 | How's That Underling Thing Working Out for You? (Dilbert)
Release Date: November 29, 2011| Series: Dilbert For more than 20 years, Scott Adams's Dilbert has chronicled the problem-filled work world of pointless projects, questionable employment practices, and interoffice politics that eerily resemble our own 9-to-5 cubicle existence.In How's That Underling Thing Working Out for You?, Adams takes on the challenges of Elbonian sensitivity training, employee satisfaction surveys, confusopoly consultants, and more inside this new Dilbert book.If you agree that every indeterminable project has to have at least one WDG (Worthless Dumb Guy), or are subjec...
 |  | Walden : An Annotated Edition
Publication Date: September 19, 1995On July 4, 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved into the cabin he had built on the shore of Walden Pond. Now, on the 150th anniversary of that event, Houghton Mifflin is proud to publish an exceptional new edition of what is perhaps the most important book in our history as a publisher. Walden: An Annotated Edition features the definitive text of the book with extensive notes on Thoreau's life and times by the distinguished biographer and critic Walter Harding. In the third chapter, Thoreau writes, "How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the readin...
|  | A Mother of Sons: Poems of Love, Wisdom, & Dreams
Publication Date: March 1, 2004A Mother of Sons speaks to the heart of every mother who has loved a son. A mother will find comfort, inspiration and wisdom when reflecting on her relationship with the boy she treasures. This popular collection has been revised and updated as a gift edition. ...
|  | The Stratocaster: A Supernatural Tale of Rock n Roll and Redemption
Publication Date: December 8, 2010When Johnny Le Bleu’s father walked out of his life, it’s as if God did too. Johnny turns from his faith, and hungers to reach the pinnacle of the rock n’ roll world, regardless of the cost. Down an alley in San Francisco’s infamous Tenderloin District awaits a dark music shop. Behind its workbench sits a magical virtuoso riddled with leprosy. Because of his dreaded affliction, he is shunned by those who once came to hear him play the clubs of New Orleans. Now this musical Shaman performs vicariously through those he allows to pla...
|  | Alice & Henry: A Novel
Publication Date: January 20, 2010"How in the hell do you do that? Are you a witch?" I knew exactly how ridiculous that sounded and how rational at the same time. Darrin couldn't have said it better to Samantha.Alice's smile deepened and she demurely dropped her gaze. "I guess I'd have to know what you mean by that. There're so many misconceptions."***Alice & Henry is a magical tour through the landscape of a small Midwestern town where the past and present collide and the Afterlife is the one place where all can be understood.Henry Spears has died and finds himself unable to stop haunting t...
|  | I Dreamt I Was in Heaven - The Rampage of the Rufus Buck Gang
Publication Date: August 5, 2011Based on the shocking true story: In the waning days of Indian Territory, the multi-racial, teenaged Rufus Buck Gang embarked on a vicious, childish, and deadly 13-day rampage that shocked even this lawless place.Their goal was to take back Indian lands.Based on the true story, this is a tale of how real-life figures "Hanging Judge" Isaac C. Parker, notorious half-black, half-Indian outlaw Cherokee Bill, one-quarter Cherokee "gentlemen bandit" Henry Starr, relative of the notorious Belle Starr, and the worst of them all, half-black, half-Indian Rufus Buck, col...
|  | Pocket Kings
Publication Date: March 27, 2012In this dead-on satire of online obsessions, a novelist with writer’s block finds a new—and very lucrative—stream of income in a virtual world that appears to give him everything he lacks in the real world.When frank Dixon, a frustrated writer who has seen his career crash and burn, decides to dabble in online poker, he discovers he has a knack for winning. In this newfound realm, populated by alluring characters—each of them elusive, mysterious, and glamorous—he becomes a smash success: popular, rich, and loved. Going by the name...
|  | Brunswick Gardens: A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt Novels)
Release Date: July 26, 2011| Series: Charlotte & Thomas Pitt Novels In London’s affluent Brunswick Gardens, the battle over Charles Darwin’s revolutionary theory of evolution intensifies as the respected Reverend Parmenter is boldly challenged by his beautiful assistant, Unity Bellwood—a “new woman” whose feminism and aggressive Darwinism he finds appalling. When Unity, three months pregnant, tumbles down the staircase to her death, Superintendent Thomas Pitt is as certain as he can be that one of the three deeply devout men in the house committed murder. C...
|  | Greek Tragic Theatre (Theatre Production Studies)
Publication Date: October 21, 1994| ISBN-10: 0415118948 | ISBN-13: 978-0415118941| Edition: Reprint Emphasizing the political nature of Greek tragedy, as theatre of, by and for the polis, Rush Rehm characterizes Athens as a performance culture; one in which the theatre stood alongside other public forums as a place to confront matters of import. In treating the various social, religious and practical aspects of tragic production, he shows how these elements promoted a vision of the theatre as integral to the life of the city - a theatre focussed on the audience. ...
|  | The Essential Aeneid
Publication Date: March 30, 2006| ISBN-10: 0872207900 | ISBN-13: 978-0872207905Stanley Lombardo's deft abridgment of his 2005 translation of the Aeneid preserves the arc and weight of Virgil's epic by presenting major books in their entirety and abridged books in extended passages seamlessly fitted together with narrative bridges. W.R. Johnson's Introduction, a shortened version of his masterly Introduction to that translation, will be welcomed by both beginning and seasoned students of the Aeneid, and by students of Roman history, classical mythology, and Western civilization. ...
