IVAN - 洋書 6

In this timeless survival story, four indentured servants escape their Russian Alaska work camp in a stolen canoe, only to face a harrowing journey down the Pacific Northwest coast. Battling unrelenting high seas and fierce weather from New Archangel, Alaska, to Astoria, Oregon, the men struggle t……続きを見る

The "most ambitious work to date" ("The Seattle Times") by the author of "Dancing at the Rascal Fair" and "English Creek", "Bucking the Sun" tells the story of the Duff family, homesteaders driven from the Montana bottomland to work on one of the New Deal's most audacious projects--the damming of ……続きを見る

This greathearted novel is the finale of Ivan Doig's passionate and authentic trilogy about the McCaskill family and their alluring Two Medicine country along the hem of the northern Rockies. Jick McCaskill, the illustrious narrator of "English Creek, " returns as the witty and moving voice in thi……続きを見る

Nationally recognized grief educator Harold Ivan Smith brings over twenty-five years of professional experience in grief recovery to ABCs of Healthy Grieving. Seventy-two brief suggestions for healthy grieving, each two-pages in length and titled starting with a letter of the alphabet followed by ……続きを見る

Delving into the concept of the United States as an empire, this investigation examines U.S. interventions around the world--from the Spanish-American War to the invasion of Iraq--demonstrating how they not only contradict the principles of both liberals and conservatives but also make a mockery o……続きを見る

Christmas may be canceled this year because Santa is too tired to deliver all his packages. The forest animals are worried, but when Santa tells them the story of the very first Christmas, when Christ was born, the animals discover the true spirit of the season. Full color.続きを見る

When a young graduate returns home he is accompanied, much to his father and uncle's discomfort, by a strange friend "who doesn't acknowledge any authorities, who doesn't accept a single principle on faith." Turgenev's masterpiece of generational conflict shocked Russian society when it was publis……続きを見る

The four-volume set LNAI 6276--6279 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, KES 2010, held in Cardiff, UK, in September 2010. The 272 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected ……続きを見る

Noted cartoonist and illustrator Brunetti presents 15 distinct lessons on the art of cartooning, guiding his readers through wittily written passages on cartooning terminology, techniques, tools, and theory.続きを見る

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Large-Scale Scientific Computations, LSSC 2009, held in Sozopol, Bulgaria, in June 2009.The 93 revised full papers presented together with 5 plenary and invited papers were carefully re……続きを見る

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Security and Cryptology for Networks, SCN 2008, held in Amalfi, Italy, in September 2008. The book contains one invited talk and 26 revised full papers which were carefully reviewed and selected from 71 submissio……続きを見る

The fascinating story of Harvard College and the American experience. Schlesinger recounts the highs and lows of its leadership from Puritan times to the present, and provides lively details of its college life since 1636. "In a very real sense, Harvard and America have grown up together. Andrew S……続きを見る

Eugenics, racial thinking, and white supremacist attitudes influenced even the federal government's actions toward housing in the 20th century, dooming American cities to ghettoization. The Federal Housing Administration continued discriminatory housing policies even into the 1960s, long after civ……続きを見る