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The Bus Kids offers a compelling and uniquely detailed examination of the experiences of kindergarten students in California participating in a voluntary school desegregation program. Ira Lit focuses on the day-to-day school life of a group of minority children busse... Полное описание |
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{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:35 | Poems vivifying nature have gripped people for centuries. From Biblical times to the present day, poetry has continuously drawn us to the natural world. In this thought-provoking book, John Felstiner explores the rich legacy of poems that take nature as their subject... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:35 | Listeners have enjoyed classical music recordings for more than a century, yet important issues about recorded performances have been little explored. What is the relationship between performance and recording? How are modern audiences affected by the trends set in m... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:36 | Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and staggeringly expensive actions now being considered to meet the challenges of global warming ultimately will have little impact on the world's temperature. He suggests that rather than focusing on ineffective soluti... Полное описание |
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{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:36 | The Victorian era was the first great Age of Doubt and a critical moment in the history of Western ideas. Leading nineteenth-century intellectuals battled the Church and struggled to absorb radical scientific discoveries that upended everything the Bible had taught t... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:36 | In this book a MacArthur Award-winning scholar argues for a radically new interpretation of the conversion of Scandinavia from paganism to Christianity in the early Middle Ages. Overturning the received narrative of Europe's military and religious conquest and coloni... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:36 | The Internet has transformed the manner in which information is exchanged and business is conducted, arguably more than any other communication development in the past century. Despite its wide reach and powerful global influence, it is a medium uncontrolled by any o... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:37 | In this groundbreaking volume, based on extensive research in Chinese archives and libraries, Jan Kiely explores the pre-Communist origins of the process of systematic thought reform or reformation (ganhua) that evolved into a key component of Mao Zedong's revolution... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:37 | Four distinguished scholars in political science analyze American democracy from a comparative point of view, exploring how the U.S. political system differs from that of thirty other democracies and what those differences ultimately mean for democratic performance. ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:38 | An engrossing blend of travel writing and history, Drinking Arak off an Ayatollah's Beard traces one man's adventure-filled journey through today's Iran, Afghanistan, and Central Asia, and describes his remarkable attempt to make sense of the present by delving into ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:38 | Deepak Chopras passionate new book, Peace Is the Way, was inspired by a saying from Mahatma Gandhi: There is no way to peace. Peace is the way. In a world whereevery path to peace has proved futile, the one strategy that hasnt been tried is the way of peace itself. W... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:38 | Elements of Style, the Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright Wendy Wassersteins first novel, is a scathing comedy about New York's high society facing the post9/11 world. Francesca Weissman, an Upper East Side pediatrician rated number one by Manhattan magazine, floats on... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:40 | Sonchai JitpleecheepJohn Burdetts inimitable Royal Thai Police detective with the hard-bitten demeanor and the Buddhist soulis summoned to the most shocking and intriguing crime scene of his career. Solving the murder could mean a promotion, but Sonchai, reeling from... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:40 | In middle age, debt has become the most significant relationship in Harry Salter's life. He was born to wealthy parents in leafy and privileged Rosedale, at a time when the city was still defined by its WASP elite. But nothing in life has turned out the way Harry was... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:41 | Gwynne Dyer is cheering up. Sure, the past decade has had more than its share of stupid wars, obsessions about terrorism, denial about climate change, rapacious turbo-capitalism, and lies, lies, lies. But signs of progress actually do abound. While the world is far f... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:42 | Rogues Wedding is a masterful and wildy inventive novel from acclaimed author Terry Griggs. Set in 1898, it takes us on a comic romp across Victorian Ontario, through a landscape full of extraordinary characters and natural wonders, as we follow two newlyweds whose f... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:43 | Two bestselling authors combine their strengths in a travelogue, a search for roots, a romance and a seat-of-your-pants adventure.One sunny day in 2006, Julie and Colin Angus were talking about the future, as newly engaged couples do. More unusually, they were at the... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:44 | From the author of How to Pay Less and Keep More for Yourself, the essential Canadian investment guide.This is the kind of investment advice that Canadians crave, at a time when they need it most: super-savvy, easy to use, and written in a no-nonsense, take-no-prison... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:44 | Lawyer Rick Redman decides it is time to make a career change. Murder can do that to a guy. A beautiful woman offering a substantial cash retainer makes it seem like a good idea too. But when he loses the cash in a poker game and he ends up in Nevada, he has no choic... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:44 | An experienced executive himself, Lyman MacInnis has guided the careers and affairs of successful executives and entrepreneurs as well as internationally renowned entertainers and athletes.An inspiring and practical book of career advice for everyone, from executives... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:46 | This may come as a shock, but brilliant writing and clever wordplay do not a published author make. True, youll actually have to write if you want to be a writer, but ultimately literary success is about much more than putting pen to paper (or fingers to keys). Befor... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:47 | From the first African American assigned to the presidential Secret Service detail comes a gripping and unforgettable true story of bravery and patriotism in the face of bitter hatred and unthinkable corruption. Abraham Bolden was a young African American Secret Serv... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:47 | Lying due north of Australia, New Guinea is among the worlds largest islands. In 1942, when World War II exploded onto its shores, it was an inhospitable, cursorily mapped, disease-ridden land of dense jungle, towering mountain peaks, deep valleys, and fetid swamps. ... Полное описание |
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