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Like his brother before him, Stringer was surrendered to foster care, shortly after birth, by his unwed and underemployed mother-a common practice for unmarried women in mid-century America. Less common was that she returned six years later to reclaim her children. Rather than leading to a happy ending, though, this is where Stringer's story begins. The clash of being poor and black in an affluent, largely white New York suburb begins to fomen...

Water is a precious natural resource, which is crucial to our survival. This book provides both the perspectives: small-scale development of water resources consistent with the environmental concerns, and, application of relevant eco-friendly technologies.

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Dzong-ka-ba's The Essence of Eloquence is still considered so important to Tibetan Buddhists that the Dalai Lama keeps a copy with him wherever he goes. This book examines many fascinating points raised in six centuries of Tibetan and Mongolian commentary concerning the first two sections of this text: the Prologue, and the section on the Mind-Only School. By providing vivid detail, Jeffrey Hopkins reveals the liveliness of Tibetan scholastic ...

This proceedings contains 23 papers from the 67th Porcelain Enamel Institute Technical Forum, held in Nashville, Tennessee, May 2-5, 2005. Topics include: porcelain enamel history, automatic spray applications, effects of furnace moisture on enamel quality, low temperature cleaners, electrostatic powder deposition, energy market overview, and mor

The #1 "New York Times" bestseller no one else could write: the sister of Scott Peterson reveals how she slowly realized that her brother was capable of murder What happens if, after being given up for adoption in childhood, you reestablish contact with your biological family -- only to discover that your newfound brother is a killer? Anne Bird, the sister of Scott Peterson, knows firsthand. In the late 1990s, after a happy life with the well-...

In 1977, Innes Haldane was one of seven extremely dysfunctional teenagers incarcerated in the Unit, an avant-garde psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of Edinburgh. There, she and her fellow inmates were forced into each other's lives, exposed to each other's pasts, and now share a collective memory. Since then, they have spent their adult lives trying to forget the unspeakable acts that sent them there and the terrible secret that occurred ...

The U.S.S. Merrimack was the finest battleship class spaceship in Earth's fleet, able to stand up against the best the Palatine Empire could throw at them, even able to attack and kill swarms of the seemingly unstoppable Hive. But nothing could have prepared the captain and crew of the Merrimack to face the Myriad-three colonized worlds in the midst of a globular cluster that theHive had somehow overlooked.

The popularity of manga continues to row, inspiring interest in learning how to draw in this exciting style of comics. Estudio Joso creates the ultimate guide to illustration--384 pages of manga instruction. "The Monster Book of Manga" is divided into sections focusing on the most figures and themes--Girls, Boys, Samurais, Monsters, and more. Each illustration is broken down into six stages accompanied by step-by-step instructions, taking the ...

A hipster handbook for the real Bridget Joneses of the world. Part manifesto, part self-help, part tongue-in-cheek jibe at the very couple-friendly world at large, Cagen's guide to "Single and the City" is savvy, hilarious self-empowerment for all the quirkyalones out there.

What makes an effective executive? The measure of the executive, Peter F. Drucker reminds us, is the ability to "get the right things done." This usually involves doing what other people have overlooked as well as avoiding what is unproductive. Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge may all be wasted in an executive job without the acquired habits of mind that mold them into results. Drucker identifies five practices essential to business ef...

With Arkady Renko, Smith created one of the iconic sleuths of contemporary fiction. Renko returns to investigate international plots that drive one of Russia's billionaire businessmen to jump to his death.

This book is the first place to turn when you encounter a Britishism or Americanism. The dictionary illuminates differences in vocabulary, usage, pronunciation, spelling, and the history of English, how and why differences arose, and what those differences are. More then 2, 500 entries are listed on each side with a set of tables that includes national holidays, presidents, kings and queens, and money. The dictionary is an easy-to-read, light-...

The chairman and CEO of Dell Computer offers up the strategies that helped revolutionize an industry, including his philosophies on capital investment, the effect of employees on the health of a company, and ways to exploit the competition.

Presents the cultural, economic, and ethnographic history of rum in the Caribbean from the colonial period. This book explains how rum production evolved over years, from a small colonial activity to a multi-billion-dollar industry controlled by multinational corporations. It also investigates the economic impact of Caribbean rum on many scales.

in this placethere are the dead, the deadly and the dying.there is the cross, the builders of the cross and the burners of thecross.the pattern of my life forms like a cheap shadowon the wall before me.my lovewhat is left of itnow must crawlto wherever it can crawl.the strongest know that death isfinaland the happiest are those gifted with theshortest journey.

The popular spiritual teacher and bestselling author of "Everyday Grace, A Handbook for the Soul, A Return to Love, A Woman's Worth, " and other spiritual titles, returns with an inspiring book of spiritual wisdom for people of all ages that's intended to help them navigate life's significant transitions.

I have a friend I love the best.Having a best friend makes life so much better. but even best friends fight, and when that happens, "I'm sorry" is the hardest thing to say.From internationally acclaimed author Sam McBratney and award-winning illustrator Jennifer Eachus comes a sensitive picture book that will strike a chord with every child who has quarreled with a friend.

New York Times" Hollywood correspondent Sharon Waxman presents a revealing and page-turning account of the new generation of directors who are changing the face of modern filmmaking.

The author of "Life's Greatest Lesson" and "Positive Words, Powerful Results" offers his most potent inspirational message to date and highlights the fifteen areas of focus that can help everyone enjoy full-life improvement.