduction to Ancient, Ancient, Nisi Shawl, author of the award-winning Filter House, writes, ''Sexuality-cum-sensuality is the experiential link be...
|  | Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story
Publication Date: September 1, 2007Miko Kings is set in Indian Territory's queen city, Ada, Oklahoma, during the baseball fever of 1907, but moves back and forth from 1969, during the Vietnam War, to present-day Ada. The story focuses on an Indian baseball team but brings a new understanding of the term "America's favorite pastime." For tribes in Indian Territory, baseball was an extension of a sport they'd been playing for centuries before their forced removal to Indian Territory.The story centers on the lives of Hope Little Leader, a Choctaw pitcher for the Miko Kings...
|  | The Ramayana of Valmiki: An Epic of Ancient India, Volume V: Sundarakanda
Publication Date: December 9, 1996| Series: Ramayana of Valmiki The fifth and most popular book of the Ramayana of Valmiki, the Sundarakanda, recounts the adventures of the monkey hero Hanuman in leaping across the ocean to the island citadel of Lanka. Once there, he scours the city for the abducted Princess Siti. The poet vividly describes the opulence of the court of the demon king, Ravana, the beauty of his harem, and the hideous deformity of Sita's wardresses. After witnessing Sita's stern rejection of Ravana's blandishments, Hanuman reveals himself to the princess and restores her hope ...
|  | The Hand of the Prophet: A Novel of Islamic America, 2053
Publication Date: July 2, 2012By the year 2053, large parts of the United States have fallen under the rule of fanatical, home-grown Sunni Muslims, who have established the Islamic Republic of America, an Islamic theocracy under Shari’a religious law. Dhimmis (Christians and the few remaining Jews) are a minority. California is a separate Shi’a country. Several Western states form the Mormon Republic, while some southern states make up the Christian Confederacy, both holding out against the Islamic conquest. The rest of what was the United States is part of the Islamic Republic...
|  | Tengo Sed: A Novel (Literature and Medicine)
Publication Date: September 16, 2010| Series: Literature and Medicine The Trauma ICU of a Level 1 trauma center is the setting for this thought-provoking novel, which reveals the ruthlessness of medical education and practice. James Fleming recounts a day in the life of a resident in emergency medicine at an urban teaching hospital. The novel's title, which translates loosely as I thirst, echoes the Christ of St. John. Tengo Sed s protagonist, however, known only as Hovercraft because he is always around, always feeling on edge, is not a savior but a hapless resident with a tendency toward m...
|  | The Iron Heel
Publication Date: December 25, 2011| ISBN-10: 1619492288 | ISBN-13: 978-1619492288Set in the future, The Iron Heel describes a world in which the division between the classes has deepened, creating a powerful Oligarchy that retains control through terror. A manuscript by rebel Avis Everhard is recovered in an even more distant future, and analyzed by scholar Anthony Meredith. Published in 1908, Jack London s multi-layered narrative is an early example of the dystopian novel, and its vision of the future proved to be eerily prescient of the violence and fascism that marked the initial hal...
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|  | Three Greek Plays: Prometheus Bound / Agamemnon / The Trojan Women
Publication Date: November 17, 1958Three classic Greek tragedies are translated and critically introduced byEdith Hamilton. ...
|  | Broken Hero
Publication Date: July 6, 2012Jason Trent is an outstanding police officer who prides himself on always being in control. He has the perfect family, perfect record, and the perfect looks to go along with it. His only fault is that he is not satisfied with just being a police officer. His focus has been to be Sheriff since he graduated from the Police Academy. Every decision of his career has been leading toward that goal. When several of the wealthy men of Adam's County come to him and offer him all the money and political backing he would need to become Sheriff, Jason thinks that his dreams...
|  | Ovid III: Metamorphoses, Books I-VIII (Loeb Classical Library, No. 42) (Bks.1-8, v. 3)
Publication Date: 1984Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BCE–17 CE), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the emperor Augustus by his Ars Amatoria, and was banished because of this work and some other reason unknown to us, and dwelt in the cold and primitive town of Tomis on the Black Sea. He continued writing poetry, a kindly man, leading a temperate life. He died in exile.Ovid's main surviving works are the Metamorphoses, a source of inspiration ...
|  | Adventure, Mystery, and Romance: Formula Stories as Art and Popular Culture (Phoenix Series)
Publication Date: July 15, 1977| ISBN-10: 0226098672 | ISBN-13: 978-0226098678In this first general theory for the analysis of popular literary formulas, John G. Cawelti reveals the artistry that underlies the best in formulaic literature. Cawelti discusses such seemingly diverse works as Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Dorothy Sayers's The Nine Tailors, and Owen Wister's The Virginian in the light of his hypotheses about the cultural function of formula literature. He describes the most important artistic characteristics of popular formula stories and the differences between this literature...
|  | Drift Away
Publication Date: July 8, 2012Forced to leave San Diego after his life is destroyed by tragedy, P.I. Noah Braddock is hiding and trying to heal on the Florida Panhandle. Paralyzed by fear and the pain of loss, he’s isolated himself and given up everything that meant anything to him. When a young boy comes to him on the beach, unable to find his mother, Noah is pulled into both of their troubled lives. As he reluctantly works to protect them from local thugs, he must confront the memories that continue to haunt him. Those memories come to life when shadowy figures from his past show up...
|  | Puss in Boots (Young Reading Gift Books)
Publication Date: January 1, 2005| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Los Seis Ciegos y El Elefante / The Blind Men and the Elephant (Coleccion Hola, Lector: Level 3) (Spanish Edition)
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| | Evan Longoria (Sports Heroes)
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|  | Piranhas in the Tub
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|  | BOOKMATCH: How to Scaffold Student Book: Selection for Independent Reading (No. 619-852)
Publication Date: June 26, 2008| ISBN-10: 0872076199 | ISBN-13: 978-0872076198Teachers are becoming increasingly concerned that an overreliance on leveling and readability formulas hinders students choices and potential to be engaged and interested in what they are reading. Fortunately, this user-friendly book shows you how to break away from this approach by using BOOKMATCH, an instructional tool that empowers students through choice and independence while showing them how to strategically and effectively select just-right books. In doing so, you will learn to set up and manage an effec...
|  | Go Bugs Go!
Release Date: July 11, 2006The bugs like to bump and bash, jump and splash! Join the plane-flying, train-driving, car-crashing bugs as they zoom around Sunnyside Street. Meet Bob, Tate, Stacie, the Triplets and more many-legged characters as they play Ready, Steady, Oops!, hoot the hooters on their trains, whoosh around the sky in their aeroplanes and launch their cars off the gravity drop and into the water jump. Go bugs go! --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Rip Squeak & His Friends
Publication Date: May 16, 2009| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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