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Skateboards, football games, prom...your teenage years have got nothin' on the raddest dude that's ever graced a denim vest. Written and illustrated by Jake Lawrence (Time Cowboy), join Teen Dog and his BFF Mariella as they tackle typical teen life with a manic twist. Growing up ...
An interdisciplinary guide of lessons and readings on analysing the roots of racism; investigating the impact of racism on lives and communities; examining the relationship between racism and other forms of oppression such as sexism, classism and heterosexism; and ideas for disma...
When Gabriel North, a spider in the murky webs of Elizabethan politics, prevents an assassination attempt on the life of Queen Elizabeth, he is not rewarded but instead is sent by royal power-mongers to the fledgling colony of Roanoke in America. His mission is to seduce a young ...
An anthology of essays by scientists and scholars examining the growing ideological threats to science, academic freedom, and open inquiry. Covers topics from merit-based hiring to ideological censorship in education and research, calling for renewed protection of scientific inte...
Provides information on chameleons in general by looking at the specific example of the panther chameleon.
A compassionate "comedy of values" probes the growing pains of seven college housemates from the 1960's who have drifted apart and have been reunited at the funeral of a friend.
This collection celebrates 'the classic sound of Hollywood' in two ways. The first disc restores some long-unavailable recordings made for the acclaimed Classic Film Scores series recorded in the early 1970s by conductor Charles Gerhardt. The second disc samples definitive moment...
"Eleven powerful pieces first published in The New Yorker recall the path terror in the Middle East has taken from the rise of al-Qaeda in the 1990s to the recent beheadings of reporters and aid workers by ISIS. With the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright ...
Dirty dancing: The summer of 1963 innocent 17-year-old Baby vacations with her parents at a Catskill's resort. One evening she is drawn to the staff quarters by stirring music. There she meets Johnny, the hotel dance instructor, who is as experienced as Baby is naive. Baby soon b...
Highlights the life and accomplishments of the young actress known for her roles in "Winter's Bone" and "The Hunger Games."
John James Audubon's story is dramatic and surprising. He was not born in America, but saw more of the North American continent than virtually anyone alive. His growing apprehension about the destruction of nature became his prophecy. As an artist and naturalist his achievements ...
Lawrence E. Crane, troubleshooter for the Chicago & Far Western Railroad, rode into Warbow prepared for the worst. Urgently summoned by the local land agent for the railroad, Crane found the town on the brink of explosive violence. A troop of calvalry stationed there refused to h...
For millions of Muslims, the Qur'an is sacred only in Arabic, the original Arabic in which it was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad in the seventh century; to many Arab and non-Arab believers alike, the book literally defies translation. Yet English translations exist and are grow...
Arriving in a new town, twenty-five-year-old merchant Kraft Lawrence tries to balance his growing feelings for his traveling companion Holo, the ancient pagan wolf-goddess of the harvest, with his desire to make a profit in the fur trade.
Sandra Steingraber, biologist, poet and survivor of cancer in her twenties, brings all three perspectives to bear on the most important health and human rights issue of our time: the growing body of evidence linking cancer to environmental contamination. Her scrupulously research...
"With The Firm, financial journalist Duff McDonald pulled back the curtain on consulting giant McKinsey and Company. In The Golden Passport, he reveals the inner works of a singular nexus of power, ambition, and influence: Harvard Business School. Harvard University still occup...