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The Immigrant Experience in American Fiction: An Annotated

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Simone, Roberta / Kanoza, Theresa, PUBLISHER: Scarecrow Press, Over 600 descriptive citations. Comprehensive coverage from the late 19th century through the first half of of adult and young adult novels, collections of stories, anthologies, and secondary sources.

The Gift of Presence: Stories That Celebrate Nursing

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Jackson, Dave / Landis, Beth / Jackson, Neta, PUBLISHER: Herald Press, Nurses share with those entrusted to their care life's peaks and valleys, life's joys, tears, and mysteries. They are present for the baby's first cry and the dying person's last breath. They lose races to save life and see miracles unfold just as defeat seems imminent. Here is captured such moments. The 50 stories span the 50-year history of the Mennonite Nurses Association. These stories are universal stories that Christian nurses everywhere will recognize from their own experiences.

The Drawing of the Three: (The Dark Tower #2)

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: King, Stephen, PUBLISHER: Signet Book, The End is Near. Start at the Beginning....and catch up on the complete Dark Tower saga...before Stephen King brings it all to an end. November : The fifth Dark Tower book hits bookstores, followed by books six and seven Now: The #1 Bestseller Book two in mass market

From Standard Logic to Logic Programming: Introducing a

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Thayse, Andre / Gochet, Paul / Gr?goire, Eric, PUBLISHER: John Wiley & Sons, Presents a solid base for the examination of artificial intelligence (AI) with a thorough study of the role of logic, covering the whole field from the theoretical aspects of logic to the most practical logic programming applications. Discusses classical logic; knowledge representation and valid reasoning; non-standard logics and revisable reasoning; formal grammars; automata theory and augument transition network formalism and much more. Particular emphasis is placed on Prolog as the forerunning and most popular language for logic programming.

The End of the Salon: Art and the State in the Early Third

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Mainardi, Patricia, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, The End of the Salon examines the cultural forces that contributed to the demise of the most important exhibition centre for art in Europe and America in the late nineteenth century. Tracing the history of the salon from the French Revolution, when it was taken away from the Academy and opened to all artists, to the s, Patricia Mainardi shows that its contradictory purposes, as didactic exhibition venue and art market-place resulted in its collapse. She also situates the salon within the shifting currents of art movements, from modern to traditional, and the evolving politics of the Third Republic, when France definitively chose a republican over a monarchic form of government. A rich overview of the spectrum of art production at the end of the nineteenth century, government attitudes toward the arts in the early Third Republic, and the institution of exhibitions as they were redefined by free-market economics in the nineteenth century, are also provided. The book demonstrates how all artists were forced to function within the framework of the social, economic and cultural changes then taking place and how art and social history are inextricably linked.

The Present is a Gift Mo Better Stories from the World of

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Michael F Hoyt, PUBLISHER: iUniverse Inc, NA

The Saint

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Abnett, Dan, PUBLISHER: Black Library, This omnibus edition follows the second cycle of the Gaunt's Ghost stories in a collection called, "The Saint." It includes the four novels, Honour Guard, The Guns of Tanith, Straight Silver and Sabbat Martyr. The story arc follows the First & Only from warzone to warzone of the Chaos-infested Sabbats World system fighting enemies in many guises and shapes.

Black and Mormon

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bringhurst, Newell G. / Smith, Darron T., PUBLISHER: University of Illinois Press, The year marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the lifting of the ban excluding black members from the priesthood of the Mormon church. The articles collected in Newell G. Bringhurst and Darron T. Smith's Black and Mormon look at the mechanisms used to keep blacks from full participation, the motives behind the ban, and the kind of changes that have--and have not--taken place within the church since the revelation responsible for its end. This challenging collection is required reading for anyone concerned with the history of racism, discrimination, and the Latter-day Saints.

Beyond the Picket Fence: And Other Short Stories by Lori

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wick, Lori, PUBLISHER: Harvest House Publishers, Love flourishes in these contemporary tales of gentle romance. From camping in the wilds to Christmas at Disneyland to the "woman next door, " readers will be drawn into the lives of Wick's characters as they share their faith and devotion. Finding a "first" love, discovering the power of forgiveness, learning to love again, and reveling in the innocence and joy of children fill the pages of Beyond the Picket Fence. An uplifting, delightful journey, these heartwarming stories are sure to captivate and inspire readers.

