 | International Marketing
Publication Date: September 24, 2010| ISBN-10: 007352994X | ISBN-13: 978-0073529943| Edition: 15 Cateora and Graham’s International Marketing is far and away the best selling text in the field, with a pioneering approach to making the material accessible and relevant that has become the standard by which other books are judged. Providing a well-rounded perspective of international markets that encompasses history, geography, language, and religion as well as economics, Cateora helps students to see the cultural and environmental uniqueness of any nation or region. The 15th edition ...
 |  | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content): A Novel
Release Date: June 12, 2012WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE The beloved, award-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, a Michael Chabon masterwork, is the American epic of two boy geniuses named Joe Kavalier and Sammy Clay. Now with special bonus material by Michael Chabon. A “towering, swash-buckling thrill of a book” (Newsweek), hailed as Chabon’s “magnum opus” (The New York Review of Books), The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a triumph of originality, imagination, and storytelling, an exuberant, irresistible novel that b...
|  | Evensong (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
Publication Date: February 29, 2000| Series: Ballantine Reader's Circle To read Gail Godwin is to touch the very core of human experience. With inimitable grace and aching emotional precision, Godwin probes our own complexities in characters whose lives oscillate between success and struggle, stoic resolve and quixotic temptation, bitter disappointment and small, sacred joys. Now with Evensong, she again translates our everyday existence into soul-touching truths as she brings to brilliantly realized life the people of a small Smoky Mountain town--and a woman whose world is indelibly altered...
|  | BABIES ARE LIKE BLOSSOMS: Beautiful Flowers in the Garden of Life
Publication Date: March 7, 2000 In Praise of Babies, A Delightful Tribute to Those Who Inspire the Greatest Love of AllBabies Are Like Blossoms offers nuggets of wisdom, advice, and even chuckles that are as irresistible as an infant. Full of heartwarming poems and clever quips, Babies Are Like Blossoms celebrates the blessings of parenthood -- from witnessing the miracle of life to surviving sleepless nights. Included are observations from famous personalities, such as Bill Cosby and Joan Rivers, poems to copy and stick on refrigerators, and suggestions to smooth the rough times or prolon...
|  | The Devil's Share
Publication Date: June 20, 2010Can we ever own land--or does the land instead possess us? That question underpins this elegantly written account of a young man's action-filled year in the Wrangell-St. Elias wilderness, where mountains rise to pierce the sky. There he faces dangers hidden behind both the smiles of humans and the beauties of the vast country where Canada and Alaska meet. Jack enters the mountains to work at a lakeside wilderness lodge near his birthplace--a homestead from which his family had been evicted when he was a toddler, as the land became a national park. What starts a...
|  | Harlan's Race: A Novel
Publication Date: June 1, 1996In 1974, The Front Runner was published, a novel of love and loss that became a best-loved classic about gay life. Now, twenty years later, comes the sequel - a story of passion, and victory pulled from defeat.After his young athlete lover is assassinated on the Olympic track in Montreal, coach Harlan Brown is forced to enter the race of his life. To survive the hate and violence which threaten his chosen family - Betsy, valiant lesbian mother, Vince, angry activist seeking revenge, Chino, Vietnam vet with a wounded heart, and the secret child of Billy Sive, The...
|  | Playing the Player (Amigas y Amor)
Publication Date: October 19, 2010| Series: Amigas y Amor Madeira Pacias has been happily coasting through life as a confirmed—and contented—single player. But the day she stops to help the victims of a highway pileup, everything changes. Madeira finds the woman of her dreams...dreams she wasn’t even aware she had. Grace Obregon is beautiful, vulnerable, and exactly the kind of woman Madeira usually avoids. But now, she’ll do anything to convince Grace of her sincerity.Reformed wild child Grace might owe Madeira her gratitude, but she doesn’t owe her anything e...
|  | Mommy, Mama, and Me
Release Date: June 9, 2009| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Rhythmic text and illustrations with universal appeal show a toddler spending the day with its mommies. From hide-and-seek to dress-up, then bath time and a kiss goodnight, there's no limit to what a loving family can do together.Shares the loving bond between same-sex parents and their children. ...
|  | Death Roll
Publication Date: January 1, 2000The crew of the Pollux are working hard in the Australian sun to prepare for the America's Cup. In shark-infested seas and in the heat of bitter rivalry, the last thing needed is a man in the water... ...
