 | Integrated Chinese: Level 1, Part 1 (Simplified & Traditional Character) Character Workbook (Chinese Edition)
Publication Date: January 20, 2008| ISBN-10: 0887276482 | ISBN-13: 978-0887276484| Edition: 3rd The Character Workbooks are designed to help the student learn Chinese characters in their correct stroke order. In the Level 1 workbooks, stroke order for each new character is displayed, along with its pinyin pronunciation and English translation. Character boxes allow students to practice writing the characters. The Level 2 Character workbook, in addition to stroke order, presents example sentences to illustrate word usage in context. The Level 2 Character workbook includes both simplified ...
 |  | The Dangerous Summer
Release Date: December 9, 1997The Dangerous Summer is Hemingway's firsthand chronicle of a brutal season of bullfights. In this vivid account, Hemingway captures the exhausting pace and pressure of the season, the camaraderie and pride of the matadors, and the mortal drama as in fight after fight the rival matadors try to outdo each other with ever more daring performances. At the same time Hemingway offers an often complex and deeply personal self-portrait that reveals much about one of the twentieth century's preeminent writers. ...
|  | The Rez Road Follies: Canoes, Casinos, Computers, and Birch Bark Baskets
Publication Date: October 4, 1999| Series: Mysteries & Horror Are you a full-blooded Indian? No, I'm a pint low today, just came from the blood bank. Do you speak your language? Yup, and yours too.With wry humor, gentle candor, and an eye for the telling detail, Jim Northrup invites readers to explore the world of today's Anishinaabe, or Ojibway, people. In disarmingly simple and direct language, he recalls key events of his own life: enduring childhood at a bleak government boarding school, facing enemy fire in Vietnam, confronting family tragedies, becoming a grandfather and an almost-wise...
|  | Touch
Publication Date: April 30, 2012"A breathtaking debut . . . filled with ghosts and demons who lurk in the Canadian north woods." —Andrew Abrahams, PeopleOn the eve of his mother’s death, Stephen comes home to Sawgamet, a logging town where the dangers of working in the cuts are overshadowed by the dark mysteries and magic lurking in the woods. Thirty years after the mythical summer his grandfather returned to town on a quixotic search for his dead wife, Stephen confronts the painful losses in his own life. ...
|  | Riley Parra Season One
Publication Date: May 2, 2011Demons Are Real. Riley Parra Plans to Give Them Hell. No Man's Land isn't the kind of place you go after dark, even if you have a badge. But DetectiveRiley Parra was born there, and she refuses to surrender it to the drug dealers, killers and criminals who have made it there home. The case of a body stuffed into a drainage pipe leads her to discover that there is far more at stake than she ever imagined. Reeling from the knowledge that angels and demons are at war in her city, Riley finds herself thrust into the role of champion for Heaven. Determined to stop the...
|  | Heaven and Hell (North and South Trilogy)
Release Date: June 1, 2000| Series: North and South Trilogy (Book 3) The bestselling saga that has sold more than 5 million copies. The books that inspired the smash-hit television miniseries. Beautifully repackaged for the Dutton hardcover release of On Secret Service--John Jakes's long-awaited return to the Civil War years......
|  | Les Mis
Release Date: March 3, 1987Victor Hugo's towering novel of Jean Valjean, his unjust imprisonment, and his lifelong flight from a relentless police officer. ...
|  | Euripides' Electra: A Commentary (Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture) (Greek Edition)
Publication Date: January 15, 2011| ISBN-10: 0806141190 | ISBN-13: 978-0806141190| Edition: Bilingual Designed for today s students, the most comprehensive edition of the classic Greek play" Once this book hits the shelves, there will be no need for another commentary on Euripides Electra for decades if ever again. " KARELISA HARTIGAN, author of Ambiguity and Self-Deception: The Apollo and Artemis Plays of EuripidesAmong the best-known Greek tragedies, Electra is also one of the plays students of Greek often read in the original language. It tells the story of how Electra and her brother...
