 | The Leadership Challenge, 4th Edition
Publication Date: August 4, 2008| ISBN-10: 0787984922 | ISBN-13: 978-0787984922| Edition: 4 The most trusted resource on becoming a leader is now updated and revised for a new generation.This leadership classic continues to be a bestseller after three editions and twenty years in print. It is the gold standard for research-based leadership, and the premier resource on becoming a leader. This new edition, with streamlined text, more international and business examples, and a graphic redesign, is more readable and accessible than ever before. The Leadership Challenge, Fourth Edition, has b...
 |  | Navajo Coyote Tales
Publication Date: January 30, 2007Coyote encounters Rabbit, Fawn's Stars, Crow, Snake, Skunk Woman, and Horned Toad in these 6 delightful, English-language adaptations of traditional Navajo Coyote stories collected by anthropologist William Morgan and translated by him and linguist Robert W. Young. ...
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|  | Margaret and Evelyn: A novel
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|  | Duty to Die: When the Right to Die Becomes Your Duty
Publication Date: May 1, 2001Duty to Die, a "what-if" fictional thriller set in the not-too-distant future, comes almost too close for comfort in a society lacking a sanctity for life. Can death be packaged in such a way that it actually begins to look like a viable option for those in distress? If so, what will the consequences be for the elderly, terminally ill, and disabled? When does life end...When the body ceases to function properly? When the quality of life doesn't meet certain standards? And who has the right to make the decison...except God? Duty to Die attempts to answer all of th...
|  | The Chill From Siberia
Publication Date: February 20, 2012This is a moving tale about mid-19th century Poland, based on the experiences of the author's forebears, during the time when her country was under the yoke of Tsarist oppression. The story is about a young noblewoman, Kamila, in the struggle to retain her inheritance, following the arrest and deportation of her parents to Siberia following their involvement in the struggle for Poland's freedom. The novel opens in the Eastern half of the country with the execution of her two brothers during that year of European revolutions of 1848. With the deportation of ...
|  | Allegheny And Skyline
Publication Date: December 4, 2007Allegheny and Skyline is a novel about a children's author, Liberty Orleans, whocomes home after six years on the road. Except for flying into Erie, he chooses to walkto his home. His partiality to walking is peculiar to the story. The reason will becomeclear in the end. While the bulk of the novel is derived from the remembered past, asLiberty comes upon Skyline Drive he does not immediately go home, but instead visits MrEben and Vincent Trieste. They set up the present time in the book. From those firstchapters onward to chapter eleven, the book delves int...
|  | The Pickup
Release Date: September 24, 2002When Julie Summers's car breaks down on a sleazy street in a South African city, a young Arab mechanic named Abdu comes to her aid. Their attraction to one another is fueled by different motives. Julie is in rebellion against her wealthy background and her father; Abdu, an illegal immigrant, is desperate to avoid deportation to his impoverished country. In the course of their relationship, there are unpredictable consequences, and overwhelming emotions will overturn each one's notion of the other. Set in the new South Africa and in an Arab village in the deser...
|  | The Edge of the Night
Release Date: November 17, 2008The Edge of the Night is a collection of poetry Sopheap Pal has written over the years. Born and hidden from the Khmer Rouge prying eyes and freed by North Vietnamese troops years after the Vietnam war was over, his family took refuge in a refugee camp in Thailand and later was permitted to enter the US by the Reagan administration. He grew up and was educated in Georgia, but on occasion he travels to the mountains in North Carolina to camp and get his thoughts together. Although he is single, he doesn’t have the time to be on the dating scene or party. ...
|  | Shakespeare, Love and Service
Publication Date: April 21, 2008| ISBN-10: 0521886392 | ISBN-13: 978-0521886390Peter Laslett's comment, in The World We Have Lost, that in the early modern period 'every relationship could be seen as a love-relationship' presents the governing idea of this book. In an analysis that includes Shakespeare's sonnets and a wide range of his plays from The Comedy of Errors to The Winter's Tale, David Schalkwyk looks at the ways in which the personal, affective relations of love are informed by the social, structural interactions of service. Showing that service is not a 'class' concept, but ra...
