801 results for '"MARVELL,A"'

In The Son of Neptune, Percy, Hazel, and Frank met in Camp Jupiter, the Roman equivalent of Camp Halfblood, and traveled to the land beyond the gods to complete a dangerous quest. The third book in...

The classic Vietnam memoir, as relevant today as it was almost thirty years ago.In March of 1965, Marine Lieutenent Philip J. Caputo landed at Da Nang with the first ground combat unit deployed to...

"The generation weaned on the Marvel Universe will find much to love in O’Connor’s 12-book series." —New York Times In Olympians, O'Connor draws from primary documents to reconstruct and retell...

In 1741, an enterprising Dutch sea captain transported a young, female Indian rhinoceros from Assam to Europe where she was displayed before everyone from peasants to princes. In an age before...

"A brilliant reconstruction of the saga of power, glory, and invasion that is the one-thousand year story of Constantinople. A truly marvelous book." —Simon WinchesterGhost Empire is a rare...

Few periods in history compare to the Great Depression. Stock market crashes, bread lines, bank runs, and wild currency speculation were worldwide phenomena--all occurring with war looming in the...

Dive into this visually stunning, middle-grade graphic novel about a spunky Vietnamese American surfer girl and her cantankerous talking cat who plunge into a fantasy world of oceanic marvels . . ...

A field guide to the weather, including clouds, storm systems, and climate changeA resource for those intrigued by events in the sky—clouds, precipitation, storms, aurora, halos—and for those who...

Here, at last, is a paperback edition of this invaluable acting tool for aspiring teenage actors: an anthology of scenes and monologues from contemporary plays featuring parts for adolescents, with...

Science has given us several explanations for how humans evolved from walking on four limbs to two feet. None, however, is as riveting as what master storyteller Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o offers in The...

Here is the fourth in a series of volumes by Fernando Pessoa's celebrated "heteronyms," a coterie of writers that Pessoa created and conceived as distinct personalities, each with a unique literary...

At once kind and hilarious, this compilation of the Nobel Prize-winning poet’s advice to writers is illustrated with her own marvelous collages In this witty “how-to” guide, Wislawa Szymborska has...

A selection of classic stories featuring France's answer to Sherlock Holmes: a brilliant master criminal with a mischievous sense of humor—now the inspiration for the major streaming series Lupin...

"A marvelous handbook for professional designers, students, or anyone with a curiosity about design." Ballast Quarterly Review This comprehensive guide embraces all aspects of modern design:...

A new, updated edition of this illuminating study on William Hogarth, one of the eighteenth century’s most famous artists and satirists.William Hogarth (1697–1764) was one of the great...

Translated by Lane Dunlop and J. Martin HolmanWinner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, Yasunari Kawabata is perhaps best known in the United States for his deeply incisive, marvelously...

A “beautiful and haunting” (San Francisco Chronicle) novel of an orphan’s search for love, for his unknown father, and for the key to the elusive riddle of his fate, from New York Times bestselling...

These Wonders of the World highlight astounding ancient architecture, the history of civilization, and the beauty of our planet.Highlighting more than just the Seven Wonders of the World – the...

Blues for Bird is Martin Gray's stunning, one-of-a-kind biography of Charlie Parker. Written entirely in trimeter, Gray's epic biographical poem runs some 5,400 lines. The work chronicles the life of...

A fully revised edition of the acclaimed field guide to the birds of the Middle EastThe Middle East is home to some of the most spectacular birdlife in the world. This field guide covers all...