 | Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writings of North America
Publication Date: September 17, 1998"A collection of important, eloquent, and often mesmerizing writings by American Indian Women. . . . A profoundly moving statement of resilience and renewal."—San Francisco ChronicleThis long-awaited anthology celebrates theexperience of Native American women and is atonce an important contribution to our literature and an historical document. It is the mostcomprehensive anthology of its kind to collectpoetry, fiction, prayer, and memoir from NativeAmerican women. Over eighty writers arerepresented from nearly fifty nations, including such nationall...
 |  | The Badlands Saloon: An Illustrated Novel
Release Date: July 14, 2009A one-of-a-kind, fully-illustrated debut novel about one rest- less and curious young man’s summer spent in a small North Dakota town—a meditation on a time in life when you don’t so much unfold the map as start to draw it. As written and painted by Jonathan Twingley, this beautifully illustrated semi-autobiographical novel is a paean to the America that Jack Kerouac explored and Joseph Mitchell and Walt Whitman celebrated. Set in a small town nestled in...
|  | Agamemnon: Being of the House of Atreus
Publication Date: September 1995| ISBN-10: 0887342884 | ISBN-13: 978-0887342882This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. --...
|  | Poetry Dictionary
Publication Date: December 15, 2005| ISBN-10: 1582973296 | ISBN-13: 978-1582973296| Edition: 2 The language of poetry is rich and complex—from abstract language to voice, with all the enjambment, Nashers and sprung rhythm in between. The Poetry Dictionary illuminates and unravels it all with clear, working definitions. In addition, you'll find vivid and thorough descriptions, along with examples from classic and contemporary poetry, Greek to avant-garde, to illustrate the terms. In many cases, several different poems are used to show the evolution of the form, making The Poetry Dict...
|  | Earthly Possessions
Release Date: August 27, 1996"To read a novel by Anne Tyler is to fall in love."PEOPLECharlotte Emory has always lived a quiet, conventional life in Clarion, Maryland. She lives as simply as possible, and one day decides to simplify everything and leave her husband. Her last trip to the bank throws Charlotte's life into an entirely different direction when a restless young man in a nylon jacket takes her hostage during the robbery--and soon the two are heading south into an unknown future, and a most unexpected fate....From the Paperback edition. ...
|  | There's a Skunk in My Bunk: Helping Children Learn Tolerance (Let's Talk)
Publication Date: December 2002| Age Level: 4 and up...
|  | Thanks, Mom
Publication Date: April 1, 2003| Grade Level: P and up It all begins with a small hungry mouse and one delicious piece of cheese.Mouse takes cheese until it runs into cat . . .Cat chases mouse until it runs into dog . . .Dog chases cat until it runs into . . .And yes, it is Mom who makes it turn out all right for that hungry little mouse.Thanks, Mom! ...
|  | The goodnight moon room (A Pop-up book)
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|  | My First Book of Reptiles and Amphibians (My First Book series)
Publication Date: November 1, 2008| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Qi Xiao Yun
Publication Date: March 22, 2011This is a very true story written about a very special little girl who grew up to be a famous Peking Opera Star.Not only that, she became famous for singing the star role of the bearded man!How did all of this happen.Little Miss Qi had a dream, and if you want to know how she made her dream come true, then read this book and find out.Sometimes children need to be inspired, especially when they feel like they just cant make things happen.The story of Qi Xiao Yun is inspiring because ts is the story of someone who beat what would appear to anyone else to be impo...
|  | The Will of the Empress (Circle Continues)
Publication Date: October 1, 2006| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up...
|  | Story Vine, The
Publication Date: June 1, 1984Throughout the world, nothing is so universally loved by young and old alike as a good story.And what makes a good story better is that something extra to embellish it - clever line drawings that follow the plot; a collection of nesting dolls, one for each character; a cat's cradle of string symbolizing the action.Here is the unusual collection of stories, each of which requires the storyteller to use string, nesting dolls, sand painting, drawings, or musical instruments.A piece of string can be manipulated into shapes to illustrate the story of an old weaver bo...