|  | A Book of Russian Verse
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|  | The Dream in the Next Body
Publication Date: January 1, 2008| ISBN-10: 0795701977 | ISBN-13: 978-0795701979Exploring the distances and silences that may exist between people, this thoughtful collection of poems considers how the details of life sometimes connect to lead to momentary intimacies and connections. It includes poems about love, war, and relationships both distant and close. ...
|  | The Novel, Volume 1: History, Geography, and Culture
Publication Date: August 13, 2007| ISBN-10: 0691127182 | ISBN-13: 978-0691127187Nearly as global in its ambition and sweep as its subject, Franco Moretti's The Novel is a watershed event in the understanding of the first truly planetary literary form. A translated selection from the epic five-volume Italian Il Romanzo (2001-2003), The Novel's two volumes are a unified multiauthored reference work, containing more than one hundred specially commissioned essays by leading contemporary critics from around the world. Providing the first international comparative reassessment of the novel, th...
|  | Romance Writing (PCHL-Polity Cultural History of Literature)
Publication Date: January 12, 2007| ISBN-10: 0745630057 | ISBN-13: 978-0745630052| Edition: 1 Romance Writing explores the changing nature of both the romance genre and the discourse of romantic love from the seventeenth century to the present day. Indeed, it is one of the first studies to approach romantic love as both genre and discourse in more than sixty years.Faced with the challenge of writing a cultural history for what is commonly understood to be one of lifes most universal, a-historical and cross-cultural phenomena, Lynne Pearce has invoked the concept of the gift to calculate ...
|  | Evocative Objects: Things We Think With
Publication Date: September 30, 2011For Sherry Turkle, "We think with the objects we love; we love the objects we think with." In Evocative Objects, Turkle collects writings by scientists, humanists, artists, and designers that trace the power of everyday things. These essays reveal objects as emotional and intellectual companions that anchor memory, sustain relationships, and provoke new ideas.These days, scholars show new interest in the importance of the concrete. This volume's special contribution is its focus on everyday riches: the simplest of objects--an apple, a datebook, a laptop co...
|  | My Heart Toward Home: Letters of a Family During the Civil War
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|  | Legacy
Publication Date: January 15, 2001In this techno-based thriller, Jim Silver offers a fictional alternative to the many theories of the Kennedy assassination. The conspiracy was real, the motivation was driven by billions in profits from a war Kennedy was ending before it began. The legacy of those shots fired left a generation ripped apart, the country shattered, an impeached President desperate for a validation of his place in history, a son trying to understand who his step-father really is, and an old man, the surviving killer, living on borrowed time, racing to tell his story and the tru...
|  | Ian Rankin and Inspector Rebus: The Story of the Best-Selling Author and His Complex Detective
Publication Date: June 1, 2011Packed with insightful interviews with Rankin, plotlines, story analysis, and a complete collector's guide, this fascinating accompaniment to a much-loved series will thrill both the initiated and the soon-to-be Detective John Rebus first appeared in Ian Rankin's 1987 bestseller Knots and Crosses and has since gone on to appear in 17 books and numerous short stories, delighting readers and setting a benchmark in contemporary crime fiction. These notoriously gritty stories have been adapted into a television series—the public cannot get enough...
|  | Welcome to Camp Slither (Goosebumps HorrorLand, No. 9)
Publication Date: April 15, 2009| Age Level: 8 and up It's a whole new ride from master of horror and bestselling author R.L. Stine--with a story so fiendish that it can't be contained in just one book!Twelve-year-old Boone and his sister Heather love animals of every kind. That's why they wanted to come to Camp Hither. The wild legends of man-eating snakes and disappearing campers are hisss-terical! But Camp Hither has a cold-blooded secret: Somebody has unleashed a hungry horde of slithery snakes!Can these two survive long enough to accept their invitation to HorrorLand? Yesssssss! But onl...
|  | Runemarks
Release Date: January 8, 2008| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Seven o’clock on a Monday morning, five hundred years after the end of the world, and goblins had been at the cellar again. . . . Not that anyone would admit it was goblins. In Maddy Smith’s world, order rules. Chaos, old gods, fairies, goblins, magic, glamours–all of these were supposedly vanquished centuries ago. But Maddy knows that a small bit of magic has survived. The “ruinmark” she was born with on her palm proves it–and makes the other villagers fearful that she is a witch ...
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