Pani Ming, mądra, serdeczna kobieta, uwielbia opowiadać o dziesięciorgu swoich dzieci. Liczna rodzina zdaje się być jej całym światem. Główny bohater, przyjezdny z Europy, odwiedzający współczesne Chi...
Zwierzęta, ubrania, kwiaty, owoce i warzywa, środki transportu, potrawy, narzędzia to tylko wybrane rzeczy, które Maya Hanisch zilustrowała w swym oryginalnym i nowoczesnym stylu. Wspaniała pierwsza ...
Edinburgh, 1759. The Nor' Loch is being filled in. If you ask the soldiers there, they'll tell you it's a stinking cesspool that the city can do without. But that doesn't explain why the workers won't...
“The Faith requires all we have.” New York Times bestselling author Anthony Ryan returns to the Raven’s Shadow world in this prequel novella set ten years before the events in Blood Song. For decad...
Sawada Tsunayoshi is regular boy who has never excelled in sports, school or social life, thus being named "No Good Tsuna". Everyday, he leads just a normal life, living with his mother, while his fat...
The critically acclaimed author and poet brings his special talents to this warm story about a girl who tries to eat herself out of trouble when she loses her mother's diamond ring in the tamale batte...
In "One Economics, Many Recipes", leading economist Dani Rodrik argues that neither globalizers nor antiglobalizers have got it right. While economic globalization can be a boon for countries that are...
The thrilling new novel from the author of The Thorn Birds One day, onecity, twelve murders. The year is 1967 and the world teeters on the brinkof nuclear holocaust as the Cold War goes relentlessly o...
This comprehensive textbook utilizes Green's functions and the equations derived from them to solve real physical problems in solid-state theoretical physics. Green's functions are used to describe pr...
The Many Faces of RNA is the subject for the eighth SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals Research Symposia. It highlights a rapidly developing area of scientific investigation. The style and format are ...
Five words to strike fear into the hearts of spies and evildoers everywhere: Jamie Madrox, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Except that when Madrox decides it's time to start gathering in the stray dupes that ar...
Explains the basics of English grammar, including parts of speech, sentence structure, modifiers, clauses, idea coordination, and punctuation, and provides practice exercises.
Sound the Cosmic Horn! Georgia Nicolson's bestselling 8th book ofconfessions is now available in paperback! The original Sex God hasre-landed, Masimo the Italian Stallion wants to be her boyfriend, an...
Mama's away one night, and her son can't sleep. He tries to relax by counting stars, but the more of them he sees, the more determined he is to count every single one. Then the boy finds that Daddy ca...
* SIMPLE READING STYLE. Encourages high-beginning students. * THEME DEALING WITH CHOICES. Leads students to recognize universal truths of the human experience, through the study of topics such as winn...
Part of a series that aims to present timely, scholarly work on multiple levels of analysis, multi-level theory, research, and methods. The focus is on "critical essays", theoretical work, empirical s...
Considers the iconic singer-songwriter from 4 perspectives: his complicated relationship to blackness, the underrated influence of his singing style, his fascinating image in films, and his controvers...
A timely, searing, and unconventional romance from an urgent new voice in young adult fiction In one impulsive moment the summer before they leave for college, overachievers Scarlett and David plunge...
This best-selling text continues to offer a comprehensive introduction to the field of social work with a unique focus on the diverse groups to whom social workers provide services; including children...
Among economists' explanations are moral hazard, ill-judged capital adequacy rules and the incompetence of supervisors. Jean-Charles Rochet, a leading authority on banking, argues the real problem lie...
This broad and readable book makes use of 16 essays on great philosophers to explore and answer the question: What is philosophy?
When Charles O. Rossotti became Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service in 1997, the agency had the largest customer base'and the lowest approval rating'of any institution in America. Mired in sc...
This is a photographic history of the second half of the 20th century. The photographs cover areas as diverse as Western and Eastern Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia, and subjects as broad-rangin...