The Sea: A Photographic Celebration of the First Wonder of

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bluegreen Pictures, PUBLISHER: Adlard Coles Nautical Press, The sea is the first wonder of the world. Source of all life, key to our survival and home to innumerable and astonishing life forms, the sea has fascinated humanity from its very beginnings. At once remote yet all around us, beautiful and strange, wild and peaceful, it is a host of paradoxes and has provided the inspiration for great poetry, literature, art, music - and photography. This spectacular book showcases some of the most stunning images of our oceans: the drama of waves crashing into the land, breathtaking views from the air, glacial images of the Antarctic, the vast wilderness of mid ocean, the weird and wonderful wildlife found beneath it, beautiful yachts and working boats that power across its surface and the heavenly island paradises surrounded by tranquil waters. With evocative text and page after page of glorious photography, this beautiful book will be a valued and much-loved source of wonder and inspiration. Acquista Ora

Amazing True Mission Stories: The Best from Around the World

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Zachary, J. H., PUBLISHER: Pacific Press Publishing Association, An inspiring collection of thrilling, true mission stories The day of miracles is not past. From Africa to America, from the South Pacific islands to Siberia, miracles are taking place as God works to bring individuals to Himself. In Amazing True Mission Stories you'll read about: the criminals who demanded at gun point that they be allowed to hear the gospel preached; an army of bees who saved a church; a band of robbers whose hands started shaking uncontrollably whenever they tried to open the bag of money they had stolen -- and how this led to their baptism. You'll read about prayers answered, dreams fulfilled, and lives changed. You'll witness faith rewarded, persecution endured, and hatred transformed into love. These stories will build your faith and cause your heart to soar as you realize anew God's personal interest and activity in the here and now of daily life.

Thirty-Six Days

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Starr, Kenneth W. / Correspondents of the New York Times / Brinkley, Douglas G., PUBLISHER: Times Books, From the most trusted newspaper in the country, here is the complete story of the Election standoff that stopped American politics. Beginning on Election Day and ending with the Supreme Court decision that gave victory to George W. Bush, this important volume provides a day-by-day record of events as they unfolded. Drawing on the talents of many of the the top political reporters at "The New York Times,"" ""36 Days" aims to make sense of a complex and convoluted chapter in our recent history. Along with lead stories from each consecutive day, the book includes informative and enlightening background pieces, analytical essays, investigative reports, personality profiles, and opinion pieces, thus offering students and all other observations of this election a well-rounded, fair-minded, thoughtful account. These pieces are linked by original text that highlights key developments and shifting strategies. Also included are selected excerpts from all the relevant legal opinions, statistical graphics, quotations, and sidebar stories. An introduction by acclaimed presidential scholar Brinkley adds historical perspective to this authoritative and comprehensive chronicle.

Spin Us a Dream

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Potter, Charlotte, PUBLISHER: PublishAmerica, Charlotte has a deep compassion for those who suffer. It is this compassion that drives her to share many stories from her life and the lives of those around her. She includes references from the Bible to support her source of strength in the tragedies of life. Her story of physical death in , Godas loving hand and her battle through the road to recovery are included. She has also included stories of loneliness and ridicule as she struggled most of her life to find love. She does find the true love she was searching for after forty-plus years of pain and suffering. This book is bound to touch the lives of those who read it.

