 | Introduction to Mathematical Thinking
Publication Date: July 18, 2012In the twenty-first century, everyone can benefit from being able to think mathematically. This is not the same as “doing math.” The latter usually involves the application of formulas, procedures, and symbolic manipulations; mathematical thinking is a powerful way of thinking about things in the world -- logically, analytically, quantitatively, and with precision. It is not a natural way of thinking, but it can be learned. Mathematicians, scientists, and engineers need to “do math,” and it takes many years of college-level education...
 |  | Season of the Artist: Confessions of a Twentysomething
Publication Date: September 1, 2012Not just another coming of age tale, using confessional poetry as its medium, Season of the Artist chronicles the defining twentysomething years of an American Millennial, anxious about his uncertain future, stemming from his unfulfilled present and wistful past. As he maneuvers through the many dualities of life, including love and loss, excess and debt, and nostalgia and exploration, he is ultimately liberated by an epiphany that all life is connected by the willingness to risk it all for the sake of creation. In the end, the transformed artist embraces w...
|  | Count Munch (Picture Puffins)
Publication Date: May 1, 1996| Series: Picture Puffins Count Munch is a very unusual vampire - he loves eating chocolate. Tourists visit him and give him chocolate which he hoards in his castle. The castle burns down and the chocolate melts around the old brickwork to create a wonderful chocolate castle - the Count has to eat his way out. ...
|  | Once Upon an Elephant
Publication Date: July 1, 2002Once Upon an Elephant is a contemporary tale of Hindu deity Ganesh and what happens when worlds, cultures, and stories collide.A whimsical, contemporary retelling of the creation story of Ganesh—the elephant-headed Hindu deity—Once Upon an Elephant is rife with humour and political satire. When the police find unusual boy parts—a young man's head and an elephant's body—they assume a murder has been committed, and the case goes to trial. But the appearance of Vighnesvara, a manifestation of Ganesh with the body of a young man and the head of a...
|  | Lucky Jim (Penguin Essentials)
Publication Date: April 1, 2012| Series: Penguin Essentials 'His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as a mausoleum. During the night, too, he'd somehow been on a cross-country run and then been expertly beaten up by secret police. He felt bad'. Jix Dixon has a terrible job at a second-rate university. His life is full of things he could happily do without: the tedious and ridiculous Professor Welch, a neurotic and unstable girlfriend, Margaret, burnt sheets, medieval recorder music and over-enthusiastic students. If he can just deliver a lecture on...
|  | The Trial (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)
Release Date: June 30, 1992| Series: Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)The story of the mysterious indictment, trial, and reckoning forced upon Joseph K. in Franz Kafka’s The Trial is one of the twentieth century’s master parables, reflecting the central spiritual crises of modern life. Kafka’s method–one that has influenced, in some way, almost every writer of substance who followed him–was to render the absurd and the terrifying convincing by a scrupulous, hyperreal matter-of-factness of tone and treatment. He th...
|  | Ayat Jamilah: Beautiful Signs: A Treasury of Islamic Wisdom for Children and Parents (Aesop Prize (Awards))
Publication Date: June 30, 2004 ...
|  | The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (Oxford Companions)
Publication Date: March 25, 2009| ISBN-10: 0192806149 | ISBN-13: 978-0192806147From the conjectured identity of the Dark Lady of the Sonnets to misprints in the First Folio, from Shakespeares favorite figures of speech to the staging of Othello in South Africa, The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare offers the most comprehensive coverage available on all aspects of Shakespeares life and works. Illustrated with more than 100 photographs and boasting contributions from a team of internationally renowned scholars (including such noted Shakespeare authorities as Helen Vendler, Park Honan, and J...
|  | Gadamer on Celan: Who Am I and Who Are You? and Other Essays (SUNY (SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)
Publication Date: April 6, 2012| Series: SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy Gadamer on Celan makes all of Hans-Georg Gadamer's published writings on Paul Celan's poetry available in English for the first time. Gadamer's commentaries on Celan's work are explicitly meant for a general audience, and they are further testimony to Celan's growing importance in world literature since the Second World War. Celan's poetry has attracted the attention of many well-known figures, including Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida, Edmond Jabe's, Otto Poggeler, and George Steiner. As Steiner ha...
