John Follain, who covers Italy for the Sunday Times, tells the definitive inside story of this extraordinary

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A Michael L. Printz Award winner, a National Book Award finalist, and soon to be a streaming series! A tour-de-force by New York Times bestselling graphic novelist Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese tells the story of three apparently unrelated characters: Jin Wang, who moves to a new neighborhood with his family only to discover that he\'s the only Chinese-American student at his school; the powerful

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The herbalists at Earth Lodge Herbals, Maya Cointreau & E. Barrie Kavasch, have brought together years of herbal experience to bring you this Earth Lodge Guide to Horse Wellness: Equine Herbs & Healing, giving you all the tools you need to maintain your horse the natural way. This informative book teaches you how to use herbs most effectively for your horse\'s benefit. Learn what herbs have been used

In this volume, four leading thinkers of our times confront the paradoxes and dilemmas attending the supposed stand-off between Islam and liberal democratic values. Taking the controversial Danish cartoons of Mohammad as a point of departure, Talal Asad, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, and Saba Mahmood inquire into the evaluative frameworks at stake in understanding the conflicts between blasphemy and

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Are you tired of not reaching your full potential? Do you feel you have the talent to succeed but are unappreciated and trapped?Abridged from his New York Times bestselling book, Beyond Talent, John Maxwell asks if you are tired of not reaching your full potential and feel you have the talent to succeed but are unappreciated and trapped. If this describes you, in Success Is a Choice, you can learn

In 1971 Dr. Theodore Kaczynski rejected modern society and moved to a primitive cabin in the woods of Montana. There, he began building bombs, which he sent to professors and executives to express his disdain for modern society, and to work on his magnum opus, Industrial Society and Its Future, forever known to the world as the Unabomber Manifesto. Responsible for three deaths and more than twenty

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Authoritatively written and lavishly illustrated, Fender Stratocaster(R) 70 Years is the officially licensed anniversary celebration of this legendary guitar. Ever present in the music world, the Fender Stratocaster(R) guitar is also an icon of popular culture, its attractive lines and innovative features as forward-looking today as they were when Leo Fender introduced the guitar to the world in 1954.

A Study Guide for Arthur Miller\'s \"Death of a Salesman,\" excerpted from Gale\'s acclaimed Drama for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama for Students for all of your research

Anglický námořník a spisovatel Frederick Marryat vydal svůj román Masterman Ready v roce 1841. Příběh se ihned zařadil k nejčtenějším robinsonádám 19. století. Byl oblíbený po celé Evropě, v českých zemích především pod názvem Kormidelník Vlnovský. Slavného dobrodružství se chopil spisovatel František Novotný a se znalostmi zkušeného námořníka jej nově převyprávěl. Kniha obsahuje knižně dosud nevydané