 | Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care
Release Date: September 18, 2012| ISBN-10: 1608198367 | ISBN-13: 978-1608198368| Edition: 1 Dr. Marty Makary is co-developer of the life-saving checklist outlined in Atul Gawande's bestselling The Checklist Manifesto. As a busy surgeon who has worked in many of the best hospitals in the nation, he can testify to the amazing power of modern medicine to cure. But he's also been a witness to a medical culture that routinely leaves surgical sponges inside patients, amputates the wrong limbs, and overdoses children because of sloppy handwriting. Over the last ten years, neither error rates no...
 |  | Zadayi Red
Release Date: July 7, 2009A compelling new voice in fantasy brings us a tale like no other in the genre. A young Shaman of the Galayi people has had a powerful and frightening vision: it is of the Eagle Feather Cape, the gift of the Thunderbird, which is worn by the Seer of the People to see the future and gain the guidance of the gods. The cape is torn and bloody, and it will no longer bring visions to the Seer of the People. But the Shaman's vision also tells her of the cure: a child will be born to the People, a hero who will restore the cape and return the goodwil...
|  | Tao Te King (Libro del curso y de la virtud) (El Arbol del Paraiso) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 1998| Series: El Arbol del Paraiso (Book 15) Este libro basta para abrir toda una inteligibilidad de las cosas. De los grandes libros de sabiduria, es efectivamente el mas breve (tan solo cinco mil caracteres en chino) y no obstante es completo, no le falta nada, su pensamiento es de una pieza; se puede decir que a lo largo de sus ochenta y un parrafos no progresa, no anade nada, no hace sino variar alrededor de la misma idea. ...
|  | The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories
Release Date: May 8, 2012From Lovecraft to Borges to Gaiman, a century of intrepid literary experimentation has created a corpus of dark and strange stories that transcend all known genre boundaries. Together these stories form The Weird, and its practitioners include some of the greatest names in twentieth and twenty-first century literature. Exotic and esoteric, The Weird plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. You won’t find any elves or wizards here...but you will find the biggest, boldest, and downright most peculiar stories from the l...
|  | Outlaws & Lawmen of the West
Publication Date: July 1, 2001Western American History. Pictorial. The Wild West was a place where gritty, unshaven, pistol-twirling outlaws, born with a taste for dirt and danger, could leap on a horse or get from a galloping steed onto a speeding train without loss of limb or life. After the discovery of gold in California and parts north, and the Civil War, the West became home to settlers, gold seekers and entrepreneurs, as well as highwaymen, killers and outlaws keen to make a quick buck and stay out of reach of the long arm of the law. ...
|  | The Alexander Pope Encyclopedia
Publication Date: March 30, 2004| ISBN-10: 0313324263 | ISBN-13: 978-0313324260| Edition: annotated edition Alexander Pope (1688-1744) was the most important English poet of the 18th century, as well as an essayist, satirist, and critic. Many of his sayings are still quoted today. His Essay on Criticism shaped the aesthetic views of English Neoclassicism, while his Essay on Man reflected the moral views of the Enlightenment. He participated fully in the critical debates of his time and was one of the few poets who supported himself through his writing. This reference conveniently summari...
|  | The Trachiniae
Publication Date: June 17, 2004DEIANEIRA Ye have heard of my trouble, I think, and that hath brought you here; but the anguish which consumes my heart- ye are strangers to that; and never may ye learn it by suffering! Yes, the tender plant grows in those sheltered regions of its own! and the Sun-god's heat vexes it not, nor rain, nor any wind; but it rejoices in its sweet, untroubled being, til such time as the maiden is called a wife, and finds her portion of anxious thoughts in the night, brooding on danger to husband or to children. Such an one could understand the burden of my cares; she...
|  | Brujas Y Algo Mas/Witches and Other Things (Latin American Literary Review Press Series Discoveries)
Publication Date: December 1, 1984| Series: Latin American Literary Review Press Series Discoveries poetry, US/Chilean, tr Cola Franzen, bilingual ...
|  | The Black Heralds & Other Early Poems
Publication Date: March 15, 2007Before writing his breakthrough poem sequence 'Trilce', César Vallejo published 'The Black Heralds', his first book of poems, in 1919. Although heavily indebted to the aesthetics of modernismo, Vallejo's early volume finds a way to escape the merely decorative, and includes poems of indubitable originality, harbingers of his later masterpieces. In this varied book, lyrics of existential angst and romantic frustration appear amid descriptions of family life and Andean landscapes. 'The Black Heralds' includes many of Vallejo's best-known poems, and its dece...
|  | Best Books for Middle School and Junior High Readers, Grades 6-9 (Children's and Young Adult Literature Reference)
Publication Date: March 20, 2009| ISBN-10: 1591585732 | ISBN-13: 978-1591585732| Edition: 2 This indispensable reading guide and selection tool, updated to include titles published from 2004 through 2008, covers the best fiction and nonfiction for children in grades 6-9. The approximately 15,000 entries include brief but lively annotations, ISBNs, book length and price, grade-level appropriateness, and review citations. New features include indication of titles available in audio format and Lexiles where available. Award-winning and series titles are noted. Use this must-purchase volume ...
|  | Diana Wynne Jones (Studies in Children's Literature, 1)
Publication Date: July 5, 2002| ISBN-10: 082045687X | ISBN-13: 978-0820456874Diana Wynne Jones: An Exciting and Exacting Wisdom is a collection of scholarly essays examining the work of British author Diana Wynne Jones, whose prolific contributions to speculative fiction span the past thirty years. A contemporary of such ...
|  | George McDonald: Victorian Myth Maker
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|  | Angela of Foligno's Memorial (Library of Medieval Women)
Publication Date: January 13, 2000| Series: Library of Medieval Women Angela of Foligno is considered by many as the greatest mystical voice among Italian medieval women. She devoted herself to a relentless pursuit of God when as a middle-aged woman she lost her mother, husband and children; illiterate herself, she dictated her experiences to her confessor, who transcribed her words into Latin as the Memorial. In a direct and vigorous style, it tells of her suffering, visions, joy, identification with Christ, and finally her mystical union with God. However, her book has always been viewed w...
|  | The Complete Sherlock Holmes Treasury
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|  | Defender a Jacob (Ficcion) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | A World Without Heroes (Beyonders)
Release Date: February 14, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | Maquina del Tiempo (Classic Fiction) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: August 1, 2010| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | Pandora Gets Vain (Pandora (Quality))
Release Date: October 27, 2009| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | The Dragon's Child
Publication Date: June 1, 2008| Age Level: 7 and up A magical dragon must learn to fly before it's too late!Dando the dragon child must learn to fly or else he'll be left behind when his family moves to new caves. When he can't, his mother offers to carry him on her back. But Dando gets lost along the journey and now must survive alone in a place where the dreadful Doggins lurk. Then an orphaned girl rescues him and offers to help him find his family. But is their friendship strong enough to keep them both safe?Awarding-winning and NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY bestselling author, Jenny Nimmo...
| | Anansi and the Talking Melon
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