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ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: A Resident, PUBLISHER: Kessinger Publishing LLC, NA

The New Pomeranian

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Tietjen, Sari B., PUBLISHER: Howell Books, From the Pomeranian's glittering past of royal patronage and artistic favor to the Standard and its special requirements, Tietjen details the use of color genetics, breeding and special mating considerations, whelping and puppy rearing, as well as grooming and trimming for the show ring and in Obedience competition.

Phantom Limb

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Sternburg, Janet, PUBLISHER: Bison Books, "Phantom Limb" is a wise and courageous memoir that moves between past and present, chronicling an adult daughter's journey through the final years of her parents' lives. A story of discovering love through adversity as well as an inquiry into contemporary neurology and spiritual life, "Phantom Limb" is a moving meditation on the struggle to make peace with physical and emotional ghosts of the past. Janet Sternburg writes with such warmth and honesty that loss itself becomes luminous: "This is the grace of the last years, the children coming to understand the contradictions in their parents, not to reconcile them but encompass them in a larger love."

NATO: Its Past, Present, and Future

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Duignan, Peter, PUBLISHER: Hoover Institution Press, NATO tells the story--past, present and future--of the most successful peacetime venture in Western cooperation, from the historic alliance's shaky beginnings to its cold war triumphs, failures, and successes.

A History of European Women's Work: to the Present

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Simonton, Deborah / Simonton, D., PUBLISHER: Routledge, "A History of European Women's Work" draws together recent research, lively personal accounts and statistical evidence to take an overview of trends in women's work from the pre-industrial period to the present. Deborah Simonton discusses the definition of work within and without patriarchal families, the status of work and the skills involved. She examines local as well as Europe-wide developments, contrasting countries such as Britain, Germany and France. She considers women's own perceptions of work and its place in their lives as well as age and class, to present a rounded account of the shifting patterns of employment and the continuities which are evident in the women's own experience.

Meet Me at Millcreek

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Zardo, James H., PUBLISHER: Noble House, Romance and adventure combine to make "Meet Me at Millcreek" an exciting and charismatic love story. James Zardo's first novel deftly weaves an intriguing tale that plays out the drama of life. When a successful widower meets a cautious divorcee' with a chronically ill son, is it kismet? Filled with emotional contrasts and breathtaking international settings, "Meet Me at Millcreek" depicts how fickle love and life can be as two people struggle with the past and present, trying to unlock the future. Zardo skillfully uses flashback and plot twists to embrace readers throughout the story's roller coaster ride of love, passion, distrust, and loss.

Advantage Play: The Manager's Guide to Creative Problem

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ben, David, PUBLISHER: Key Porter Books, In Advantage Play, magician, producer and former tax lawyer David Ben explores the relationship between the secrets of magic and the secrets of success. In lively prose peppered with references to conjurers past and present, Advantage Play offers readers an intensive course in gaining the upper hand. Using classic magic tricks as case studies, Ben applies a magician's most sophisticated techniques to a business manager's most central concerns -- creativity, problem solving, sales and team management. The goal is to teach people how to think like magicians, strike the word "impossible" from their vocabulary, harness their creativity, and control their destinies. Thought provoking, surprising and full of practical magic, this is essential reading for Advantage Players present and future.

Second Assassination of Maurice Bishop

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Clark, Steve, PUBLISHER: Pathfinder Press (NY), As the U.S. rulers prepared to smash working-class resistance and join the interimperialist slaughter of World War II, the national political police apparatus as it exists today was born, together with the vastly expanded executive powers of the imperial presidency. Documents the consequences for the labor, Black, antiwar, and other social movements and how the working-class vanguard has fought over the past fifty years to defend democratic rights against government and employer attacks.