The Celebration of Scandal: Toward the Sublime in Victorian

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bernstein, Carol L., PUBLISHER: Penn State University Press, Bernstein explores the representation of the city in Victorian fiction--from the scandal of its slums, through the sublime of its fashionable society, to a darker urban sublime. The Celebration of Scandal analyzes the urban fiction of both well-known novelists (Dickens, Gissing, James, and Meredith) and more marginal writers (Disraeli and Bulwer-Lytton) in terms of their representations of the city, both the scandalous and the sublime. It also includes a discussion of the dandy novels of Catherine Gore, whose parodies of high life are virtually unknown to modern readers. Bernstein explores the scandals lying at the heart of the representation of the city in Victorian fiction. Social scandals--slums that belie the myths of urban progress, for instance--are only intensified by methods of representation that overturn mimetic conventions. But if one pole of this study is the scandal, then its opposite is the sublime. Bernstein examines the parodic mode of the dandy and moves to the serious urban sublime that records urban experience in its ambiguity, its narcissism, its negativity, and its strength. Bernstein then discusses fictional and nonfictional urban sketches that present many of the problems facing urban artists in their encounters with the city. She stakes out new territory, blending the work of major critics of Victorian literature (Steven Marcus, Hillis Miller, etc.), lesser-known nineteenth-century urban texts, and a substantial dosage of Continental materials, ranging from the crucial work of Baudelaire and his great expositor, Walter Benjamin, to theorists such as Freud, Bakhtin, Foucault, Barthes, and Lacan.

The Tower Menagerie: The Amazing 600-Year History of the

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hahn, Daniel, PUBLISHER: Jeremy P. Tarcher, The strange six-hundred-year history of the Royal Menagerie at the Tower of London. From a polar bear who fished the Thames nightly for his dinner to elephants who drank only wine, the inhabitants of the southwest corner of the Tower of London were a strange and rowdy bunch. No less strange was the cast of characters that visited them: William Blake, Chaucer, and Samuel Pepys, to name a few. Daniel Hahn's fascinating history of the Tower of London's Royal Menagerie tells the story of the thousands of exotic creatures who found a home in one of the world's most forbidding and infamous fortresses. "The Royal Menagerie" began with a wedding gift: three leopards from King Henry III's new brother-in-law, Frederick the Holy Roman Emperor, in . Soon after, a huge Norwegian polar bear joined them. Over the next six hundred years, the Tower played host to lions, ostriches, elephants, and other unusual animals that astonished London. Brimming with unforgettable stories (the lion who kept a spaniel as a pet; ostriches who were fed a steady diet of rusty nails; lions who, their keepers claimed, could tell whether a woman was a virgin) and beautiful historical illustrations, "The Tower Menagerie" provides an intriguing, lively survey of our changing attitudes toward animals, as well as a hugely entertaining journey through six centuries of British history.

Lost Civilizations: The Mayans

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kallen, Stuart A., PUBLISHER: Lucent Books, The Mayan pyramids that stand today on the Yucatan Peninsula are a stunning reminder of a powerful civilization that ruled the people of southern Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, and Belize for more than six thousand years. The Mayans comprehensively explores the politics and culture of the Mayan Empire in vivid detail from B.C. to the sixteenth century arrival of the Spanish conquistadors.

The Short Story: The Reality of Artifice

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: May, Charles E., PUBLISHER: Routledge, The short story is one of the most difficult types of prose to write and one of the most pleasurable to read. From Boccaccio's Decameron to The Collected Stories of Reynolds Price, Charles May gives us an understanding of the history and structure of this demanding form of fiction. Beginning with a general history of the genre, he moves on to focus on the nineteenth-century when the modern short story began to come into focus. From there he moves on to later nineteenth-century realism and early twentieth-century formalism and finally to the modern renaissance of the form that shows no signs of abating. A chronology of significant events, works and figures from the genre's history, notes and references and an extensive bibliographic essay with recommended reading round out the volume.

The Illustrated Guide to the Tarot

The Illustrated Guide to the Tarot: Interpret the Symbols of the Tarotand Increase Your Understanding of the Cards Kathleen McCormack - Quarto Publishing plc The Tarot is one of the oldest and most intr iguing systems of divination, or fotune-telling. This lavish ly illustrated book displays some of the most beautiful exam ples of Tarot packs from the past, and from around the world. 10 euro + shipping delivery

Chocolate for a Teen's Heart: Unforgettable Stories for

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Allenbaugh, Kay, PUBLISHER: Touchstone Books, AS DELICIOUS AS CHOCOLATE Life offers no experience sweeter -- or more difficult -- than learning to love. And in this exceptionally delicious volume in the bestselling series, Kay Allenbaugh brings us 55 rich, satisfying stories of teen relationships written by teens of every age and by women who remember what it was like. From the unexpected happiness of a first boyfriend to sorting and sifting with Mom and Dad, from the wonderful secrets shared by best friends to the wonderful silliness of playing with a favorite pet, these true stories show what lies at the heart of being a teen. Poignant, funny, sometimes sad but always inspiring, this collection will bring you tears, laughter, and joy.

