| "They Say / I Say": The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing with Readings (Second Edition) Publication Date: November 15, 2011| ISBN-10: 0393912752 | ISBN-13: 978-0393912753| Edition: Second Edition The best-selling text/reader on academic writing.They Say / I Say demystifies academic writing by identifying its key rhetorical moves, the most important of which is to summarize what others have said ("they say") to set up one's own argument ("I say"). The book also provides templates to help students make these key moves in their own writing. This version includes readings that demonstrate those moves—and provide stimulating conversations for them to enter. The Second Edi...
| | The Jesus Storybook Bible: Every Story Whispers His Name Release Date: February 22, 2007| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up The Moonbeam Award Gold Medal Winner in the religion category, The Jesus Storybook Bible tells the Story beneath all the stories in the Bible. At the center of the Story is a baby, the child upon whom everything will depend. Every story whispers his name. From Noah to Moses to the great King David---every story points to him. He is like the missing piece in a puzzle---the piece that makes all the other pieces fit together. From the Old Testament through the New Testament, as the Story unfolds, children will pick up ...
| | Better Than I Know Myself Release Date: April 14, 2005The beloved #1 Essence bestselling authors of Tryin' to Sleep in the Bed You Made now deliver a novel in which you'll meet their most unforgettable characters yet. Carmen, Jewel, and Regina could not be more different. When they meet as freshmen at Columbia University, they're pretty confident that a friendship among them isn't in the cards. Jewel is Hollywood royalty: as the teenage star of the TV show "Daddy's Girl," her face is instantly recognizable all across America. Now, though, she wants two things-to get a serious education, and to leave her controlling s...
| | The Quality of Mercy Release Date: August 7, 2012It is the spring of 1767, and the vengeful Erasmus Kemp has had the mutinous sailors of his father’s ship brought back to London to stand trial on piracy charges. Much to Kemp’s dismay, the Irish fiddler Sullivan has escaped, and retrieving him proves too much in the midst of overseeing the dramatic legal case and a new business venture in the northern coal and steel industries of Thorpe. But the two men’s paths are about to collide once again, for Sullivan is also on his way to Thorpe to fulfill the dying wish of his shipmate. With historical sw...
| | Star Trek 2013 Wall Calendar: The Original Series Release Date: August 21, 2012The sci-fi fanatic's ultimate calendar, Star Trek Captain's 2013 Day-to-Day Calendar features quotations from each of the franchise's television series and films, lore from the Star Trek universe, and trivia from over four decades of Trekker mania.* Covering all things Star Trek, the Star Trek Captain's 2013 Day-to-Day Calendar offers a daily glimpse of an exciting, ever-expanding futuristic universe--sure to enliven any cubicle, desk, or work space.* Fans will find iconic lines including "I'm a doctor, not a magician" (Dr. McCoy) and lore, including ho...
| | Portofino Release Date: January 1, 1999Some kids told lies to be special. Calvin told lies to be normal. The son of a missionary family, he looks forward all year to summer vacation in Portofino--especially since he'll once again have the chance to see his beloved Jennifer. But even in this seductive seaside town in Italy, the Beckers can't really relax. Calvin's father could slip into a Bad Mood and start hurling potted plants at any time. His mother has an embarrassing habit of trying to convert "pagans" on the beach. And his sister keeps a ski sweater and miniature Bible in her luggage just in case...
| | Mafia Summer: A Novel Release Date: June 13, 2006“It just may be the perfect summer book.”—New York Post One a Sicilian Hell’s Kitchen gang leader, the other a sickly but brilliant Orthodox Jewish boy who lives next door, Vinny Vesta and Sidney Butcher meet on a fire escape during the blistering New York City summer of 1950. Their friendship develops over the course of a summer that will change Vinny’s fortunes forever, at a cost he could never have imagined. Based on a true story, Mafia Summer brilliantly captures a pivotal moment in Mafia history and in the lives of the teenag...
| | Original Bliss Release Date: January 25, 2000"Kennedy is a world class writer."--The New York Times Book ReviewA brilliant American debut from one of Scotland's most acclaimed writers, named by Granta as one of the Twenty Best Young British Novelists.Emotionally numb, crippled with insomnia, and caught in a frightening, abusive marriage, Helen Brindle believes that God has recently left her. She spends her days performing banal domestic chores in front of a blaring television. On the BBC one day she watches a self-help guru expound on, among other things, the "rules" of masturbation and...
| | How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain Publication Date: April 29, 2012How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who reduced newspapers to fish 'n' chips wrap? Shedding new light on novels by Thackeray, Dickens, the Brontës, Trollope, and Collins, as well as the urban sociology o...