|  | Hazelwood V. Kuhlmeier And the School Newspaper Censorship Debate: Debating Supreme Court Decisions
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|  | Blessings and Prayers through the Year
Publication Date: August 21, 2007Blessings and Prayers through the Year is a beautiful hardcover book with a full-color interior and a ribbon to mark your page. It offers numerous prayers, blessings, and rituals for all of the occasions and needs that arise in school, parish, and family life. The book has a clear, easy-to-follow format and offers helpful background information and ideas for preparing for ritual and prayer. Included are 2 CDs, one with music and vocals to teach the songs and the other with musical accompaniment only. There are also music pages for teaching and playing in grou...
|  | Analysis of Financial Statements
Publication Date: September 20, 1999| Series: Analysis of Financial Statements Turn financial statements into powerful allies in your decision making Whether you're an investor, creditor, consultant, regulator, manager-or an employee concerned about your company's well-being and the stability of your job-the ability to successfully interpret and analyze financial statements gives you a leg up in today's rough-and-tumble marketplace. Analysis of Financial Statements, Fifth Edition, by Leopold A. Bernstein and John J. Wild, gives you every practical, up-to-date method for making the data in fi...
|  | Effective Proposal Writing (Response Books)
Release Date: October 6, 2006| ISBN-10: 0761935266 | ISBN-13: 978-0761935261This useful book demystifies a very important part of formal business practice writing a quality proposal. It helps the reader put together a comprehensive and professional document that will be taken seriously. Covering all elements that are crucial for writing an effective business proposal, the book also spells out when and under what conditions a proposal should be submitted, the information required, and the ethical business issues involved. Vasudev Murthy provides useful tips for producing a professional pr...
|  | Strong Medicine: Creating Incentives for Pharmaceutical Research on Neglected Diseases
Publication Date: September 7, 2004Millions of people in the third world die from diseases that are rare in the first world--diseases like malaria, tuberculosis, and schistosomiasis. AIDS, which is now usually treated in rich countries, still ravages the world's poor. Vaccines offer the best hope for controlling these diseases and could dramatically improve health in poor countries. But developers have little incentive to undertake the costly and risky research needed to develop vaccines. This is partly because the potential consumers are poor, but also because governments drive down prices....
|  | Working without a Net: A Study of Egocentric Epistemology
Publication Date: December 17, 1992| ISBN-10: 0195076990 | ISBN-13: 978-0195076998| Edition: 1St Edition In this new book, Foley defends an epistemology that takes seriously the perspectives of individual thinkers.He argues that having rational opinions is a matter of meeting our own internal standards rather than standards that are somehow imposed upon us from the outside.It is a matter of making ourselves invulnerable to intellectual self-criticism.Foley also shows how the theory of rational belief is part of a general theory of rationality.He thus avoids treating the rationality of be...
|  | The Coming of Age of Information Technologies and the Path of Transformational Growth: A long run perspective on the late 2000s recession (Routledge Advances in Heterodox Economics)
Publication Date: October 22, 2009| ISBN-10: 0415482682 | ISBN-13: 978-0415482684In this book, Davide Gualerzi employs the concept of transformational growth to explore the investment-driven cycle of expansion of the 1990s in the US economy, and of the of role played by the ICT sector. The book articulates a view of demand-led growth in which the focus is on effective demand, the composition of the growth process and the link between changing composition and expansion....
|  | Lehman Brothers' Dance with Delusion: Wrestling Wall Street
Publication Date: November 30, 2010Lehman's Dance with Delusion treads where no one has dared to go and chronicles the collapse of Lehman Brothers from an insider's point of view. It delves into the inner sanctums of Lehman's deep rooted risk-management problems that made it particularly vulnerable to the financial crisis. It is not a story of moral inadequacies, though these exist, rather it is a villain-driven narrative of how Lehman's senior management ignored the lessons from previous market crises--which led to its downfall. Beginning in the mid 1980s with Salomon Brothers' famed traini...
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