 | Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics
Publication Date: May 15, 2012| ISBN-10: 1118116135 | ISBN-13: 978-1118116135| Edition: 7 Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics offers comprehensive topical coverage, with varied examples and problems, application of visual component of fluid mechanics, and strong focus on effective learning. The text enables the gradual development of confidence in problem solving. Each important concept is introduced in easy-to-understand terms before more complicated examples are discussed. Continuing this book's tradition of extensive real-world applications, this latest editi...
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Publication Date: May 29, 1997| Series: Red Blood Red Blood is the first novel by Native American author Jack Forbes whose incredibly prolific writing career includes more than fifteen titles. The novel traces a young Native American man's journey through life, and consequent coming of age, as he travels all over North America seeking insights into his values, relationships, spirituality and culture. ...
|  | Echoes from the Grave (4th Sam Casey Mystery)
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|  | The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia: A Novel
Publication Date: September 19, 2011“A delightful story. . . . Once you enter its pages and the worlds therein, it’s hard to leave.”—Carol Bicak, Omaha World HeraldNarrator Gladys Cailiff is eleven years old in 1938 when a worldly schoolteacher turns the small town of Threestep, Georgia, upside down. Miss Grace Spivey defies the traditional curriculum and racial boundaries alike, regaling her charges with readings from the Thousand Nights and a Night and casting a gifted African American student as "chief engineer" of the town's annual festival, newly reinvented a...
|  | Wishin' and Hopin': A Novel
Release Date: November 2, 2010 In Wally Lamb’s pitch perfect new novel, it is 1964. LBJ and Lady Bird are in the White House, Meet the Beatles is on everyone’s turntable, and ten-year-old Felix Funicello (distant cousin of the iconic Annette!) is doing his best to navigate fifth grade—easier said than done when scary movies still give you nightmares and you bear a striking resemblance to a certain adorable cartoon boy. But there are several things young Felix can depend on: the birds and bees are puzzling, television is magical, and this is one Christmas he’s never going ...
|  | Angelwalk
Publication Date: February 22, 1988Angelwalk is beautifully brutal. One minute I was smiling at a deft phrase, and the next minute I was weeping. I couldn't help it. This book is like a lovely spider's web made out of steel cables, charged with high voltage.--Warren W. ...
|  | American Woman: A Novel
Release Date: September 7, 2004On the lam for an act of violence against the American government, 25-year-old Jenny Shimada agrees to care for three younger fugitives whom a shadowy figure from her former radical life has spirited out of California. One of them, the kidnapped granddaughter of a wealthy newspaper magnate in San Francisco, has become a national celebrity for embracing her captors' ideology and joining their revolutionary cell. A thought-provoking meditation on themes of race, identity, and class, American Woman explores the psychology of the young radicals, the intensity of th...
|  | Aristophanes I: Clouds, Wasps, Birds
Publication Date: September 1, 1998| ISBN-10: 0872203603 | ISBN-13: 978-0872203600Originally adapted for the stage, Peter Meineck's revised translations achieve a level of fidelity appropriate for classroom use while managing to preserve the wit and energy that led The New Yorker to judge his Clouds "The best Greek drama we've ever seen anywhere." and The Times Literary Supplement to describe his Wasps as "Hugely enjoyable and very, very funny." A general introduction, introductions to the plays, and detailed notes on staging, history, religious practice and myth combine ...
|  | Seneca's Drama
Publication Date: March 2001With insight and clarity, Norman Pratt makes available to the general reader an understanding of the major elements that shaped Seneca's plays.These he defines as Neo-Stoicism, declamatory rhetoric, and the chaotic, violent conditions of Senecan society.Seneca's drama shows the nature of this society and uses freely the declamatory rhetorical techniques familiar to any well-educated Roman.But the most important element, Pratt argues, is Neo-Stoicism, including technical aspects of this philosophy that previously have escaped notice.With these ingredients Seneca tr...
|  | The Shield of Achilles and the Poetics of Ekphrasis
Publication Date: March 21, 1995| ISBN-10: 0847679985 | ISBN-13: 978-0847679980In 'The Shield of Achilles and the Poetics of Ekphrasis', Becker explores how Homeric poetry shapes its own reception: how Homer's reaction to a visual image creates his audience's response to a literary description. Becker also enters into a fiercely raging literary debate about the modernist, self-conscious elements of Homeric narrative. ...
|  | Down to My Last Skin (Random poets)
Publication Date: May 22, 2009| Series: Random Poets This is the first collection of Antjie Krog's poetry to appear in English, and it cements her reputation as one of South Africa's greatest poets. Down to My Last Skin is her poetic exploration of her different identities, the layers that make the human condition so intricate, fragile and yet resilient.The collection is divided into seven clear sections which explore layers in Krog's life, and those in every individual.Down to My Last Skin was the inaugural winner of the FNB Vita Poetry Award in 2000. From Down to My Last Skin, p. 80(n) nei...
| | Gems of Chinese verse, and More gems of Chinese poetry
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| | Shi hua fang (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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| | Xin bian Song ci san bai shou (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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| | Sir Thomas Malory and the Cultural Crisis of the Late Middle Ages (American University Studies Series IV, English Language and Literature)
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|  | Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 2: Part 1: 1927-1930
Publication Date: June 15, 2005| ISBN-10: 0674015886 | ISBN-13: 978-0674015883In the frenzied final years of the Weimar Republic, amid economic collapse and mounting political catastrophe, Walter Benjamin emerged as the most original practicing literary critic and public intellectual in the German-speaking world. Volume 2 of the Selected Writings is now available in paperback in two parts.In Part 1, Benjamin is represented by two of his greatest literary essays, "Surrealism" and "On the Image of Proust," as well as by a long article on Goethe and a generous selection of his wide-ranging ...
|  | Branded as Trouble (Rough Riders)
Publication Date: January 5, 2010| Series: Rough Riders (Book 6) As a walking advertisement for the tattoo shop she’s set up in a small Wyoming town, India Ellison is well acquainted with preconceived notions. Despite the odd looks, life is good. She’s clean and sober, dotes on her sister’s kids and, best of all, spends most of her free time with her best buddy, Colt McKay. Reformed bad boy Colt never expected three years of sobriety to lead to three years of abstinence. Curbing his craving for booze and random sexual encounters, however, is nothing compared to the ever-...
|  | Utterly Ingenious Five Minute Mysteries
Release Date: March 2, 2004| Series: Five-Minute Mysteries Another installment in our wildly successful series of succinct whodunits, Utterly Ingenious Five-Minute Mysteries offers more than 40 new intriguing cases to thrill, entertain, and solve in less time than it takes to brew a cup of tea! Astute readers can test their powers of observation and deductive reasoning, then turn to the end of the book for ingenious solutions to each case. ...
|  | The Lamorna Wink
Release Date: September 1, 2000Detective Richard Jury is back in the 16th novel in Martha Grimes' extraordinary New York Times bestselling series--now enmeshed in a series of strange crimes and disappearances, and an age-old tragedy that consumes his sidekick Melrose Plant.... ...
|  | Pokemon Adventures, Vol. 13
Publication Date: June 7, 2011| Age Level: 9 and up Reads R to L (Japanese Style). PokÉmon—Not Just for Video Games!All your favorite PokÉmon game characters jump out of the screen into the pages of this action-packed manga! ...
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