|  | A Beginner's Guide to Critical Reading: An Anthology of Literary Texts
Publication Date: May 20, 2001| ISBN-10: 0415234689 | ISBN-13: 978-0415234689A Beginner's Guide to Critical Reading brings literature to life by combining a rich selection of literary texts with original and lively commentary. Unlike so many introductions to literary studies, it vividly demonstrates how criticism and theory can enhance your own enjoyment and appreciation of literature.Aimed at AS, A2 and undergraduate students, Richard Jacobs draws a map of English Literature which is fresh and distinctive and which offers guidance to many familiar landmarks. In the process he shows that...
|  | The Wisdom of Oz: Reflections of a Jungian Sandplay Therapist (Oz Series)
Release Date: June 13, 2001 ...
|  | Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing, Seventh Edition
Publication Date: July 18, 2003| ISBN-10: 0130485845 | ISBN-13: 978-0130485847| Edition: 7 Introduction to Literature; Freshman Composition, second semester, where the focus is on writing about literature. This best-selling anthology of fiction, poetry, and drama was the first to interlock the processes of reading literature and writing about literature.In addition to carefully chosen literary selections, each chapter contains detailed information on and demonstrative essays for writing about literature and increased and updated coverage of research and MLA documentation. ...
|  | To Marry an Indian: The Marriage of Harriett Gold and Elias Boudinot in Letters, 1823-1839
Release Date: April 20, 2005| ISBN-10: 0807856029 | ISBN-13: 978-0807856024When nineteen-year-old Harriett Gold, from a prominent white family in Cornwall, Connecticut, announced in 1825 her intention to marry a Cherokee man, her shocked family initiated a spirited correspondence debating her decision to marry an Indian. Eventually, Gold's family members reconciled themselves to her wishes, and she married Elias Boudinot in 1826. After the marriage, she returned with Boudinot to the Cherokee Nation, where he went on to become a controversial political figure who was editor of the first N...
|  | Click 3!
Publication Date: January 1998Frigid rich bitch Claudia gets a little implant in the right spot with a remote control. Turn the knob and voila! She¹s a hot cauldron of unleashed lust! ...
|  | The Valley of Horses (Earth's Children) Publisher: Crown; 2001 Ed edition
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|  | Games Traitors Play
Release Date: March 27, 2012“The perfect post-Bond spy...Move over, Jason Bourne.” —BookPage Salim Dhar is the world's most wanted terrorist. After he narrowly failed to kill the U.S. president, the CIA is under pressure to hunt him down. Echelon, the West's intelligence analysis network, is in meltdown, monitoring all channels for the faintest trace of Dhar. But no one can find him. Only Daniel Marchant, renegade MI6 officer, knows where he is.Marchant pursues Dhar up into the Atlas Mountains outside Marrakech, where he sees an unmarked military helicop...
|  | Angels Flight (A Harry Bosch Novel)
Publication Date: June 1, 2011| Series: A Harry Bosch Novel An activist attorney is killed in a cute little L.A. trolley called Angels Flight, far from Harry Bosch's Hollywood turf. But the case is so explosive--and the dead man's enemies inside the L.A.P.D. are so numerous--that it falls to Harry to solve it. Now the streets are superheating. Harry's year-old Vegas marriage is unraveling. And the hunt for a killer is leading Harry to another high-profile L.A. murder case, one where every cop had a motive. The question is, did any have the guts? ...
|  | Murder & Other Acts of Literature
Publication Date: October 1997The crime stories selected for this consistently imaginative collection shun the simple whodunit formula. Instead, Eudora Welty, Patrick O'Brian, Edith Wharton, and John Cheever, along with the twenty other masterful writers found here, take the compelling fact of murder or sudden death and proceed well beyond the business of clues or alibis. The result is the two dozen chilling and unforgettably diverting tales that make up "Murder & Other Acts of Literature." The authors she's chosen include distinguished writers from North and South America, Britain, Africa, ...
|  | Stay Out of the Basement (Goosebumps, No 2) (Goosebumps (Quality))
Publication Date: July 1, 1992| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | X-Men: First Class Finals (X-Men (Marvel Paperback))
Publication Date: August 26, 2009| Grade Level: 4 and up...
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