4197 results for '"Alice C. Andrews'

In this hysterical #1 New York Times bestseller, one kid has to wrangle gators, snakes, bats that bite, and a reality show host gone rogue! This is Carl Hiaasen's Florida—where the creatures are wild...

Christopher R. Weingarten provides a thrilling account of how the Bomb Squad produced such a singular-sounding record: engineering, sampling, scratching, constructing, deconstructing, reconstructing...

What has been done in recent times in the fields of archaeology, linguistics, history, anthropology, and comparative oral literature, not to mention literary criticism itself, has put the whole...

Katrina was not just a hurricane. The death, destruction, and misery wreaked on New Orleans cannot be blamed on nature’s fury alone. This volume of essays locates the root causes of the 2005 disaster...

The bestselling, classic text on one anthropologist’s incredible experience living among the African Mbuti Pygmies, and what he learned from their culture, customs, and love of life.In this...

An effective, unusual 34-word story of the beginnings of a friendship, accompanied by wild and wonderful illustrations. Against pastel backgrounds, in vibrant, colorful images, an African-American...

A unique biography of a remarkable Reconstruction figureJohn Roy Lynch spent most of his childhood as a slave in Mississippi, but all of that changed with the Emancipation Proclamation. Suddenly...

Abani's new novella furthers his tremendous success in becoming today's most acclaimed young African

Since the publication of the Stern Review, economists have started to ask more normative questions about climate change. Should we act now or tomorrow? What is the best theoretical carbon price to...

The American founding fathers were dedicated to the project of creating a government both functional and incapable of devolving into tyranny. To do this, they intentionally decentralized decision...

The old wood-carver Geppetto decides to make a wonderful puppet which can dance and turn somersaults, but by chance he chooses an unusual piece of wood - and the finished puppet can talk and...

Make no mistake: Christian Wiman’s poetic endeavors are ambitious. From the personal lyrics of solitude and loss to “Being Serious,” the long poem that concludes Hard Night, his poems examine...

Esta obra ayudará al lector que se encuentra estancado en su crecimiento espiritual (consciente o inconscientemente) a abrir sus ojos, su corazón, y su mente. El lector podrá encontrar respuestas y...

Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy AwardA gripping and inventive reimagining of Wuthering Heights, by award-winning author Caryl PhillipsIn the tradition of Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea and J. M...

A powerful dystopian vision of a world where money reigns supreme, from a World Fantasy Award-winning author."An extraordinary novel that stands with the best of dystopian fiction, with dashes of The...

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The election of an unabashedly patriarchal man as US President was a shock for many—despite decades of activism on gender inequalities and equal rights, how could it come to this? What is it about...

Jean Baudrillard meets Cookie Mueller in this gathering of French theory and new American fiction.Compiled in 2001 to commemorate the passing of an era, Hatred of Capitalism brings together...

Bored with the same old paints? The Organic Painter introduces innovative techniques for using non-traditional "paint" derived from materials like coffee, tea, and alcohol, to encourage freedom and...