 | Hummocks: Journeys and Inquiries Among the Canadian Inuit
Publication Date: May 2007'At the margins of the floes, where their ragged edges have come into grinding contact, the ice is piled up into ridges. These are the hummocks', writes Jean Malaurie. More than simple knolls, the jutting ice that emerges over time is a metaphor for the process of memory and recollection for Malaurie and in the collective memory of the Inuit. "Hummocks", the first English translation of the renowned explorer's memoir of his expeditions to the Canadian Arctic, is an impressionistic evocation of Malaurie's travels among the Inuit.Jean Malaurie's exploration of the Nor...
 |  | Jojofu
Release Date: September 30, 1996| Age Level: 4 and up Though Takumi loved all his dogs as if they were his own family, his favorite was named Jojofu (Heroine), for she was the bravest and smartest dog in the land. Based on a Japanese folktale taken from the ancient Ima Mukashi scrolls, the story of Jojufo, who saves her master time and again, has delighted children and dog lovers for more than a thousand years. "Resplendent illustrations set the story both culturally and dramatically....A book that will be read and reread often."--Kirkus Reviews. ...
|  | Angels Watching over Me (Shenandoah Sisters #1)
Publication Date: January 1, 2003Book 1 ofSHENANDOAH SISTERS. Two young Southern girls, one the daughter of a plantation owner and one the daughter of a slave, barely survive the onset of the Civil War and the loss of both their families.When these tragic circumstances bring them together, they join forces to discover if they can make a life for themselves. As their preconceptions give way to experience, they gradually learn to value their contrasting and complementing strengths and skills as they face the formidable task of keeping body and soul together in the aftermath of this devastating...
|  | Murder Casts a Shadow: A Hawaii Mystery (A Latitude 20 Book)
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|  | Game Plan
Publication Date: January 2000USA Today bestselling author Charles Wilson delivers a cutting-edge scientific thriller based on real-life experiments at improving human intelligence currently underway in both government and private circles. Imagine a computer chip no bigger than the tip of a pencil. This chip, if implanted in a human brain, could give someone encyclopedic knowledge, lightning-fast reflexes and superior learning skills. In a remote military hospital in Montana, an experiment is being performed: implant the chip into the brains of five volunteers. These volunteers, four men and...
|  | Seduction of Moxie
Publication Date: September 15, 2009When Hollywood-bound actress Violet London meets speakeasy singer Moxie Valette, her trip takes an unexpected turn toward love. New York City, 1931: When wry Broadway actress Violet London and her hard-drinking cohorts venture into a speakeasy the night before she is to board a train for Hollywood, she is floored by sassy blond singer Moxie Valette. As Violet introduces Moxie to an assortment of bootleg liquor, cross-dressers, and sex shows, she vows to find a way to see her again. Moxie is fascinated by Violet in a thrilling and unfamiliar way, and the en...
|  | The Lord of the Rings (BBC Dramatization, Consumer Edition)
Publication Date: August 19, 2008Undertaking the adaptation of Tolkien's best-known work was an enormous task, but with its first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on March 8, 1981, this magical dramatization became an instant global classic. The set features Ian Holm as Frodo, Sir Michael Hordern as Gandalf, and Robert Stephens as Aragorn in J.R.R. Tolkien's fantastic tale of Middle Earth. The set includes The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; and The Return of the King. Includes bonus music and a Middle-Earth map!Unabridged on 12 CDs ...
|  | Interpersonal Communication: Everyday Encounters
Publication Date: January 26, 2009| ISBN-10: 0495567647 | ISBN-13: 978-0495567646| Edition: 6 Intended to be the core text for the introductory interpersonal communication course at two- and four-year colleges and universities in departments of speech, communication, and human relations. ...
|  | Small Hours of the Night: Selected Poems of Roque Dalton
Publication Date: September 1, 1996poetry, various translators...
|  | In Pieces: An Anthology of Fragmentary Writing
Publication Date: May 1, 2006In Pieces celebrates the diversity of contemporary fragmentary writing by offering a sampling of fragments written by 37 different writers--those who are known as well as new voices. Selections from diaries, notebooks, and letters; aphorisms; short prose pieces and vignettes... These are some of the fragmentary forms represented in this unique collection, the first of its kind to present a wide range of fragmentary writing as its own genre. ...
|  | Rabindranath Tagore: Sadhana--The Realization of Life
Publication Date: March 9, 2010Rabindranath Tagore's "Sadhana: The Realization of Life" delivers the message of the human connection to universal transcendence in hauntingly beautiful English prose. Perched as he was at the cusp of the Twentieth Century, Tagore saw with penetrating insight the fallacies of the age of science. Sadhana is an excellent primer on classical Hinduism, as Tagore beautifully quotes the Vedas and Upanishads with Sanskrit transliteration to convey the loveliness of the vocal cadences of that ancient tongue. Sadhana ranks with Psalms, the Tao De Ching, the Dhammapada, ...
