Cambridge English Skills is a four level skills series for adults and young adult learners. Learners can develop the skills they need to read English confidently wherever they are - at home, at work,
Cambridge English Skills is a four level skills series for adults and young adult learners. Learners can develop the skills they need to read English confidently wherever they are - at home, at work,
Drum Workshop is proud to present Marco Minnemann, one of today's most exciting and talented young drum artists, in an exclusive music video taped live in Los Angeles, California. In addition to exten
Greg Rappleye’s Figured Dark is a collection of contemporary lyric and narrative poems, set in an American landscape, which takes as its implicit theme the journey of the soul from darkness into light
Jenny McPhee's critically acclaimed debut, The Center of Things, was hailed by O, The Oprah Magazine as "a smart novel of love, lust, and life's miraculous randomness." The New York Times Book Review
Through elegiac verse that honors her mother and tells of her own fraught childhood, Natasha Trethewey confronts the racial legacy of her native Deep South -- where one of the first black regiments, t
Let's Talk Second Edition is a fully revised edition of Let's Talk, the successful three-level speaking and listening course that takes students from a high-beginning to a high-intermediate level. New
This heavily illustrated manual provides a timely, in-depth review of the art of sniping in war and anti-terrorist environments. Drawing on a vast, firsthand knowledge of sniper skills, former B
In this affecting, perceptive novel, Rachel Kadish reflects on the ghosts of the past, the tensions of war, and the difficult bonds of family. When Maya enrolls at Hebrew University in Jerusalem
When the novel Brave New World first appeared in 1932, its shocking analysis of a scientific dictatorship seemed a projection into the remote future. Here, in one of the most important and fascinating
In a breathtaking adventure story, the paranoid and brilliant inventor Allie Fox takes his family to live in the Honduran jungle, determined to build a civilization better than the one they've left. F
Designed for beginning bassists who want to play the blues, this title makes a great companion to any starter bass method and the perfect complement to the author's Complete Electric Bass Method. Lear
A special commemorative edition of a classic text by one of the foremost experts on Arctic lands and peoples.In 1949 Helge Ingstad flew into Northern Alaska where the Nunamiut people, a caribou-hunti
The best-selling book that inspired the blockbuster movie"A story of courage ? in space, at NASA, and at the homes of those involved." ? Houston ChronicleA timeless tribute to the enduring American sp
Poetry. In THE LONG NIGHT OF FLYING, Sharon Olson's engaging first collection, the reader is taken on a journey into a world of vulnerability, incipience, and mystery. There is a textured richness in
Poetry. The poems of this new collection are concerned with the interplay of domestic life--its companionship, its fecundity, its losses--and manifestations of the abstract or, as she has put it, with
Poetry. Translated from the Turkish by Saliha Parker. The first book in English translation of works by this world famous Turkish essayist and poet. Enis Batur has been widely celebrated in his homela
Poetry. Murray Silverstein's first collection of poems revels in the inscrutable world, in the joy of words, and in the essential human task of carving those words to fit that world. Silverstein's lif
When Mr. Wani, a crocodile, hurries to get to a party, he quite literally runs into a number of other animals headed in the same direction, including sledding penguins, prickly hedgehogs, and helpful
In her second novel, The Autograph Man, Zadie Smith has set herself the unenviable task of following up a certain segment of recent literary history. Her first novel, the bestselling, award-laden and
Developed to complement the Middle/High School teaching guide, this student study guide was created as reproducible support for extension and self-directed study of A History of US: The New Nation. Ev
Developed to complement the Middle/High School teaching guide, this student study guide was created as reproducible support for extension and self-directed study of A History of US: Liberty for All. E
What is the condition of the suspect in a post-9/11 world? Do perpetual detention, ubiquitous surveillance cameras, and the legal apparatus of the USA Patriot Act target suspects accurately or genera
From the violence-drenched streets of Taxi Driver, to King of Comedy’s crazed celebrity stalker, to the urban warfare of Casino and Gangs of New York, Martin Scorsese’s films are definitive works that
Set in post-apartheid South Africa, J. M. Coetzee’s searing novel tells the story of David Lurie, a twice divorced, 52-year-old professor of communications and Romantic Poetry at Cape Technical Univer
A charming alphabet book, beautifully illustrated, by one of Canada's most renowned poets. Ideal for very young children, and for P. K. Page fans of all ages.But this isn't an ordinary alphabet book,
When Peter Parker was bitten by a radioactive spider, he became much more than the shy, introverted high school student he had always been! Now possessed of the proportionate strength, speed, and agi
Hoping to win the love of a voluptuous woman, a lonely olive grower inadvertently captures the heart of the narrator, a mule, who witnesses other zany occurrences of unrequited love and magic phenomen
Poetry. Asian American Studies. POETA EN SAN FRANCISCO is the winner of the highly prestigious James Laughlin Award for 2005, awarded annually from the Academy of American Poetry and the only prize fo
Full description pending manuscript from author. Will include what we know about his way of life, his sister/wife, his father, his physical stature, his religion, his empire, his tomb, and the mystery
Walid Bitar's poems read as if transmitted in softly staccato impulses from some remote time-warp in the tenth dimension. They crackle with the static of unique ciphers hurled over huge distances and
A companion to The RHS Treasure of Garden Verse, this anthology presents a selection of garden writing spanning the globe and the centuries. Writers from Francis Bacon to Thoreau, Jane Austen to Karel
Bianca Balducci, everybody’s favorite teenage amateur sleuth, is back on the case, and this time the resourceful Baltimorean has her hands more than full. On top of school (St. John’s), her two bicker
For women thirty-five and over who don't want to leave their chances to fate, relationship consultant Helena Rosenberg -- who got married in her forties -- offers a concrete program to help singles ma
Over the centuries, the Middle East has confounded the dreams of conquerors and peacemakers alike. In this classic work, Peter Mansfield follows the historic struggle of the region over the last two h
Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from h
Poetry. Native American Studies. "In a madcap grammar handbook about the love that lives inside a savage world, Merry Fortune holds the keys to the tender ode, the raw confession and the syntactically
A new novel by the acclaimed Hungarian writer explores life of a relationship, lingering in a languid moment between a woman and the man who intends to end their relationship. 15,000 first printing.
From Japan's first Nobel laureate for literature, three superb stories exploring the interplay between erotic fantasy and reality in a loner's mind. "He was not to do anything in bad taste, the woman
Poetry. Winner of the 2004 Three Oaks Fiction Prize, John Taylor is the author of five collections of stories and short prose, also known for his critical work on contemporary French literature. "This
