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Reducere. Voices from Ancient Greece: Sources for Greek History, Society, and Culture provides students with an engaging exploration of one of the most influ...

Analysing dozens of key animated films, the book examines the emergence of new genres and stylistic approaches, as well as the ongoing blurring of ...

Gulson and Webb show how school choice can represent and manifest the hopes and fears, contestations and settlements of contemporary racial biopoli...

DescriptionA treacherous murder in northern England on an early spring day in 1016 is used to introduce readers to the world of the aristocratic me...

The New White Race traces the development of the press in Algeria between 1860 and 1914, examining the particular role of journalists in shaping th...

Reducere. Award NamePulitzer PrizeAward categoryGeneral NonfictionDescriptionDrawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and illustrated with dozens of aston...

Reducere. The Plant Healer's Path is the first of two volumes by Jesse Wolf Hardin, cofounder of Plant Healer Magazine, with enchanting tales, medicinal plan...

From a major British political thinker and activist, a passionate case that both the left and right have lost their faith in ordinary people and mu...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: John H. TaylorThe Book of the Dead is not a single text but a compilation of spells that the ancient Egyptians believed wou...

Reducere. The book of Psalms has been precious to countless people in many languages and countries over many centuries. It has expressed their hopes and fear...

Reducere. What we eat, where it is from, and how it is produced are vital questions in today's America. We think seriously about food because it is freighted...

Reducere. For a half-century, The Paris Review has published writing and interviews from the world's most brilliant authors. To commemorate the anniversary, ...

DescriptionGaelic Scotland is one of the world's great treasure-houses of song. In this anthology, Anne Lorne Gillies has gathered together music a...

Reducere. Give God 40 DaysIf you take a moment to think about all God has told each believer to do, it is almost overwhelming: "Go into all the world and pre...

Children are the future. Or so we like to tell ourselves. In the wake of the Second World War, Americans took this notion to heart. Confronted by b...

Reducere. The definitive biography of a larger-than-life president who defied norms, divided a nation, and changed Washington forever Andrew Jackson, his int...

Most of us want and expect medicine's miracles to extend our lives. In today's aging society, however, the line between life-giving therapies and t...

Contributor(s): Author: Laurent DuBoisThe first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brutally explo...

Reducere. The Crusader tells the fascinating life story of Pat Buchanan, the three-time presidential candidate, Nixon confidant, White House communications d...

Reducere. Sex, or the Unbearable is a dialogue between Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman, two of our leading theorists of sexuality, politics, and culture. In j...

Reducere. CAN A HUMAN BOY SAVE EARTH FROM AN ALIEN INVASION?Things are looking dire for Ben Archer.From his jail cell on an alien warship Ben watches, helple...

Progressives in America is both a historical and critical look of American progressivism. The recent emergence of several presidential candidates i...

Reducere. DescriptionLong before we began to speak of "public intellectuals, " the ideas of "the public" and "the intellectual" raised consternation among ma...

Reducere. In Sisterlocking Discoarse, hair is a medium for reflecting on how academic leadership looks, performs, and changes when embodied by a Black woman....

Werner G. Jeanrond approaches hope from the perspective of a theology of love. He distinguishes human hopes from the hope which God has given to hu...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction explores the relationship between the ideas and themes of American science fiction and their ro...

Reducere. A young man stained by his father's failures. A sword of ancient power. A legend rises.Kion Bray can't accept his father was a coward. Bullied for ...

Reducere. Emmel Zealous is a young girl with sass and talent who also suffers from an anxiety disorder. Like most children her age, Emmel is a dreamer. She h...

Reducere. During the Cold War, the United States conducted atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons in the Marshall Islands of the Pacific. The total explosive y...

We go through this life doing our best to uncover the secrets to happiness and success. We go through this life searching for the truths that will ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Serene ConneeleyWith: Lucy CavendishFrom the authors of The Book of Faery Magic comes an enchanting new adventure into the ...

Reducere. As you prepare to become a mother, you face an experience unlike any other in your life. Having a baby will redirect your preferences and pleasures...

Reducere. This is the story of how an extra-ordinary individual, born in Israel and raised in Brooklyn, made over 150 millionnaires by building the billion-d...

Reducere. In the past decade Pakistan has become a country of immense importance to its region, the United States, and the world. With almost 200 million peo...

Reducere. When the biggest army ever raised by Rome is annihilated in battle, seven people's lives are upturned. Their fates intertwine as they face the dang...

Reducere. For decades Black women have inherited a code of conduct that has ultimately required us to project an image of strength and heroism minus any real...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ruth Ann Musick" West Virginia boasts an unusually rich heritage of ghost tales. Originally West Virginians told these hund...

