 | What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures
Release Date: December 14, 2010What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers? What does hair dye tell us about the history of the 20th century?In the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell has written three books that have radically changed how we understand our world and ourselves: The Tipping Point; Blink; and Outliers. Now, in What the Dog Saw, he brings together, for the first time, the best of his writing from The New Yorker over the same period.H...
What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers? What does hair dye tell us about the history of the 20th century? In the past decade ... -->  |  | Taco
Publication Date: March 12, 2012PINK EDITION Fight Breast Cancer - A portion of every book goes to fight Breast Cancer! Taco is a book about growing up Puerto Rican in Brooklyn, NY. It is about survival, about growing where you are planted, a book about realizing goals and dreams, about family and those you love and love you in return. ...
|  | The Croxley Master And Other Tales Of The Ring And Camp
Publication Date: December 1, 2004This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. ...
|  | Tie and Tease (Nexus Classics)
Release Date: June 4, 2010| Series: Nexus Classics Penny Birch is playing the fox in a bizarre hunting game. But all does not go according to plan, and she's found by a total stranger, Beth, who is naturally concerned at the state of her. After spending an awkward afternoon explaining herself, Penny becomes determined to seduce Beth, an innocent in all the ways of bizarre naughtiness. Penny's continued efforts get her into more and more trouble as she is frequently punished, humiliated, and even put on a roasting spit—to the point that she wonders if she can take any more. ...
|  | The Jew of Malta (Broadview Editions)
Publication Date: December 2, 2011| ISBN-10: 155481068X | ISBN-13: 978-1554810680First performed by Shakespeare's rivals in the 1590s, Christopher Marlowe's The Jew of Malta was a trend-setting, innovative play whose black comedy and final tragic irony illuminate the darker regions of the Elizabethan cultural imagination. Although Jews were banished from England in 1291, the Jew in the form of Barabas, the play's protagonist, returns on the stage to embody and to challenge the dramatic and cultural anti-Semitic stereotypes out of which he is constructed. The result is a theatrically soph...
|  | Early Modern Tragedy, Gender and Performance, 1984-2000: The Destined Livery
Release Date: October 2, 2007| ISBN-10: 140399479X | ISBN-13: 978-1403994790| Edition: First Edition This book examines the representation of gender in selected recent performances of early modern tragedy. In the process, it elaborates a model of critically engaged spectatorship that will allow for the complexity and potential of such cultural productions, and shows how encounters between contemporary actors and early modern playtexts--often dismissed as merely conservative - can in fact help to uncover the instability and historical contingency of gender norms past and present. ...
|  | Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry
Publication Date: February 23, 1994This book-the first comprehensive anthology in English of modern Chinese poetry-presents more than three hundred poems by sixty-six poets from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. All the poems are translated from the original Chinese into modern-day English, and many are introduced to the English-speaking world for the first time. The poems, which span the period from the 1910s to the present, represent the three watersheds in modern Chinese poetry: the early years, before the civil war and Communist rule halted serious literary pursuits; the Taiwan phase, from t...
|  | Reaching for the Mainland & Selected New Poems
Publication Date: September 1, 1995new poems plus the 1987 title collection ...
|  | The Necklace
Publication Date: November 26, 2010The legend of the Peckham necklace, a fabled emerald necklace owned by the Archers, foretells death for anyone who dares to possess it. Certainly, it has brought the Archers nothing but heartache. So Oriana is relieved it's missing, assuming it ever existed outside of a far-fetched tale. She has enough difficulties protecting her uncle-and her heart--from his dangerous new friend, Chilton Dacy. However, when Oriana accidentally discovers the necklace, the curse reawakens. A man is murdered, and the Archers are in desperate trouble, again. Oriana is now left...
|  | Wycliffe and How to Kill a Cat (Wycliffe Series)
Publication Date: July 1, 2006| Series: Wycliffe Series The girl was young, her auburn hair arranged on the pillow. Wycliffe could almost believe she was asleep—that is, until he saw her face. She had been strangled, her face brutally smashed—but after death, not before. She lay in a seedy hotel room down by the docks, but her luggage, her clothes, and her make-up all suggested she had more class than her surroundings. Superintendent Wycliffe was officially on holiday, but the case fascinated him. Who was the girl? Why was she lying naked in a shabby hotel room? As Wycliffe begins ...
|  | Sherlock Holmes Vol. 2: Memorias de Sherlock Holme (Em Portugues do Brasil)
Publication Date: January 1, 2010Esse volume das facanhas de Sherlock Holmes traz, na sequencia em que foram originalmente publicados na Strand Magazine entre 1892 e 1893, os 12 contos que compoem 'As memorias de Sherlock Holmes'. ...
|  | The Brotherhood of the Traveling Underpants (Melvin Beederman Superhero)
Release Date: June 9, 2009| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
|  | Adrian Peterson (Robbie Reader Contemporary Biographies)
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|  | Toward the Goal: The Kaka Story (ZonderKidz Biography)
Release Date: March 25, 2010| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Futbol Humor
Publication Date: March 1, 2008| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up A humorous collection of original cartoons, this book contains 32 pages of black-and-white cartoons in Spanish. ...
|  | Oregon Trail Cooking (Exploring History Through Simple Recipes)
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|  | The Ants Go Marching(English as a Second Language)
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|  | Heart of Steele (Ready-For-Chapters)
Publication Date: July 1, 2003 ...
|  | Early Thunder
Publication Date: June 2001In this engrossing novel set in Salem in 1774, a young boy must learn to make the decisions of a man.Daniel West is faced with questions of patriotic loyalty; follow his journey from loyalty to the king, to dangerous confrontations with British troops, to proud support for his new country. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Frog Book Buddy (Pocket Pals (Safari Ltd))
Publication Date: September 2000| Age Level: 4 and up...
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