Detroit is frequently viewed as a city where hope has been lost, government is totally dysfunctional, and the infrastructure is beyond repair. For far too many people around the world, the Motor City
"Now even very young readers can experience Larry the lovable pup's adventures! These board books are inspired by best-selling titles in the popular Larry Gets Lost series. Toddlers will tour the city
"Now even very young readers can experience Larry the lovable pup's adventures! These board books are inspired by best-selling titles in the popular Larry Gets Lost series. Toddlers will tour the city
Following on the heels of the regional best-selling Larry Gets Lost in Portland (over 8,000 copies sold) comes this modern and colorful ABC for the children, families, and visitors of Portland, OR.
From Kadir Nelson, winner of the Caldecott Honor and the Coretta Scott King Author and Illustrator Awards, comes a transcendent picture book in the tradition of Margaret Wise Brown about a lost little
"Will was pretty much the perfect role model." ? Beth Ditto, The GossipIn the spring of 2010, Toronto lost one of its most important queer civic heroes when local artist, DJ, activist, impresario, pro
When nine-tenths of the world died horrifically, Robert Stokes lost everything, including his wife and his son. The world about him gradually descended into a second Dark Age, and the former policeman
The New York Times bestselling novel is now in trade paperback for the first time. Meet the Pratt clas. Driven men. Determined women. Through six turbulent generations, they would pursue a lost Paul
The Taiping Rebellion was one of the costliest civil wars in human history. Tens of millions of people lost their lives, as Chinese rebels, imperial armies, and local militias clashed across the Yangz
A superhero survival story that boldly explores the dark crevices of an entire genre.WE LOST. THEY WON. In the wake of an apocalyptic alien invasion, the world’s greatest super-heroes and deadliest su
Lost in the Bayou...Selene has always had three great passions: men, food . . . and Gone With the Wind. Still, the glamorous model always seems to be starving for both nourishment and affection. Weary
David Hatcher Childress, popular Lost Cities author and star of the History Channel's long-running show Ancient Aliens, takes us to the mysterious ruins in the mountains of Peru and Bolivia in search
Sometimes the best gifts are those that were once lost—and are rediscovered… Lucy and Charlie’s relationship has been on the rocks. With the newfound confidence that comes with her nursing career, Luc
The casualty numbers are simply staggering – 55,573 airmen who served with RAF Bomber Command during the Second World War lost their lives in the fight against Nazism. A further 9,838 airmen became pr
Describes the 1849 journey by Heinrich Barth into the unexplored Islamic regions of North and Central Africa, detailing the discoveries he made as he traveled 10,000 miles over five years, lost most o
Andy Warhol’s iconic portraits of Elizabeth Taylor are images that have lost none of their explosive power in the decades that separate the present from the moment of their making. Frequently hailed a
Just as Frank Sinatra had an additional and invaluable career as the great preservationist and evangelist of the American popular song (with particular focus on the Lost and Found), so author-actor-si
Just as Frank Sinatra had an additional and invaluable career as the great preservationist and evangelist of the American popular song (with particular focus on the Lost and Found), so author-actor-si
Photojournalist Dan Eldon left behind much more than the astonishing illustrated journals that would form The Journey is the Destination when he lost his life at age twenty-two while on assignment in
Essentially the start of Dazai's career, Schoolgirl gained notoriety for its ironic and inventive use of language. Now it illuminates the prevalent social structures of a lost time, as well as the str
A lost classic by one of the 19th century's most prominent writers of ghost stories and suspense novels?The Wylders and the Brandons share a history of intermarriage, bitter rivalry, villainy, and mad
F. G. Welcker's attempt, first published in two volumes in 1835 and 1849, to recover the lost epics of the archaic period, and the conditions of their performance and transmission. If his adventurous
These fine poems are connected by—and evoke—the music of lost homelands. Paegle, the daughter of immigrants from Argentina and Latvia, takes us through the tumult of displacement and migration with a
Today’s students can feel lost in the abundance of information that is made available to them through the Internet. This crucial book arms students with the right tools to determine which online sourc
Emanating from the cramped bowels of a dimly lit station—the demented dreamchild of hip, melancholy host Joaquin—Ghost Radio is a sanctuary for sleepless denizens of the night lost halfw
An updated explanation of the methodology for how lost profits should be measured Now fully revised and updated, focused on commercial litigation and the many common types of cases, this is the only
The Red Velvet Forest is a sequence of poems exploring themes of silence and solitude, dream and forest. The poems are organized into three sections, titled, The Circumference, Lost, and Red Velvet Fo
The monuments of South Carolina bear on their weathered faces and cracked tablets a history of honor and of memory embodied in stone. Whether revealing the lost graves of Southern sons, unveiling the
Memories of lost pirates' treasure, daring rescues off the coast and prowling German U-boats linger amidst the dunes and sea grass of Rehoboth Beach. From modest beginnings as a religious retreat, the
After discovering the missing half of an ancient amulet, SpongeBob and his friends find themselves in the lost city of Atlantis. There SpongeBob and Patrick take a picture with the World's Oldest Livi
Much existing commentary on China in Africa focuses on the vested interests of the West while the voices of independent African analysts and activists have been lost. In a unique collection of essays,
At a critical time when habitat is increasingly being lost/fragmented, a Canadian ecologist fills a gap in the literature on the requirements of birds normally found in Ontario. Following the order an
Winner of the 2006 Oklahoma book awards, this work contains dramatic events of the creation of a people, interwoven with a haunting narrative of their lost homelands. It takes readers through the chao
In conventional books of history, the Confederacy lost in battle to the superior numbers and resources of the Union. This is not one of those conventional books. Robinson (history, U. of Virginia) die
AMERICA STRIKES BACK!After Pearl Harbor, America seemed to have lost the war before it had begun. Allied forces were being beaten across the Pacific by the Japanese military juggernaut, and morale wa
Nobody likes the doctrine of hell so a far more comfortable option has been redeveloped and supported in recent years: Annhilationism, the idea that the lost are destroyed rather than suffer endless p
There is an important question lost in the debate over the number of jobs created or destroyed by trade liberalization: as the dynamic American economy continues to change, with freer trade and techno
Has liberalism lost its way--or merely its voice? This book by one of the nation's most insightful, articulate, and powerful Democrats at last breaks the silence that has greeted the Republican Party
From Larry Millett, author of the award-winning Lost Twin Cities, comes this fascinating new book that explores the history of Minneapolis and St. Paul from the vantage point of their streets. "Becau
This book introduces the arts of Greece as they were executed between the death of Alexander and the Battle of Actium, when Greece finally lost her independence and Augustus assumed control of Mediter
