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By the time Julian Wyatt jogs his way to the local public house for his nightly orange juice, Oscar Mansfield is already on his fourth whisky. One sight of the perspiring executive gives the magnanimous Oscar a brilliant idea. A guaranteed earner, with a touch of the lottery thrown in… What if one w...

2 350 términos que exponen un repertorio de las posibilidades de filosofar desde la antigua Grecia hasta la actualidad. No incluye nombres propios aunque sí términos que se refieren a la doctrina de un filósofo o una escuela....

The winner of 2015 Hugo Award. Winner of the Nebula Award. The Three-Body Problem is a masterpiece of enormous scope and vision, written by Cixin, Liu, the most prevailing science fiction writer in China today and tells a story set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution. Back in those d...

Explore the True Origins of a Majestic Civilization.For centuries, devoted scholars have endeavored to penetrate the mystery of Ancient Egypt, the stone-age culture that abruptly rose to create the greatest civilization of known history. Champollion, founder of Egyptology, was the first of a thousan...

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From Kimberly Seals-Allers, the creator of the Mocha Manual™ series, and coauthor Pamela McBride, a seasoned military wife, comes the ultimate guide to life, love, and logistics for military spouses, girlfriends, and female service members. Whether you're just beginning to date a military man and po...

Kids can build vocabulary and eye-hand coordination while learning numbers...

On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on supported catalysts with precious metal or precious metal compounds as active substances in United Kingdom face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying supported catalysts with precious metal or precious metal compounds as...

“The hottest sleuth to appear in children’s books since Nancy Drew” (The Boston Globe) is back! Don’t miss the eighth book in the series that’s been described as “a combination of Carl Hiaasen’s Flush and Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum books” (School Library Journal) and hailed as “nonstop whoduni...

The author and his brother were born in Nazi Germany at the beginning of World War II. Heroes from the Attic recounts their childhood of danger, starvation, homelessness and ill-matched parents.Eventually, their mother sent them to relatives in America who immediately enslaved them on separate farms...

CUA Press is proud to announce the CUA Studies in Canon Law. In conjunction with the School of Canon Law of the Catholic University of America, we are making available, both digitally and in print, more than 400 canon law dissertations from the 1920s - 1960s, many of which have long been unavailable...

In the late nineteenth century, many Central American governments and countries sought to fill low-paying jobs and develop their economies by recruiting black American and West Indian laborers. Frederick Opie offers a revisionist interpretation of these workers, who were often depicted as simple vic...

What if you're living in the wrong reality?Doesn't everyone want the good life these days? Our shopping mall world offers us a never-ending array of pleasures to explore. Consumerism promises us a vision of heaven on earth-a reality that's hyper-real. We've all experienced hyperreality: a candy so '...

Story of father and son, of our battles against alcohol and drugs as we both searched to find God. One lived to tell the story, the other did not. Son attracted to the culture of sex, drugs and rock-an-roll. Seventh-day Adventist father has own battles with alcohol and has trouble accepting son's dr...

Elaine Mayes has been crisscrossing the US, never remaining in one place for more than three or four months at a time. Recently is full of stylistically eclectic photographs that represent the rebellious young people of the 1950s and 60s.Elaine Mayes’ photographic work encompasses documentary, poeti...

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Excerpt from Fifteen Institute Lessons in Language Arithmetic and U. S. HistoryFrequently, as a pupil reads, the rest of the class should be required to close their books and turn their attention directly to what 18 being read when the reader is through, the teacher should question the listeners car...

Excerpt from Scotland's Story: A History of Scotland for Boys and Girls IT is very nice, ' said Caledonia, as she closed her book with a sigh; but why did you not tell us stories of Scotland?' Because there was no need. That has been done already by a great and clever man.' Oh, but children sometime...

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The first in a thrilling new action series combining international football and international espionage...

The expressive potential of light captures the imagination of makers and designers from all sorts of disciplines. Based on interviews with more than forty global makers, this long-overdue review of the state of contemporary craft lighting explores the inspirations and methods of the best artists wor...

Introduces the holiday Cinco de Mayo and describes how it is celebrated in Mexico and in the United States....