 | Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the World: From 1000 CE to the Present (Third Edition)(Vol. 2)
Publication Date: December 6, 2010| ISBN-10: 0393934942 | ISBN-13: 978-0393934946| Edition: Third Edition The most global approach to world history, now more streamlined and accessible.Worlds Together, Worlds Apart is organized around major world history stories and themes: the emergence of cities, the building of the Silk Road, the spread of major religions, the spread of the Black Death, the Age of Exploration, alternatives to 19th-century capitalism, the rise of modern nation-states and empires, and more. In the Third Edition, the text has been compressed and streamlined to heighten e...
 |  | Borderlands/La Frontera, Third Edition: The New Mestiza
Publication Date: June 1, 2007| ISBN-10: 1879960745 | ISBN-13: 978-1879960749| Edition: 3rd Cultural Writing. Essays. Latino/Latina Studies. Rooted in Gloria Anzaldua's experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the groundbreaking essays and poems in this volume profoundly challenged how we think about identity. BORDERLANDS/LA FRONTERA remapped our understanding of what a "border" is, seeing it not as a simple divide between here and there, us and them, but as a psychic, social, and cultural terrain that we inhabit, and that inhabits all of us. This twentieth-annivers...
|  | Negro League Baseball (Motherwell Prize)
Publication Date: August 2, 2011| Series: Motherwell Prize From "Negro League Baseball":Mother and Father and other frank nouns flow between freedoms in this stream of conscious dispersal. Rather than say they are musical say: They are music.I mean we say we mean itbecause it feels nice to meananything-- it feels childlike a newbornlost in a beautiful cave on the way tobehavior--It feels and fields and homeand safe only saved, like a packet of foreign sugarback pocket cafe good nigger swagger—wait.Harmony Holiday was born in Waterloo, Iowa in 1982. Her father was Northern Soul singer Ji...
|  | Cold Hunger: Death Is The Least Of Two Horrors... The Other Is Unimaginable
Publication Date: February 6, 2008There are dark places where man was never meant to tread...Still, Nick Kaye and Adrian Middleton did, violating the uncharted wilderness where the ancient embodiment of cold and starvation dwells - a cunning trickster whose freezing trail of savage death and destruction is unfolding in the primeval forest. Located on the fringe of the creature's domain, too many dark secrets haunt the tiny logging town of Warring, Minnesota. Years of lies, betrayal and sordid indiscretion practiced by the town's aging patriarchs prohibit anyone from saving Nick, his wife Cin...
|  | Gatherings, Volume VII - Standing Ground: Strength and Solidarity Amidst Dissolving Boundaries
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|  | Sizzling Sixteen (Stephanie Plum Novels)
Release Date: June 22, 2010| Series: Stephanie Plum Novels (Book 16) Trenton, New Jersey, bounty hunter Stephanie Plum has inherited a “lucky” bottle from her Uncle Pip. Problem is, Uncle Pip didn’t specify if the bottle brought good luck or bad luck. . . . BAD LUCK:Vinnie, of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds, has run up a gambling debt of $786,000 with mobster Bobby Sunflower and is being held until the cash can be produced. Nobody else will pay to get Vinnie back, leaving it up to Stephanie, office manager Connie, and file clerk Lula to raise the money if they want to save their j...
|  | The First Husband: A Novel
Release Date: April 24, 2012"A fresh, funny take on the search for a soulmate." —PeopleLaura Dave has already won adoring fans everywhere from Hollywood to the heartland. Now, with a slew of rave reviews and astute insights about modern love, The First Husband is certain to deliver her breakout success. Los Angeles–based travel writer Annie Adams thinks she has it all. Nick, her longtime film director boyfriend, has finally hit the big time, her column is syndicated, and they've got a great dog. Then Nick moves out. Three months later, Annie is married to Griffin, a dow...
|  | Marriage of Inconvenience (Love Inspired Historical)
Publication Date: October 2, 2012| Series: Love Inspired Historical Proposing to the Earl of Aynsley seems a sensible—if unconventional—solution to Miss Rebecca Peabody's predicament. As a married woman, she will be free to keep writing her essays on civil reform. Meanwhile, the distinguished widower will gain a stepmother for his seven children and a caretaker for his vast estate.But the earl wants more than a convenient bride. He craves a true partner, a woman he can cherish. To his surprise, the bookish Miss Peabody appears to have every quality he desires…except the wi...
|  | "Heil America" Incorporated (We Didn't Think It Could Happen Here): Volume Two
Publication Date: October 28, 2011Becca had no way of knowing just how much her life would be changed by the following message she received that Saturday morning when she went on her social network to check out the postings. Not just her life…but her very being: “You don’t know me, but I work for your Social Network. This morning we had visitors from Homeland Security and they demanded that we turn over to them all information pertaining to your account. They also have access to all your phone contacts as well. This message will be deleted in 20 minutes and all traces of...
