 | Micro: A Novel
Release Date: November 22, 2011 In Jurassic Park, he created a terrifying new world. Now, in Micro, Michael Crichton reveals a universe too small to see and too dangerous to ignore. In a locked Honolulu office building, three men are found dead with no sign of struggle except for the ultrafine, razor-sharp cuts covering their bodies. The only clue left behind is a tiny bladed robot, nearly invisible to the human eye. In the lush forests of Oahu, groundbreaking technology has ushered in a revolutionary era of biological prospecting. Trillions of microorganisms, tens of thousands of bacter...
 |  | If I Should Die
Publication Date: November 15, 2002In this highly acclaimed, spellbinding novel, journalist Laurie Best investigates reports of retirement home residents being euthanized and must decide if there's ever a time when life is no longer worth living. A fascinating, attention grabbing novel dealing with tough, real-life situations.Tucked into green hills of Oregon's winding coast, inside an elite retirement community far from prying eyes, people are beginning to disappear. According to unconfirmed reports, the residents are being systematically euthanized. "Led like sheep to the slaughter" is how...
|  | Brothers: A Novel
Release Date: June 12, 2007At the height of China’s Cultural Revolution a powerful general fathered two sons. Tan was born to the general’s wife and into a life of comfort and luxury. His half brother, Shento, was born to the general’s mistress, who threw herself off a cliff in the mountains of Balan only moments after delivering her child. Growing up, each remained ignorant of the other’s existence. In Beijing, Tan enjoyed the best schools, the finest clothes, and the prettiest girls. Shento was raised on the mountainside by an old healer and his wife until their dea...
|  | Star Trek: Vanguard: What Judgments Come
Release Date: September 27, 2011| Series: Star Trek Operation Vanguard has risked countless lives and sacrificed entire worlds to unlock the secrets of the Shedai, an extinct alien civilization whose technology can shape the future of the galaxy. Now, Starfleet’s efforts have roused the vengeful Shedai from their aeons of slumber. As the Taurus Reach erupts with violence, hundreds of light-years away, on “The Planet of Galactic Peace,” Ambassador Jetanien and his counterparts from the Klingon and Romulan empires struggle to avert war by any means necessary. But Jetanien dis...
|  | Selected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies)
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|  | Jana Sanskriti: Forum Theatre and Democracy in India
Publication Date: June 23, 2010| ISBN-10: 0415577527 | ISBN-13: 978-0415577526| Edition: 1 Jana Sanskriti Centre for the Theatre of the Oppressed, based in West Bengal, is probably the largest and longest lasting Forum Theatre operation in the world. It was considered by Augusto Boal to be the chief exponent of his methodology outside of its native Brazil.This book is a unique first-hand account - by the group's artistic director Sanjoy Ganguly - of Jana Sanskriti's growth and development since its founding in 1985, which has resulted in a national Forum Theatre network throughout India....
|  | The Poems (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: July 6, 2006| Series: Penguin Classics This collection contains all of Catullus’s extant work. Ranging from the tender, moving, and passionate to the vicious and even obscene, these are poems of astonishingly modern force and content. The lively translation by Peter Whigham re-creates the dexterity, passion, and perception of the original. ...
|  | Poetry by Contemporary Honduran Women (Hispanic Literature)
Publication Date: January 2002| ISBN-10: 0773473033 | ISBN-13: 978-0773473034This book contains poetry by more than 15 contemporary women in Honduras, only three of whom have been translated into English before. Included are facing page translations. Poets include: Aida Sabonge; Alejandra Flores Bermudez; Amanda Castro; Armida Garcia; Blanca Guifarro; Claudia Torres; Debora Ramos; Elisa Logan; Francesca Randazzo; Indira Flamenco; Juana Pavlon; Lety Elvir; Maria Eugenia Ramos; Mirna Rivera; Normandina Pagoada; Raquel Lobo; Rebeca Becerra; Sara Salazar; Waldina Mejia; Xiomara Bu; and Yadir...
|  | The Beautiful Lesson of the I (Swenson Poetry Award)
Release Date: July 31, 2005| Series: Swenson Poetry Award The Beautiful Lesson of the I is a collection of finely made poems by an accomplished poet. It will reward the scholar and the student of poetry, as well as the reader looking for the simple pleasures of poetic insight authentically felt. Frances Brent’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Notre Dame Review, Yale Review, and in many other journals. Her work is known for its delicacy and detail, evoking both the Symbolists and some of the Asian poets who inspired them. She includes May Swenson among her influences, too; like Sw...
