 | The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
Release Date: September 11, 2012In this provocative, startling book, Robert D. Kaplan, the bestselling author of Monsoon and Balkan Ghosts, offers a revelatory new prism through which to view global upheavals and to understand what lies ahead for continents and countries around the world. In The Revenge of Geography, Kaplan builds on the insights, discoveries, and theories of great geographers and geopolitical thinkers of the near and distant past to look back at critical pivots in history and then to look forward at the evolving global scene. Kaplan traces the history of the world&rs...
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 | Naming myself: Writings on identity
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 | Briefcase Warriors: Stories for the Stage (American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series)
Publication Date: March 15, 2001| Series: American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series (Book 38) In Briefcase Warriors, a collection of six fast-paced, thought-provoking plays, E. Donald Two-Rivers presents an intricate and multifaceted view of contemporary American Indian urban life. Alternately sad, humorous, or discomfiting, these plays range from one-act vignettes accessible to young adults to extended portrayals of the seedier side of urban existence. Fast-talking and hard-living, the characters depicted by Two-Rivers struggle to survive the sometimes hostile environs of a soc...
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 | Modernism and Tradition in Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time: A Guide for Students and Readers (Studies in American Literature and Culture)
Publication Date: February 2, 2001| ISBN-10: 1571130179 | ISBN-13: 978-1571130174The volume of collected short stories and vignettes In Our Time was Ernest Hemingway's first commercial publication. Its appearance in 1925 launched the full-fledged literary career of this century's most famous American fiction writer. And while other later works of Hemingway have eclipsed In Our Time's fame, none of Hemingway's subsequent works would again carry the degree of experimentation found in this distinctly modernist masterwork. Modernism and Tradition in Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time: A Guide fo...
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 | Sisters: Relation and Rescue in Nineteenth-Century British Novels and Paintings
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 | Witch in the Woods: The Willies Chronicles (Volume 1)
Publication Date: July 2, 2012Overwhelming curiosity draws young Jessica and Jason into the forest of redwoods behind their house.Are rumors of a witch living there true?The intrepid siblings find much more trouble than they ever expected as they stumble into an age-old war between shape-shifting creatures. Author C.S. Curtis weaves a tale of suspense and adventure for readers young and old in the first book of The Willies series. ...
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| Black Beetles in Amber
Publication Date: May 1, 2008Death-poet Pickering sat at his desk, Wrapped in appropriate gloom; His posture was pensive and picturesque, Like a raven charming a tomb. -- "The Obituarian" Best known for his tales of bleak reality and dark imagination, Ambrose Bierce also gave expression to his sardonic, epigrammatic wit in verse form. Black Beetles in Amber collects his finest forays into versification. Some are barbed and venomous, while others are simply entertaining sallies upon the entertaining foibles of his day -- as in "The Oleomargarine Man," 'On the Wedding of an Aeronaut," or "Judg...
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 | Insomnia
Release Date: September 1, 1995Nightmares come to life for Ralph Roberts. Up all night, he's seeing some pretty strange things. No wonder he can't get back to sleep. Readers won't be able to either. ...
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 | Pollita chiquita
Publication Date: February 1, 1992| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Cause and effect are humorously apparent in this new edition of an old tale. When the acorn falls on Henny Penny's head, readers will know just where it's come from--two industrious squirrels busily gathering nuts in the trees overhead. (The same two squirrels are seen burying their wealth at the scene of Foxy Loxy's feast on the book's final page.) In similar fashion, Zimmermann extends and lightens this tersely told tale in page after page of colorful watercolor cartoons. Henny Penny and friends appear appropri...
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 | Fernando Pessoa
Publication Date: July 15, 2008This a revised edition of Zbigniew Kotowicz's pioneering essay on the work of Pessoa, who is finally being recognised as one of the great European writers, and one of the great modernist poets of the 20th Century. Published in a uniform format with the rest of the Shearsman Books Pessoa Edition. ...
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| Chinese poems in English rhyme
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 | La Symphonie Pastorale (Folio Ser .: No 18) (French Edition)
Publication Date: June 1972| ISBN-10: 2070360180 | ISBN-13: 978-2070360185In beautiful, evocative prose, Gide's short novel explores such themes as love, blindness, honor, and mortality. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
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 | Volcano Verdict (Luna Cruz)
Publication Date: September 1, 2006| Series: Luna Cruz Dead Lawyer. Drugs. Dormant Volcano? Disgraced former prosecutor Luna Cruz has one chance at redemption, defending her only client and only friend, Jen Song. Jen is a legal secretary accused of killing her boss and leaving him atop an Albuquerque volcano. During the investigation, Luna uncovers a conspiracy involving lawyers and illegal prescription drugs coming across the border. Luna journeys into Texas, and then down to Mexico only to find hat her friend might be the real volcano and she's ready to erupt. ...
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 | Damage Control: A Novel
Release Date: June 12, 2012CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR DENISE HAMILTON WEAVES AN ENGROSSING STORY OF TEENAGE FRIENDSHIP AND ADULT BETRAYAL, FEATURING A HIGH-POWERED CRISIS CONSULTANT WHO GETS SWEPT UP IN MURDER AND SCANDAL INVOLVING A WEALTHY POLITICAL FAMILY. Maggie Silver is solidly middle class, with a mortgage to pay and an ill mother to support. She is doing her best to scramble up the ladder at an elite PR firm in Southern California whose clients are movie stars and famous athletes. Now, Maggie tackles her toughest client yet: Senator Henry Paxton, a distinguished statesman who also h...
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 | The Maze of Bones (The 39 Clues, Book 1) - Library Edition
Release Date: September 9, 2008| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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 | Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror
Release Date: September 18, 2007| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up This spine-tingling, thrill-packed novel has more than enough fear-factor for the most ardent fan of scary stories. Uncle Montague lives alone in a big house, but regular visits from his nephew, Edward, give him the opportunity to recount some of the most frightening stories he knows. As each tale unfolds, it becomes clear that something sinister is in the air. From the account of a curious boy who intrudes on Old Mother Tallow's garden to a shy girl's ghostly encounter during an innocent game of hide and seek, a p...
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 | NFL Monday Night Football Club: Heavy Artillery - Book #4: I Was Junior Seau
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 | Jesse Owens (On My Own Biography)
Publication Date: May 2000| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
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 | History of Rome, II: Books 3-4 (Loeb Classical Library)
Publication Date: January 1, 1922| ISBN-10: 0674991486 | ISBN-13: 978-0674991484Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at or near Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BCE; he may have lived mostly in Rome but died at Patavium, in 12 or 17 CE.Livy's only extant work is part of his history of Rome from the foundation of the city to 9 BCE. Of its 142 books, we have just 35, and short summaries of all the rest except two. The whole work was, long after his death, divided into Decades or series of ten. Books 1–10 we have entire; books 11–20 are lost; books 21–45 are e...
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 | Fangs, Claws & Talons: Animal Predators
Publication Date: November 1, 2007| Age Level: 6 and up...
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