When the alien Mimics invade, Keiji Kiriya is just one of many recruits shoved into a suit of battle armor called a Jacket and sent out to kill. Keiji dies on the battlefield, only to be reborn each m...
What's it like to have the legal sanction to shoot and kill? This compelling and often startling book answers this, and many other questions about the oft-times violent world inhabited by our nation's...
From Shane to Kill Bill: Rethinking the Western is an original and compelling critical history of the American Western film. Provides an insightful overview of the American Western genre Covers the en...
When a maniacal killer terrorizes the city, dismembering his victims with careful precision, homicide detective Frank Quinn, facing his toughest case yet, is drawn into this psychopath's deadly game w...
Cambridge University Press in partnership with Discovery Education has developed next generation graded Readers that will inspire curiosity and motivate your students with high interest topics, embedd...
Sixteen-year-old John Wayne Cleaver has always known he's different, but not because he only has one friend (and doesn't much like him) and not because he regularly helps out in his mother's mortuary....
The last member of Operation Valkyrie - the daring July 20 1944 plot toassassinate Hitler - tells his remarkable story. 'It was not thequestion of an isolated assassination, but rather of beginning a ...
Gretchen and her stepbrother, Clark, dont always look forward to visiting their grandparents in Mud Town. Grandma Rose spends all her time baking, and Grandpa Eddie cant hear a thing. Plus, they live ...
We've all had them: from the idle and the incompetent, to the demanding and borderline psychopathic, to the weird and creepy, to the plain idiotic; anyone who has ever worked will have had a moment wh...
In How to Kill a Dragon Calvert Watkins follows the continuum of poetic formulae in Indo-European languages, from Old Hittite to medieval Irish. He uses the comparative method to reconstruct tradition...
All women want to kill their husbands some of the time "Where there's a will, I intend to be in it," wives half-joke to each other. Marriage, it would appear, is a fun-packed frivolous hobby, only occ...