|  | Great Books for Babies and Toddlers: More Than 500 Recommended Books for Your Child's First Three Years
Release Date: April 1, 2003“The ideal time to begin sharing books with children is during babyhood, even with children as young as six weeks.”—Starting Out Right National Research CouncilAll parents hope to give their children the best possible start in life. Many of them know it’s a good idea to read to their children at a very young age, not with the goal of teaching their kids to read, but with the joy of having special time together looking at pictures and playing with words. Carefully chosen books that introduce children to the pleasures of language, simple s...
|  | The Correspondence of Johann Amerbach: Early Printing in its Social Context (Recentiores: Later Latin Texts and Contexts)
Publication Date: November 2, 2000| Series: Recentiores: Later Latin Texts and Contexts After Gutenberg, the book world was changed forever. Writers wanted to break into print; venture capitalists and printers wanted to make money; scholars wanted to promote their educational agendas. To be economically viable, the printed book--unlike the handmade book--required distribution to large international markets, promotion, advertising, capital, and above all, profit. In a heady atmosphere of speculation, competition, and high risk, printers set up shop and went bankrupt with dizzying rapidity. Ag...
| | Dora Marsden and Early Modernism: Gender, Individualism, Science (Studies in Literature & Science)
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|  | Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
Publication Date: May 20, 2008Rebecca Solnit has made a vocation of journeying into difficult territory and reporting back, as an environmentalist, antiglobalization activist, and public intellectual. Storming the Gates of Paradise, an anthology of her essential essays from the past ten years, takes the reader from the Pyrenees to the U.S.--Mexican border, from San Francisco to London, from open sky to the deepest mines, and from the antislavery struggles of two hundred years ago to today's street protests. The nearly forty essays collected here comprise a unique guidebook to the American la...
|  | The Trench Soldier (Casca, No. 21)
Release Date: April 1, 1993Doomed to wander the earth eternally as a soldier, Casca Longinus finds himself in the midst of World War I, fighting in the world's first modern war and envying those who are dying in droves all around him. Reissue. ...
|  | Carrot Cake Murder (Hannah Swensen Mysteries)
Release Date: February 1, 2009| Series: Hannah Swensen Mysteries Between baking up a storm for The Cookie Jar and unravelling the mystery of her cat Moishe's recent strange behaviour, Hannah Swensen has a lot on her plate. But she'll always make time for her business partner, Lisa, who's in the midst of preparing for a big family reunion. Everyone is delighted when Lisa's long-lost uncle makes a surprise appearance. No one has heard from Gus in twenty-five years. Uncle Gus is immediately the hit of the reunion. He's almost as popular as Hannah's scrumptious carrot cake, which is also Gus' fa...
|  | Spider-Man: Saga of the Sandman
Publication Date: March 21, 2007| Grade Level: 4 and up It was no day at the beach when criminal Flint Marko was mutated into one of Marveldom's most versatile villains and began a career of kicking sand in our favorite heroes' faces! Some of the best battles between Sandman, Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four and the Hulk are collected here in commemoration of his gritty film debut! Collects Amazing Spider-Man #4, #18-19; Fantastic Four #61; Incredible Hulk #138; Marvel Team-Up #1; Marvel Two-In One #86 and Untold Tales of Spider-Man #3. ...
|  | I Survived #5: I Survived the San Francisco Earthquake, 1906
Publication Date: March 1, 2012| Age Level: 7 and up...
|  | Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat: Superstitions and Other Beliefs
Publication Date: April 1993Superstitions about such topics as love and marriage, money, ailments, travel, the weather, and death. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Fruits and Vegetables / Frutas y vegetales (English and Spanish Foundations Series) (Bilingual) (Dual Language) (Pre-K and Kindergarten)
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|  | Tate's Bake Shop Baking with Kids
Release Date: April 24, 2012| Age Level: 5 and up Kids aged 5 and over will love cooking up a storm in the kitchen with this fantastic baking book! Inside, Kathleen King, owner of the renowned Tate’s Bake Shop in the Hamptons, shares over 20 of her favorite recipes for kids to bake at home, including gingerbread, devil’s food cake and of course, her signature, mouthwateringly delicious chocolate chip cookies. Each recipe is explained in five easy-to-follow steps, and the book itself is practical to use, with a fold-out base so that it stand up by itself and pages that wipe clean,...
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