| | Bertolt Brecht: Chaos, according to Plan (Directors in Perspective) Publication Date: January 30, 1987| Series: Directors in Perspective This is the first full-length study in any language of Bertolt Brecht's day-to-day work as a theatre director. Professor Fuegi has researched his subject extensively over many years, and this book is the result of interviews with Brecht's closest associates (including Helene Weigel, Angelika Hurwicz, Elisabeth Hauptmann and Hans Bunge), inspection of the unpublished typescripts recording several years of Brecht rehearsals at the Berlin Ensemble, and consultation of archival materials in Moscow, Berlin and Harvard University...
| | Dramas with a Message, vol. 2: 21 Reproducible Dramas for the Local Church Publication Date: November 23, 1999| Series: Dramas with a Message (Book 2) An exciting collection of twenty-one church-tested dramatic sketches that require only two to four characters, simple sets, and everyday costumes. Built-in performance and copying permission. (20040603) ...
| | The Prodigal's Sister (With the Art of Robert Doares) Publication Date: October 9, 2003The Grace of God is so astonishing that we cannot adequately describe it. But Jesus knew how to say it-in a parable. With the drawings of Robert Doares depicting the setting, The Prodigal's Sister poetically and imaginatively retells the parable of the prodigal son with a startling twist. In the poem the younger sister of the prodigal sets out to reclaim her brother's life. The new life the prodigal finds in his father's love is mirrored in the mercy the legalistic elder brother finds when he learns that his slave-like labor is useless in winning his father's...
| | Between Dawn and the Wind, 2nd Edition Publication Date: November 1, 2006Dubbed "the best Polish poetess of her generation," Anna Frajlich has developed an extensive body of work, which reflects her struggles and triumphs as a woman, immigrant and Polish ex-patriot. Part of the 1968 Jewish exodus from Poland, Frajlich has infused her poems with sensitive and penetrating notations of changing attitudes toward exile. She has gone through life recording her insights, reflections or moods and has miraculously found terse and unpretentious artistic forms for their expression. This second edition contains several recent poems not inclu...
| | The Garden of Kama and Other Love Lyrics from India ...
| | How I Wrote Certain Of My Books Release Date: August 15, 2005The first anthology of writings by Roussel, a legendary eccentric who influenced artists as diverse as Duchamp and Gide; contains selections from most of his major works. ...
| | The Johannine Question Publication Date: January 20, 2009Characteristically scholarly examination of the origin and authorship of the Fourth Gospel, within the context of the community to which it relates. Skilful detective work traces the trail back to a figure who witnessed the death of Jesus in Jerusalem. ...
| | The Medieval Lyric Publication Date: July 4, 2002| ISBN-10: 0859914844 | ISBN-13: 978-0859914840| Edition: 3 This highly acclaimed introduction to the medieval lyric during the period 850-1300 is now reissued in a third edition, which includes a new preface and substantial new bibliographical indications. After an introductory discussion of the performers and performance of lyrics in the middle ages, each chapter analyses one of the major lyrical genres. While the rise of religious lyric and the transformations of love-lyric receive the fullest treatment, there are also chapters on women's songs, on the al...
| | The Devil's Due and Other Stories: The Devil's Due, The Portal, Disfigured, Empathy, and Epitaph (International Thriller Writers Presents: Thriller, Vol. 1) Publication Date: June 1, 2012| Series: International Thriller Writers Presents: Thriller, Vol. 1 The Devil’s Due by Steve Berry In his fourth thriller, The Templar Legacy, Berry introduced Cotton Malone, a lawyer/agent who worked with the Justice Department for many years in a special unit known as the Magellan Billet. Deciding the risks were too great, Malone retires out early, moves to Copenhagen and opens an old-books shop. Unfortunately, trouble seems to follow Malone, and The Templar Legacy is just the first of several adventures Berry plans for Malone and the cast of supporting...
| | La resistencia (Seix Barral Biblioteca Ernesto Sabato) (Spanish Edition) Publication Date: January 1, 2002| Series: Seix Barral Biblioteca Ernesto Sabato Un ensayo que toma la forma de 5 largas cartas dirigidas al lector en las que Ernesto Sabato reflexiona sobre la creciente falta de valores de la sociedad actual y denuncia la deshumanizacion en la sociedad tecnologica, animando al lector a librar una batalla contra el nihilismo y la desesperanza. ...
| | The Deception Publication Date: November 1, 1996Adrian, Earl of Greystone, is tricked into marrying Kate by a long time enemy. Kate believes her scheming uncle is behind her father's death. Adrian sails for Europe and the two realise as they cope with their troubles that they really love one another. ...
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