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As older adults and their families opt out of nursing homes, a range of home and community-based services have risen up to provide care. This book examines existing and emerging models of these...

Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) was the foremost Japanese novelist of the twentieth century, known for such highly acclaimed works as Kokoro, Sanshiro, and I Am a Cat. Yet he began his career as a...

Jessica Fletcher investigates a mysterious manuscript with deadly consequences in the latest mass-market reprint in this USA Today bestselling series.... Jessica Fletcher has had plenty to worry...

In the West, we have identified only four basic tastes--sour, sweet, salty, and bitter--that, through skillful combination and technique, create delicious foods. Yet in many parts of East Asia over...

Who HQ brings you the stories behind the most beloved characters of our time. If you're a fan of Acme anvils and know that the question "What's up, Doc?" needs no answer, this...

A family psychologist offers parents clear and simple techniques for disarming the strategies kids use to manipulate them. Filled with informative and practical advice, this insightful guide is...

Most Powerfully Unnecessary Things You Never Need to Know.

Stretching from ancient times to the late medieval period, Traditional Japanese Literature spans both high and popular styles and contains key examples of poetry, drama, prose fiction, and essays....

Based on the hit TV detective series }Monk{, this follows the obsessive compulsive sleuth as he comes up against a killer who not only understands him, but is one step ahead.

"Laugh out loud funny and full of heart" Noel Fielding"Very funny, with brilliant illustrations. It should be called The Book That Everyone Wanted To Read." Nadia Shireen"One...

Modern science is under the greatest and most successful attack in recent history. An industry of denial, abetted żeby news media and "info-tainment" broadcasters more interested in selling...

Small-town librarian Kathleen Paulson had no idea two stray cats could nuzzle their way into her life. But when murder interrupts Maryville Heights' music festival, Kathleen finds herself the...

A Maisy pop-up and play book, featuring a carousel house, now complete with second floor, more toys, a bath, colourful garden and press-out figures of Maisy, Tallulah, Cyril and Charlie. Rigorously...

Approximately how many languages compose the Bantu language group of central and southern Africa? What is the name of the language spoken in Hawaii by an estimated two thousand people? What Western...

At one time the most popular of Melville's works, Typee was known as a travelogue that idealized and romanticized a mysterious South Sea island for readers in the ruthless, industrial,...

Fossil Mammals of Asia, edited by and with contributions from world-renowned scholars, is the first major work devoted to the late Cenozoic (Neogene) mammalian biostratigraphy and geochronology of...

François Hartog explores crucial moments of change in society's "regimes of historicity," or its ways of relating to the past, present, and future. Inspired aby Hannah Arendt, Reinhart...

The Triassic period is generally viewed as the beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs. For paleontologists, however, it also marks the rise of the world's first modern land ecosystems. Over the past...

From an editor at the popular humor site Cracked.com and one of the writers of the bestselling You Might Be a Zombie and The De-Textbook, a rollicking look at vice throughout history, complete with...

Landmark translations of the Sufi poet/mystic Rumi from the acclaimed interpreter of the "Tao Te Ching." Jonathan Star has assembled selections of Rumi's verse in a treasury that spans...

What can we learn from the stunning rise and mysterious death of the ancient world s greatest conqueror? An acclaimed biographer reconstructs the life of Alexander the Great in this magisterial...

-- Susan Sontag

In 1956 Sarah Dewhurst's father shocks her żeby hiring a dragon to work the farm. When the blue dragon, Kazimir, unexpectedly saves Sarah and her friend Jason Inagawa from the attentions of the...

Drawing on extensive case studies from his private practice over the past 20 years, Alasko reveals that whether it's a casual I forgot, or a premeditated deception, lack of personal...

Philosophers have long distinguished between appearance and reality, and the opposition between a supposedly deceptive surface and a more profound truth is deeply rooted in Western culture. At a...

As entertaining today as it was when first published in 1726, "Gulliver's Travels" has been read aby generations of children as an adventure story and żeby adults as a devastating...

The celebrated author of Gender Trouble here redefines Antigone's legacy, recovering her revolutionary significance and liberating it for a progressive feminism and sexual politics....

In his new history of food, acclaimed historian Massimo Montanari traces the development of medieval tastes - both culinary and cultural - from raw materials to market and captures their...

Critical Models combines into a single volume two of Adorno's most important postwar works -- Interventions: Nine Critical Models (1963) and Catchwords: Critical Models II (1969). Written after...

Enjoy a tour of this spooky house where a spine-tingling surprise lurks in every dark corner. Re-issued in its original full-size format, this definitive edition brings the classic pop-up novelty...

This timeless classic is a poignant tale of Mary, a lonely orphaned girl sent to a Yorkshire mansion at the edge of a vast lonely moor. At first, she is frightened żeby this gloomy place until she...

The classic, inspiring memoir of a political dissident--a man whose fierce spirit and drive for freedom triumphed over imprisonment, solitary confinement, the Soviet Union, and Communism itself

Nobody should have to die in pain. Nobody should have to die alone. This is Ira Byock's dream, and he is dedicating his life to making it come true. "Dying Well" brings readers to the...

The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now in a dazzling new series design The Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship żeby...

The addictive novel about four young friends navigating a cutthroat world and their complex relationships with each other, as ambition, passion, and love intertwine over the course of their...

The epic conclusion to the critically acclaimed Shadow Skye series, a rich fantasy adventure trilogy set in a mythical Scotland.As old enemies unite, only the most powerful will survive...News has...

Written aby a former student of Heidegger, this book examines the relationship between the philosophy and the politics of a celebrated teacher and the allure that Nazism held out for scholars...

The extraordinary second book in the epic Shadow Skye trilogy. In a world of shadows, hope can be found... Agatha and Jaime have rescued their clan and returned home to Skye as heroes. But when...

In his 1,500-year-old "Confessions," Augustine of Hippo tells the story of his remarkable life, interwoven with his insights of endless wisdom. This contemporary translation features an...

One of the great novels of American girlhood, Jean Webster's Daddy-Long-Legs (1912) follows the adventures of an orphan named Judy Abbott, whose letters to her anonymous male benefactor trace...