For undergraduate level World Civilization or World History courses. This comprehensive, accessible survey of world history has been extensively revised to provide an even more global and comparative perspective on the events and processes that have shaped our increasingly interdependent world. Written by leading scholars in their respective ...
What are the secrets of successful teams? Why do some teams achieve remarkable success while others fail or are consigned to mediocrity? To find the answers, Larson and LaFasto interviewed a wide range of teams, including the space shuttle Challenger investigation team and executive management teams, and discovered a surprising consistency in the ...
This anthology reflects the poet's growth as an artist from the earliest experimental verses that he began writing in the late 1940s, to the years before his accidental death at 40, when his poems became increasingly individual and reflective. It is a winner of the National Book Award for Poetry.
For undergraduate level World Civilization or World History courses. This comprehensive, accessible survey of world history has been extensively revised to provide an even more global and comparative perspective on the events and processes that have shaped our increasingly interdependent world. Written by leading scholars in their respective ...
Volume One: Birth of Civilization to 1700 Message: This highly visual, brief text provides and engaging overview of human civilization. The Teaching & Learning Classroom edition of the highly successful Heritage of World Civilizations, Seventh Edition, provides your students with the most help available in reading, thinking about, and applying ...
The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to ...
For undergraduate level World Civilization or World History courses. This comprehensive, accessible survey of world history has been extensively revised to provide an even more global and comparative perspective on the events and processes that have shaped our increasingly interdependent world. Written by leading scholars in their respective ...
Eliot was an influential critic; his criticism illuminated both the work of his literary predecessors and his own poetic aims. He fervently believed that it is essential for poets to reunite the two strands of human experience--rationality and emotion--which had, he felt, been dissociated in English poetry since the time of Donne and other 17th ...
This generous new selection by Mark Ford reflects all the phases and varied achievements of Frank OHaras tragically foreshortened career, including his drama, and is followed by an appendix of key prose texts.
'The Pacific War provides knowledge of what went on in Japan and in the conquered territories during World War ll in elaborate and sometimes terrifying detail. I believe that no one can really understand contemporary Japan and its policies unless he is acquainted with the grim Saburo lenaga presents.
For undergraduate level World Civilization or World History courses. This comprehensive, accessible survey of world history has been extensively revised to provide an even more global and comparative perspective on the events and processes that have shaped our increasingly interdependent world. Written by leading scholars in their respective ...
In addition to his classic detective novels, Raymond Chandler wrote a lot of letters--many of which manifested his famously trenchant, hardboiled insight. Edited by two Chandler biographers, THE RAYMOND CHANDLER PAPERS collects Chandler's pithiest letters, along with selected nonfiction pieces and some poetry (yes, poetry).
Nearly three million Americans live with rheumatoid arthritis. This year about 200,000 many in their 20s, 30s, and 40s - will learn they have the disease. Almost all of them can lead full, satisfying, and highly productive lives. But if you or someone close to you hasjust been diagnosed, you may feel overwhelmed with questions, fears, and ...
One of the most distinguished Judaic scholars of his time, Frank Moore Cross has devoted his life to understanding the textual legacies of the ancient Israelites, from archaic Hebrew poetry to the Bible, and was among the first scholars to collect and interpret the Dead Sea Scrolls. His 1973 book, Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic, is arguably the ...
A highly sexual thriller framed in a brilliantly visualised New York, JAKE AND MIMI is the story of a superbly accomplished pickup artist and a young woman, who's having doubts about her impending nuptials. Their combustible pairing shifts Jake's gears from pure sex to the nuances of love and Mimi's from pure love to the nuances of sex. But a ...
The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to ...
The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to ...
With 2003 marking the beginning of the Lewis and Clark expedition bicentennial celebration, this journal is now reissued in a beautiful new Penguin Classics package.
This unforgettable novel follows four refugees who flee Nazi Germany and discover the glamour and excess of Shanghai. Master storyteller Wagenstein crafts an intense narrative of life and death and profound courage against the backdrop of the war and the millions of lives caught up in it.
Directed toward a synthesis of the history of the religion of Israel, the essays in this volume address key aspects of Israelite religious development. Frank Moore Cross traces the continuities between early Israelite religion and the Caananite culture from which it emerged, explores the tension between the mythic and the historical in Israel's ...
The complete and unabridged original story of Dorothy and her companions the tin woodman, the scarecrow and the cowardly lion, and her enchanting journey along the yellow brick road in search of the wonderful wizard which gave rise to the famous movie.
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