 | Asian Indian Americans (We Are America)
Publication Date: April 1, 2003| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
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 | Murder at Mansfield Park: A Novel
Release Date: July 20, 2010"Nobody, I believe, has ever found it possible to like the heroine of Mansfield Park." --Lionel TrillingIn this ingenious new twist on Mansfield Park, the famously meek Fanny Price--whom Jane Austen's own mother called "insipid"--has been utterly transformed; she is now a rich heiress who is spoiled, condescending, and generally hated throughout the county. Mary Crawford, on the other hand, is now as good as Fanny is bad, and suffers great indignities at the hands of her vindictive neighbor. It's only after Fanny is...
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 | Edward Trencom's Nose: A Novel of History, Dark Intrigue, and Cheese
Release Date: June 24, 2008Situated on London’s Foster Lane, there is a quintessentially Georgian, redbrick house with a green door bearing the sign trencoms, 1662. It’s the home of the Trencom family’s cheese store, a generational establishment begun by Humphrey Trencom that now, 303 years later, is run by Edward Trencom. Quaint though it may seem, it bears witness to a strange occurrence of “accidents” that seem to befall every generation of the curd-loving family.… Edward Tren...
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 | Awaiting Fullness : A Collection of Dark Poetry 1994 - 2000
Publication Date: December 1, 2000In "Awaiting Fullness," Baxter explores the darker muse of lyrical expression and unleashes a gothically beautiful stream of thoughts and images from the realm of horror poetry. Once delivered into her skillful hands, the reader has no choice but to follow along into a world of nightmares, questions and philosophical fantasies. From her fatalistic dark sonnets to her hard hitting meditations on life, Jane Timm Baxter shares countless raw emotions and invites you to do the same as we all go through life, awaiting fullness and understanding. ...
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 | Shakespeare and the Grammar of Forgiveness
Publication Date: April 8, 2011Shakespeare lived at a time when England was undergoing the revolution in ritual theory and practice we know as the English Reformation. With it came an unprecedented transformation in the language of religious life. Whereas priests had once acted as mediators between God and men through sacramental rites, Reformed theology declared the priesthood of all believers. What ensued was not the tidy replacement of one doctrine by another but a long and messy conversation about the conventions of religious life and practice. In this brilliant and strikingly original b...
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 | The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age (Revealing Antiquity)
Publication Date: August 11, 1998| ISBN-10: 067464364X | ISBN-13: 978-0674643642The culture of the ancient Greeks has often been described as emerging like a miracle from a genius of its own, owing practically nothing to its neighbours. Walter Burkert offers a decisive argument against that view, pointing toward a more balanced picture of the archaic period "in which, under the influence of the Semitic East - from writers, craftsmen, merchants, healers - Greek culture began its unique flowering, soon to assume cultural hegemony in the Mediterranean". ...
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 | Reflections in the Nile
Publication Date: March 1997After entering an ancient chamber on an archaeological dig, Cloe Kingsley is sent back in time to the year 1452 B.C. to the Egyptian court of Hatshepsut and into the body of a corrupt priestess, where she is now forced to face her new environment and the challenges it holds. A first novel. ...
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 | Sämtliche Werke: In 8 Bänden: Herausgegeben von Otto Buek; Band 1: Die Abenteuer Tschitschikows oder Die toten Seelen (German Edition)
Release Date: July 8, 2001This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1909 edition by Georg Müller, München; Leipzig. ...
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 | X-Babies: Stars Reborn
Publication Date: June 16, 2010| Grade Level: 4 and up...
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 | Knockabeg: A Famine Tale
Publication Date: August 27, 2001| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up The mortals of Knockabeg have suffered through potato famines before, but never one caused by a Destruction Curse. Now the selfish faeries hold the fate of the village in their wee hands. Only they can defeat the silver-winged enemies who laid the curse. Armed with sky-nets and darts, the Trooping Ones gallop through the clouds to do battle. All except Sticky. The eccentric, unpredictable Sticky has other plans. A member of the Queen’s High Council and faery guardian to an eleven-year-old boy, she stays beh...
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 | Shades of Gray
Publication Date: May 1999| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up At the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Will, having lost all his immediate family, reluctantly leaves his city home to live in the Virginia countryside with his aunt and the uncle he considers a "traitor" because he refused to fight in the war. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
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 | Climate Change (True Books: Ecosystems)
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 | Technology Studies: Focus on Food Book 2 (Bk.2)
Publication Date: November 1, 1993Technology Studies:Focus on Food Book 2 is written within the context of Technology Studies using food.This text is suitable for Technological Design and Developments, and Materials and Technology.Technological Design and Development:Technological Design and Development focuses on the key concept of design.This enables students to find practical solutions to problems.In solving a food-related problem, students are encouraged to apply foot theory and practice to the management, production and presentation of food.The student is presented with the social, econ...
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 | En 1492 / In 1492 (Mariposa) (Spanish Edition)
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 | Kellie Pickler (Dream Big: American Idol Superstars)
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 | Sikh Festivals Throughout the Year (Year of Festivals)
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 | Bill Gates: Software Genius of Microsoft (Internet Biographies)
Publication Date: January 2003| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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 | The Constitutional History of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America
Publication Date: April 10, 2009This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. ...
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 | Protecting Your Wealth in Good Times and Bad
Publication Date: April 18, 2003This title offers techniques for individual investors to safeguard their money, even when markets fall back. When attempting to "time" their way around market downturns, individual investors are up against thousands of professionals who are paid billions of dollars to do the same. Throw in unpredictable, marketspooking world events, and the odds against investment success can become even worse. "Protecting Your Wealth in Good Times and Bad" shows investors how to invest for the total market, not just for individual phases, and build a portfolio to weather all ...
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 | An act to amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act, to prevent identity theft, improve resolution of consumer disputes, improve the accuracy of consumer ... and consumer access to, credit information.
Publication Date: January 22, 2011The BiblioGov Project is an effort to expand awareness of the public documents and records of the U.S. Government via print publications.In broadening the public understanding of government and its work, an enlightened democracy can grow and prosper.Ranging from historic Congressional Bills to the most recent Budget of the United States Government, the BiblioGov Project spans a wealth of government information.These works are now made available through an environmentally friendly, print-on-demand basis, using only what is necessary to meet the required deman...
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