 | Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box
Release Date: January 5, 2010Since it’s original publication nine years ago, Leadership and Self-Deception has become an international word-of-mouth phenomenon. Rather than tapering off, it has sold more copies each year since 2004 than it did in any of the first four years after publication. The book’s central insight—that the key to leadership lays not in what we do, but in who we are—has proved to have powerful resonances not only for organizational leadership, but in readers’ personal lives as well. Leadership and Self-Deception uses an entertaining story ab...
 |  | Corporate Finance (2nd Edition)
Publication Date: January 24, 2010| ISBN-10: 0136089437 | ISBN-13: 978-0136089438| Edition: 2For MBA/graduate students taking a course in corporate finance.Using the unifying valuation framework based on the Law of One Price, top researchers Jonathan Berk and Peter DeMarzo set the new standard for corporate finance textbooks. Corporate Finance blends coverage of time-tested principles and the latest advancements with the practical perspective of the financial manager. With this ideal melding of the core with modern topics, innovation with proven pedagogy, Berk and DeMarzo establish t...
|  | The Science of Psychology: An Appreciative View
Publication Date: October 12, 2010| ISBN-10: 0073532061 | ISBN-13: 978-0073532066| Edition: 2 How would you like to see your students' performance jump by a letter grade or more? The Science of Psychology: An Appreciative View 2eprovides a flexible solution for the intro psych course. King's appreciative perspective - treating psych as an integrated science that places function before dysfunction - with its groundbreaking adaptive diagnostic tool helps students know what they know while guiding them to master what they don't know. Building upon the much-lauded and widely-adopted 1st ed...
|  | A Suitcase of Seaweed and other poems
Release Date: August 8, 2008A Suitcase of Seaweed is a collection of poems for teens. Poet Janet Wong was inspired by her Chinese and Korean heritage and her American childhood in writing these poems about race, identity, and the wide variety of emotions that a young adult feels. A New York Public Library Best Book for the Teen Age and a NCSS Notable Trade Book. ...
|  | Mini Shopaholic: A Novel (Shopaholic Series)
Release Date: April 19, 2011| Series: Shopaholic Series Becky Brandon thinks that having a daughter is a dream come true: a shopping friend for life! But two-year-old Minnie has a quite different approach to shopping. The toddler creates havoc everywhere she goes, from Harrods to her own christening. Her favorite word is “Mine!” and she’s even trying to get into eBay! On top of everything else, Becky and Luke are still living with her parents (the deal on house #4 has fallen through), when suddenly there’s a huge nationwide financial crisis. With people having to cut ...
|  | El Alquimista: Una Fabula Para Seguir Tus Suenos
Release Date: October 7, 1994La mÁgica historia de Paulo Coelho, que trata sobre Santiago, un niÑo pastor andaluz que viaja en busca de un tesoro material, nos enseÑa la importancia que tiene el saber eschuchar lo que nos dice el corazÓn, a aprender a leer los presagios dispersados por el camino de nuestras vidas y, sobre todo, a seguir nuestros sueÑos.El Alquimista, ahora por primera vez disponible en EspaÑa en Norte America, ha sido aclamado en EspaÑa y en America Latina como una de las novelas mas importantes de la dÉcada. ...
|  | The Christmas Singing: A Romance from the Heart of Amish Country
Release Date: October 4, 2011After Gideon coldly broke her heart, can the warmth of the season revive Mattie’s hopes? Mattie thought her childhood sweetheart adored her until he abruptly ended their engagement on Christmas Eve. Three years later, will learning the truth behind his rejection restore her Christmas joy – or open the door to even deeper heartbreak? Spend Christmas with the Amish in this story of love, romance, heartache, and restoration.Experience the holidays with the Plain folk and discover the power of second chances in this touching story from the ...
|  | Remembering and Repeating: On Milton's Theology and Poetics
Publication Date: March 1, 1993| ISBN-10: 0226742016 | ISBN-13: 978-0226742014In this graceful and compelling book, Regina Schwartz presents a powerful reading of Paradise Lost by tracing the structure of the poem to the pattern of "repeated beginnings" found in the Bible. In both works, the world order is constantly threatened by chaos. By drawing on both the Bible and the more contemporary works of, among others, Freud, Lacan, Ricoeur, Said, and Derrida, Schwartz argues that chaos does not simply threaten order, but rather, chaos inheres in order."A brilliant study that quietly but pow...
