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Earth takes center stage in this updated version of Virginia Lee Burtons 1962 classic Life Story. Told through five acts, Burtons art and text tell the history of earth from beginning to present day. Readers will gain an in-depth understanding of the planets history and their leading roles in it today. The book has been updated with cutting-edge science, including up-to-the-minute inform...

Illustrated by the beloved creator of Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, The Little House, and Katy and the Big Snow, here is a delightful version of the tale that boys and girls have loved for centuries. The Emperor himself, his court, and his clothes - or lack of them - are ridiculous as only the master storyteller Hans Christian Andersen can make them. Fifty-five years ago, Virginia Lee Bur...

9/11. Hurricane Katrina. The shootings at Columbine High School and Virginia Tech. The California wildfires of 2007. During an unfolding emergency - whether crime or terrorism, natural disaster, industrial accident, or workplace or campus violence - it is essential to know how to handle the situation and save lives. Unfortunately, many organizations are wholly unprepared for an unexpected crisi...

Take your understanding of To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf to a whole new level, anywhere you go: on a plane, on a mountain, in a canoe, under a tree. Or grab a flashlight and read Shmoop under the covers.

Shmoops award-winning learning guides are now available on your favorite eBook reader. Shmoop eBooks are like a trusted, fun, chatty, expert literature-tour-guide always by your side, n...

Important and celebrated economist Leland Yeager is one of the architects of the Virginia School of political economy that has produced two Nobel laureates (James Buchanan and Ronald Coase) and the Public Choice movement.

A number of top class contributors have here been brought together to produce a festschrift in Yeagers honor - edited by Roger Koppl, and including the aforem...

Broken-hearted, scorned Ceazia is home back in Virginia up to her old ways. With her road dawg, Diamond, by her side shes unstoppable, until the attention shes used to falls on the new booty and envy rears its ugly head. Trust no one without knowing their agenda in the scheme of things or be ready to find out whos game is tighter??

Edited by Daniel Rothbart of George Mason University in Virginia, this book is a collection of Rom Harres work on modeling in science (particularly physics and psychology). In over 28 authored books and 240 articles and book chapters, Rom Harre of Georgetown University in Washington, DC is a towering figure in philosophy, linguistics, and social psychology. He has inspired a generation of schol...

In the spring of 1863, as he faces battle for the first time at Chancellorsville, Virginia, a young Union soldier matures to manhood and finds peace of mind as he comes to grips with his conflicting emotions about war.

Todd Valmer should have known better. A farmer whos been through several disasters, he travels to Virginia to fetch his widowed mother to cook and help him around his Texas farm...or that was the plan until she keels over on the train and they get kicked off. Maggie Rose barters for a living and also makes soaps, lotions, and perfumes with a special rose recipe passed down from mother to daught...

Threats of violence—and especially of homicide—are a too-familiar part of modern life, paralleling stressful conditions at home, on the job, on campus, and in relationships. Death Threats and Violence analyzes the meaning and impact of homicidal threats, the means by which they are communicated, and their development from infrequent private occurrence to ongoing social problem. Using data f...

In Contemporary Southern Identity Rebecca Bridges Watts explores the implications of four public controversies about Southern identity-debates about the Confederate flag in South Carolina, the gender integration of the Virginia Military Institute, the display of public art in Richmond, and Trent Lotts controversial comments regarding Strom Thurmonds 1948 segregationist presidential bid. While s...

When Robert E. Lee marched his Army of Northern Virginia into Maryland in early September 1862, Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan moved his reorganized and revitalized Army of the Potomac to meet him. The campaign included some of the bloodiest, most dramatic, and influential combat of the entire Civil War. Combined with Southern failures in the Western Theater, the fighting dashed the Confederacys...

The Second World War marked the beginning of the end of literary modernism in Britain. However, this late period of modernism and its response to the War have not yet received the scholarly attention they deserve. In the first full-length study of modernism and World War II, Marina MacKay offers historical readings of Virginia Woolf, Rebecca West, T. S. Eliot, Henry Green and Evelyn Waugh set a...

Modernism, Feminism, and Jewishness explores the aesthetic and political roles performed by Jewish characters in womens fiction between the World Wars. Focusing mainly on British modernism, it argues that female authors enlist a multifaceted vision of Jewishness to help them shape fictions that are thematically daring and formally experimental. Maren Linett analyzes the meanings and motifs that...

Pierre Corneille, in his original dedication for The Theatre of Illusion, described the play as a strange monster. He first called these five acts a comedy, later, a caprice and an extravagant trifle. Written in 1635 and staged in 1636, the play vanished from the stage for the next three hundred years - to be revived in 1937 by Louis Jouvet and the Comdie Franaise. Since then it has been widely...

T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf were almost exact contemporaries, readers and critics of each others work, and friends for over twenty years. Their writings, though, have never been paired in a book-length study. Modernism, Memory, and Desire proposes that some striking correspondences exist in Eliot and Woolfs poetic, fictional, critical, and autobiographical texts, particularly in their recurr...

Dr. Kay Scarpetta untersucht als Leiterin der Gerichtsmedizin die Opfer eines mehrfachen Frauenmörders, der in Virginia sein Unwesen treibt. Doch plötzlich werden die Ermittlungen auf mysteriöse Weise gestört. Als ein weiterer Mord geschieht, will Scarpetta dem Täter eine Falle stellen – und gerät dabei selbst in Lebensgefahr. 

Post Mortem führte die Welt der Gerichtsmedizin in die...

A rare Bloomsbury treat: delightful, candid and unique autobiographical writings by Vanessa Bell, in an attractive volume illustrated with her own woodcuts and drawings, with an introduction by her daughter Angelica Garnett and an essay on Vanessa Bells art.

Vanessa Bell, artist, sister of Virginia Woolf, wife of Clive Bell and lover of Duncan Grant, is one of the most fascinating and modern ...