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An exciting re-launch of the classic Earthsea Cycle, by fantasy literature legend Ursula K. Le Guin, winner of a Newbery Honor, the National Book Award, Pushcart Prize, and six Nebula Awards.

TROUBLE ON THE LOOSE! Garfield, the furry desperado, is at large again in this most-wanted collection of comics. Whether he's getting in a pickle or a jam, when it comes to trouble, the fat cat is always a glutton for punishment!

This selection is the Newbery Honor-winning story of a Muslim girl whose life as a nomad is both exhilarating and cruel. An ALA Notable Book and Best Book for Young Adults.

When told not to paint the walls, this spirited, creative child paints himself instead! A perfect story for the oversized board book format, to the tune of "It Ain't Gonna Rain No More." Full color.

This book is about the ways that traditional cultural practices either change or persist in the face of social and economic development, whether the latter proceeds primarily from internal or external forces.

Collects the true stories, gossip and details of 500 of the singles that failed to dent the top 10 in the 1960s, yet are still worthy of inclusion in a volume such as this. Nuggets of information and connections between artists, producers and songwriters offer a unique insight into the careers and development of key performers over the decade.

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How to Kill Your Company is a short and wonderful romp of a book. Ken Kirsh provides us with fastest way I've ever seen to help every leader become more self-aware, and in turn, build companies that thrive rather than fail." -Robert Sutton, Stanford Professor and author of the New York Times bestsellers Good Boss, Bad Boss and The No Asshole Rule "Ken Kirsh's book, How to Kill Your Company, is an intellectual shot in the brain. If you buy it, ...

Andy Whitfield exploded from the TV screen as Spartacus in January 2010 in the series Spartacus, Blood & Sand. His talent and his portrayal of the famous gladiator won him a following around the world. When the second season was ready to begin filming, Andy was diagnosed with a recurrence of the cancer he had previously defeated. Friends and fans prayed for his recovery and assumed that, like the hero he portrayed, he would conquer the disease...

On the evening of September 17, 1992, eight leading members of the Iranian and Kurdish opposition had gathered at a little-known restaurant in Berlin when two darkly-clad men burst through the entrance. Within moments, the roar of a machine gun filled the air. Two rounds of fire and four single shots later, four of the men were dead. One of the survivors of that shooting, along with the widow of one of the victims and a handful of reporters, a...

Kuper uses soccer--particularly the experience of Ajax, a club long supported by Amsterdam's Jews--as a window on wartime Holland and Europe. Through interviews with Resistance fighters, survivors, wartime soccer players, and others, Kuper uncovers this history that has been ignored.

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As Old Man Fookwire's birds prepare to migrate south for the winter, the squirrels decide to follow. The birds and squirrels' sunny, beachy destination is a paradise, so warm and beautiful that it might even entice the grumpiest old man in existence to pay a visit as well. Full color.

Wild Socialism examines the rise, development, and decline of revolutionary councils of industrial workers in Berlin at the end of the First World War. This popular movement spread throughout Germany, and was without precedent in either the theory or practice of the Social Democratic party and the trade unions allied to it. These workers councils were most highly developed in Berlin, within its particular industrial, political, and cultural mi...

A visual history of counterculture music T-shirts, spanning the defining era of indie music. Ripped is the first book to document the shirts of the post-punk and indie period, after the submission of 1960s rock 'n' roll to mass popularity and before the onset of ironic consumerism. Carefully selected from the archives of vintage fashion collector Cesar Padilla, the 200 T-shirts in this book are classic examples of rare and extremely limited sh...

An elegant, text-only paperback edition of the "New York Times" bestseller that's been hailed as the definitive authority on . . . everything. Packed with clever thought experiments and jaw-dropping facts, it explains a stunningly wide range of natural phenomena.

I met him at the candy store. He turned around and smiled at me and I was surprised enough to smile back. This was not a children's candy store, mind you-this was the kind of place you went to buy expensive imported chocolate truffles for your boss's wife because you felt guilty for having sex with him when you were both at a conference in Milwaukee. Hypothetically speaking, of course.I've been hit on plenty of times, mostly by men with little...

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A fast-paced literary puzzler, Dominance is "an academic mystery that gleefully illustrates the dangers of losing yourself in a book” (The New York Times Book Review).Fifteen years ago, Alex Shipley was part of a special night class taught by Richard Aldiss, a re-nowned literature professor— and convicted murderer. Lecturing the group of nine hand-picked students from a video feed in his prison cell, the professor spoke only of one novel by a ...

Titulo en ingles: Change your words, change your life"--T.p. verso.