"Nothing will stop a strong-minded young Inuit girl from learning how to read."Olemaun is eight and knows a lot of things. But she does not know how to read. She must travel to the outsiders' school t
Scholars of modern Italian history and literature examine the printed media there from unification with the annexation of Rome in 1870 to Italy's entry into World War I in 1914. They offer a wide arra
The Business of Plant Breeding is the result of a study on demand-led plant variety design for markets in Africa, sharing best practices from private and public sector breeding programs worldwide that
Schools acting alone cannot achieve the greatest possible improvement and transformation under the conditions that currently prevail. There is a growing appetite among senior leader
by Various This accessible, reasonably priced, quarterly anthology spotlights a cast of a dozen of today's most exciting cartoonists. Mome is quickly earning a reputation as one of the premiere litera
Barbie stars in an all new adventure!Barbie stars as Blair, a young girl from Gardania who wins a scholarship to the Princess Charm School. Blair feels out of place since she doesn't come from a royal
Through explanations of how exemplary coffee is produced (along with the actual brewing techniques used to create great coffee at home), this fully illustrated book will provide the reader with all of
The medievalists Spiegel and Nichols have provided English readers with a translation of a thought-provoking analysis of the historian Ernst Kantorowicz, author of the influential work The king's two
One hundred innovative and exciting recipes for the backyard griller--inspired by the live-fire and asador cooking traditions of Latin America and the authors' popular restaurant, Ox, in Portland, Ore
The Tales of Alvin Maker series continues in volume three, Prentice Alvin. Young Alvin returns to the town of his birth, and begins his apprenticeship with Makepeace Smith, committing seven years of h
A final installment of a trilogy that began with Rasputin's Daughter and The Kitchen Boy finds vengeance-seeking villager Pavel joining an underground group that assassinates the grand duke of Russia,
Lewis Shiner's stunning science fiction debutAfter theworld's governments collapsed, the corporations took control. Houston'sPulsystems has sent an expedition to the lost Martian colony of Frontera to
There were no charges. There was no trial. There will be no escape. Seventeen-year-old Becca Greenfield was snatched from her small hometown. She was thrown into a maximum-security prison and put on D