|  | Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance
Release Date: October 19, 1999The spiritual influence of Jelaluddin Rumi (1207-1273) is increasing among people of diverse beliefs throughout the western world. Rumi is now recognized here in the West, as he has been for seven centuries in the Middle East and Western Asia, as one of the greatest literary and spiritual figures of all time. Rumi is a spokesman for the religion of love in the language of the heart.Recent translations of Rumi's work have brought forth a variety of different qualities, exploring the subtlety, grace, and electricity of his verse. This book presents his spiritual t...
|  | One Hundred Poems of Kabir
Publication Date: November 8, 2007The poet Kablr, a selection from whose songs is here for the first time offered to English readers, is one of the most interesting personalities in the history of I ndian mysticism. Born in or near Benares, of Mohammedan parents, and probably about the year 1440, he became in early life a disciple of the celebrated Hindu ascetic Ramananda. Ramananda had brought to Northern India the religious revival which Ramanuja, the great twelfth-century reformer of Brahmanism, had initiated in the South... ...
|  | Baudelaire: The Complete Verse (v. 1) (English and French Edition)
Publication Date: June 1, 2004| ISBN-10: 0856461520 | ISBN-13: 978-0856461521This authoritative edition of Baudelaire's Complete Verse' contains Les Fleurs du mal' (1861), the first great modern work of poetry and one of the few books of poems to become an international bestseller, with Nouvelles Fleurs du mal' (1868), Les Épaves' (1866) and all of Baudelaire's other poetry in verse. The French text is given at the head of the page, while Francis Scarfe's scrupulous and inventive prose translations appear at the foot, making this an ideal edition both for the advanced student and th...
|  | Deutschland: A Winter's Tale (Angel Classics)
Publication Date: December 31, 1997| ISBN-10: 0946162581 | ISBN-13: 978-0946162581| Edition: 2 In 1843 Heine returned from exile to journey through the homeland he hadn't seen for years. This verse satire was the result. ""[A] sparkling new translation"" - TLS. ""[A] superb translation"" - The Cambridge Review. ""Exceptionally successful in catching both the poet's verve and wit and his playful rhymes and rhythms"" - Small Press. ...
|  | Keeping the Victorian House: A Collection of Essays (Origins of Modernism)
...
|  | The Business: A Novel
Release Date: October 30, 2001Who Do You Work For?The Business, a nearly omnipotent enterprise, is so infinitely discreet that even its top executives are vague about its actual business. It predates the Christian church and counts among its vast riches dozens of Michelangelo's pornographic paintings and several sets of Crown jewels. The only thing it lacks is political clout, a problem the Business plans to solve by buying a nation and joining the United Nations. Kate Telman, the Business's foremost expert on emerging technologies, is chosen to lead the effort. As this beautiful, ambitiou...
|  | Teller of Tales
Release Date: September 21, 1995| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up The conclusion to the trilogy of fractured fairy tale collections. ...
|  | Derek Jeter (Modern Role Models)
...
|  | Athletics (Starting Sport)
Publication Date: May 28, 2009 ...
|  | Hiking (Outdoor Adventures)
...
|  | A Children's Treasury of Lullabies
Publication Date: October 28, 2006| Age Level: 2 and up...
|  | The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation: From Snow White to Wall-e (Ashgate Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present)
Publication Date: June 2012| ISBN-10: 1409437493 | ISBN-13: 978-1409437499| Edition: 2 In the second edition of "The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation", David Whitley updates his 2008 book to reflect recent developments in Disney and Disney-Pixar animation such as the apocalyptic tale of earth's failed ecosystem, "WALL-E". As Whitley has shown, and Disney's newest films continue to demonstrate, the messages animated films convey about the natural world are of crucial importance to their child viewers. Beginning with "Snow White", Whitley examines a wide range of Disney's feature animati...
|
Data Source by Amazon.com |
留言列表
