 | The Idiot (Vintage Classics)
Release Date: July 8, 2003| Series: Vintage Classics Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s masterful translation ofThe Idiot is destined to stand with their versions of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and Demons as the definitive Dostoevsky in English.After his great portrayal of a guilty man in Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky set out in The Idiot to portray a man of pure innocence. The twenty-six-year-old Prince Myshkin, following a stay of several years in a Swiss sanatorium, returns to Russia to collect an inheritance and “be among people.” Even befo...
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 | 500 Great Books by Women: A Reader's Guide
Release Date: December 1, 1994| ISBN-10: 0140175903 | ISBN-13: 978-0140175905A wealth of great women writers, from the likes of Charlotte Bronte+a5 to Toni Morrison, is clearly expressed with excerpts from their books to provide readers with a satisfying background on their views of art, growing old, growing up, and power....
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 | Analyzing Conversation: Rules and Units in the Structure of Talk (Language and Communication Library)
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 | The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany
Release Date: October 25, 2005In this stunning assemblage of words and images, novelist and avid birdwatcher Graeme Gibson has crafted an extraordinary tribute to the venerable relationship between humans and birds.Birds have ever been the symbols of our highest aspirations. As divine messengers, symbols of our yearning for the heavens, or avatars of glorious song and colour, they have stirred our imaginations from the moment we first looked into the sky. Whether as the Christian dove, or Quetzalcoatl—the Aztec Plumed Serpent—or in Plato’s vision of the human soul growin...
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 | The Yellow Elves
Publication Date: April 30, 2005The book “The Yellow Elves” is a short fable about good, hardworking people who arrive when someone is in need of assistance.The Yellow Elves never help those who wish others harm, who are lazy or who forget about their friends.From the Yellow Elves one can learn how to share and give of oneself without expecting anything in return.They fly quietly and unnoticed above our homes and are always ready to provide assistance. ...
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 | The New York Jets (Inside the NFL)
Publication Date: January 1996| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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 | How to Survive in the Desert (Tough Guides)
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 | Piggies 12 Days of Christmas
Release Date: September 4, 2001| Grade Level: P and up A hilarious board book featuring Howard Fine's quirky and lovable "piggies." ...
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 | Mountains Around the World (Geography Now!)
Publication Date: January 2009| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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| Cairo: Four Children and Their City (Printed Materials Only)(Welsh Version) (Welsh Edition)
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 | South Africa
Publication Date: September 1997| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up A basic overview of the history, geography, climate, and culture of South Africa. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
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 | Old Ironsides (Cornerstones of Freedom: Second)
Publication Date: March 1, 2009| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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 | Yankee Doodle America: The Spirit of 1776 from A to Z
Release Date: April 20, 2006| Age Level: 1 and up If you traveled the roads of colonial America, colorful hand-painted signs would greet you when you came across an inn or tavern, and inside, folks would be gathered to eagerly share the news of the day.Wendell Minor invites us on just such a journey through America in the days of its struggle for independence. Each striking illustration, painted on hand-carved replicas of these signs, introduces readers to the people, places and events that gave birth to our nation. Beginning with the Stamp Act that angered the patriots and inspired the "Son...
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 | Spelling Practice Book, Grade 1 (Trophies)
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 | Shofar That Lost Its Voice
Release Date: June 1, 1982As Avi searches for the reason his shofar will not work, he suddenly finds himself within it and discovers a magical world that teaches him the meaning of Rosh Hashanah. ...
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 | They Came to the Manger (Christianity)
Publication Date: October 1, 2010| Series: Christianity From the miracle at the manger in long ago Bethlehem, animals have long been associated with the Christmas story and with the joys of the season. Guideposts editors have collected more than 30 stories that will make you laugh, cry, smile, marvel, and remember each and every creature. Here are some of the stories included in this very special collection: A woman finds comfort and solace with her barnyard friends as she spends her first Christmas separated from her husband. A young army private and his buddies are miraculously saved by a ...
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 | How to Be a Monastic and Not Leave Your Day Job: An Invitation to Oblate Life (Voices from the Monastery)
Publication Date: February 1, 2006| Series: Voices from the Monastery Dorothy Day was an oblate while she lived in the heart of New York City. So was the French poet, Paul Claudel. Kathleen Norris is an oblate, and so was Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia, the first woman in Europe to earn a Ph.D. What connects them all? There are at least ten thousand oblates in the United States today (no one knows for sure how many), and each of them is connected in meaningful ways to a monastery or abbey. Most oblates are ordinary lay people from various Christian traditions. They are linked together by co...
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 | Breakthrough IT Change Management: How to Get Enduring Change Results
Publication Date: December 10, 2003| ISBN-10: 0750676868 | ISBN-13: 978-0750676861| Edition: 1 This is a *different* book on change management. Using commonsense and practical advice tested in their work with hundreds of organizations, the authors walk the reader through clear guidelines and checklists to implement change that works. Readers will develop a change management strategythat starts by diagnosing the current culture and organization, then prepares for change carefully,addresses resistance to change, develops the change strategy, measures results, builds momentum for further ch...
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 | The Conference Book (Building blocks of human potential series)
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 | Evolution of the Economic System in Japan
Publication Date: July 5, 2005The economic system of ‘high-growth-period’ Japan was characterized by various properties such as its unique banking system, industrial policy and lifetime employment. Juro Teranishi argues that since the ‘bubble period’ and the subsequent severe downturn of the economy during the 1990s, Japan’s economic system has been undergoing extensive changes. This book is informed by a historical evaluation of the ‘high-growth-period’ economic system in comparison with the preceding Meiji-Taisho economic system, set within a framework in...
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