|  | A Concordance to the French Poetry and Prose of John Gower (Medieval Texts and Studies)
Publication Date: May 31, 1997| ISBN-10: 0870134744 | ISBN-13: 978-0870134746That the poet John Gower was a major literary figure in England at the close of the fourteenth century is no longer in question. Scholarly attention paid to him and to his work over the past twenty- five years has redeemed him from an undeserved obscurity imposed by the preceding two hundred. The facts of his life and career are now documented, and recent critical assessment has placed his achievement most accurately alongside Chaucer's, Langland's, and the Gawain- poet's. Unique a...
|  | Enterrement a Sabres (Poesie/Gallimard) (French Edition)
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|  | Anglo-Saxon Medicine (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England)
Publication Date: November 23, 2006| ISBN-10: 0521031222 | ISBN-13: 978-0521031226This is the first book to make a comprehensive study of Old English medical texts. Professor Cameron compares Anglo-Saxon medical practice with that of the Greeks and Romans from whom the Anglo-Saxons borrowed freely. He analyses the position of physicians in society, the conditions under which their patients lived and the effectiveness of their remedies. He examines the ingredients of Anglo-Saxon prescriptions, their therapeutic efficacy and availability. The role of magic in medicine is dealt with in dept...
|  | The Other Modernism: F. T. Marinetti's Futurist Fiction of Power
Publication Date: June 21, 1996Drawing on recent feminist and psychoanalytic criticism, Cinzia Sartini Blum provides the first analysis of the rhetoric, politics, and psychology of gender in the avant-garde writings of the Italian Futurist F.T. Marinetti. Her book explores the relations between the seemingly unrelated goals of Italian Futurism: technical revolution, espousal of violence, avowed misogyny, and rejection of literary tradition.Blum argues for the centrality of the rhetoric of gender in Marinetti's work. She also investigates a diverse array of his futurist textual practices that...
|  | Golden Mouth: The Story of John Chrysostom-Ascetic, Preacher, Bishop
Publication Date: November 5, 1998"No other author has delved so deeply into the life and work of this complex, influential, and tragic figure of the fourth century and produced such a far-ranging but precise, solidly researched, and eminently readable account. . . . Chrysostom emerges as a sympathetic and tragic figure of great integrity, whose human failings contributed and perhaps led to his downfall. . . . Kelly has used a careful analysis of many of John's writings and sermons to present new insights and to confirm details of Chrysostom's life previously considered doubtful; his comment...
|  | A Joyous Season
Release Date: October 1, 1996Four holiday hits from four of the genre's favorite authors! "Merry, Merry" by Fern Michaels features a veterinarian who figures her holidays are going to the dogs--until she meets a handsome stranger; in "A Vision of Sugar Plums" by Jennifer Blake, Meghan Castle is a real Scrooge about the holidays--until she discovers an abandoned baby in her store on Christmas Eve and a chance at romance; in Hannah Howell's "The Yuletide Gift", a young woman flees an arranged marriage and finds shelter and love in the home of a Scottish laird; and Olga Bico's "Naughty or Nice"...
|  | The Holcroft Covenant
Release Date: May 1, 1984The Fourth Reich is waiting to be born. The only man who can stop it is about to sign its birth certificate. In 1945 the children of the Third Reich were secretly hidden all over the world-to be concealed until the 1970's, when they would come of age. Then the most elaborate plans and $780 million in a Swiss bank would be waiting. There would even be an unsuspecting outsider to set the plan into action. that outsider is Noel Holcroft, the American son of a high-ranking Nazi. He's just been shown an amazing document, the Holcroft Covenant. If he signs, it will be his ...
|  | The Handle: A Parker Novel (Parker Novels)
Publication Date: August 15, 2009| Series: Parker Novels Parker, the ruthless antihero of Richard Stark’s eponymous mystery novels, is one of the most unforgettable characters in hardboiled noir. Lauded by critics for his taut realism, unapologetic amorality, and razor-sharp prose style—and adored by fans who turn each intoxicating page with increasing urgency—Stark is a master of crime writing, his books as influential as any in the genre. The University of Chicago Press has embarked on a project to return the early volumes of this seri...
|  | Anne Perry's Christmas Mysteries: Two Holiday Novels
Release Date: October 28, 2008Two holiday novels provide the perfect combination of mystery and murder mixed with a generous helping of Yuletide cheer.A CHRISTMAS GUESTWhen her daughter and son-in-law plan a Christmas vacation to Paris sans hers truly, Grandmama Mariah Ellison travels to the chilly, windswept Romney Marshes to spend the holiday with old friends. But when the body of a fellow guest is found lifeless in bed, Grandmama senses foul play and takes it upon herself to assume the role of amateur detective–uncovering startling truths about the victim . . . and herself as well....
|  | Free Fire: A Joe Pickett Novel
Release Date: May 6, 2008| Series: A Joe Pickett Novel Joe Pickett investigates the mass murder of a group of campers in a back-country corner of Yellowstone National Park. But not only has the killer gleefully confessed, he’s gotten off free. The reason is an absolute shocker—and absolutely believable. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
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