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This poetic and visual picture book from the award-winning author of "Ada's Violin" celebrates persistent women throughout history. This collection pairs such noted artists as Caldecott Medalist Sophie Blackall, Lisa Brown, and Hadley Hooper.

This wordless collection of strips by renowned artist/designer Rian Hughes reveals the lighter side of our obsession with social rankings.When everyone has a number, everyone knows their place. Lower numbers are better, higher numbers are less important, and that's just the way it is. But what if that number could change? You might try to buck the system and assert your individuality... or you might end up with a big fat zero.Big questions are...

Featuring never-before-seen photos, inspirational quotes, and her own doodles and poetry, Lukasiak, a fan-favorite on the reality TV show "Dance Moms, " offers exclusive insight into her world as well as a message that will inspire all readers to be their very best selves. Full color.

Tippu Tip, notorious to some, intriguing to others, was a Zanzibari Arab trader living in the turbulent and rapidly changing Africa of the late 19th century. This biography transports the reader into his extraordinary world, describing its exotic cast of characters and the principal factors that shaped it.

Zum systematischen Üben aller Kompetenzen und der Fertigkeiten Hören, Lesen, Sprechen, Schreiben und Sprachmittlung:Differenzierende Aufgaben auf den drei Niveaus Stern, Mond und SonneSelbstevaluation mit Portfolio- und Test yourself-SeitenOptionale More practice-Seiten mit zusätzlichem ÜbungsangebotGrammatik auf einen Blick: heraustrennbare übersichtliche Language in Focus-SeitenDie beiliegende Audio-CD enthält alle Hörverstehens- und Ausspra...

The Psychological Thriller that everyone is going to be talking about - once you've read it, it will haunt you for weeks!

The Colonial Conquest is the first volume of Alessandro Spina's epic, The Confines of the Shadow, a sequence of novels and short stories that map the transformation of Libya, particularly the coastal city of Benghazi, under the pressure of Italian colonization. This volume is divided into three sections--The Young Maronite, The Marriage of Omar and The Nocturnal Visitor--which are set between 1912 and 1927. At its outset we find Italian soldie...

A revealing glimpse into the tumultuous history of England's medieval period, full of knights in shining armor and terrible peasant suffering. Covering the violent and disease-ridden period between 1272 to 1399, England in the Age of Chivalry. . . And Awful Diseases covers the events, personages and ideas most commonly known as "medieval". This includes Geoffrey Chaucer, the Peasants revolt, the Scottish wars of independence, the Great Famine ...

How well do you really know your best friend?Kat Grant and Alice Campbell have a friendship forged in shared confidences and long lunches lubricated by expensive wine. Though they're very different women?the artsy socialite and the struggling suburbanite?they're each other's rocks. But even rocks crumble under pressure. Like when Kat's financier husband, Howard, plunges to his death from the second-floor balcony of their South Florida mansion....

Caudwell's controversial book offers an astute and enduring diagnosis of the maladies of bourgeois epistemology

Otto Skorzeny, Hitler's favorite soldier and Germany's top commando in World War II, is one of the most famous men in the history of special forces. His extraordinary wartime career was one of high risk and adventure, and here he tells the full story. When Mussolini was imprisoned in Italy in 1943, it was Skorzeny who successfully led the daring glider rescue, winning the Knight's Cross and promotion as a result. Skorzeny's talents were brough...

Who Becomes a Terrorist and Why? is the shocking landmark government study that predicted who would terrorize the United States and how they would do it. In an attempt to profile what members of society join terrorist groups such and commit acts of violence, the report drew on government documents that profiled current and past terrorist cults and their leaders. The study includes a glossary with profiles of terrorist groups that wish harm the...

The rags-to-riches story of one of America’s wealthiest and least-known financial giants, self-made billionaire Kirk KerkorianKirk Kerkorian was a pioneering American aviator, movie mogul, risk taker, and business tycoon who transformed Las Vegas and Hollywood to become one of this country’s leading financiers. His life story demonstrates the cool daring of a World War II pilot, the grit of a scrappy boxer, the cunning of an inscrutable poker ...

Andrea Portes, la autora best seller de La anatomía de una inadaptada y El otoño de las mariposas vuelve con otra irresistible heroína sarcástica en esta nueva novela.¿Qué es un héroe? Paige Nolan lo sabe. Edward Raynes, el joven que expone las técnicas inconstitucionales de espionaje de América, es un héroe, incluso si la mitad del país piensa que es un traidor. O los padres de Paige, periodistas que fueron capturados por terroristas por cont...

A TENUOUS PEACEAkira and his classmates have called a truce, yet how long will it last? The humans have zombie blood on their hands and members of the basketball team are stockpiling weapons. The zombies decide to release Furuchi-but is it an act of peace or a scheme? The unimaginable is about to happen right in front of Akira's eyes!

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A masterful survey of the history of marxist philosophy of science

When 26 year old Sophie asks Tom how he feels about them living together, he replies, "I will give you a year." Being so much older than Sophie, Tom didn't think it would be right for their relationship to continue indefinitely, wonderful though it was and of a kind neither of them would ever have again.

Collects "Super Powers Vol. 1" #1-5, "Super Powers Vol. 2" #1-6 and "Super Powers Vol. 3" #1-4, originally published from 1984-1986.

From Ann Cleeves-New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows-comes Hidden Depths. "Ann Cleeves is one of my favorite mystery writers."-Louise Penny On a hot summer on the Northumberland coast, Julie Armstrong arrives home from a night out to find her son murdered. Luke has been strangled, laid out in a bath of water and covered with wild flowers. This stylized murder scene...