|  | The Ionian Mission (Aubrey-Maturin)
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|  | La Cour des Contes (Volume 1) (French Edition)
Publication Date: July 11, 2012La Cour des Contes est une ronde d’histoires paillardes et grivoises mettant en scène des personnages fictifs bien réels, tous issus de contes divers (contes de fées, contes politiques, contes religieux, cons de présentateurs télé…). On peut dire que c’est un règlement de comptes en quelque sorte. C’est également un récit à tiroirs (non pas à tiroirs-caisses comme pourrait le laisser entendre le titre du livre), où l’auteur intervient épisodiquement pour faire pa...
|  | Celtic Texts of the Coelbook: The Last Five Books of The Kolbrin Bible
Publication Date: May 31, 2006| ISBN-10: 1597720305 | ISBN-13: 978-1597720304Authored by Celtic priests when the first Gospels of the New Testament were being created, the Celtic Texts of the Coelbook (the last five books of The Kolbrin Bible) documents the fusion ofCeltic and Druid mysticism, Judaism and Egyptian anthropology.Some regard it as a key Celtic wisdom text because it includes a revealing biography of Jesus with several never-before published first-person quotes.This work is rooted in a 3600-year-old Egyptian text (the first six books of The Kolbrin Bible) written following t...
|  | "Hidden Secrets Of A Christian Woman"
Publication Date: September 30, 2011"Your appeared Image is not your identity; for it is what's inside you that shows your character and brings you reality." Samantha D. Williams "Hidden Secrets Of A Christian Woman" is about a young woman you was raised in church but has experience some of life's most detrimental events. The Young lady does not know how to deal with them so she turned from God and lost her identity even the more. She then came in contact with an old lady who tried to encourage her and after the lady's consistency the girl began her transitional stage that led to her deliver...
|  | What Really Goes on in Sophocles' Theban Plays
Publication Date: May 1, 1996| ISBN-10: 0761803041 | ISBN-13: 978-0761803041This book examines the plots of Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone as parts of separate and then connected stories. These stories expose hidden sides of the characters of the three main protagonists, Oedipus, Creon, and Antigone, and, in turn, cast new light upon the events we see play out on stage.Contents: Oedipus Rex: Chronology of Events; Investigative Talents; Public Posturing; Character Flaws; Some Answers to Earlier Questions; Other Views; Oedipus at Colonus; PART I: Chronology of Events; Introduc...
|  | Good Grief (Acting Edition)
Publication Date: October 1999| Series: Acting Edition Returning from a memorial service, June Pepper, middle-aged widow of a tabloid editor cut down in his prime, follows her husband's wishes to keep a journal of her bereavement. But he didn't say anything about writing it down... Thus, it is in a stream of monologue to the departed Sam that June records her reflections of widowhood. She finds that grieving is not the straightforward process she had imagined... --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation
Publication Date: November 5, 1998The classic translation of The Odyssey, now in a Noonday paperback.Robert Fitzgerald's translation of Homer's Odyssey is the best and best-loved modern translation of the greatest of all epic poems. Since 1961, this Odyssey has sold more than two million copies, and it is the standard translation for three generations of students and poets. The Noonday Press is delighted to publish a new edition of this classic work.Fitzgerald's supple verse is ideally suited to the story of Odysseus' long journey back to his wife and home after the Trojan War. Homer's tale ...
|  | Antho de La Poe Russe (Poesie/Gallimard) (French Edition)
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|  | Two Guys Read Jane Austen
Publication Date: October 15, 2008This is the third book in the critically acclaimed Two Guys series by Steve Chandler and Terrence Hill. This time the two guys take on their biggest challenge yet-Jane Austen.Follow their wild and often hilarious exchanges as they fly through Pride and Prejudice and the darker, more complex Mansfield Park.Often veering off into the worlds of music, sports, and history, both of these accomplished writers draw upon their lifelong friendships and shared childhood memories to give dimension to their deeply personal responses to Jane Austen's writing.These same z...
|  | The Cultural Uses of Print in Early Modern France
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|  | The Development of the International Book Trade, 1870-1895: Tangled Networks
Release Date: December 7, 2010| ISBN-10: 023027563X | ISBN-13: 978-0230275638An international trade emerged between 1870-1895 that incorporated the circulation of books among countries worldwide. A history of the social network and select agents who sold and distributed books overseas, this study demonstrates agents increasingly thought of the world as a negotiable, connected system and books as transnational commodities. ...
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