 | Electoral Systems and Party Systems: A Study of Twenty-Seven Democracies, 1945-1990 (Comparative Politics)
Publication Date: September 7, 1995| ISBN-10: 0198280548 | ISBN-13: 978-0198280545The most fundamental element of representative democracy is the electoral system--translating citizens' votes into representatives' seats. Electoral systems are also the most practical and accessible instrument available to democratic reformers. This systematic and comprehensive study describes and classifies 70 electoral systems used by 27 democracies including those of Western Europe, the United States, Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, India, Israel, Japan, and New Zealand. Using comparative and statistical...
 |  | Walden Two
Publication Date: July 31, 2005| ISBN-10: 0872207781 | ISBN-13: 978-0872207783A reprint of the 1976 Macmillan edition. This fictional outline of a modern Utopia has been a centre of controversy ever since its publication in 1948. Set in the United States, it pictures a society in which human problems are solved by a scientific technology of human conduct. FROM THE PREFACE: It is now widely recognised that great changes must be made in the American way of life. Not only can we not face the rest of the world while consuming and polluting as we do, we cannot for long face ourselves while ac...
|  | This Present Darkness/Piercing the Darkness
Publication Date: October 1998These two blockbuster spiritual thrillers that changed Christian fiction forever have individually sold over 3.5 million copies--and now both are finally available together in one complete hardcover volume. Frank E. Peretti has been called "America's hottest Christian novelist" and is the author of several bestselling action-packed works. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition....
|  | The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Release Date: February 1, 2000On a six-mile hike on the Maine-New Hampshire branch of the Appalachian Trail, nine-year-old Trisha McFarland quickly tires of the constant bickering between her older brother, Pete, and her recently divorced mother. But when she wanders off by herself, and then tries to catch up by attempting a shortcut, she becomes lost in a wilderness maze full of peril and terror.As night falls, Trisha has only her ingenuity as a defense against the elements, and only her courage and faith to withstand her mounting fears. For solace she tunes her Walkman to broadcasts of B...
|  | Event: A Novel
Release Date: April 3, 2007The Event Group is the most secret organization in the United States, comprised of the nation's most brilliant individuals in the branches of science, philosophy, and the military. Led by the valiant Major Jack Collins, they are dedicated to uncovering the hidden truths behind the myths and legends propagated throughout world history--from underground agencies and conspiracy theories to extraterrestrial life and UFOs. And now that a new, unspeakable threat has been revealed, humanity's greatest hope for survival lies with Collins and his crew. This time, the G...
|  | Conan Volume 10: Iron Shadows in the Moon (Conan (Dark Horse Unnumbered))
Publication Date: May 17, 2011| Series: Conan (Dark Horse Unnumbered) On the run from the army of Turan, Conan and fellow fugitive Olivia hide out on a small island in the Vilayet Sea. They soon find themselves stalked by an unseen terror in the jungles and threatened by a group of pirates belonging to the Red Brotherhood, which is led by Conan's sworn enemy - Sergius of Koth! However, those may be the least of Conan's concerns, because when the moon rises on this island, the ruins of a lost civilization stir and an ancient, deadly curse awakens! ...
|  | The Threepenny Opera (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: December 18, 2007| ISBN-10: 0143105167 | ISBN-13: 978-0143105169Brutal, scandalous, perverted, yet humorous, hummable, and with a happy ending- Bertolt Brecht's revolutionary masterpiece The Threepenny Opera is a landmark of modern drama that has become embedded in the Western cultural imagination. Through the love story of Polly Peachum and "Mack the Knife" Macheath, the play satirizes the bourgeois of the Weimar Republic, revealing a society at the height of decadence and on the verge of chaos. Complemented with music by Kurt Weill, it was one of the earliest and most suc...
|  | Medieval Latin and the Rise of European Love-Lyric Hb (Oxford University Press academic monograph reprints)
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|  | Premodern Places: Calais to Surinam, Chaucer to Aphra Behn
Publication Date: May 16, 2006| ISBN-10: 1405151528 | ISBN-13: 978-1405151528This book recovers places appearing in the mental mapping of medieval and Renaissance writers, from Chaucer to Aphra Behn. A highly original work, which recovers the places that figure powerfully in premodern imagining. Recreates places that appear in the works of Langland, Chaucer, Dante, Petrarch, Spenser, Shakespeare, Aphra Behn, and many others. Begins with Calais – peopled by the English from 1347 to 1558 and ends with Surinam – traded for Manhattan by the English in 1667. Other particular locat...
|  | Phillis Wheatley and the Romantics
Publication Date: August 19, 2010Phillis Wheatley was the first African American to publish a book. Born in Gambia in 1753, she came to America aboard a slave ship, the Phillis. From an early age, Wheatley exhibited a profound gift for verse, publishing her first poem in 1767. Her tribute to a famed pastor, “On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield,” followed in 1770, catapulting her into the international spotlight, and publication of her 1773 Poems on Various Subjects Religious and Moral in London created her an international star. Despite the attention she received at th...
|  | Why the Humanities Matter: A Commonsense Approach
Publication Date: July 1, 2008Is there life after postmodernism? Many claim that it sounded the death knell for history, art, ideology, science, possibly all of Western philosophy, and certainly for the concept of reality itself. Responding to essential questions regarding whether the humanities can remain politically and academically relevant amid this twenty-first-century uncertainty, "Why the Humanities Matter" offers a guided tour of the modern condition, calling upon thinkers in a variety of disciplines to affirm essential concepts such as truth, goodness, and beauty.Offering a lens of ...
|  | The Patient Particulars: American Modernism and the Technique of Originality
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|  | The Sergeant Major's Daughter
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|  | A Grand Deception (Signet Regency Romance)
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|  | Essential Spider-Woman, Vol. 2 (Marvel Essentials) (v. 2)
Publication Date: August 8, 2007| Grade Level: 4 and up The first part of Spider-Woman's career concludes as her collection of challenges and crises is completed! Some of Marvel's most stupendous scribes set the heroine against Morgan le Fay, the Viper, Gypsy Moth and other fearsome foes, forgotten or otherwise! Plus: the first appearances of X-Factor's Siryn and X-Force's Caliban! But after tearing through a gauntlet of magicians, mad scientists, murder and mystery, what final fate awaits the webbed wonder? Guest-starring Spider-Man, the Hulk, the X-Men and the Werewolf! Collects Spider-Wom...
|  | Spider-Man Classic: Spider-Man and the Movie Mystery
Release Date: February 8, 2011| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Martial Arts Masters: Black Belt Warriors For Peace
Release Date: October 1, 2001This book will help teach young people such important values as courtesy, kindness, honesty, order, respect, and responsibility. It can also help parents, teachers, counselors, and school administrators who are looking for effective ways to help young people resolve conflict peacefully. ...
|  | The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Explained
Publication Date: October 1994Omar Khayyam's famous poem, The Rubaiyat, is loved by Westerners as a hymn of praise to sensual delights.In the East it is known as a deep allegory of the soul's romance with God.As for what his quatrains actually mean, most of them have remained a mystery in the East as much as in the West.Now after eight centuries, Paramhansa Yogananda, one of the great mystics of our times, a master of yoga and the author of the classic Autobiography of a Yogi, explains the mystery behind Omar's famous poem. This book contains the essence of great revelation. ...
|  | Wild Animals of the Serengeti Shape Stickers
Release Date: January 3, 2005| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Perfect for reward or recognition, each pack of these acid-free and lignin-free stickers includes 84 stickers, measuring 1" x 1" each! Available in a wide variety of colors and shapes, stickers are an essential addition to any teacher's desk! ...
|  | Lions (Animalways)
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