Filled with adventures and revelations and illustrated with delightful watercolour paintings, "The Last Island" is a beautifully written testament to the environment, friendship, and the endurance of
Now New England gardeners have their own version of the highly acclaimed Gardening Month by Month garden planners from Lone Pine Publishing. This book addresses the climate and growing conditions uniq
Who is the girl staring out of the old photograph? Every time Alyssa Dixon looks at it, even by accident, she finds herself on an Iowa farm in 1931. The past is nothing like Alyssas unhappy life her
Stardust Monuments spotlights the enduring efforts to memorialize and canonize the history and meaning of Hollywood and American film culture. In this engaging analysis, Alison Trope explores the tens
Discrimination against gays and lesbians extends from the highest echelons of the Catholic Church to the pews. For James Alison, a gay Catholic theologian, the key to moving beyond resentment is a rad
As the mental health reporter for the Boston Globe, Alison Bass's front-page reporting on conflicts of interest in medical research stunned readers, and her series on sexual misconduct among psychiat
Ohio Violence starts with scandal: the narrator leads the high school football coach into the cornfields, but as she promises, "nothing happened." In the fields, in the woods, in the dark water of Ohi
Simple text and illustrations tells about the importance of recycling, including reusing wrapping paper, bringing a reusable shopping bag to the market, and placing old newspapers and plastic bottles
Often described as "the better half" of the husband-and-wife team, the role of wife is sacred and wide-ranging.?The Wives' Book celebrates all the quirks, traditions, and achievements of wifehood, inc
Imagine finding a diary from 1986 and realizing the sixteen-year-old author was the object of desire for "real" vampires who lurked in her high school. Not blood-sucking, immortal vampires...these "v
You'll never look at laundry (or looped terry) again without envisioning an absorbent work of art.The Lost Art of Towel Origami, a fun and quirky art form, is revisited in stunning detail in the Towel
Yachtmaster for Sail and Power is a major reference book which has proved invaluable for the many sailors following the RYA Coastal Skipper/Yachtmaster Offshore course. Right up to date with new deve
A graphic novel follow-up to Fun Home depicts the author's mother as a voracious reader, music lover and passionate amateur actress who quietly suffers as the wife of a closeted gay artist and withdra
This work reflects sixteen hours of lectures delivered by the author at the 2009 St Flour summer school in probability. It provides a rapid introduction to a range of mathematical models that have th
From the text adventures of Zork, to the arcade game of Pac-Man, to the corridors of Doom, and on to the city streets of Grand Theft Auto IV, the maze has often been used as a space to trap and confus
From his early life in Nigeria to dashing Mr. Darcy to a mantelpiece groaning with awards from?The King's Speech?the first biography of one of our greatest actors ? From the moment Colin Firth took
