Time of the Giants

Expressive text and art tell the story of the life cycle of trees as it has never been told before --- in reverse.Here's a lyrical depiction of the...

DescriptionJohn Barth, a moderately successful novelist just turned sixty, decides to take a sail on Chesapeake Bay with his wife, but a tropical s...

Reducere. If there's one thing Beatrice Stubbs hates more than weddings, it's wedding planning. So when a missing persons' case in Finland offers a chance of...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Cressida CowellFrom the bestselling author of How to Train Your Dragon comes an exciting high-adventure series--set in a ma...

DescriptionThe life and times of the most important theological work of medieval ChristendomThomas Aquinas's Summa theologiae holds a unique place ...

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Reducere. Following in the footsteps of music history/biography texts such as the infamous Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk and Sex, Drugs...

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Reducere. Caldecott Honor artist Faith Ringgold takes readers on an unforgettable journey through the Harlem Renaissance.Lonnie and his uncle go back to Harl...

Reducere. DescriptionSpanning a baseball fan's life, this memoir explores hero worship, coming of age, and obsession. Paul Kocak grew up in Stamford, Connect...

Stella Adler was one of the most influential acting teachers of all time, a legendary force of nature whose generations of students include Marlon ...

Reducere. This is an intensely readable look at the Christian Church down the ages, providing powerful messages for our own times. Many church members know l...

Reducere. The history of North Carolina's Outer Banks is as ancient and mesmerizing as its beaches. Much has been documented, but many stories were lost--unt...

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DescriptionFor almost fifty years, the Cleveland Indians were a joke. They had won the 1948 World Series with one of the greatest teams of all time...

DescriptionThe definitive biography of the NFL's most enigmatic, controversial, and yet successful coach Bill Belichick is perhaps the most fascina...

Reducere. My true wife and the best friend I ever had, " wrote Ted Hughes after Assia Wevill's 1969 suicide. Long seen as the woman who lured Hughes away fro...

An informative business series that explores the world's biggest businesses of today and the giants of the future.

We come from dust, and to dust we return...Earth is steady. Solid. Reliable. It is the source of life and the thing which sustains it. But it's not...

Description"She sees, coming up a second time, earth from the ocean, eternally green;the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them, over the mou...

Reducere. An exploration of the many forms of the ancient myth of the Wild Hunt and its influence in pagan and early Christian Europe - Recounts the myriad v...

Reducere. A while back, Daniel Mackmain's life took an unexpected turn. Now the Green Man expects him to resolve clashes between those dwelling unseen in wil...

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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. The stories collected in The Dawn of the World were related by the Miwok elders after the first rains of the winter season, usually in the ceremoni...

DescriptionThe zany third book in the What the Ladybug Heard series, following our brave ladybug as she visits the zoo and foils a plan to steal th...

Reducere. At the conclusion of The Mark of Athena, Annabeth and Percy tumble into a pit leading straight to the Underworld. The other five demigods have to p...

Why there is no such thing as a free audience in today's attention economyThe internet was supposed to fragment audiences and make media monopolies...

Reducere. Aldous Huxley's stature as one of the giants of modern English prose and of social commentary in our time is confirmed in this gathering of his dis...

Reducere. DescriptionAll 16-year-old Khaidu ever wanted was her own hunting eagle. Her ten brothers laugh at her. The rule-bound world of the Gumiren nomads ...

Iceland has never been so hot. Let The Rough Guide to Iceland be your companion on your trip to this unspoiled country -- from the party capital, R...

Reducere. Giant Walls Will Come Tumbling Down. In this second companion volume to Joshua Valiant, the story of the conquest of the Promised Land of Canaan co...

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Reducere. A humorous, candid and insightful memoir of Hayhurst's rookie season in the majors. . .Grade: Home Run. --Cleveland Plain Dealer After six years in...

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Reducere. The Wergens: a highly sophisticated alien race biochemically infatuated with humans. They crave us, they need us, while we need their technology.Hu...

Reducere. How do we build our sons to be tough but not arrogant? mannered but not soft? imaginative but not lazy? bold but not hollow? Future Men is a Christ...

Reducere. The sagas of the ancient Narts are to the Caucasus what Greek mythology is to Western civilization. This book presents, for the first time in the W...