|  | The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image
Release Date: June 1, 1993"An indispensable source work for anyone interested in this very important development of religious ideas."—Marija Gimbutas.Ranges from the Paleolithic Age to the present-day Gaia Hypothesis. ...
|  | The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told - Acting Edition
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|  | 21st Century Chinese Poetry, No. 1: Bilingual Chinese-English
Publication Date: April 12, 2012These are unusual times. These poets are tale-tellers of their world. Their poems are for real people. Please enjoy with us the evolution and revolution of the making of modern Chinese poetry. The quarterly journal of 21st Century Chinese Poetry was founded with the intention of introducing modern Chinese poetry to readers worldwide. Modern Chinese poetry was born from the broader intellectual movement that took place in China in the early part of the 20th century, known as the May-Fourth Movement (1917-1921); for the first time in history, ve...
|  | Kalidasa's Trilogy
Publication Date: June 1, 2005Kalidasas Trilogy consists of three of Kalidasaspoetical works: Meghadootam, Kumarasambhavam, andRaghuvamsham. The book starts by introducing hisabove-mentioned works. Then the three storiesare presented, not as literal translation fromSanskrit, but as an adaptation in English prosehighlighting the beauty of Kalidasas poetry in everystep. Except for Meghadootam, which is an originaltale of a Yaksha pining for his wife and sendinga love message through a cloud, Kalidasa hasdrawn from older sources like Puranas and Ramayanafor his other works. Kumarasambhavam is a...
|  | Byromania and the Birth of Celebrity Culture (Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century)
Publication Date: April 9, 2009| Series: Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century Argues that Byron's popularity marked the beginning of celebrity as a cultural identity. ...
|  | Renaissance and Discovery
Publication Date: February 9, 2001| Series: History of the World Renaissance and Discovery, the fourth volume in Peter Bedrick Books’ comprehensive new History of the World series, highlights dramatic new discoveries and exploration that drastically altered the way people understood their world.Featuring Renaissance Italy, the Reformation, the New Science, and Britain’s Colonies, this book gives a detailed overview of this inspired period of discovery.This beautifully illustrated six-volume series introduces children in grades 4 to 8 to the important developments in world histo...
|  | Sunshine
Release Date: September 30, 2003“Sunshine” is what everyone calls her.She works long hours in her family’s coffeehouse, making her famous “Cinnamon Rolls as Big as Your Head,” Bitter Chocolate Death, Caramel Cataclysm, and other sugar-shock specials that keep the customers coming.She’s happy in her bakery—which her stepfather built specially for her—but sometimes she feels that she should have life outside the coffeehouse.One evening she drives out to the lake to get away from her family, to be alone.There hasn’t been any trouble at the lak...
|  | Jane Eyre (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Paragon Walk: A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel (Mortalis)
Release Date: May 26, 2009| Series: Mortalis In the posh London street of Paragon Walk, an unspeakable crime is committed: A young woman is brutally raped and murdered.Once again, that incomparable team of sleuths Inspector Thomas Pitt and his young wife, Charlotte, set themselves against a vicious murderer. As the elegant masks of the wellborn suspects slip, it becomes appallingly clear that something ugly lurks behind the handsome façades of Paragon Walk–something that may lead to more scandal, and more murder. ...
|  | A Fine Line: A Brady Coyne Novel
Publication Date: November 1, 2002| Series: Brady Coyne Novels Walt Duffy was a world-renowned ornithologist, outdoorsman, and nature photographer who spent his life traveling and taking some of the most highly regarded photographs of birds in their natural habitats. Until, that is, over a year ago, when a climbing accident left him paraplegic. Now he spends his time in the backyard of his brownstone in Boston, with only his dog and his teen-aged son Ethan for company.Brady Coyne, Walt's long-time friend and attorney, handles his routine legal affairs and is asked by Walt to deliver a set ...
|  | The Spanish Game: A Novel
Release Date: October 13, 2009Six years ago, after working for the British Secret Intelligence Service, Alec Milius got out of the spy game after being drummed out by MI6. His retirement came at unbearably great personal cost. But just because he’s walked away from the life, it doesn’t mean that that life has walked away from him.Now living in exile in Madrid, quietly and as far under the radar as possible, Milius keeps a constant eye out for the enemies he made, hoping to avoid any future involvement. Yet when a prominent Basque politician goes missing under susp...
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