When speaking of the units of foreign volunteers integrated into the German forces during World War II, the Waffen-SS automatically comes to mind. But, in absolute numbers, more foreigners served with
The perfect book for anyone who enjoys playing cards, either alone or with others. It includes 150 different solitaire games, along with puzzlers, ESP tests, and more.
On Becoming a Novelist contains the wisdom accumulated during John Gardner's distinguished twenty-year career as a fiction writer and creative writing teacher. With elegance, humor, and sophistication
Mysterious things begin to happen after Uncle Claude comes to stay with his sister's family. Is Uncle Claude a thief, an imposter, or just a dream weaver?
Mabel Barbee Lee has written a rousing tale of early days in Cripple Creek, Colorado. She speaks with authority because she arrived there as a child in 1892, and with wide-eyed wonder saw the whole pl
The play begins with Max and Charlotte, a couple whose marriage seems about to rupture. But nothing one sees on a stage is the real thing, and some things are less real than others. Charlotte is an ac
Merricat Blackwood lives on the family estate with her sister Constance and her uncle Julian. Not long ago there were seven Blackwoods—until a fatal dose of arsenic found its way into the sugar bowl o
Students need no prior knowledge of electricity to gain a broad and deep understanding with this book. Numerous easy-to-follow examples--illustrated with diagrams--demonstrate the operation and applic
A dollhouse filled with a ghostly light in the middle of the night and dolls that have moved from where she last left them lead Amy and her retarded sister to unravel the mystery surrounding grisly mu
" A brilliantly documented chronicle of young woman's long struggle with schizophrenia."-- Willard Gaylin, The New Republic"Sylvia Frumkin," highly intelligent youn
First published in 1895: Emile Durkheim’s masterful work on the nature and scope of sociology—now with a new introduction and improved translation by leading scholar Steven Lukes.The Rules of the Soci
With a preface written by the author especially for this edition, this is the complete collection of stories by Eudora Welty. Including the earlier collections A Curtain of Green, The Wide Net, The
What causes the aurora? What are the trade winds? Over 1,000 questions with comprehensive answers cover all types of weather phenomena. Enlightening, entertaining, and well-illustrated text for anyone
Lose weight sensibly, safely—and permanently. Dieting with natural foods is a great way to nourish your body, improve your general health and well-being, and become the slim, healthier, and more vigor
Matches anatomical information with surface forms and shows how anatomical knowledge can be used for selective emphasis as well as for realism in art, using drawings by masters and the author to clari
Concrete treatment of fundamental concepts and operations, equivalence, determinants, matrices with polynomial elements, and similarity and congruence. Each chapter has many excellent problems and opt
Detective stories should be examined from a literary point of view, with special attention to literary history and to materials and patterns from which the writers created their fictions. This book sh
A little boy must come to terms with being teased and ostracized because he’d rather read books, paint pictures, and tap-dance than participate in sports. “There is a good balance between the simple t
Travel gets us from one place to another—often with wonderful attendant enjoyment–but exploration makes us understand our travel, the places we travel to—and ourselves. The essays in this collection c
Here is a book filled with the sights and sounds of a people steeped in a background of fine old traditions. It is a charming account of Swedish customs that goes beyond their democratic monarchy, the
Thirteen-year-old Meg envies her sister Molly's beauty and popularity, and these feelings make it difficult for her to cope with Molly's illness and death.
Two novellas: the first, a parody of medieval knighthood told by a nun; the second, a fantasy about a nobleman bisected into his good and evil halves. “Bravura pieces... executed with brilliance and b
Best introduction to the topic — easily accessible to beginners. Extremely full in interpretation; very thorough in exposition of variants and unusual features, with reproductions of many inscriptions
Palladio (1508-80) combined classical restraint with constant inventiveness. In this study, Professor Ackerman sets Palladio in the context of his age - the Humanist era of Michelangelo and Raphael, T
Describes the discovery, nature, and potential of the atomic nucleus, with explanations of atomic structure and behavior, radioactivity, fission, and fusion.
What are the Navaho today? How do they live together and with other races? What is their philosophy of life? Both the general reader and the student will look to this authoritative study for the answe
Richards here offers anew the 1935 edition of his work (then entitled Science and Poetry) with commentary that reveals not only the development of his own criticism but also the ways in which the rela
With the ecological integrity of Yellowstone National Park in contention between developers and environmentalists, the events of its exploration and founding take on added interest. This Bison Books e
The central conceptual idea of the contemporary theory of general relativity -- or geometrodynamics -- is the identification of matter with the structure of space-time. No entities foreign to space-ti
Presents AIS as an art as much as a science. This book provides students with vocabulary they will need to succeed in the profession and ensures that they can communicate about accounting information
Includes 26 scenes which depict a Letterland character surrounded by objects beginning with the target sound. This children's alphabet book helps children in promoting phonemic awareness and vocabular