Scissors: A Novel

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Michaka, Stephane, PUBLISHER: Nan A Talese, Based on the life of the great short-story writer Raymond Carver, particularly his last ten, postalcoholic years, "Scissors" is that rare thing, a funny, compassionate, and convincing portrayal of the creative life: its compulsions, its rewards, its frustrations, its affinities with tragedy. Raymond is a writer whose life is fraught with personal and creative struggle. His first marriage, to Marianne, is intense, passionate, and unhealthy. After his divorce, he finds new love and support with Joanne, a poet. All the while Raymond (and to some extent, each of his wives) is in an escalating conflict with his editor, Douglas, who both assists and distorts Raymond's work. As his success and confidence grow, Raymond strives harder and harder to ensure that his stories, the most important part of his life, are published as written. Douglas, who considers the stories as much his as Raymond's, is determined to present them in the heavily edited form he's given them. Four of Raymond's stories, presented in full at four different points in the novel, reflect his life, his relationships, and the creative process itself; and then Douglas goes to work on them. Raymond's former alcoholism and his past and present relationships always lurk in the background; Marianne and Joanne offer their own perspectives on both; and in the end, after Raymond's death, Joanne finally confronts Douglas in a way that Raymond never could.

Cherokee

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Birchfield, D. L., PUBLISHER: Gareth Stevens Publishing, Native American Peoples explores the cultures of some of the earliest residents of North America. With direct, lively text covering each Native group's past and present, these books include each tribe's own origin stories and descriptions of its traditional way of life, its relationships with other tribes and with European settlers and explorers, its history through modern times, and life today, including the arts. In addition to the easy-to-understand text and vibrant historical and contemporary images, such helpful features as a time line, glossary, and suggested activities illuminate the cultures of the original Americans and their lives today. The Cherokee Nation has become a leader among Native Americans, managing tribal programs including educational, housing, and other social services. The traditional culture emphasizes harmony and balance, values that the Cherokee elders are passing on to their children today.

The Girls: Jewish Women of Brownsville, Brooklyn,

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ford, Carole Bell, PUBLISHER: State University of New York Press, This book tells the stories of the Jewish women who came of age in Brownsville, Brooklyn, in the s and s. Through in-depth interviews with more than forty women, Carole Bell Ford explores the choices these women made and the boundaries within which they made them, offering fresh insights into the culture and values of Jewish women in the postwar period. Not content to remain in the past, The Girls is also a story of women who live in the present, who lead fulfilling lives even as they struggle to adjust to changes in American society that conflict with their own values and that have profoundly affected the lives of their children and grandchildren.

Transition Education and Services for Students with

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Sitlington, Patricia L. / Neubert, Debra A. / Clark, Gary M., PUBLISHER: Merrill Publishing Company, This book covers the transition of individuals with mild to severe disabilities from a school-age program to all aspects of adult life. The text addresses not only the transition of students with disabilities to employment, but also the transition to future living and post-secondary educational environments. Self-determination, interpersonal, and community integration knowledge and skills are integrated throughout. "Transition Education and Services for Students with Disabilities" builds upon the success of past editions and continues to expand content to include students with severe disabilities and students at the elementary and middle school levels. This text addresses the "ideal "and the "real "in terms of the relationship of the field of transition education and services to the standards-based reform movement in education. This book is intended for use by those in pre-service education programs at the undergraduate and graduate level, as well as those currently teaching in secondary special education programs and/or providing transition education and services.

Acts of Naming: The Family Plot in Fiction

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ragussis, Michael, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, Michael Ragussis re-reads the novelistic tradition by arguing the acts of naming--bestowing, revealing, or earning a name; taking away, hiding, or prohibiting a name; slandering, or protecting and serving it--lie at the center of fictional plots from the 18th century to the present. Against the background of philosophic approaches to naming, Acts of Naming reveals the ways in which systems of naming are used to appropriate characters in novels as diverse as Clarissa, Fanny Hill, Oliver Twist, Pierre, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Remembrance of Things Past, and Lolita, and identifies unnaming and renaming as the locus of power in the family's plot to control the child, and more particularly, to rape the daughter. His analysis also treats additional works by Cooper, Bronte, Hawthorne, Eliot, Twain, Conrad, and Faulkner, extending the concept of the naming plot to reimagine the traditions of the novel, comparing American and British plots, female and male plots, inheritance and seduction plots, and so on. Acts of Naming ends with a theoretical exploration of the "magical" power of naming in different eras and in different, even competing, forms of discourse.

