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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.

On Writing Well, " which grew out of a course that William Zinsser taught at Yale, has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity, and for the warmth of its style. It is a book for anybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day, as almost everybody does. Whether you want to write about people or places, science and technology, business, sports, the arts, or about yourself in the increasingly ...

When Joe Stoshack's dad ends up in the hospital after a car accident, he has two words to say to his son: Mickey Mantle. For Stosh has a special power -- with a baseball card in hand, he can travel back in time. And his dad has a rare card -- Mantle's valuable 1951 rookie card. "I've been thinking about it for a long time. Go back to 1951. You're the only one who can do it, " Dad whispers.That night Stosh grips the card and prepares for anothe...

The "New York Times" has called James Prosek "the Audubon of the fishing world, " and in "Fly-Fishing the 41st, " he uses his talent for descriptive writing to illuminate an astonishing adventure. Beginning in his hometown of Easton, Connecticut, Prosek circumnavigates the globe along the 41st parallel, traveling through Spain, Greece, Turkey, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, China, and Japan. Along the way he shares some of the best fishing in the world ...

From the late-fifteenth to the mid-eighteenth century, Spain was the most extensive empire the world had seen, stretching from Naples and the Netherlands to the Philippines. This provocative work of history attributes Spain's rise to power to the collaboration of international business interests, including Italian financiers, German technicians, and Dutch traders. At the height of its power, the Spanish Empire was a global enterprise in which ...

An intensely personal devotional from the ultimate spiritual writer of modern times, showing his contemplative and religious side through his prayers and drawings.

A triumphant novel about an African-American woman who, against all odds, almost single-handedly faces down the most blatant kind of workplace discrimination, while at the same time dealing with a crumbling marriage and a trusted friend's betrayal.

Poor tiny Birdie has no house. But Birdie does have friends. Spike, Queenie, Goldie, and Fidget want to help Birdie find a house of his own. Birdie needs a house that isn't too tall and isn't too thin, that isn't too short and isn't too fat, and that isn't too wide and isn't too narrow. Will they find a house for Birdie before the rain falls and the wind blows? A sweet and simple story about helping out a friend explains the math concept of ca...

When it comes to network security, many users and administrators are running scared, and justifiably so. The sophistication of attacks against computer systems increases with each new Internet worm.What's the worst an attacker can do to you? You'd better find out, right? That's what Security Warrior teaches you. Based on the principle that the only way to defend yourself is to understand your attacker in depth, Security Warrior reveals how you...

Das Meer schlägt zurück - in Frank Schätzings meisterhaftem Thriller erwächst der Menschheit eine unvorstellbare Bedrohung aus den Ozeanen. Frank Schätzing inszeniert die weltweite Auflehnung der Natur gegen den Menschen. Ein globales Katastrophenszenario zwischen Norwegen, Kanada, Japan und Deutschland, und ein Roman voller psychologischer und politischer Dramen mit einem atemberaubenden Schluss. Ein Fischer verschwindet vor Peru, spurlos. Ö...

Das Buch von der Suche nach der verlorenen Kindheit Unsere Kindheit ist das Paradies, das wir alle eines Tages verlassen müssen. Mit großer Zärtlichkeit und Wehmut erzählt Maxim Biller von diesem Ort, an dem alles begann und an den wir nie zurückkehren werden. Sehnsucht durchweht diese schönen, zarten Geschichten - aber auch von verlorenen Illusionen ist in ihnen die Rede und von Hoffnungen, die nie vergehen. Da ist der achtjährige David, ...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Sportsponsoring sieht sich in jüngster Zeit immer häufiger mit der Forderung nach der Notwendigkeit einer partnerschaftlichen Vereinheitlichung und Ausrichtung der Sportsponsoring-Aktivitäten konfrontiert. Die Gründe liegen in dem hemmungslosen Vorgehen, den Sport immer stärker den kommerziellen Anforderungen unterzuordnen, mit dem Ergebnis zunehmender Sättigungstendenzen auf Seiten der Zuschauer. Diese Arbeit nimmt...

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Statius published his "Thebaid" in the last decade of the first century. This epic recounting the struggle between the two sons of Oedipus for the kingship of Thebes is his masterpiece, a stirring exploration of the passions of civil war. The extant portion of his unfinished "Achilleid" is strikingly different in tone: this second epic begins as a charming account of Achilles' life. Statius was raised in the Greek cultural milieu of the Bay o...

Recipient of the 2005 Lynton Keith Caldwell prize for the best book on environmental politics and policy. Statehouse and Greenhouse examines the surprising evolution of state-level government policies on global climate change. Environmental policy analyst Barry Rabe details a diverse set of innovative cases, offering detailed analysis of state-level policies designed to combat global warming.

Latin text based on the last manuscript written in Pius's lifetime and an updated and corrected version of the 1937 translation by Florence Alden Gragg.

An in-depth guide to solving human factors challenges in the development process, Human Factors Methods for Design provides design and human factors professionals, systems engineers, and research and development managers with the orientation, process, and methods to perform ergonomics research. The book delivers an overview of human factors and the application of research to product and service development. It enables the reader to define a de...

-- September 22, 2004, The Foundation Center, Philanthropy News Digest

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Frontispiece -- Chapter 1. Information science: emergence and scope -- Chapter 2. A social approach to information -- Chapter 3. Wider contexts of information transfer -- Chapter 4. People and information -- Chapter 5. Information retrieval -- Chapter 6. Semantics and retrieval -- Chapter 7. Intermediaries and interfaces -- Chapter 8. Information systems -- Chapter 9. The evaluation of systems -- Chapter 10. The Inte...

Contains more than 1, 000 prewritten goals, objectives, and interventions for treating depression and depression-related disorders Includes clinically proven, ready-to-copy homework exercises and assignments Sample treatment plans and customizable exercises may be easily downloaded online at www.wiley.com/go/completeplanners The Bestselling treatment planning system for mental health professionals Utilizing the methodology of the bestselling P...