Richard Lane - Images from the floating World

Richard Lane - Images from the floating World. Libro dedicato alla pittura e alle stampe giapponesi ukiyo-e. Condizioni perfette, con sovraccoperta che presenta minime tracce d'uso. Consegna a mano a Reggio Emilia, spedizione in Italia per 7 euro.

The Walking Dead TV Version Action Figure Savior Prisoner

Straight from the AMC TV series The Walking Dead comes this action figure of Daryl. It stands approx. 18 cm tall and comes in a numbered collector edition window box.- Spectacular likeness of Daryl sculpted from images of the actor Norman Reedus- Figure is featured in the Savior prisoner outfit worn by Daryl in Season 7 of The Walking Dead - Figure includes mop accessory- Designed with 15 points of articulation for dynamic posing- Figure features a stylized The Walking Dead branded display base and showcased in window box packaging

Midwinterblood

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Sedgwick, Marcus, PUBLISHER: Roaring Brook Press, Seven stories of passion and love separated by centuries but mysteriously intertwined--this is a tale of horror and beauty, tenderness and sacrifice.An archaeologist who unearths a mysterious artifact, an airman who finds himself far from home, a painter, a ghost, a vampire, and a Viking: the seven stories in this compelling novel all take place on the remote Scandinavian island of Blessed where a curiously powerful plant that resembles a dragon grows. What binds these stories together? What secrets lurk beneath the surface of this idyllic countryside? And what might be powerful enough to break the cycle of midwinterblood? This is a book about passion and preservation and ultimately an exploration of the bounds of love.

Wayside School Is Falling Down

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Sachar, Louis / Salmon / Schick, Joel, PUBLISHER: HarperTrophy, The extraordinary thirty-story school and its zany inhabitants are back in the long-awaited sequel to the classic SIDEWAYS STORIES FROM WAYSIDE SCHOOL, one of the most popular Camelot books ever.The extraordinary thirty-story school and its zany inhabitants are back in the long-awaited sequel to the classic SIDEWAYS STORIES FROM WAYSIDE SCHOOL, one of the most popular Camelot books ever. "Rib-tickling...sure-to-please..."-Kirkus

Tales from the Odyssey, Part One

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Osborne, Mary Pope, PUBLISHER: Hyperion Books, Giants and Cannibals Wonders and Witches One Amazing Hero. Brave Odysseus is far from home, tossed by stormy seas, and cursed by an angry one-eyed giant. If he ever wants to see his family again, he will have to face hungry cannibals, outwit a beautiful witch, and sail past a six-headed serpent. His journey is the ultimate test of endurance and courage. In this exciting series, best-selling author Mary Pope Osborne retells Homer x;s "Odyssey," one of the most thrilling adventure stories of all time. This volume includes: Book One: The One-Eyed Giant Book Two: The Land of the Dead Book Three: Sirens and Sea Monsters

A Load of Balls: Football's Funny Side

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Scally, John, PUBLISHER: Mainstream Publishing, As former England striker and television pundit, Jimmy Greaves famously said, football is "a funny old game." In "A Load of Balls: Football's Funny Side," John Scally confirms the truth of his statement by providing a pot pourri of double entendres, timeless quips, and amusing anecdotes from the tongues of football's elite. Hundreds of silly stories and priceless nuggets have been sourced to recreate collectively the unique excitement, drama, and unpredictability of football in the words of the sport's practitioners. The result is a wry, idiosyncratic, and sometimes bizarre catalogue of comic creations. For lovers of the absurd, outrageous, and totally bizarre, this selection of stories and quotes will amuse and delight.

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