The Devil's Party: Critical Counter-Interpretations of

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hawkins, Harriett, PUBLISHER: Clarendon Press, This survey of past and present controversies about Shakespearian drama asks about the question: Do the plays hold a mirror up to nature? If so, what is the nature of the "nature" reflected in plays as different as Hamlet and As You Like It?K Is the poet on the side of the angels or, in fact, "of the devil's party" in a play like Richard III? Are Hamlet and Cleopatra more to be morally censured than pitied or admired? How seriously should we take the comedies? Rather than attempting to answer these questions, the author here explains why it is that the plays remain open to critical debate. She concludes that Shakespearian drama provides us with the most artistic challenges to any one-sided account of the ways of the wold it reflects and for this reason, for students and teachers, and for actors and audiences alike, its impact is ultimately liberating.

The RYA Book of World Sailing Records

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Johnson, Peter, PUBLISHER: International Marine Publishing, There has always been intense interest amongst sailors in sailing faster than anyone has ever done before. "The RYA Book of World Sailing Records" brings together for the first time all the past and present sailing and boating records, and recounts the adventures, the mishaps, the dramas and the successes that have taken place along the way. Packed with fascinating information never before gathered together or analysed in this way, the book includes: What constitutes a record? Ocean records from clipper ships to Ellen MacArthur The fastest ever 500 metre run The 50 knot barrier Sailing firsts Inshore speed records from the kite boats, planers and foilers to powerboats Records still to go for This is a book that will fascinate anyone with an interest in the sea, as well as providing ample food for thought for would-be record breakers.

Colouring the Past: The Significance of Colour in

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Jones, Andrew / MacGregor, Gavin, PUBLISHER: Berg Publishers, Colour shapes our world in profound, if sometimes subtle, ways. It helps us to classify, form opinions, and make aesthetic and emotional judgements. Colour operates in every culture as a symbol, a metaphor, and as part of an aesthetic system. Yet archaeologists have traditionally subordinated the study of colour to the form and material value of the objects they find and thereby overlook its impact on conceptual systems throughout human history. This book explores the means by which colour-based cultural understandings are formed, and how they are used to sustain or alter social relations. From colour systems in the Mesolithic, to Mesoamerican symbolism and the use of colour in Roman Pompeii, this book paints a new picture of the past. Through their close observation of monuments and material culture, authors uncover the subtle role colour has played in the construction of past social identities and the expression of ancient beliefs. Providing an original contribution to our understanding of past worlds of meaning, this book will be essential reading for archaeologists, anthropologists and historians, as well as anyone with an interest in material culture, art and aesthetics.

Black Elk Lives: Conversations with the Black Elk Family

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Black Elk Desersa, Esther / DeSersa, Clifton / Desersa Jr, Aaron, PUBLISHER: University of Nebraska Press, The story and teachings of Nicholas Black Elk (), first recorded by John G. Neihardt in "Black Elk Speaks," have played a critical role in shaping the way in which Native Americans and others view the past, present, and future of Native America. These conversations with the descendents of Black Elk offer an intimate look at life on the Pine Ridge Reservation and fresh perspectives on the religious, economic, and political opportunities and challenges facing the Lakota people today. In addition to revealing more about Black Elk the healer, the family also provides glimpses of Black Elk as a family man, teacher, and influential ancestor.

Tell Me What You Eat and I'll Tell You If You Are Jewish

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kravva, Vasiliki, PUBLISHER: VDM Verlag, The book examines the role of food and eating in the maintainance and negotiation of a community's boundaries. The author draws material from from her fieldwork among the Jews in the city of Thessaloniki in Northern Greece. The past of this community is characterised by many dramatic changes that resulted in its gradual marginalisation. The author attempts to examine this dialectic relationship beteween the past and the present through examining food and food narratives. Food is also seen as playing a crucial role in giving meaning to notions of 'being' and 'feeling' Jewish in a non-Jewish city. The centrality of food and eating in solidifying the feeling of 'belonging' to the community is also discussed. The book offers insights to the topics of food, memory and in the course of the analysis notions such as 'traditionality' and 'authenticity' are analysed and assessed. What is attempted is to co-examine issues drawn from the anthropology of food and memory and the study of ethnic and religious groups. As it is argued food creates real or imagined distincions between Self and Other and sustains images of cultural continuity.

Inside ATL [With Contains Sample Code, Sample Controls &

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Zimmerman, Steve / Shephard, George / Shepherd, George, PUBLISHER: Microsoft Press, Early Chapters give an overview of COM and the use of ATL to develop components, controls, and document objects. Subsequent chapters analyze the key design considerations and explore specific programming techniques for such projects as tear-off interfaces, out-of-proc servers, and applications. Concluding chapters cover debugging and more advanced topics. Finally, the enclosed CD-ROM supplies programmers with the book's sample code as well as abundant sample controls and components. ATL can help software development professionals accomplish more and be more productive. "Inside ATL" shows them how.