Reducere. Pioneer Women provides a rare look at frontier life through the eyes of the pioneer women who settled the American West. Linda Peavy and Ursula Smi...

Reducere. An SF classic from the author of Ender's Game.Kidnapped at an early age, the young singer Ansset has been raised in isolation at the mystical retre...

In this book, award-winning educator Kieran Egan shows how we can transform the experience of K-12 students and help them become more knowledgeable...

Reducere. One dream symbol can reveal the meaning of an entire life-transforming dream. This dream dictionary unlocks the power of dream symbols with tips, t...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Dark Goddess is fearsome, lustful, unpredictable, dispassionate, cruel, and often deadly. She is Mother Nature without mercy. She is...

In "Evolution as a Religion", Mary Midgley examines how science comes to be used as a substitute for religion and points out how badly that role di...

Reducere. Art history student Darcey Mendes needs a new topic for her thesis in order to graduate, but time is against her. Family debts are pressing. She fe...

Reducere. Merit Award, 2007 World Guild Christian Living Book Praying is an action. Praying is an action that is of the essence of Christian existence. It in...

Reducere. What do pure mathematicians do, and why do they do it? Looking beyond the conventional answers--for the sake of truth, beauty, and practical applic...

Reducere. Upon receiving his execution date, one of the thousands of men living on death row in the United States had an epiphany: "All there ever is, is thi...

Reducere. The Diary of Anne Frank is one of the best-selling books of all time and her tragic story continues to move us more then 70 years after her death. ...

Reducere. Lonely people trapped in webs of their own design, seeking hope, love, forgiveness, validation... Five stories reveal the innermost hopes and fears...

Reducere. DescriptionRichard Rose was an unlikely Zen master: A rugged, plainspoken, ornery West Virginian, he scraped out a living raising goats, planting c...

Reducere. "The chatty informal rhythms and the mix of everyday detail with the universals make this picture book a great family read-aloud." --Booklist"Dawud...

Reducere. In 1944 Italian officer Captain Francesco Verdi is captured by Allied forces in North Africa and shipped to a POW camp in Michigan's Upper Peninsul...

After living for more than two decades in the Middle East, pastor, author and college Arabic instructor Mike Kuhn wonders if there can be a fresh v...

Reducere. A twisted serial killer. A deadly game of cat and mouse. Can DI Ruth Hunter catch a crazed psychopath who seems intent on destroying her life?DI Ru...

A revised edition of the definitive history of the 1973 Arab-Israeli conflict--including new information previously subject to military censorship-...

Marvel comics are the nearest thing modernity has produced to a holy epic, a blockbusting, record-shattering pop-cultural cosmology that echoes our...

Reducere. Marti MacAlister, Eleanor Taylor Bland's popular African-American heroine, is forced to confront some extremely personal demons from long ago-her h...

Reducere. After being married twice and becoming a widow, Lynette, the loneliest woman in a small Texas town, began to search the internet for "Mr. Right." A...

With each sunrise, a new day begins.For most of us though, that new day brings with it the same reality that we left behind yesterday. The same hop...

Reducere. Imagine that, on the night before she is to die under the blade of the guillotine, Marie Antoinette leaves behind in her prison cell a diary tellin...

DescriptionA prayerful guidebook and spiritual resource for the modern-day Nana Grandmothers, with their lifetime of experience, have more wisdom t...

Reducere. Here is the absorbing story of twenty-two men who gather every fall to painstakingly reenact what ESPN called "the most shocking play in NFL histor...

Reducere. A new year brings new challenges ... and the chance to make a dream come true.Melinda hopes to spend January by the fireplace, paging through the s...

Reducere. Walk A Little Slower: A Collection of Poems and Other Words is a book of hope, honesty, and joy by Tanner Olson. This collection of more than 60 po...

Alice, a young woman prone to intuitive insights and loyalty to the only family she has ever known, leaves England for the rigid colony of the Mass...

Reducere. "This original haunted house tale, with a unique plot and compellingly vivid characters, moves from uneasy to creepy to all-out 'keep the lights on...

Reducere. A return trip to the land of his ancestors is about to turn deadly for one whistleblowing Chicago banker.When financial executive Bob Vanags takes ...

Reducere. Fresh, inclusive, creation-conscious prayers to nourish your soul--and the soul of your worship community."We are called to name the extravagant wi...

Jessica has just faced her greatest fears - her most dangerous enemy - and won! Surely everything is smooth sailing from here? Nope! Instead she fi...