London, 1949. One foggy night, Rosie Lane sees her son Brian on the banks of the Thames. Only he died four months earlier; and when she comes near him, he crumbles into dust. An incident strikingly similar to Kathy s own encounter with Goring in Namib…
Yeomans explores the role of oil in America--from driving the US economic engine to consolidating the US's position as unilateral superpower--and explains the American consumer's love…
New in paperback, this book from master chef Michel Roux dispels the myth that pastry making is complicated and beyond the reach of most cooks. Designed…
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Pedagogy in Process presents a first-hand account of the most comprehensive attemptyet to put into practice Paulo Freire's theory of education within a real societal setting.When Guinea Bissau on the West African coast declared indep…
Adonis Yatchew provides simple and flexible (nonparametric) techniques for analyzing regression data. He includes a series of empirical examples with the estimation of Engel curves and…
Here are Masters's dramatic monologues written in free verse about a fictional Midwestern town called Spoon River. The dead, "sleeping on the hill" in their village…
This controversial classic of military adventure by "New York Times" bestselling author Heinlein is back--the story of a young recruit of the future who goes through…
In 2006, while travelling in Argentina, young entrepreneur Blake Mycoskie encountered children too poor to afford shoes, who developed injuries on their feet that often led…
When Stewart Copeland gets dressed, he has an identity crisis. Should he put on leather pants, hostile shirts, and pointy shoes? Or wear something more appropriate…
"Imagine living in 1958, and knowing that the integrated circuit--the microchip--was about to be invented, and would revolutionize the world. Or imagine 1992, when the Internet…
This two-part, fifth edition has been updated to reflect advances in the field since the previous edition, especially in computational chemistry. Part A covers the basis…
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FDR as never seen before: His formative years as Woodrow Wilson s Assistant Secretary of the Navy, evolving from political neophyte to visionary leader.…