2399 results for '"Marie Darrieussecq'

A magical bedtime story, honored as a Caldecott Honor Book. In sincere and imaginative dialogue between a child and her kind and understanding parents, the little girl decides "in a cocoon of sheets,...

"Robison's minimalism is more like a slap in the face: it's short, it stings, and you wonder who in tarnation did that to you." ―The New York TimesEnter Eve. Based in New Orleans, she's a location...

Travel around the world to meet the cutest animals on Earth! Learn all about fennec foxes, owls, wombats, monkeys, frogs, penguins, wild cats and more in this wide-ranging Level 2 reader from the...

An antidote to the "Hanoi Jane" myth, the first account of the celebrated actress's antiwar activism.Jane Fonda is important because she is a celebrity, and unimportant because she is a celebrity...

In the bleak winter of 1940, Nazi troops parachuted into Peter Lundstrom's tiny Norwegian village and held it captive. Nobody thought the Nazis could be defeated—until Uncle Victor told Peter how the...

Byron and Hitler were equally entranced by Rome’s most famous monument, the Colosseum. Mid-Victorians admired the hundreds of varieties of flowers in its crannies and occasionally shuddered at its...

A comprehensive, step-by-step introduction to basic massage techniques.Massage is the natural, time-tested, noninvasive, chemical-free therapy that heals so many of the body's systems. Its proven...

The Oil Prince's Legacy traces Rockefeller philanthropy in China from the nineteenth century to today. Family diaries, letters, interviews in China, and institutional archival records are used to...

"James Rieger's Frankenstein is relatively special among editions: it is the definitive scholarly text, and it is also the most readable copy for the classroom and the general reader. . . .The Rieger...

Toward a Speech Act Theory of Literary Discourse

Discusses artificial and in vitro fertilization, egg and embryo donation, surrogate mothers, the storage of human semen, eggs, and embryos, and scientific and ethical issues in fertility