Thinker, writer, diplomat, feminist Rosario Castellanos was emerging as one of Mexico's major literary figures before her untimely death in 1974. This sampler of her work brings together her major poems, short fiction, essays, and a three-act play, The Eternal Feminine. Translated with fidelity to l..
Take your sweet tooth on a global tour! Whether you’re indulging in Australian pavlova, Japanese mochi, or Italian panettone, it’s just not a celebration without cake. In this delectable cookbook, Krystina Castella offers more than 150 irresistible cake recipes from around the world, accompanied by ..
Is today's language at an all-time low Are pronunciations like cawfee and chawklit bad English Is slang like my bad or hook up improper Is it incorrect to mix English and Spanish, as in Yo quiero Taco Bell Can you write Who do you trust rather than Whom do you trust Linguist Edwin Battistella ..
The public and its institutions continue to demand that law enforcement intervene with persons considered mentally ill by the mental health profession. The laws enacted have proven to be temporary solutions, unable to address the deeper philosophic and political controversies within the mental healt..
George lost weight with Stella Style: “eating fresh foods, using low-carb ingredients to reinvent your old favorites, developing better eating habits, and, most of all-eating food you love!” And he wasn't the only one: The entire Stella family shed more than 560 pounds.In Livin' Low Carb, George has..
"Age and size ain't got nothin' to do with it," Mack's daddy once said. "You gotta want to be a cowboy."Mack Hughes wanted to be a cowboy, all right, and he was just twelve years old when he went to work for the famous Hashknife spread in northern Arizona. Growing up on the range, Mack lived a life ..
From the red-light districts in Ciudad Juárez to remote villages hidden away in the mountains of Chihuahua comes a tale of one of the darkest crimes to be recorded in the history of humankind. If I Die in Juárez traces the lives of three young women-Evita, a street child; Petra, a maquiladora worker..
Traces the emotional and intellectual development from infancy to adolescence and suggests that parents match their expectations and attitudes to a child's individual temperament Author: Chess, Stella Publisher: Basic Books Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0465037313 ISBN-13: 9780465037..
Today's parents are faced with a wealth of exciting but often confusing new ideas about child development and parent-child relationships. In this liberating and enlightening book, Stella Chess and Alexander Thomas, whose pioneering studies have earned them a worldwide reputation, draw on their own a..
Key Benefit:Nutrition: From Science to You builds on the strengths of its sister book Nutrition & You and takes a personal approach to introductory nutrition in the majors market. This book is geared towards visual learners and aids readers in applying the material they learn to themselves and their..
Una obra maestra de la literatura de ficción latinoamericana escrita por la mejor autora mexicana del siglo veinte.Oficio de Tinieblas La novela transpose acontecimientos históricos ocurridos en Chiapas durante la niñez de la autora en los años treinta y explora, al mismo tiempo, la lucha de la muje..
As gambling becomes more prevalent and more accessible in our society, pathological gambling is growing as a serious problem. In most instances, excessive gambling negatively affects a persons home, social, and professional life, as well as leads to serious financial trouble. In repeated trials, cog..
Strengthen workforce and employee engagement in today’s “new normal” organizational environment! Today’s workforces, today’s companies, and today’s business environments have all changed radically: even if the economy improves, companies will stay lean, and continue to rely heavily on contingent wor..
Spycraft, intrigue, and danger abound in Stella Rimington's newest Liz Carlyle novel. When a British-born Pakistani is discovered among a gang of pirates attacking a cargo ship off the Somalian coast, alarm bells start ringing at London's Thames House. MI5 intelligence officer Carlyle is brought in ..
THE ART OF THE GAME defines the dynamics of public policy, elucidates the complexity intrinsic to each stage of the policy process, and delves into the implications of public policy for American politics and society. Illustrating concepts and theories relevant to the policy process, the text incorpo..
Product DescriptionRick and Suzanna Wamsley were well-loved in their Mansfield, Texas, community. Former high-school sweethearts, they provided their two children with every comfort. But their twenty-year-old son, Andrew, had a bitter, rebellious streak...and resented his parents for making him go t..
Text and pop-up illustrations relate a little boy's adventures when his favorite blanket takes him and his teddy on a trip through the sky. Author: Farris, Stella Publisher: Harper & Row Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0060218797 ISBN-13: 9780060218799..
Product DescriptionThe SAGE Handbook of Conflict Communication: Integrating Theory, Research, and Practice is the first resource to synthesize key theories, research, and practices of conflict communication in a variety of contexts. Editors John Oetzel and Stella Ting-Toomey, as well as expert resea..
Covering everything you need to know to succeed in college, this book helps you to develop the skills you need to improve your grades, build your confidence and plan the future you want. Its no-nonsense advice and practical activities will help you to identify those methods that work for you, making..
If you are serious about succeeding on your course, The Study Skills Handbook is your essential companion. Based on over 20 years' experience of working with students, 1/2 million copy bestselling author Stella Cottrell helps you develop the skills you need to improve your grades, build your confide..
Working Space affords a rare opportunity to view painting from the inside out, through the eyes of one of the world’s most prominent abstract painters. Frank Stella describes his perception of other artists’ work, as well as his own, in this handsomely illustrated volume.Stella uses the crisis of re..