America is a nation making itself up as it goes along a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In these myriad, multiform, endlessly changing expressions of the American experience, the authors and ed..
The stories in A World of Fiction, Second Edition, by Sybil Marcus, embrace a variety of themes, literary and linguistic styles, and time frames. Advanced students will sharpen their reading, speaking, vocabulary, and writing skills as they discover the pleasure and reward of reading fiction.This an..
Product Description More than 400 facts of African-American history, covering such topics as history, politics, customs, holidays, business, education, arts, entertainment, sports, and African-American firsts. From the Inside Flap More than 400 facts of African-American history, covering such topics..
152p large format paperback with b/w photographs throughout, pages clean, binding firm, some mild discolouring to front board Author: Andrasko, Kenneth and Marcus Halevi: Publisher: Boston: Little: Brown & Co 1977. Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0316338796 ISBN-13: 9780316338790..
With its distinctive focus on ordinary people, this primary documents reader offers a remarkable range of perspectives on America’s history from those who lived it - from Jews in the Early Republic to strikers at an auto plant in 1940s Detroit, and from a Civil War battlefield nurse to a 1990s dot.c..
/ 9780140177589 / History of literature / Engels / English / Anglais / Englisch / soft cover / 12 x 19 cm / 400 .pp / Author: Cunliffe, Marcus Publisher: Penguin Books Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0140177582 ISBN-13: 9780140177589..
In this concise and startling book, the author of One-Dimensional Man argues that the time for utopian speculation has come. Marcuse argues that the traditional conceptions of human freedom have been rendered obsolete by the development of advanced industrial society. Social theory can no longer con..
An introductory text explaining the nature, properties, sources, uses, and effects of electrical energy Author: Marcus, Abraham Publisher: Prentice Hall Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0130601527 ISBN-13: 9780130601520..
Stephen Vardeman and J. Marcus Jobe's motivating new book is appropriate for students in introductory engineering statistics courses, including chemical, mechanical, environmental, civil, electrical, and industrial. The authors stress the practical issues in data collection and the interpretation of..
The common seaman and the pirate in the age of sail are romantic historical figures who occupy a special place in the popular culture of the modern age. And yet in many ways, these daring men remain little known to us. Like most other poor working people of the past, they left few first-hand account..
Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other's hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that described the dangerous pleasures of corporal punishment. A few had sexual relationships with each other, exchanged rings and vows, willed each other ..
An in depth and scholarly report on the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), an essential actor on behalf of modern-day KurdsThe Kurds, who number some 28 million people in the Middle East, have no country they can call their own. Long ignored by the West, Kurds are now highly visible actors on the world..
One of the greatest entrepreneurial success stories of the past twenty yearsWhen a friend told Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank that "you've just been hit in the ass by a golden horseshoe," they thought he was crazy. After all, both had just been fired. What the friend, Ken Langone, meant was that the..
As consul in 63 BC Cicero faced a conspiracy to overthrow the Roman state launched by the frustrated consular candidate Lucius Sergius Catilina. Cicero's handling of this crisis would shape foreverafter the way he defined himself and his statesmanship. The four speeches he delivered during the crisi..
This new translation makes one of the most important texts in ancient philosophy freshly available to modern readers. Cicero was an intelligent and well-educated amateur philosopher, and in this work he presents the major ethical theories of his time in a way designed to get the reader philosophical..
Ratti and McWaters have combined years of lecture notes and firsthand experience with students to bring readers a book series that teaches at the same level and in the style as the best math instructors. An extensive array of exercises and learning aids further complements the instruction readers wo..
Advance praise for Corporate-Level Strategy. "At last a book that cuts through all the corporate jargon and academic generalizations to answer the question 'Does the corporate parent create or destroy value for the organization ' The authors suggest a simple yet compelling framework for making this ..
In this book an eyewitness to the breakup of Yugoslavia provides the first full and impartial account of the rise, fall, and rebirth of Croatia from its medieval origins to today`s tentative peace. Marcus Tanner describes the turbulence and drama of Croatia`s past and -drawing on his own experience ..
A number of scholars have found that concepts such as mutation, selection, and random drift, which emerged from the theory of biological evolution, may also explain evolutionary phenomena in other disciplines as well. Drawing on these concepts, Professors Cavalli-Sforza and Feldman classify and syst..
With the publication of Dante's Paradiso, Sandow Birk and Marcus Sanders complete their literary and artistic achievement the retelling of The Divine Comedy in contemporary words and images. Hailed as "inspired" by the The London Review of Books, Birk and Sanders's adaptation of Dante's classic work..
Following the acclaim for their innovative edition of Dante's Inferno, Sandow Birk and Marcus Sanders guide us to the next level of the afterlife in Dante's Purgatorio. The second book of Dante Alighieri's classic poem The Divine Comedy, this version of Purgatorio couples a clever literary adaptatio..
Book by Marcus, Stanley E. Author: Marcus, Stanley E. Publisher: NCROL Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0801415101 ISBN-13: 9780801415104..
She trusted her immense intuition and generous heart--and published the most. Ursula Nordstrom, director of Harper's Department of Books for Boys and Girls from 1940 to 1973, was arguably the single most creative force for innovation in children's book publishing in the United States during the twen..
She trusted her immense intuition and generous heart--and published the most. Ursula Nordstrom, director of Harper's Department of Books for Boys and Girls from 1940 to 1973, was arguably the single most creative force for innovation in children's book publishing in the United States during the twen..