The Story of the Human Body

DescriptionKoyomi Araragi is studying hard in preparation for his college entrance exams when he begins to notice something very strange: his refle...

"Dynamic and thought-provoking." -- KIRKUS Have you heard the one about the skull who borrowed body parts to pass himself off as a human so he coul...

DescriptionDetroit ex-cop August Snow takes up vigilante justice when his beloved neighborhood of Mexicantown is caught in the crosshairs of a huma...

DescriptionDilip da Cunha integrates history, art, cultural studies, hydrology, and geography to tell the story of how rivers have been culturally ...

Reducere. STANDARD B&W EDITION] Paul Naschy, a.k.a. Jacinto Molina, is renowned as Spain's number one icon of the horror genre. His love of the macabre began...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Olivia RosewoodViolet the Purple Fairy learns how to make Gratitude Soup by thinking of all the things, people, places, and...

Reducere. The journey of Lent--from Ash Wednesday to Easter--is traditionally one of prayer, repentance, spiritual discipline, and meditation. But coloring? ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Yvonne HowellAuthor: Arkady StrugatskyAuthor: Boris StrugatskyFor over a century, most of the science fiction produced by t...

A gripping story of spies, smugglers and brutal murder on the Kent coast of the eighteenth century, with protagonist Reverend Hardcastle set to hav...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Stephen MurrayWith: John McDonaldWith: Lee MartinStaying Strong is an immensely human story of how a working-class boy from...

A giant whale trapped in nets and ropes. Can she be helped? A humpback whale migrating south along the California coast becomes tangled in a fishin...

Reducere. In 1864 a U.S. army doctor dug up the remains of a Dakota man who had been killed in Minnesota. Carefully recording his observations, he sent the s...

This book will take you inside the human mind to understand the key aspects of breaking belief patterns and creating an unstoppable mindset. Kevin ...

Where did I come from? Why do I have two arms but just one head? How is my left leg the same size as my right one? Why are the fingerprints of iden...

Reducere. This is the story of hockey, one scar at a time. For the casual enthusiast and hockey fanatic alike comes a brilliant collection of essays and phot...

Juan has been a thief for many, many years. So many, in fact, that he can't even remember what it's like to be anything else. When he tries to stea...

Reducere. ``We find that the story of Abraham and Isaac rises almost spontaneously in the mind of one generation after another.... Constantly past and presen...

Reducere. In this poignant and startlingly original book, Brian Doyle examines the heart as a physical organ how it is supposed to work, how surgeons try to ...

Reducere. Deepens and refreshes our view of early Christianity while casting a disturbing light on the evolution of the attitudes passed down to us. How did ...

Reducere. Locke Jenkins has some catching up to do. After spending 260 years as a disembodied mind in a little black box, he has a perfect new body. But befo...

Living with the Stars tells the fascinating story of what truly makes the human body. The body that is with us all our lives is always changing. We...

Reducere. -A wonderful writer, Bill Hayes tells the multi-layered story of the two extraordinary young men who produced the most famous medical text of all t...

Reducere. "A stunning book...a brand new take on the monster story." --Eoin Colfer, international bestselling author of the Artemis Fowl seriesFrom award-win...

Reducere. The author of the "Twilight "series of # 1 bestsellers delivers her brilliant first novel for adults: a gripping story of love and betrayal in a fu...

Contributor(s): Author: Stefanos GeroulanosAuthor: Todd MeyersThe injuries suffered by soldiers during WWI were as varied as they were brutal. How ...

DescriptionIn today's highly charged social and political environment, we often don't know how to talk well with others--especially with people who...

Reducere. Hearts of Darkness is the story of a generation's coming of age through the experiences of its three most atypical pop stars. James Taylor, Jackson...

Reducere. The world the apostle Paul inhabited was dramatically different from our time. He knew nothing of capitalism, or physics, or Zoom, and more signifi...

Drama / Characters: 3m, 4f Pretty Theft is a play about ballerinas, boxes and the dangers of beauty. After losing her father, Allegra falls under t...

Reducere. "We are each the love of someone's life." So begins The Confessions of Max Tivoli, a heartbreaking love story with a narrator like no other.Born wi...

Reducere. Set around three thousand years before the rest of the Valdemar series, this is the ancient history of Velgarth and the story of Skandranon Rashkae...