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Corruption in Cuba
Castro and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
While Fidel Castro maintains his longtime grip on Cuba, revolutionary scholars and policy analysts have turned their attention from how Castro succeeded (and failed), to how Castro himself will be succeeded—by a new government. Among the many questions to be answered is how the new government will...
Tyrannosaurus Lex
The Marvelous Book of Palindromes, Anagrams, and Other Delightful and Outrageous Wordplay
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Welcome to the Weird and Wonderful World of Words!
Tyrannosaurus Lex is your guide to the intriguing world of logology—the pursuit of word puzzles or puzzling words—featuring:
•A wealth of witty anagrams, palindromes, and puns
•Clever paraprosdokians: sentences with surprising endings...
Disease-Proof
Slash Your Risk of Heart Disease, Cancer, Diabetes, and More--by 80 Percent
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
“If you want to build better health and a better future, this book makes an excellent tool kit.”—David A. Kessler, MD, author of The End of Overeating and former commissioner of the FDA
It sometimes seems as if everyone around us is being diagnosed with a chronic illness—and that we...
The Luck of the Karluk
Shipwrecked in the Arctic
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
When the members of Canada’s First Arctic Expedition set out from Victoria aboard HMCS Karluk in the summer of 1913, it was a moment of great optimism. The three-year mission would chart unexplored landmasses of the Western Arctic and secure Canada’s place in the international geographic community....
He Died for Peace
The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Two men born with different backgrounds who were destined to collide in Dallas, Texas. One man came from a family of great wealth and power, while the other man came from a family who struggled for everything they ever had. One stood for peace while the other man stood for confusion and deceit. President...
by Constance L. McCart Ed.D., Friends of the Margaret E. Heggan Free Public Library
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2009
Washington Township, now the largest community in Gloucester County, was first incorporated in 1836. Its 22 acres of land, however, had been settled by Europeans as early as the 18th century, when farms were established near Lenni-Lenape encampments. By the mid-19th century, the area listed the communities...
Sorry, Wrong Answer
Trivia Questions That Even Know-It-Alls Get Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Where were Venetian blinds invented?
What color is the black box on a commercial airplane?
Where did India ink originate?*
Most of us know more than we think we know. We also think we know more than we actually do-because some of what we think we know simply "ain't so." We all harbor...
Separate Spheres No More
Gender Convergence in American Literature, 1830-1930
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Although they wrote in the same historical milieu as their male counterparts, women writers of the 19th- and early 20th-centuries have generally been "ghettoized" by critics into a separate canonical sphere. These original essays argue in favor of reconciling male and female writers, both...
Classic Children's Adventure Stories
Peter Pan, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and The Swiss Family Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Four timeless tales of adventure that have delighted generations of readers, young and old.
Peter Pan is the enchanting story of a boy who wouldn’t grow up and the girl he promised to always remember. One magical night, two mischievous denizens of an island of the imagination visit Wendy...
Feminist Activist Ethnography
Counterpoints to Neoliberalism in North America
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Writing in the wake of neoliberalism, where human rights and social justice have increasingly been subordinated to proliferating “consumer choices” and ideals of market justice, contributors to this collection argue that feminist ethnographers are in a key position to reassert the central feminist...
Beyond the Indigo Children
The New Children and the Coming of the Fifth World
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2005
Connects the arrival of a new type of children with the fulfillment of the Fifth World of the Mayan Calendar and other great prophecies
• Provides detailed information about the world changes that will take place before and after December 21, 2012
• Explores the seven "root races"...
Why Study Talmud in the Twenty-First Century?
The Relevance of the Ancient Jewish Text to Our World
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
The Talmud is the repository of thousands of years of Jewish wisdom. It is a conglomerate of law, legend, and philosophy, a blend of unique logic and shrewd pragmatism, of history and science, of anecdotes and humor. Unfortunately, its sometimes complex subject matter often seems irrelevant in today's...
The Path of Light
The Bodhicharyavatara of Santideva, a Manual of Mahayana Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
The Path of Light is Barnett's 1909 translation of an important text to Mahayana Buddhism. It is the treatise of the Bodhicharyavatara of Santideva--part of the Wisdom of the East series. Barnett gives a detailed introduction to Mahayana Buddhism and its significance.
The Future of Human Experience
Visionary Thinkers on the Science of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
Explores the future predictions of cutting-edge scientists, spiritual teachers, and other visionaries and how we can affect the future
• Shares insights from the author’s discussions with Dr. Mehmet Oz, Raymond Moody, Larry Dossey, John Perkins, Michael Cremo, Gay Bradshaw, Ray Kurzweil,...