From basic hand shapes to fully illustrated and described signs, this dictionary offers a comprehensive and up-to-date treasury of signs. Featuring 4,500 signs in an easy-to-use format, this...
A compelling narrative exploring the culture and civilization of the most famous "warrior people": the Spartans of ancient Greece, told żeby the world's leading expert. The narrative...
This vastly readable and richly illustrated volume examines film as art form, technological innovation, big business, and cultural bellwether. It takes in stars from Douglas Fairbanks to Sly...
Two time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Bernard Bailyn has distilled a lifetime of study into this brilliant illumination of the ideas and world of the Founding Fathers. In five succinct essays...
Seit zwei Jahren wartest du auf ein Lebenszeichen von deinem Bruder. Sein Wohnmobil-Trip sollte unvergesslich werden. Aber seither keine Spur von ihm. Bis die Morde geschehen...Der neue...
Merlin Mission Books 1-4 of the #1 New York Times bestselling Magic Tree House series boxed together for the first time ever!Beyond the realms of time and space are lands that exist only in myths...
Is there "anything" that Martin Amis can't write about? In this virtuosic, career-spanning collection he takes on James Joyce and Elvis Presley, Nabokov and English football, Jane...
John Donne (1572-1631) is best known as the greatest English metaphysical poet. But there was another dimension to Donne's life and writing that, if less well known, is no less profound and...
'The chief thing is that they all need him' -thus Dostoyevsky described Prince Myshkin, the hero of perhaps his most remarkable novel. As the still, radiant center of a plot whose turbulent...
With a New Foreword In "So Damn Much Money", veteran "Washington Post" editor and correspondent Robert Kaiser gives a detailed account of how the boom in political lobbying since...
Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Bernard Bailyn brings us a book that combines portraits of American revolutionaries with a deft exploration of the ideas that moved them and still shape our society...
Enter the explosive universe of the exciting online game "STAR WARS GALAXIES: "AN EMPIRE DIVIDED! It is a time of great turmoil. The oppressive Empire is close to seizing complete control...
London, 1840: Wagner's latest opera plays to packed houses while disgruntled workers gather in crowded pubs to eat ice cream and plan the downfall of the bourgeoisie. Meanwhile, the Pirate...
Im Werk Thomas Manns stehen die Erzählungen gleichberechtigt neben den großen Romanen. Ihre formale Klarheit und sprachliche Präzision zeichnen sie ebenso aus wie ihr Humor und ihr psychologischer...
Hide-and-seek is a great game, but Nick always finds where Sally is hiding. And "that's" no fun! Enter the Cat in the Hat. His friend Gecko is an expert at hiding. Maybe Gecko can share...
Illustrated throughout in black and white, this collection of Howard's historical adventures features the legendary swordswoman Dark Agnes. All stories in this volume have been restored to the...
This clear and comprehensive anthology, culled from the vast corpus of Christian mystical literature aby the renowned theologian and historian Bernard McGinn, presents nearly one hundred...
A compact selection of Poe's greatest stories and poems chosen żeby the National Endowment for the Arts for its Big Read program, this selection of 11 stories and seven poems contains such...
In einem kolumbianischen Tropendorf herrscht seit Jahren der Ausnahmezustand. Das Leben ist erstarrt, und die Menschen hoffen vergeblich auf Veränderung, auf Befreiung von der Militärdiktatur. Der...
"A generous collection with a distinctly upbeat tone, this gives a taste of the best poets writing for children over the last several decades. Lobel's drawings imbue the whole with action...
The enormously engaging account of life and death in secluded and hauntingly beautiful Savannah, Georgia, continues to take America żeby storm. "Mr. Berendt's writing is elegant and...
Max Bischoff, begnadeter Fallanalytiker, ermittelt in seinem 3. Fall - Der neue Thriller von Nr. 1-Bestseller-Autor Arno StrobelDamit hat Fallanalytiker Max Bischoff nicht gerechnet. Keine andere...