'One of the greatest writers of our time.' Toni Morrison 'You Don't Know Us Negroes adds immeasurably to our understanding of Hurston ... her words...

Reducere. NATIONAL BESTSELLER The definitive full-scale portrait of J. Pierpont Morgan's tumultuous life, both in and out of the public eye History has remem...

DescriptionIn the midst of a bloody battle between giants, Asgardian gods, and humans, deceit and betrayal run wild. One warrior must fight to disc...

The man known as Blutch is one of the giants of contemporary comics, and Peplum may be his masterpiece: a grand, strange dream of ancient Rome. At ...

Walkley Award-winning journalist, Sharri Markson is the Investigations Editor at The Australian and host of prime-time show Sharri on Sky News Aust...

Take charge of your career and create a life full of learning, adventure, joy, and success utilizing these never-before-shared leadership principle...

Reducere. Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers. She has been called -an American virtuoso of the short story form- (Salon) and -on...

Reducere. If you're looking for a big dog with an even bigger heart, the Great Pyrenees may be the dog for you These gentle giants are fiercely loyal to thei...

Reducere. "Kings Dethroned" is a history of the evolution of astronomy from the Roman Empire to the early twentieth century. From Copernicus to Einstein, thi...

Reducere. Long the obscure "Tibet of South America, " Bolivia emerged as a world flashpoint during the four years William Powers lived there as an aid worker...

Reducere. DescriptionA fantasy masterpiece from a five-time Hugo Award winner A war-dragon of Babel crashes in the idyllic fields of a post-industrialized Fa...

Reducere. The well known and acclaimed work of Dr. Joseph Lumpkin has been enlarged to include new research on the Books of Enoch, Fallen Angels, the Watcher...

Reducere. THEY MUST RISK IT ALL TO REGAIN THEIR FREEDOM ... OR BE SEALED AWAY FOREVER.Sophia Freeman and her best friend, Tim Charnal, must beat all contesta...

Reducere. As a software engineer, you recognize at some point that there's much more to your career than dealing with code. Is it time to become a manager? T...

Reducere. 365 mystical daily quotes from Neville Goddard. All quotes are from several of his 10 books.A sample quote - January 1st - In the Book of Numbers y...

Adrienne von Speyr, a renowned mystic and spiritual writer from Switzerland, was received into the Catholic Church at the age of 38 on the Feast of...

Reducere. REVELATIONS ABOUT A BLOCKBUSTER DISCOVERY -- SCIENCE BE DAMNED OUR PLANET IS HOLLOW AND LIFE EXISTS AT THE EARTH'S CENTER AND THROUGHOUT A VAST TUN...

The 1954 Cleveland Indians were one of the most remarkable baseball teams of all time. Their record for most wins (111) fell only when the baseball...

Reducere. DescriptionShift happens. It's time for Plan D. Long gone are the good old days where a sudden market shift was tempered -- even held back -- by re...

Reducere. "Makes a reader feel like a time traveler plopped down among men who were by turns vicious and visionary." The Christian Science Monitor The modern...

Important essays from one of the giants of literary criticism, including a dozen published here in English for the first timeErich Auerbach (1892-1...

Reducere. Goliath. You know the story. But why is it in the Bible? Is it just to give us a little moral pick-me-up as we seek to emulate a small shepherd boy...

Reducere. Inch by inch, day by day, Scott Carey is getting smaller. Once an unremarkable husband and father, Scott finds himself shrinking with no end in sig...

Reducere. When Father Time is depending on you to save his butt, you don't ask questions.Thankfully Paris Beaufont has had her questions answered.She finally...

The Soviet T-35A is the only five-turreted tank in history to enter production. With a long and proud service history on Soviet parade grounds, the...

Reducere. This outstanding book treating the three most beloved composers of the Vienna School is basic to any study of Classical-era music. Drawing on his r...

Reducere. Joseph Pearce has firmly established himself as the premiere literary biographer of our time, especially in interpreting the spiritual depths of th...

Who would have thought that an acting career that began as a teenage star in the Annette"" series on the ""The Mickey Mouse Club, "" Walt Disney's ...

In this riveting collection, available for the first time in paperback, we follow Harry S. Truman and Dean Acheson, two giants of the post-World Wa...

Reducere. Clocks and trains, telegraphs and colonial conquest: the challenges of the late nineteenth century were an indispensable real-world background to t...