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Although Tom Scanlon would just as soon spend it alone, his ninetieth birthday becomes the occasion for a family gathering in the Midwestern town of Lone Tree. The unlikely celebrants take this opportunity to reconceive their visions of past, future, and family in their own grotesque and ultimately liberating ways. "Ceremony in Lone Tree" is a spare and beautiful work by one of America's great postwar authors.

Grew out of an advanced course taught by the author at the Fourier Institute, this book presents an introduction to the combinatorics of symmetric functions, to Schur and Schubert polynomials. It studies the geometry of Grassmannians, flag varieties, and their Schubert varieties. It examines profound connections that unite these two subjects.

Delving into the life of skateboarding sensation Tony Hawk, this biography examines how he began skateboarding at age nine and his performance at the 1999 ESPN X Games, where he astonished viewers by performing a trick thought impossible to do. Illustrations.

According to David Rusk, focusing on programs aimed at improving inner-city neighborhoods--playing the ' inside game' --is a losing strategy. Achieving real improvement requires matching the ' inside game' with a strong ' outside game' of regional strategies to overcome growing fiscal disparities, concentrated poverty, and urban sprawl.

Create whole meals, from beverages to desserts and everything in-between, using staples already on hand in the kitchen. Hobday offers tips for entertaining, shortcuts for favorite dishes, and a dazzling array of variations for when there's just not enough time to cook from scratch.

With rare skill, Sr. Joan Chittister explores the sacred dimension of friendship through the lens of faith, tradition, Scripture, and the often-overlooked experience of women. Interwoven with stunning illustrations, Chittister recovers the witness and wisdom of such women as Lydia, Prisca, Pheobe, Anne, and those gathered at the foot of the cross.

Contributors to the volume represent an international "who's who" of research scientists from the fields of psychology and measurement. It offers the insights of these leading authorities regarding cognition and personality. In particular, they address the roles of constructs and values in clarifying the theoretical and empirical work in these fields, as well as their relation to educational assessment. It is intended for professionals and stu...

This work reveals the role of intercepting messages during the Cold War.

What determines whether people are sexually attracted to men, women, or both? Human sexuality researchers often find themselves faced with questions that entail conceptual issues for which their professional training may not have prepared them. This work aims to provide that guidance.

Choose fast and easy, elegant and impressive, rich and decadent or light and fruity desserts from this collection by a Seattle caterer and her husband.

This book contains the daily logs kept by Columbus -- himself, and by Magellan's scribe, Antonio Pigafetta, on their fateful voyages to the unknown Americas and, subsequently around the world. These voyages, of exploration and of discovery, have unequivocally changed and impacted on the western world like no other event except for the advent of Jesus Christ. The logs herewith are the first translation into English, and read like any modern adv...

The last few years have seen significant developments in many aspects of gas chromatography. In this volume, authors drawn from industrial and academic laboratories around the world consider developments over the last decade, with an emphasis on the new technologies. Application areas are addressed within chapters.

August 12, 2002 would have marked the 100th birthday of one of Western Canada's most beloved, exemplary, idiosyncratic and admired citizens, the Hon. J.W. Grant MacEwan. A Century of Grant MacEwan: Selected Writings is published to mark the centenary of the author's birth, and showcases the writing achievements of this remarkable man. From his first foray into historical writing, The Sodbusters (1948), to Watershed: Reflections on Water (2000)...

Salad recipes fall into 6 categories: vegetable salads, salads with seafood and poultry, potato salads, rice and grain salads, pasta salads, bean salads. Salad dressings, too.

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Maternal Echoes' examines maternal imagery in the poetry of two French Romantic poets, the increasingly popular Desbordes-Valmore and the critically marginalized Lamartine. Drawing on psychoanalytic theories on the maternal voice as well as feminist criticism, the book argues that both poets find a voice of their own by echoing their mother's voice.

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