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A Portrait of New York City in the Roaring Twenties
A portrait of NewYork City in the roaring twenties....
An Unfinished Novel
The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routi...
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Philosophy of physics is concerned with the deepest theories of modern physics - notably quantum...
A Story of the Future
**SUNDAY TIMES AND THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** 'An epoch-defining book' Matt Haig 'If you read just one work of non-fiction this year, it should p...
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In Boccaccio's innovative text, ten young people leave Florence to escape the Black Death of 1348, and organize their collective life in the countrysi...
Quantum Theory According to the Everett Interpretation
Presenting a striking new account of the 'many worlds' approach to quantum theory, aka the Everett interpretation, David Wallace offers a clear and up...
An Essay on Free Will
Presents David Foster Wallace critiques philosopher Richard Taylor's work implying that humans have no control over the future and includes essays lin...
A New Introduction
Covering Geoffrey Chaucer's life and work, David Wallace considers the influence and enduring appeal of his body of writing, exploring the wide rangin...
Calais to Surinam, Chaucer to Aphra Behn
This book recovers places appearing in the mental mapping of medieval and Renaissance writers, from Chaucer to Aphra Behn. A highly original work, whi...
American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928
The last "Indian War" was fought against Native American children in the dormitories and classrooms of government boarding schools. Only by removing I...
Japan's Secret Biological Warfare in World War II
Why was evidence of Japanese bacteriological and chemical warfare not presented at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal and what part did America play in the...
A collection of reports from British liaison officers operating in Greece 1943-44. They are historically important both for the information they conta...
Romans as Paul's Aeneid
When Paul pens his letter to the Roman believers, he writes as a missionary to strengthen a church at the center of imperial power, choosing language ...
Intersections of Literature and History in Fifteenth-century England
Centered on practices of the body-human bodies, the "body politic"-Bodies and Disciplines considers a fascinating and largely uncanonical group of tex...
Originally writing over 600 years ago, Geoffrey Chaucer is today enjoying a global renaissance. Why do poets, translators, and audiences from so many ...
Shattering the Myths of Literacy
Argues to redefine reading and discusses the role of technology in the new literacy, outlining steps to help teachers and parents encourage children's...
Life After Warming
This report, first published in 1996, argues that radical changes in industrial organization and its relationship to society tend to arise in rapidly ...
Advanced Java Game Programming teaches you how to create desktop and Internet computer games using the latest Java programming language techniques. Wh...
(Limelight). Fleeing Nazi persecution, half of Europe's creative talents, including screen legend Greta Garbo and composer Igor Stravinsky, were, in A...
Coming of Age in a Southwest Borderland, 1890–1990
“Someday,” Candelaria Garcia said to the author, “you will get all the stories.” It was a tall order, in Magdalena, New Mexico, a once booming...
Japanʹs Secret Biolog. Warfare in World War II
Building a world of responses from one story/50 interactive strategies for increasing comprehension
One 200-year-old folk tale, 30 teachers, and 1,000 students. Ride along with literacy guru David Booth as he takes the same story to a wide variety of...
David Wallace's examination of the aims and literary affiliations of Boccaccio's early writings provides an indispensable preface to and context for a...
"It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the ...
An exploration of the devastating effects of global warming—current and future—adapted for young adults from the #1 New York Times bestseller. Thi...
This seminal guide to school literacy programs offers an overview of the most successful strategies education leaders can use to build a powerful read...
Strategies in Europe, the USA and Japan
This book, originally published in 1995, examines the evolution of environmental policy in 6 OECD countries. Through numerous examples, it contrasts t...
The Japanese Army's Secret of Secrets
Crime is a matter of interpretation, and never was this truer than in the Middle Ages, when societies faced with new ideas and pressures were continua...
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How Celebrities Made Palm Springs a Gay and Lesbian Paradise
"Palm Springs, California, is today probably the most famous gay and lesbian resort in the world. Not only do thousands of gays and lesbians descend o...
Sharing Poetry with Children
Discusses children's poetry, the techniques and forms of poetry, and related topics, and provides advice for teachers on such aspects of using poetry ...