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The author of "The Chastening" returns with this definitive account of the most spectacular economic meltdown of modern times as he exposes dangerous flaws of the global financial system.

The first three "Cat Who..." mysteries in one volume, from the "New York Times" bestselling "master of mystery" ("People"). Prize-winning reporter Jim Qwilleran and his extraordinary Siamese cats Koko and Yum Yum always land on their feet. This special volume includes the first three books in this "thoroughly delightful"* series. "The Cat Who Could Read Backwards: " Modern art is a mystery to many-but for Jim Qwilleran and Koko it turns into a...

Greil Marcus saw Bob Dylan for the first time in a New Jersey field in 1963. He didn't know the name of the scruffy singer who had a bit part in a Joan Baez concert, but he knew his performance was unique. So began a dedicated and enduring relationship between America's finest critic of popular music, "simply peerless, " in Nick Hornby's words, "not only as a rock writer but as a cultural historian", and Bob Dylan, who in 2016 won the Nobel Pr...

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After her first two weeks observing the problems at DecisionTech, Kathryn Petersen, its new CEO, had more than a few moments when she wondered if she should have taken the job. But Kathryn knew there was little chance she would have turned it down. After all, retirement made her antsy, and nothing excited her more than a challenge. What she could not have known when she accepted the job, however, was just how dysfunctional her team was, and ho...

A college grad has specific questions when trying to land the first job after school. How are just a few candidates chosen from a stack of hundreds of resumes? What exactly do recruiters want to hear in an interview? What are the common job-hunting mistakes students make time and time again? Confessions of a Recruiting Director gives the inside scoop on the entire hiring process- from a top recruiting director who's seen and heard it all-and d...

Senior co-administrator of the Norcoast Salmon Research Facility, Dr. Mackenzie Connor was a biologist who studied the spawning habits of salmon. Then, last season, just as she and Dr. Emily Mamani were starting their research, they were interrupted by the arrival of Brymn, the first Dhryn to set foot on Earth.And suddenly everything changed for Mac, Emily, Brymn, the human race, and all the member races of the Interspecies Union. Base was att...

The author of the"New York Times" bestselling Doc Ford novels adds his personal touch to this seven-book series featuring former Navy SEAL Dusky MacMorgan--out of print for two decades and now updated with new cover artwork and a new Introduction. Revised reissue.

Oskar Schell is an inventor, Francophile, tambourine player, Shakespearean actor, jeweler, pacifist. He is nine years old. And he is on an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York to find the lock that fits a mysterious key belonging to his father, who died in the attacks on the World Trade Center.

Drawing on new empirical research with disabled people in the UK, and considering the work of theorists such as Berlin, Habermas and Mouffe, Ellison's ideas of proactive and defensive engagement and Turner's 'sociology of the body', Beckett proposes a new model of 'active' citizenship that rests upon an understanding of 'vulnerable personhood'.

Die Religion Abrahams hat sich nach drei Richtungen hin entwickelt: zum Judentum, Christentum, Islam. Jede Richtung geht vom gemeinsamen Kern aus, den die Bibel erkl¿ hat. Wichtig sind dem Autor entr¿elte Wege zur Wahrheit. In drei ¿Geschichten¿ hat er die Thora, das Evangelium und den Koran vortragen lassen, meist im Dialog und in w¿rtlicher Rede. Jeder ¿Geschichte¿ ist ein Kapitel ¿ber historische Entwicklungen beigef¿gt. Auf das ¿Rankenwerk...

In North of Ithaka, Eleni Gage returns to the remote Greek village of Lia, where her father was born and her grandmother murdered, to rebuild the ruins of her namesake's home and come to terms with her family's tragic history. In doing so, she leaves behind a sparkling social life and successful career to continue the tale of a family and a place which her father, Nicholas Gage, made famous over twenty years ago with his international bestsell...

The poetry of ?the greatest twentieth century writer you have never heard of ? ("Los Angeles Times") Writing obsessively in French, English, and Portuguese, Fernando Pessoa left a prodigious body of work, much of it under ?heteronyms fully fleshed alter egos with startlingly different styles and points of view. Offering a unique sampling of all his most famous voices, this collection features poems that have never before been translated alongs...

Born in Havana and raised there until the unprecedented events of the Mariel boatlift brought her to Miami, the author was the one teenager among more than 100, 000 fellow refugees. This is her vibrant memoir of life in Cuba and the wrenching departure.

The definitive life and work of Americo Paredes, the native South Texan poet, novelist, journalist, folklorist, ethnographer and first U.S. theorist of the border.

Accelerating Possession is a groundbreaking collection of essays that examines how recent economic movements have revolutionized the relationship between property and personhood. These prominent scholars argue that in our present age, globalization, rampant privatization, and biotechnology have irrevocably changed traditional ideas of property and the self. Definitions of property no longer correspond to the configurations of the person who ow...

Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hands: He could not make Antonio Stradivari's violins without Antonio."-George Eliot Antonio Stradivari (1644--1737) was a perfectionist whose single-minded pursuit of excellence changed the world of music. In the course of his long career in the northern Italian city of Cremona, he created more than a thousand stringed instruments, approximately six hundred survive. In this fascinating book, Toby Fab...

In China on Screen, Chris Berry and Mary Farquhar, leaders in the field of Chinese film studies, explore more than one hundred years of Chinese cinema and nation. Providing new perspectives on key movements, themes, and filmmakers, Berry and Farquhar analyze the films of a variety of directors and actors, including Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou, Hou Hsiao Hsien, Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Gong Li, Wong Kar-wai, and Ang Lee. They argue fo...

In China on Screen, Chris Berry and Mary Farquhar, leaders in the field of Chinese film studies, explore more than one hundred years of Chinese cinema and nation. Providing new perspectives on key movements, themes, and filmmakers, Berry and Farquhar analyze the films of a variety of directors and actors, including Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou, Hou Hsiao Hsien, Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Gong Li, Wong Kar-wai, and Ang Lee. They argue fo...