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This is a fast paced and excitingly modern story of a local track race car driver whom quickly rises to become a cross country Nascar superstar. It is as well a sizzling romance involving the darkly handsome Luke McCahans obsession with a state social worker, a breathtakingly beautiful, Swedish blond whom he first lays eyes upon in the centerfold of a highly popularized magazine!This is a brand new, highly provocative contemporary novel. Its t...

Reilingh tells about the uncommon events and fascinating adventures in the tropical forests of Liberia fifty years ago. He observed the simple and suspicious natives with their mysterious customs and blackmagic. He saw their suffering from diseases and noticed the results of their local treatments.He was trained as a mining engineer, worked after Liberia in Bolivia, He then emigrated toCanada, where he continued his career in Quebec, New Bruns...

The latest collection from high-profile poet, Simon Armitage, in which he mixes questions about belief, trust, identity and knowledge with more mundane considerations.

Assessment and Culture challenges the classical approach to the assessment of minority populations by pointing out the deficiencies in this approach and offers instead a bio-cultural model of assessment. The principle objective of this book is to help mental health professionals to more accurately assess individuals from various ethnic, cultural and linguistic backgrounds. The culture-fair techniques and strategies of the book tap into a broad...

A procession of animals are going on a pilgrimage to the tomb of St Francis of Assisi. The journey is long as the animals meet in Paris and then walk down through Europe to Assisi. So one night, Chaucer the Cat suggests that each animal takes a turn to tell a story to entertain its co-travellers.

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Albert Bergesen brings together for the first time the writings of Sayyid Qutb, the man who has been called in the media `bin Laden¿s brain.¿

Musicians and artists have always shared mutual interests and exchanged theories of art and creativity. This exchange climaxed just after World War II, when a group of New York-based musicians, including John Cage, Morton Feldman, Earle Brown, and David Tudor, formed friendships with a group of painters. The latter group, now known collectively as either the New York School or the Abstract Expressionists, included Jackson Pollock, Willem deKoo...

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If you thought that Enesco*r began with Precious Moments*r, this book will amaze you. Enesco is actually one of the oldest importing companies in the United States, with a history dating back to the late 1800s. Figural ceramic items imported from Japan in the 1950s and 1960s are among today's top collectibles and Enesco imported many highly collectible lines during this period, the most notable being Mother-in-the-Kitchen, or Prayer Lady, as i...

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This new book tells the complete story of the famous 82nd Airborne Division from its formation in 1917, through its legendary World War II campaigns (Sicily, Normandy and Holland), Vietnam, Grenada, Nicaragua, Operation Desert Storm to the present, and examines the many changes from a World War I infantry division to the rapid deployment organization it is today. The 82nd helped develop the concepts of airborne warfare during World War II. Aft...

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This important and accessible book deals with current issues in practice teaching and learning in social work for practitioners, students and academics. Written from an international perspective, this book draws together the knowledge and experiences of those from different countries working in a variety of social work settings.

This book helps students improve their pronunciation through a variety of stimulating listening and speaking exercises.

Alfred Hitchcock remains the most famous of film-makers. Cultural critic Peter Conrad can date the start of his Hitchcock obsession to his first boyhood viewing of Hitchcock's Psycho, one afternoon in Tasmania some forty years ago.

An insider's story of the making of the Spielberg epic, by the author of the original screenplay and book.

This is the story of Christopher Logue, poet and literary maverick, who counted Ken Russell, Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe among his friends. It tells of his Southern England childhood, his stint in the army, the years in Paris, offending T.S. Eliot and everything else, all in his own words.