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Russel Middlebrook is convinced he's the only gay kid at Goodkind High School. Then his online gay chat buddy turns out to be none other than Kevin, the popular but closeted star of the school's baseball team. Soon Russel meets other gay students, too. There's his best friend Min, who reveals that she is bisexual, and her soccer–playing girlfriend Terese. Then there's Terese's politically active friend, Ike. But how can kids this diverse get t...

Wie groß ist eigentlich das Universum? Was wiegt unsere Erde? Und wie ist das überhaupt möglich - die Erde zu wiegen? In seinem neuen großen Buch nimmt uns Bestsellerautor Bill Bryson mit auf eine atemberaubende Reise durch Raum und Zeit: Er erklärt uns den Himmel und die Erde, die Sterne und die Meere, und nicht zuletzt die Entstehungsgeschichte des Menschen. »Eine kurze Geschichte von fast allem« ist ein ebenso fundierter und lehrreicher wie...

To be perfectly honest, the day my father died really wasn't the worst day of my life.When his beloved father, Michael, dies, Claybird Catts finds solace in the company of his close-knit family -- his mysterious and beautiful mother, Myra, his lovable, know-it-all sister, Missy, his newly grown-up brother, Simon, and his devoted grandmother, Cissie. Devastated by his loss, but secure in their love, Claybird feels as though life could almost go...

Considers rhetorical/persuasive component of visual communication. Explores aspects of various subjects and highlights how messages and meaning are communicated visually. For scholars and students in English, visual/technical communication, and rhetoric.

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Such a clever caterpillar! A carefree cabbage caterpillar named Clara, who becomes a common cream-colored butterfly, can′t possibly compete with a catty, conceited caterpillar named Catisha, who becomes a captivating crimson-colored butterfly. Or can she? Ages 3 - 6

An award-winning artist delivers an adorable story about a mouse couple living in a tiny burrow. Mildred dreams about how wonderful a new, bigger house would be--especially if they have visitors. Full color.

The most impressive contribution to books by Mark Twain since The Mysterious Stranger of 1916...The attitude is that of Swift, the intellectual contempt is that of Voltaire, and the imagination is that of one of the great masters of American writing.”—New York Times Book Review Virtually none of the material in Letters from the Earth was published in Twain's lifetime and the manuscript was only approved by his executors in 1962. This is vintag...

In this hard-hitting and provocative first book, the talk show personality offers a survey of the world as he sees it, and recounts the experiences that have shaped his perspective on the issues that face America today.

Peptides are among the most versatile bioactive molecules, yet the do not make good drugs, because they are quickly degraded or modified in the body. Thus, drug discovery has turned to the novel field of peptidomimetics, i. e. to design non-peptide compounds mimicking the pharmacophore and thus the activity of the original peptide. These novel compounds open up new perspectives in drug design by providing an entire range of highly specific pha...

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The most complete guide to ecological turf management Turf managers face growing restrictions on their use of chemical controls by local, regional, state, and in some cases federal regulation or banning. Managing Healthy Sports Fields offers modern turf managers a variety of alternative methods to chemical treatments that effectively control a wide variety of pests, weeds, and diseases. Every alternative method is easily adaptable to existing...

It can be argued that ATP is the most important molecule in cells. Not only is ATP the key energy source for cells, but it is also the source of phosphate groups that are transferred to a variety of substrate proteins via the action of elaborate families of protein kinases. An equally elaborate array of protein phosphatases can remove phosphate groups from proteins. It is now well established that protein phosphorylation is a widely used mecha...

From the Newbery Honor author of "Ella Enchanted" come three more funny, upturned fairy tales. Includes "Cinderellis and the Glass Hill, For Biddle's Sake, " and "The Fairy's Return.

In this first-ever atlas of the heavy metal phenomenon, Ian Christe delivers a bird's-eye view of this dark and forbidden music. The ultimate headbanger history, "Sound of the Beast" reveals tales of concert hysteria, courtroom drama, and musical triumph with: Interviews with Black Sabbath, Metallica, Morbid Angel, Megadeth, Twisted Sister, Kiss, Slipknot, and many others Genre boxes explaining black metal, power metal, thrash metal, nu meta...

Strange as it may seem, the idea of 'God' developed in a market economy in a spirit of aggressive capitalism, " Karen Armstrong asserts in her fascinating work "A History of God." Armstrong considers herself a "historian of ideas, " and with this broad view she gives a compelling account of the correspondences among Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and the historical, philosophical, intellectual, and social developments through the ages that ...

A new investigation, based on previously unseen KGB documents, reveals the startling truth behind Stalin's last great conspiracy. On January 13, 1953, a stunned world learned that a vast conspiracy had been unmasked among Jewish doctors in the USSR to murder Kremlin leaders. Mass arrests quickly followed. The Doctors' Plot, as this alleged scheme came to be called, was Stalin's last crime. In the fifty years since Stalin's death many myths hav...

Now reissued with eye-catching new covers--the first two books in Rodda's fast-paced series about Rowan, a boy who doesn't realize how brave he is until he saves his village from ruin and from some very frightening monsters.

A small-press sensation in hardcover, "Sleep Toward Heaven" tells the story of three disparate women who are irrevocably connected by one crime and a brutal Texas summer on death row.