 | It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism
Publication Date: May 1, 2012 Acrimony and hyperpartisanship have seeped into every part of the political process. Congress is deadlocked and its approval ratings are at record lows. America’s two main political parties have given up their traditions of compromise, endangering our very system of constitutional democracy. And one of these parties has taken on the role of insurgent outlier; the Republicans have become ideologically extreme, scornful of compromise, and ardently opposed to the established social and economic policy regime. In It’s Even Worse Than It Looks, ...
 |  | The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)
Publication Date: June 17, 1996The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve.When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits.Yet the idea of biology as destiny dies hard, as witness the attention devoted to The Bell Curve, whose arguments are here so effectively anticipated and thoroughly undermined. In this edition, Stephen Jay Gould has written a substantial new introduction telling how and why he wrote the book and trac...
|  | Heart of Evil (Krewe of Hunters, Book 2)
Release Date: June 28, 2011| Series: Krewe of Hunters (Book 2) Emerging from the bayou like an apparition, Donegal Plantation is known for its unsurpassed dining, captivating atmosphere, haunting legends…and now a corpse swinging from the marble angel that marks its cemetery's most majestic vault. A corpse discovered in nearly the same situation as that of Marshall Donegal, the patriarch killed in a skirmish just before the Civil War.Desperate for help traditional criminologists could never provide, plantation heiress Ashley Donegal turns to an elite team of paranormal investigators...
|  | Horror Movie Freak
Publication Date: August 11, 2010You'll scream with delight while reading this fun and engaging book that discusses fright flicks all horror fans need to see to ascend to the level of a true Horror Freak —from classics (Dracula and Psycho) to modern movies (Drag Me to Hell) and lesser-known gems (Dog Soldiers). Movies are divided into various categories including Asian horror, beginners, homicidal slashers, supernatural thrillers, and zombie invasion. Features more than 130 movies, 250+ photos of movie stills and posters, and a chapter on remakes and reimaginings. The book also includes...
|  | Atlantis God: A Novel
Release Date: April 24, 2012Atlantis. The world’s mightiest empire. Its secrets have been lost to the ocean’s depths, but in this high-action race against the clock, marine archaeologist Jack Howard is about to find out that the gods of Atlantis live on—through a terrifying new evil. A lost Nazi bunker in a forest in Germany contains a dreadful secret. But is there a horrifying new dimension to the Nazis’ rule of terror? When Jack Howard, head of the International Maritime University, and his team of adventurers return to the lost island of Atlantis in the Bla...
|  | Rabelais and His World
Release Date: January 9, 2009This classic work by the Russian philosopher and literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin (1895–1975) examines popular humor and folk culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. One of the essential texts of a theorist who is rapidly becoming a major reference in contemporary thought, Rabelais and His World is essential reading for anyone interested in problems of language and text and in cultural interpretation. ...
|  | Hansel & Gretel: (A Derrydale Classic Fairy Tale)
Release Date: May 30, 1986A retelling of the tale of two children, lost in the woods, who came upon a gingerbread house inhabited by a wicked witch. ...
|  | Tickets for a Prayer Wheel (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
Publication Date: November 12, 2002| Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series Best known for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, her Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative on nature and eternity, Annie Dillard writes fiction and nonfiction, as well as poetry, that explore abstract and sensory phenomena, the role of the artist in society and the creative process. The poems gathered in Tickets for a Prayer Wheel, first published in 1974, show us that the concerns of the author have not changed since she was in her twenties. Hers is a poetry of fact -- of science and nature, eternity and time, and how we know what we kno...
|  | Animals, The
Publication Date: November 30, 1992Poems by Michio Mado, perhaps the foremost contemporary Japanese poet writing for children, are widely known and read throughout Japan. Now Her Majesty Empress Michiko has chosen and translated 20 of his poems about animals for this collection. Two-color illustrations. CC ...
|  | A Scrapbook for Sandy
Publication Date: December 1994| ISBN-10: 0969912102 | ISBN-13: 978-0969912101My husband was dying.In the hospital - for five weeks.His temperature was 105 degrees.He was receiving IntravenousAntibiotics.Day and night.Nothing was working.Doctors' medicineswere failing.Arthur and Excalibur, Abraham and Isaac, earlier pagansacrifices stood shadows in my mind as, dismal, I stared into a dyingfire one late winter afternoon.People die.I knew that.Only Icouldn't spare Sandy.Not just then - his face so noble, so kingly,so caring.I had to stop Fate.Somehow."Could I make him something?If I made i...
|  | Little Brown Brother: How the United States Purchased and Pacified the Philippine Islands at the Century's Turn
Publication Date: 2006A HISTORY BOOK CLUB EXCLUSIVE EDITION:FRANCIS PARKMAN PRIZE EDITION ...
|  | The Complete Letters of Constance Fenimore Woolson
Publication Date: August 5, 2012In recent years Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840–1894) has been fictionalized at least three times, perhaps most notably in Colm Tóibín’s award-winning work The Master, a novelization of the life of Woolson’s close friend Henry James. But Woolson was a literary star in her own right, publishing in the premier magazines of her day. She penned critically acclaimed novels, short stories, and poetry until her mysterious death in Venice at age fifty-three. Sharon Dean has recompiled, dated, and, in many cases,...
|  | Figures of the Text: Reading and Writing (Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages)
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|  | Fashion Faux Paw: A Dog Walker Mystery
Release Date: March 6, 2012| Series: Dog Walker Mystery (Book 6) It's Fashion Week in New York and Ellie's in charge of the dogs'modeling outfits that match their mommy-mdoels for a fashioncompetition. But before the first round closes, one of the designersdrops dead of anaphylactic shock, her Epipen useless because someone'semptied it.The victim's peanut allergy was well-known, so Ellie and her dog Rudymust comb through the brash designer's rivals, colleagues, and manyenemies to discover who was so desperate that she committed theultimate crime of fashion. ...
|  | Kordell Stewart (Sports Stars (Children's Press Paper))
Publication Date: September 1999| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Enchanted Adventures (Barbie) (Toddler Board Books)
Release Date: July 28, 2009| Age Level: 2 and up...
|  | Victor Lopez at The Alamo
Release Date: February 28, 2001| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up This informative historical novel for middle readers puts a human face on the infamous battle at the Alamo. ...
|  | Dora Duck Goes for a Swim (Squeaky Board Books)
Publication Date: February 1, 2012 ...
|  | Dolphins (Pebble Plus)
Publication Date: August 2004| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | The Bear and the People
Release Date: August 31, 2005| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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