Gordon Alexander: 30 books
Lockdown
Escape from Furnace 1
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Furnace Penitentiary: the world's most secure prison for young offenders, buried a mile beneath the earth's surface. Convicted of a murder he didn't commit, sentenced to life without parole, "new fish" Alex Sawyer knows he has two choices: find a way out, or resign himself to a death behind...
Solitary
Escape from Furnace 2
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
Alex Sawyer and his mates should have known there was no way out of Furnace Penitentiary. Their escape attempt only lands them deeper in the guts of this prison for young offenders, and then into solitary confinement. And that's where a whole new struggle begins—a struggle not to let the hellish...
Death Sentence
Escape from Furnace 3
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
Alex's second attempt to break out of Furnace Penetentiary has failed. This time his punishment will be much worse than before. Because in the hidden, bloodstained laboratories beneath the prison, he will be made into a monster. As the warden pumps something evil into his veins--a sinisterly dark...
Fugitives
Escape from Furnace 4
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Forever altered by his experience in Furnace Penetentiary, Alex has done the impossible and escaped. But the battle for freedom is only just beginning. Charged with his superhuman abilities, Alex must uncover the last of Furnace's secrets—the truth about the man who built the prison, the man known...
The Night Children: An Escape From Furnace Story
A Tor.Com Original
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
It is December 1944 and Europe is still gripped by war. In the densely forested mountains of Belgium one of the conflict's most brutal battles is raging. Cut off from the front, a ragtag group of young British and American soldiers finds itself being hunted by a patrol of elite German Special Forces,...
Harvard Classics Volume 41
English Poetry 2: Collins To Fitzgerald
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2017
Contents: 1. Use Preview To See Table of Contents Inside Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard Classic Shelf Of Fiction) 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die (Golden Deer Classics)
Dulcinea in the Factory
Myths, Morals, Men, and Women in Colombia’s Industrial Experiment, 1905–1960
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2000
Before it became the center of Latin American drug trafficking, the Colombian city of Medellín was famous as a success story of industrialization, a place where protectionist tariffs had created a “capitalist paradise.” By the 1960s, the city’s textile industrialists were presenting themselves...
Troubling Intersections of Race and Sexuality
Queer Students of Color and Anti-Oppressive Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2001
In recent years, researchers have considerably expanded our understanding of the experiences of students of color and of students who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and questioning (ie. Queer). They have provided us with rich resources for addressing racism and heterosexism; however, few...
by John Sikes Jr., Benjamin B. Alexander, Michael L. Schroeder
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Acclaimed author and Catholic thinker Flannery O'Connor (1925--1964) penned two novels, two collections of short stories, various essays, and numerous book reviews over the course of her life. Her work continues to fascinate, perplex, and inspire new generations of readers and poses important questions...
by Gavin Alexander, April Bernard, Elisabeth Chaghafi
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Spenser in the Moment collects specially commissioned essays critical of established readings, each of which in surveying the state of the art attempts radically to unsettle our conception of the poetry of Edmund Spenser (1552–1599).
The editors were drawn together by a shared restlessness...
The Devil's Engine: Hellraisers
(Book 1)
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
When a sixteen-year-old troublemaker named Marlow Green is trapped in a surreal firefight against nightmarish creatures in the middle of his New York City neighborhood, he unwittingly finds himself amid a squad of secret soldiers dedicated to battling the legions of the devil himself. Powering this...
Working Difference
Women’s Working Lives in Hungary and Austria, 1945–1995
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2003
Working Difference is one of the first comparative, historical studies of women's professional access to public institutions in a state socialist and a capitalist society. Éva Fodor examines women's inclusion in and exclusion from positions of authority in Austria and Hungary in the latter half of...
Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work
A Century of Industry and Immigrants in Paris and New York
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 1997
Nancy L. Green offers a critical and lively look at New York’s Seventh Avenue and the Parisian Sentier in this first comparative study of the two historical centers of the women’s garment industry. Torn between mass production and "art," this industry is one of the few manufactauring...
Writing bestselling children's books
52 brilliant ideas for inspiring young readers
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2007
Some people think that writing for kids is easy short books, no big words, non-existent attention spans and then fill in any gaps with pictures. But nothing could be further from the truth. Children are the harshest critics imaginable. Give a grown-up a copy of Ulysses to read and theyll pretend to...