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One of our most acclaimed poets wrestles with the issues - love, hope, memory, faith - that have occupied him "in the second half of my sixth decade on beautiful earth". The centerpiece of Gerald Stern's ninth collection is a long poem titled "Hot Dog" named for a beautiful street woman who lives in and around Tompkins Square Park. Other characters in this poem are St. Augustine, Walt Whitman, Noah, Gerald Stern himself, and a ninety-year-old ...

The centerpiece of Gerald Stern's ninth collection is a long poem titled "Hot Dog, " named for a beautiful street woman who lives in and around Tompkins Square Park. Other characters in this poem are St. Augustine, Walt Whitman, Noah, Gerald Stern himself, and a ninety-year-old black preacher from the Midwest. In "Hot Dog, " and throughout, Stern wrestles with the issues-hope, memory, faith-that have always occupied him.

This is the fourth volume in architect and historian Robert A. M. Stern's monumental series of documentary studies of New York City architecture and urbanism. The three previous books in the series, New York 1900, New York 1930, and New York 1960, have comprehensively covered the architects and urban planners who defined New York over the course of the twentieth century. In this volume, Stern turns back to 1880 -- the end of the Civil War, the...

The World's Best Short-Short Fictions in a Big, Little Book that you could probably carry in your Pocket.

Revolutionary in its approach, this book is for women who are willing to take life-changing leaps that can transform them into more loving, accepting, and empowered human beings. It is the winning blueprint to discovering how to love a man for who he is, and for reinvesting energy into becoming a deserving woman.

Following his National Book Award winner, This Time, Gerald Stern further explores history and memory, the casual miracles of relationships, and his irrevocable connection to the natural world. The weight of history and the bouyance of memory, the casual miracles of relationships, and his irrevocable connection to the natural world are some of Gerald Stern's ongoing themes in this new book. The poems in Last Blue range in tone from the joyousl...

Here the voice of the Lord rises up from gas burners and out of pay phones. Here is a land in which a host of very different characters share a common tendency to ignore the usually agreed-upon bonds of reality.

Mad Libs(r) is going digital! Lampooning everything from e-mail to the internet to instant messaging to chatting and bulletin boards and beyond, You've Got Mad Libs(r) has some of our funniest, most outrageous jokes yet! It's sure to be an instant classic!

From the moment the school bell rings in the morning to the end of the day, when it's time for homework and after-school snacks, School Rules! Mad Libs JuniorTM is perfect for every student!

This book explores the various ways in which Wittgenstein absorbed and responded to Weininger's ideas.

With a Foreword by Bernard F. Rodgers, Jr

Cy Riemer-fifty-ish, divorced and father of four-surveys the dispersal of his family with a mixture of anxiety, humor, sadness, and pride.

Few Holocaust survivors have gained the recognition and honour as Elie Wiesel has as an author, journalist and lecturer. In this latest biography Ellen Stern chronicles the remarkable life of Elie Wiesel.

Dick Stern reveals the tried-and-true secrets of his proven technique for building relationships and winning cooperation. Best of all it's simple and it works for anyone who wants to win through cooperative and mutually rewarding relationships!

The Secret Life of Dogs" meets "A Good Walk Spoiled" in this behind-the-scenes look at the subculture of the professional dog-show circuit. "A year on the dog-show circuit with a breeder and show of bullmastiffs has all the melodrama of a soap opera".--"San Francisco Chronicle". of photos.

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Der kleine Arno Stern fährt mit seinem roten Spielzeugauto im Hof herum, als ihn seine Mutter ruft: 'Arno, lass das Auto stehen und komm ganz schnell!' So beginnt 1933 die jahrelange Flucht der jüdischen Familie vor den Nationalsozialisten. Geleitetwerden die Sterns dabei von der Intuition und dem unverbrüchlichen Gottvertrauen des Vaters Isidor - und sie erfahren auf ihrem Weg Glücksfälle, die an ein Wunder grenzen. Vertrauen und bedingungslo...

Eines der erfolgreichsten Bücher von Fritz Stern ist - eine Anthologie. Zwei Ziele hatte der noch junge Historiker vor Augen, als er vor mehr als einem halben Jahrhundert die erste von vielen Auflagen herausbrachte: Er wollte die Betrachtungen ganz unterschiedlicher Historiker über die großen Fragen der Geschichte vorstellen und zugleich den Leser mit den wichtigsten Tendenzen der Geschichtsschreibung seit der Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts vertra...