A routine traffic stop. An inconvenience of everyday life. A humdrum event that repeats itself across America hundreds of times every day, every night. It’s late. It’s raining. The driver knows he’s……続きを見る
著者:Denise DeGarmo
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2013年10月14日
Despite the growing recognition of the importance of environmental issues for nation-state security, current research on international environmental security is insufficient. Although scholars in th……続きを見る
Sophie's birthday celebrations bring to the surface a rather outlandish ambition which she decides to act upon.
Supported, uneasily at first, by her boyfriend, Marshall, she determines to steal the ……続きを見る
著者:Arthur Golden
出版社: Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe GmbH
発売日: 2006年03月01日
Zu Beginn der 30er-Jahre wird das einfache Fischermädchen Chiyo in die alte Kaiserstadt Kyoto gebracht. Nach einer qualvollen Ausbildung steigt sie zu einer der begehrtesten Geishas in ganz Japan au……続きを見る
Natalya is an American mom and wife with a Russian name working as a spy for the Brazilian government in a Midwest American town. Balancing dual identities is dangerous--and sometimes comical--espec……続きを見る
“All But My Life” by Gerda Weissmann Kllein was first published in 1957. It happens to be the memoir of her experiences during the Second World War.
The time period described in the memoir is from S……続きを見る
著者:Leonard Engel
出版社: University of Utah Press
発売日: 2012年09月30日
New Essays on Clint Eastwood is a companion to Engel’s previous book, Clint Eastwood, Actor and Director: New Perspectives. It includes discussion of some of Eastwood’s most recent films as well as ……続きを見る
Deidre-Ann is an eleventh grade student who seems to have everything going for her. She is brilliant, attractive and involved in school life and extra-curricular activities, especially cheerleading.……続きを見る
著者:Kathy Bloomgarden
出版社: St. Martin's Publishing Group
発売日: 2007年02月20日
TRUST: The Secret Weapon of Effective Business Leaders taps into a powerful current in American business – the importance of trust in a business's corporate strategy. In today's environment, leaders……続きを見る
Change by Choice is a book for people who crave change in their life, whether it be to improve their financial position; lose or gain a few pounds; overcome an addition; or embark on a new career pa……続きを見る
Teenager James Lovell, strapped for cash as usual, is desperate to buy an affordable birthday present for his cousin Alison, and time is short. When a free DVD computer game is pressed upon him by a……続きを見る
The cramped and dusty riding hall of West Point Military Academy was an unlikely setting for a high jump record. Most of the cadets dreaded going there. The academy horses were notoriously hard, the……続きを見る
The ultimate insider takes us behind the scenes, in the book everyone is waiting for.
As Jean Chrétien’s right-hand man for thirty years in Ministries all over Ottawa, Eddie Goldenberg got to know h……続きを見る
According to the Long Count Calendar used by the Maya, the current Great Cycle which has lasted 5,125 years is to end in 2012. What will happen when this occurs has been a hot topic for many years, ……続きを見る
This first-person narrative begins in the early 1960s when the authors father unexpectedly disappears, plunging the family into poverty. Faced with inner-city violence, her mothers failing health, a……続きを見る
TWELVE-HUNDRED STEPS is a collection of insightful poetry about love and life as well as a collection of poignant stories about growing up as one of two adopted children on the Alden family farm in ……続きを見る
著者:Dennis Showalter
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2009年12月01日
From Dennis Showalter, recipient of the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize and the Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement, a fascinating account of Nazi Germany's armored forces during World War……続きを見る
著者:Gene C. Hayden
出版社: McClelland & Stewart
発売日: 2009年12月29日
A practical guide to achieving your goals - from starting a business to running a marathon - despite anything and everything life throws at you.
We all have an idea or project that we'd like to purs……続きを見る
Former professional wrestler Roland McAlister is paralyzed after years of abuse in the wrestling business, both in the ring and out. While living with his third wife, he receives a phone call from t……続きを見る
Climbing St. Friday is a poignant, nostalgic look at the 1970s adventures of a young Greek-American girl who is sent by her parents from a small town in the Midwest to Athens, Greece, for a year of ……続きを見る
A parent’s guide to helping children feel good about themselves. A new larger format revised edition of the parenting classic
A child’s level of confidence is a key factor in forming their personali……続きを見る
ARE YOU READY? GET RESIDENT READY.
Resident Readiness: General Surgery prepares you for success during your surgical internship. Inside is a full range of scenarios you may experience during your re……続きを見る
Every day, huge numbers of people use drugs or alcohol for recreation, medication, celebration, stress management, social lubrication, or escape. The abuse of psychoactive chemicals touches individu……続きを見る
Cadence Miller is a good girl. She just happens to make one terrible mistake her junior year in high school which costs her ten months in juvenile detention. Now a senior, she’s lost everything: her……続きを見る
Major questions surround who, how, and by what means should the interests of government, the private sector, or consumers hold authority and powers over decisions concerning the production and consu……続きを見る
We join Kellan de Bowyer, a successful Captain of Archers and Mercenary Soldier as he and his companions conduct a raid and campaign through 14th Century Normandy in the later stages of the Hundred ……続きを見る
Operation Mincemeat retells the story of the classic World War Two intelligence plan to pass misleading strategic information to Hitler and his Generals that was immortalized in the 1956 Hollywood f……続きを見る
In a former narrative, published in the preceding volume of the ILLUSTRATED
TRAVELS, I gave an account of a terrible cyclone which visited the
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In this book, I will be teaching my readers how to play Blackjack and Craps, so when they are at the casino they're not scared of playing the table games... Blackjack and Craps take a lot more think……続きを見る
著者:Ken Dryden
出版社: McClelland & Stewart
発売日: 2010年10月22日
In this passionate, thought-provoking vision for Canada, Ken Dryden argues that we have paid a price for having the wrong sense of ourselves as a country. The old definition of Canada – genial but s……続きを見る