|  | Las flores del mal (Letras mayusculas)
Publication Date: September 1, 2007| Series: Letras mayusculas Depicting the beauty of the written word, the handsome books in this series present an assortment of universal literature from the drama of Shakespeare to the words of many well-known authors from the first half of the 20th century. Demostrando la belleza del arte de las letras, los libros elegantes en esta colección reúnen a los grandes clásicos de la literatura, desde el drama de Shakespeare hasta los autores más representativos de la literatura de la primera mitad del siglo XX....
|  | The Library of Eusebius of Caesarea (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, V. 67)
Publication Date: August 2003| Series: Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, V. 67 (Book 67) This volume reconstructs the contents of the library in Roman Palestine of Eusebius of Caesarea (ca. 265-339) by examining Eusebius' major works, the "Ecclesiastical History," "Chronicon," "Preparation for the Gospel," and "Life of Constantine," After surveying the history of the library from its origins as an ecclesiastical archive and its true foundation by Origen of Alexandria to its disappearance in the seventh century, it discusses how Eusebius used his sources and then examines what specific wor...
|  | Writings on Church and Reform (I Tatti Renaissance Library)
Publication Date: May 1, 2008| Series: I Tatti Renaissance Library (Book 33) Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464), widely considered the most important original philosopher of the Renaissance, was born in Kues on the Moselle River. A polymath who studied canon law and became a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, he wrote principally on speculative theology, philosophy, and church politics. As a political thinker he is best known for De concordantia catholica, which presented a blueprint for peace in an age of ecclesiastical discord.This volume makes most of Nicholas’s other writings...
|  | The Improbability of Othello: Rhetorical Anthropology and Shakespearean Selfhood
Publication Date: January 15, 2010| ISBN-10: 0226016102 | ISBN-13: 978-0226016108Shakespeare’s dramatis personae exist in a world of supposition, struggling to connect knowledge that cannot be had, judgments that must be made, and actions that need to be taken. For them, probability—what they and others might be persuaded to believe—governs human affairs, not certainty. Yet negotiating the space of probability is fraught with difficulty. Here, Joel B. Altman explores the problematics of probability and the psychology of persuasion in Renaissance rhetoric and Sh...
|  | Lyrics of the Middle Ages: An Anthology (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
Publication Date: May 1, 1990| ISBN-10: 0824070496 | ISBN-13: 978-0824070496| Edition: 1 This anthology features nearly 300 works in 14 linguistic areas: Latin hymns and lyrics from 800 to 1300..."Carmina Burana..".Proven al lyrics...Italian lyrics...North French lyrics...German lyrics...lyrics of Iberia, including Arabic, Hebrew, Mozarabic, Galician-Portuguese, Castilian, and Catalan...lyrics of Great Britain, including Irish, Welsh, Old English, Middle English, and Scottish-English ballads.More than 100 authors are represented, including Chaucer, Dante, Petrarch, the major troubadours ...
|  | Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 9: Freefall #12 Jeanty Cover
Publication Date: 2012By working for Deepscan-the company that recruits Slayers as bodyguards-Buffy thought she would disengage herself from the world of demons and garner a more significant income, to boot. While the income may get her closer to paying off pesky student loans, the demony population is closer to her than ever, thanks to her first client. Buffy, under the tutelage of a disgruntled and heartbroken Kennedy, has her work cut out for her and is forced to call on the honorable Eldre Koh for help, culminating in a little demon-on-demon violence. ...
|  | Lady Gone Bad
Release Date: August 28, 2012The saloon singer known as "Lady Gone Bad" is the most drop-dead gorgeous outlaw the West has ever seen. Lady has never met a cowboy she couldn't entice, or a lawman she couldn't outrun. But when Lady tangles with a sexy U.S. Marshall, she's tempted to stick around long enough to watch him lay down the law - in her bed. U. S. Marshall Rafe Morgan wants to lock up Lady Gone Bad for good - and he won't let his attraction to her slow him down. But when his attempt to bring Lady to justice goes awry, Rafe is nearly hanged - and by dawn, his face is plastered next to ...
|  | Agatha Christie (Twayne's English authors series)
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|  | Lethal Investments
Release Date: November 27, 2012A string of murders sucks the Oslo Detectives into a maelstrom of dark secrets in the latest from the master of Norwegian crime writing. Award-winning author K.O. Dahl has achieved international acclaim with his Oslo Detectives series featuring inspectors Frølich and Gunnarstranda. Now he presents the riveting fourth book in the series, combining rare psychological insight and elegant prose. Lethal Investments opens seven years prior to the case that started it all: The Fourth Man. It’s the early nineties, and Oslo is driven by the rapid su...
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