Needlework serves functional purposes, such as providing warmth, but has also communicated individual and social identity, spiritual beliefs, and aesthetic ideals throughout time and geography. Needlework traditions are often associated with rituals and celebrations of life events. Often-overlooke[...]
Valerie's sister was beautiful, kind, and sweet. Now she is dead. Henri, the handsome son of the blacksmith, tries to console Valerie, but her wild heart beats fast for another: the outcast woodcutter, Peter, who offers Valerie another life far from home.
After her sister's violent death, Valer[...]
Valerie's sister was beautiful, kind, and sweet. Now she is dead. Henri, the handsome son of the blacksmith, tries to console Valerie, but her wild heart beats fast for another: the outcast woodcutter, Peter, who offers Valerie another life far from home.
After her sister's violent death, Valer[...]
This book is the distillation of over 25 years of work by one of the world's most renowned computer scientists. A specification is a written description of what a system is supposed to do, plus a way of checking to make sure that it works. Specifying a system helps us understand it. It's a good idea[...]
Focused on the idea that the rules of the physical world can be taught using a conceptual approach that emphasizes qualitative analysis, the Hewitt team has created a text that is highly readable, flexible, and hands-on. Thirty-four concisely written chapters allow you to better select topics to mat[...]
This manual contains interesting lab experiments that use minimal equipment, as well as a wide range of activities similar to the projects in the textbook. These activities guide students to experience phenomena before they quantify the same phenomena in a follow-up laboratory experiment.[...]
Successfully Implement High-Value Configuration Management Processes in Any Development Environment As IT systems have grown increasingly complex and mission-critical, effective configuration management (CM) has become critical to an organization's success. Using CM best practices, IT professionals [...]
Conceptual Physical Science,Fifth Edition, takes learning physical science to a new level by combining Hewitt's leading conceptual approach with a friendly writing style, strong integration of the sciences, more quantitative coverage, and a wealth of media resources to help professors in class, and [...]
This engaging text takes learning physical science to a new level by combining Hewitt's leading conceptual approach with a friendly writing style, strong integration of the sciences, and more quantitative coverage. It provides a conceptual overview of basic, essential topics in physics, chemistry, e[...]
This edition features the exact same content as the traditional book in a convenient, three-hole-punched, loose-leaf version. Books a la Carte also offer a great value for your students--this format costs 35% less than a new textbook.
Conceptual Physical Science, Fifth Edition takes learning phy[...]
'Head and shoulders above almost all other new books about China, this unflinching and yearningly compassionate portrait of the lives and loves of ordinary Chinese workers is quite unforgettable' - Simon Winchester. Every year in China millions of migrant workers leave their rural towns to find jobs[...]
'I am the Saint - you may have heard of me. Just a twentieth-century privateer. In my small way I try to put right a few of the things that are wrong with this cock-eyed world' Simon Templar, aka the Saint. On the side of the law and yet outside it, the Saint, exciting, debonair and very slightly di[...]
Naughty But Nice
by New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis
Lingerie model Cassie Tremaine Montgomery intends to have her revenge on the citizens of her hometown--starting with seducing the sheriff, Sean "Tag" Taggart. Tag, however, isn't cooperating. He's more than willing [...]
"2 Complete Novels for 1 Price "Waking Up to You" A new sizzling Forbidden Fantasy story"Hollywood costume designer Candace Reid would do anything for her gay best friend--even marry him But before giving up on sex for a while, she needs that last fling. Only, when her injured grandfather asks for[...]
Only a firefighter can handle this blaze...
Madison Reid's engagement is a sham. Her movie-star fiance is actually her childhood friend...who's gay. When he decides he can't keep living a lie, Madison ends things by leaking a salacious story about a hot--if fictional--affair. Now surrounded by s[...]
These men in uniform can be counted on to deliver presents...all night long
I'LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS by Leslie Kelly
Rafe and Ellie have always had sizzling chemistry and horrible timing. Being stranded together in a blizzard may be Rafe's opportunity to prove that this Christmas, his timi[...]
Hot for the holidays
Every Halloween party has its share of eye candy, and journalist Chaz Browning has just spotted a treat he can't resist--a deliciously wicked witch with sparkly red hair and deep, dark eyes that promise all kinds of sexy tricks. She wants no names. No strings. Just a night [...]
Perhaps you think fairies are figments of the imagination, or even relics of an ancient past. You may even think all fairies are lovely winged creatures, who dance in bluebell fields, granting wishes to anyone who should encounter them.
You would be wrong on all counts.
Fairies are very [...]
In 1942, with war raging on two fronts and military pilots in short supply, the U.S. Army Air Force enlisted a handful of skilled female aviators to deliver military planes from factories to air bases--expanding the successful program to include more than one thousand women. These superb pilots flew[...]
An eye-opening and previously untold story, "Factory Girls" is the first look into the everyday lives of the migrant factory population in China. China has 130 million migrant workers--the largest migration in human history. In "Factory Girls," Leslie T. Chang, a former correspondent for the" Wall S[...]
A third slipcased compendium of four classic Sherlock Holmes novels features more than 1,000 accompanying notes, 350 illustrations and period photographs, and a wealth of new theories, in a volume that includes the works, A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, and The V[...]
Leslie S. Klinger has reassembled Arthur Conan Doyle's 56 short stories in the order in which they appeared in the original book editions. A cause for international celebration as this is the most lavishly illustrated edition of the Holmes tales ever produced. Readers will find a cornucopia of insig[...]
In 1970, a young Indian who introduced himself as Gregory Tah-Kloma beached his canoe near the author's Babine Lake campsite in the backwoods of British Columbia. Night after night by the campfire, the young Indian told the remarkable story of his devotion to a pack of timber wolves and their legend[...]