|  | B: A Capital Tale
Publication Date: November 29, 2007Time, Evil, Hate, and Fear have defrocked the English alphabet of itscapitalized identity, spinning their world into disarray. o is oppressed, ifeels disconnected, and c is seeking wholeness. Their peers fear theworst—deletion.B, A Capital Tale takes readers on a mind-bending ride from the beautiesof Being to the dark echelons of delusion. As evil forces attempt tomanipulate characters into doubting B’s existence, some of the castuncovers D’s trickery, and the Word War between good and evil iscommenced.Despite the clear-cut choices they are g...
|  | Stempenyu: A Jewish Romance (The Art of the Novella)
Release Date: December 14, 2007| Series: The Art of the Novella Even the most pious Jew need not shed so many tears over the destruction of Jerusalem as the women were in the habit of shedding when Stempenyu was playing.The first work of Sholom Aleichem’s tobe translated into English—this long out-of-print translation is the only one everdone under Aleichem’s personal supervision—Stempenyu is a prime example of the author’ s hallmark traits: his antic and often sardonic sense of humor, his whip-smart dialogue,his workaday mysticism, and his historic documen...
|  | blue grass (Salt Modern Poets Series)
Publication Date: March 1, 2006| Series: Salt Modern Poets Series "blue grass" is the astonishing sixth book by Australian poet Peter Minter. This is a major work of lyrical complexity and ethical vision, a turning point for a maturing and daring imagination. Arranged across four parts with an interwoven series of innovative sonnets, the poems are alert and readable, their sensual intelligence concentrated on extraordinarily everyday emotional, political and ecological landscapes. Minter reaches with confidence and care into the furnace of experimental, modern and classical poetries and poet...
|  | The Longman Anthology of Drama and Theater: A Global Perspective, Compact Edition
Publication Date: December 6, 2001| ISBN-10: 0321088980 | ISBN-13: 978-0321088987| Edition: CompactDivided into three parts, this brief, chronologically-organized, fully-integrated drama anthology offers a global emphasis and extensive critical and historical material of 23 indispensable plays. No other anthology offers such a richly varied selection from the traditional Western canon, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. This anthology contains many examples of rituals, ceremonies, and folk customs. The role of the storyteller is examined and chronicled to illustrate th...
|  | A Wisconsin Boy in Dixie: Civil War Letters of James K. Newton (North Coast Books)
Publication Date: March 17, 1995| Series: North Coast Books “Unlike many of his fellows, [James Newton] was knowledgeable,intuitive, and literate; like many of his fellows he was cast into therole of soldier at only eighteen years of age. He was polished enough towrite drumhead and firelight letters of fine literary style. It did nottake long for this farm boy turned private to discover the grand designof the conflict in which he was engaged, something which many of theofficers leading the armies never did discover.”—Victor Hicken, Journal of the Illinois State Historical S...
|  | Spider-Girl Vol. 9: Secret Lives
Publication Date: October 31, 2007| Grade Level: P and up The new Scarlet Spider debuts, and the one true Spider-Man returns - but can even three web-slingers defeat the awesome Apox the Omega Skrull? Angel Face and Funny-Face are on the loose, leaving Spider-Girl to face up to her quarrels with the New Warriors before the final faceoff! Plus: startling secrets of Mayday's past and a confrontation with everyone's favorite cantankerous clone, Kaine! Guest-starring the Fantastic Five and Avengers Next! Collects Spider-Girl #45-50. ...
|  | If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (If You Give...)
Release Date: May 9, 1985| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Bicycles (Wheels, Wings, and Water)
Publication Date: April 1, 2003| ISBN-10: 1403436177 | ISBN-13: 978-1403436177Get the answers to these questions and more! What are bicycles? What do bicycles look like? What are bicycles made of? How did bicycles look long ago? What is a BMX bike? What is a racing bike? What is a track bike? What is a mountain bike? What are some s --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Honus & Me (Baseball Card Adventures (Pb))
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|  | Venus & Serena Williams (Amazing Athletes)
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|  | WH? Questions In a Jar
Publication Date: February 15, 2009| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | The Cinder-Eyed Cats
Release Date: October 15, 1997| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up In his first book since Time Flies, his Caldecott Honor debut, Eric Rohmann transports a young boy in a magical sailboat to a lush tropical island inhabited by six cats with eyes like blazing coals. Rohmann's magnificent oil paintings draw the eye seamlessly from page to page, adding layers of complexity to a deceptively simple storyline. His palette reaches effortlessly from the brilliance of a tropical day to the glow of a starlit night, while his scenes range from breathtaking ocean vistas to the meticu...
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