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Horvath examines scoliosis through the lens of family dynamics, feminism, folk and fairy tales, 1970 pop culture, and romantic love.

Updated for new distributions and cloud environments, this comprehensive guide covers best practices for every facet of system administration. The authors offer indispensable new coverage of cloud platforms, the DevOps philosophy, continuous deployment, containerization, monitoring, and many other essential topics.

Crispy, crazy, cool.From individual APPLES to a graphic ZEBRA large enough for a party, here are 93 creative, crowd-pleasing projects that begin with just butter, marshmallows, and crispy rice cereal and end up wherever your imagination takes you. A giant dessert PIZZA, customized with coconut flake “cheese” and other candy toppings. Snack-size EMOJI, as delicious as they are expressive. A cake-sized CHEESEBURGER, the project that launched the...

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Dorian Geisler's beguiling debut collection of poetry solves the problems of audacity-with audacity. A darkly uncanny romp through the lives of others, Geisler's fast-moving poetry and understated/maximalist aesthetic manage to convey a burgeoning world filled with strangers whose identities are playfully-sometimes diabolically-half-revealed. F

The Little Prince is revered around the world. Two hundred million copies have been sold in 270 languages, it is the fourth best-selling book of all time. Part of its allure is that is seems incredibly wise but so simple it is read as a work for children. Yet its meaning is elusive, and its place amid the writings of an adventurer and war hero acclaimed for dramatic bestsellers like Night Flight and Flight to Arras is mysterious. In this elega...

The Annual Report 2017 provides an overview of WTO activities in 2016 and early 2017. The Report begins with a message from WTO Director-General Roberto Azevêdo, followed by a brief overview of 2015 and more in-depth accounts of WTO activities over the past year.

Although the word 'psychology' does not come up in this book, this early work by Osho shows his deep understanding of the subject and his attempt to make the connection between meditation and a modern understanding of psychology that includes the importance that our minds play in determining and giving direction, on many levels, to our lives.Osho has taught for many years that meditation is not a religious exercise but a scientific method to u...

When most people walk among giant sequoias, they look up, marveling at the sturdy branches and canopy sprawling hundreds of feet overhead. As a naturalist and artist, however, Shirley Spencer likes to look for the less obvious beauty in her surroundings. And in a sequoia grove, that means bringing her curiosity and keen powers of observation to the diverse plant life that thrives among these famous Californian trees. In this appreciation of fl...

Revolution from below is coming. This book asks why, how, and when?

One of The New York Times's 10 Books to Read for Women's History MonthGillian Thomas's Because of Sex tells the story of how one law, our highest court, and a few tenacious women changed the American workplace forever. Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act revolutionized the lives of America's working women, making it illegal to discriminate "because of sex." But that simple phrase didn't mean much until ordinary women began using the law to ...

San Francisco, 1968: Jeannie and Kip are bereaved and adrift, their mother dead under mysterious circumstances, and their father-a decorated World War II veteran-consumed by guilt and losing control of his teenage children. Kip, a dreamer and swaggerer prone to small-time trouble, enlists with the Marines to fight in Vietnam. Jeannie finds a seemingly safe haven in early marriage and motherhood.But when Kip is accused of a terrible military cr...

An absorbing, emotionally overwhelming novel, rich in incident and character, The Chosen Ones is obliquely illuminated by Sem-Sandberg's sharp sense of the absurd.The Am Spiegelgrund Clinic, in glittering Vienna, masqueraded as a well-intentioned reform school for wayward boys and girls and a home for chronically ill children. The reality, however, was very different: in the wake of Germany's annexation of Austria during WWII, the clinic's doc...

Large-print type may make these puzzles from the pages of The New York Times easy on the eyes, but they will still challenge the brain. This brand new Large-Print Omnibus features:- 120 easy-to-read crossword puzzles- All levels of difficulty- Puzzles edited by crossword maven Will Shortz.

Abramowitz brings Boston alive with rich descriptions and caffeine-fueled dialogue." -Publishers WeeklyZesty Meyers is Bosstown's fastest bike messenger-caffeine fueled, wise-cracking and reckless-accustomed to hurtling through Boston's kamikaze streets at breakneck speed, always just a bumper or car door away from disaster. Will Meyers is Zesty's father, Beantown's former backroom poker king and political fixer, who is suffering from Alzheime...

A lot of how-to books assume that the reader is a good and wholesome person who wants to follow the law and not rip other people off. This is FOOLISH! Let John D'Hough (not his real name) tell you all about the glorious world of grift, the science of scam, and the craft of criminality as he explains how he was able to fleece the entire town of Honest, Indiana. A bitingly comedic satire, this debut novel from Hollywood screenwriter Mark Perez p...

Shows how Finnish mythology and folk tales were instrumental to how Tolkien created his own legendarium."-Boston Globe Kullervo, son of Kalervo, is perhaps the darkest and most tragic of all J.R.R. Tolkien's characters. "Hapless Kullervo, " as Tolkien called him, is a luckless orphan boy with supernatural powers and a tragic destiny. Brought up in the homestead of the dark magician Untamo, who killed his father, kidnapped his mother, and...

FROM ROOMMATES TO CLASSMATESAlthough Aoi's father found out about their housing situation, Aoi and Shusei are still allowed to live together, but on one particular condition…Before long, the two of them begin their final year of high school, and end up in the same class. Now the couple will be together around the clock! However, with Shusei as a classmate, Aoi is disappointed to see a side of him that she's never seen before. She must balance ...

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