Author : Stuart J. Murphy
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 31,69 MB
Release : 2003-08-14
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0060001267
Perry the Penguin needs 9 clams to buy an ice scooter -- but he's not very good at saving. As Perry earns, spends, finds, loses, and borrows clams, a simple line graph demonstrates the concept of negative numbers.
Author : Bret Easton Ellis
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 12,87 MB
Release : 2010-06-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307756467
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The timeless classic from the acclaimed author of American Psycho about the lost generation of 1980s Los Angeles who experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early an age. • The basis for the cult-classic film "Possesses an unnerving air of documentary reality." —The New York Times They live in a world shaped by casual nihilism, passivity, and too much money in a place devoid of feeling or hope. When Clay comes home for Christmas vacation from his Eastern college, he re-enters a landscape of limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy, where everyone drives Porsches, dines at Spago, and snorts mountains of cocaine. He tries to renew feelings for his girlfriend, Blair, and for his best friend from high school, Julian, who is careering into hustling and heroin. Clay's holiday turns into a dizzying spiral of desperation that takes him through the relentless parties in glitzy mansions, seedy bars, and underground rock clubs and also into the seamy world of L.A. after dark. Look for Bret Easton Ellis’s new novel, The Shards!
Author : Joanne Mattern
Publisher : Britannica Digital Learning
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 45,5 MB
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1615357726
This math concept book engages young readers through simple text and photos as they learn about comparing things in a group by more than and less than.
Author : Kathleen L. Stone
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 31,50 MB
Release : 2016-10-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781539166672
Spend the day with Gavin the Gator as he travels through his swamp looking for tasty numbers to eat. Swimming through the swamp, He's a skilled navigator. And only makes a meal Of the numbers that are greater. Children will enjoy learning about greater than and less than equations as they help decide which number Gavin will eat. Interaction is encouraged throughout the story. Enrichment activities are included at the end of the book. The charming illustrations, along with the rhythm and rhyme of the text, will draw children into the story as they learn this important math skill.
Author : Karla Dougherty
Publisher : Da Capo Lifelong Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 20,99 MB
Release : 2008-11-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 078672711X
Bipolar II is a form of bipolar disorder in which a person, when in a manic cycle, is crippled by anxiety, irritability, and highs just intense enough to be embarrassing. Instead of being the life of the party, someone with Bipolar II might be too nervous to go to the party at all. And, unlike the Bipolar I sufferer who may attempt suicide in a depressive cycle, the Bipolar II might be incapacitated by guilt over an imaginary crime. In Less than Crazy, health writer and Bipolar II sufferer Karla Dougherty shares her story, presenting the first patient-expert's guide to recognizing and living well with this condition. Covering both adults and children, this accessible, all-in-one resource includes information on diagnosis, conditions that may mimic Bipolar II, and treatments.
Author : Mercedes Lackey
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 893 pages
File Size : 11,9 MB
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1618246577
HEIR TO A THRONE¾OR TO A GRAVE When it became certain that Edward VI was dying, the duke of Northumberland, who had been ruling England in his name, made a plan that would let him hold onto his power. He dared not let Mary come to the throne because she was fiercely Catholic and he had espoused the Protestant cause. And he did not want Elizabeth to rule because he knew her imperious nature would never defer to him. But there was more than one puppet master at work: The evil elf lord Vidal Dhu had no intention of losing the flood of power the misery of Mary's reign would bring the Dark Court, and intervened so that Mary was proclaimed queen. Urged by her Chancellor and the Imperial ambassador to order Elizabeth's death, Mary chose a different path to insure that Elizabeth would never reign. Mary decided to marry and bear a child to be the Catholic heir. Vidal Dhu, replete with power from the pain and terror of Mary's burning of heretics, agreed with Mary. Vidal Dhu had very special plans for Mary's child. And since Oberon and Titania had disappeared, there now was no one except the double pair of twins to stand between the mortals of England and the rule of Evil. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). Praise for Mercedes Lackey: "She'll keep you up long past your bedtime." ¾Stephen King "A writer whose work I've loved all along." ¾Marion Zimmer Bradley "[Lackey is] an undoubted mistress of the well-told tale." ¾Booklist "Lackey is one of the best storytellers in the field." ¾ Locus "(Lackey's fantasy] leaves us simultaneously satisfied and longing for more." ¾Realms of Fantasy "[Lackey] packs as much action, suspense and twisting of conventions into one novel as many writers invest in whole trilogies." ¾Amazing Stones Praise for Roberta Gellis: "A superb storyteller of extraordinary talent." ¾John fakes "[Roberta Gellis is] a master of the medieval historical." ¾ Publishers Weekly "One of the romance genre's most formidable talents._._._." ¾ Romantic Times "Ms. Gellis has become an extraordinary mythteller." ¾The Paperback Forum "Let's hope the world of fantasy can steal Gellis from romance novels more often." ¾Science Fiction Chronicle "Roberta Gellis has already established herself as a great author in the |romantic fantasy genre._._._." ¾Affaire de Coeur
Author : Joseph Brodsky
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 31,89 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0374520550
Includes essays on Russian writers, Western poets, politics, and the author's native city, Leningrad.
Author : David Livingstone Smith
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 19,98 MB
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1429968567
Winner of the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction A revelatory look at why we dehumanize each other, with stunning examples from world history as well as today's headlines "Brute." "Cockroach." "Lice." "Vermin." "Dog." "Beast." These and other monikers are constantly in use to refer to other humans—for political, religious, ethnic, or sexist reasons. Human beings have a tendency to regard members of their own kind as less than human. This tendency has made atrocities like the Holocaust, the genocide in Rwanda, and the slave trade possible, and yet we still find it in phenomena such as xenophobia, homophobia, military propaganda, and racism. Less Than Human draws on a rich mix of history, psychology, biology, anthropology and philosophy to document the pervasiveness of dehumanization, describe its forms, and explain why we so often resort to it. David Livingstone Smith posits that this behavior is rooted in human nature, but gives us hope in also stating that biological traits are malleable, showing us that change is possible. Less Than Human is a chilling indictment of our nature, and is as timely as it is relevant.
Author : Richard Mitchell
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,60 MB
Release : 2000-08
Category : English language
ISBN : 9781888173673
Author : Barbara Pym
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 18,89 MB
Release : 2013-01-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1453279644
A tale of a woman’s romantic entanglements with two anthropologists—and the odd mating habits of humans—from the author of Jane and Prudence. Catherine Oliphant writes for women’s magazines and lives comfortably with anthropologist Tom Mallow—although she’s starting to wonder if they’ll ever get married. Then Tom drops his bombshell: He’s leaving her for a nineteen-year-old student. Though stunned by Tom’s betrayal, Catherine quickly becomes fascinated by another anthropologist, Alaric Lydgate, a reclusive eccentric recently returned from Africa. As Catherine starts to weigh her options, she must figure out who she is and what she really wants. With a lively cast of characters and a witty look at the insular world of academia, this novel from the much-loved author of Excellent Women and other modern classics is filled with poignant, playful observations about the traits that separate us from our anthropological forebears—far fewer than we may imagine.