Inequality, Democracy, and Economic Development

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Midlarsky, Manus I., PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, The relationship between inequality and democracy is a compelling one for the contemporary social scientist. This book addresses questions raised as early as the time of Aristotle, and continue through Marx to the present day. Theories of inequality in relation to democracy are explored, and the book focuses on the sources of democracy, the relationship between economic development and thresholds of democracy, and finally responses to democratization. As the gap between rich and poor widens within and between nations, the subject of this book becomes increasingly important worldwide.

Julius Caesar [With CD]

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Shakespeare, William / Ormsby, Robert / Bevington, David, PUBLISHER: Sourcebooks Mediafusion, Experience the Ides of March like never before through our edition of Julius Caesar, with more than 60 minutes of audio on the CD including key scenes and excerpts from great performances past and present. IN THE BOOK: Photographs from notable productions including: -the movie by Joseph L. Mankiewicz starring Marlon Brando as Mark Antony, James Mason as Brutus and John Gielgud as Cassius -contemporary American productions with Morgan Freeman as Casca, Al Pacino as Mark Antony and Martin Sheen as Brutus HEAR 30 GREAT SCENES ON AUDIO CD -Herbert Beerbohm Tree from -the landmark Mercury Theatre production from starring Orson Welles -modern scenes starring Richard Dreyfuss, Stacey Keach and Adrian Lester NARRATED BY SIR DEREK JACOBI

When I Was Built

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Thermes, Jennifer, PUBLISHER: Henry Holt & Company, One humble house tells its own intriguing history. "Today, big houses surround me, up" "and down my street. When I was" "built, the Fairchilds were the only" "people around for miles and miles." Standing strong and proud, a trusty old farmhouse reflects on its beginnings, remembering the Fairchild family who built it more than two hundred years ago and comparing what life was like then to the bustling world of the Gray family, its present dwellers. With rich historical detail and warm affirmation of both past and present, "When I Was Built" celebrates continuity and change, as it conveys the welcoming spirit that makes a house a much-loved home.

Sams Teach Yourself DHTML in 24 Hours

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Moncur, Michael G., PUBLISHER: Sams, "Sams Teach Yourself DHTML in 24 Hours" provides a friendly, accessible way to learn DHTML. Beginning with the basic concepts, it will proceed with concise lessons on the DOM and style sheets. Later lessons will present real-world examples of useful DHTML applications, such as cascading menus, and continue with advanced techniques, such as animation and dynamic fonts. After finishing this book, readers will be able to add advanced, interactive features to their Web pages, while adhering to standards and ensuring that older and alternate browsers will still be supported.

No Turning Back

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lewis, Susan, PUBLISHER: Arrow, The compelling new novel from the "SundayTimes "bestselling author of Stolen. Eva Montgomery is at the peak of her career when she is viciously attacked by a stalker. While still traumatised, she makes the biggest mistake of her life -- one she can never turn back from. Sixteen years later, Eva has managed to rebuild her life in a way that seemed impossible after the attack. Her home in Dorset, high on the cliffs overlooking the sea, is as elegant as she is, but bears none of the scars. To an outsider, her world seems perfect in every way. Then the past invades the present -- with shattering consequences. Hurt, frightened and confused, Eva struggles desperately to put right the terrible mistake she made sixteen years ago and finally break free from a past that nearly destroyed her.

Border Crossing

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Barker, Pat, PUBLISHER: Penguin Books, Limited (UK), Out walking with his wife, Lauren, beside the river Tyne, Tom Seymour instinctively risks his life to save a young man who they happen to notice just before he jumps into the icy current. Tom's spontaneous act saves the life of someone whose past, as well as his future, he feels a sense of responsibility towards. Recently released from prison, and living under an assumed name, Danny Miller was tried for murder as a ten-year-old on the basis of Tom's testimony, and assessment of him as a psychologist and an expert witness. When Danny asks Tom to help him sort out his life—beginning with his past—Tom is drawn into a lonely, soul-searching reinvestigation of the child murderer's case.

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