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Binchy, Maeve Scarlet Feather
Orion mass market paperback April 2, 2001 0-7528-4299-4 Paperback Very Good
Cathy Scarlet and Tom Feather have decided to create the best catering comp any in Dublin. They have the perfect premises, heaps of talent, and even a few contacts - but not everyone seems as pleased by the idea of ?Scarlet Fe ather' as they are. Tom's parents are disappointed that he has turned his b ack on the family business. Cathy's husband buries himself in work, becomin g ever more distant, whilst his mother thinks Cathy should stay at home to look after him. And Tom's relationship with his beautiful, ambitious girlfr iend becomes fraught as she struggles to realise her dream of becoming a mo del. As Cathy and Tom strive to maintain their emotional ties amidst cater ing triumphs and disasters they are supported - and undermined - by an ench anting cast of classic Binchy characters.
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Binding, Tim Island Madness
Pan Books Ltd 1999 0-330-35046-3 Paperback Very Good
Binding gives a realistic atmosphere to this story about WWII on the remote Channel Islands (the only place in Britain inhabited by the Germans).
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Bindloss, Joe Lonely Planet Thailand's Islands & Beaches (Lonely Planet Thailand's Island and Beaches)
Footscray, Vic. Lonely Planet Publications March, 2004 1-74059-500-9 Paperback Fine
Island ways, long days, late rays...relax to the blissful pace of Thailand' s south. Feast in paradise, barter for a bungalow, join the party or escape entirely. Our definitive guide gives you detailed regional coverage for th e perfect getaway. ? DINE OUT - with our food and drink chapter and comprehensive listings acr oss the region ? GO FOR BROKE - from market bargains to boutique fashion, we have shopping covered ? GET AROUND - explore coastal jungles, remote islands and blue lagoons ? NAVIGATE - over 50 maps cover the city to the sea, including national par ks and dive sites ? HIT THE HUB - the lowdown on Bangkok, from banking to bar-hopping
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Birch, Penny Brat (Nexus)
Nexus 20 May 1999 0-352-33347-2 Paperback Good
Natasha Linnet is the perfect modern girl ? single, successful, independent and capable of putting men in their place with a single word. Yet she has a single desire, and not one that she could ever admit to her smart friends. She wants to be spanked, and not just by a girlfriend or any of her male admirers. Instead she needs proper discipline, and from someone strict enough to take her across their lap, pull down her expensive silk panties and slap her bare bottom to a glowing pink ball. First, though, she has to find someone who will see her not as the aloof young woman she appears to be, but as what she is underneath ? a spoilt brat.
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Bird, Carmel Cape Grimm
Sydney, NSW ; New York BPR Publishers January 2004 0-7322-6992-X Paperback Very Good+
One clear evening in 1992 all the inhabitants enter the church hall, where they are locked in and burned alive. They have been persuaded to do this by a young man called Caleb Mean - also known as El Nino, the Christ Child. T he only survivors of the fire are Caleb, his lover Virginia, and their baby daughter Golden. How could such a thing happen? And why? Do the answers li e in the tragedy of the Aborigines herded over the cliffs at Cape Grimm by white settlers? Are they in the history of Skye itself, founded by the unli kely survivors of a 19th-century shipwreck? Or do they lie within the myste ries of the human soul?
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Birkett, Sara Wheele Amazonian Penguin Book of New Womens Tra
Penguin Putnam~trade May 28, 1998 0-14-026802-2 Paperback Very Good+
A collection of previously unpublished travel writing from women who are me mbers of the Amazonians club for women travel writers. Contributors include writers such as: Julia Blackburn, Robyn Davidson, Jenny Diski, Martha Gell horn and Katie Hickman.
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Birkholz, Erik Pace Special Ops: Host and Network Security for Microsoft, UNIX, and Oracle [ILL USTRATED]
Syngress 2003 1-931836-69-8 Paperback Near Fine
A tight clean copy, no markings throughout: In the fast-paced, caffeine-powered, and sometimes reckless world of computer security, the security analogy of a "hard crunchy outside and soft chewy inside," a staple of the security community today, is uncannily apropos as we spend millions to protect and fortify the outside perimeter network and nary spend a dime to address internal threats. However, as convenient as it may be to leave internal systems free from controls, it's a disaster once someone "bites" through to that unprotected inside; consider, too, the potential damage (whether intentional or not) that could be generated by those employees or partners who have legitimate access to the center. Lackadaisical attention to the soft and chewy inside could compromise your security at any time. The authors of Special OPs: Host and Network Security for Microsoft, UNIX, and Oracle immerse you in this analogy of intranet security and "the soft chewy inside" so frequently neglected in today's security oration. In this book, you will find the critical pieces to securing your vital internal systems from attackers (both friend and foe) and a near complete picture to understanding your internal security risk.
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Birkinshaw, Julian Entrepreneurship in the Global Firm : Enterprise and Renewal (The Strategy Series)
London ; Thousand Oaks, Cai SAGE Publications June 6, 2000 0-7619-5809-6 Paperback Near Fine
Much current literature on globalization and competition focuses on the ext ernal environment in which firms operate. Julian Birkinshaw's book looks wi thin international firms at the dynamics that affect their growth and posit ion. Are local managers seizing power from the centre? Is `glocialization' the inevitable result of globalization? Based on fresh case evidence gathe red in Europe and North America, the findings in this book about multi-nati onal firms and managers make a significant contribution to some of the key debates on the transfer of knowledge in firms; the resource-based view; and the network forms of organization. The initiatives of local managers refle ct local knowledge, skills and resources and at the same time impact of the distribution of power in the wider organization. By taking as his perspect ive that of the subsidiary manager operating in a network, Julian Birkinsha w extends the implications of his findings to all managers in organizations and challenges those who still view organizations as hierarchies.
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Birnbaum, Alfred Zen For Cats : Teachings Of The Zen Cat Masters
New York Weatherhill June 1, 1993 0-8348-0275-9 Paperback Very Good+
Zen for Cats will delight all those who have survived the strict master-dis ciple relationship that cats use to lead us humans to the Truth.. Over seve nty in-wash paintings capture the essence of cats in contemplation; illumin ate the "three pillars" of Za-Zen, Za-Znack, and Za-nap; and secrets of the esoteric art of litter-box sand raking. Whether you are the Guest or Host to a feline follower of the Way, you will find Zen for Cats transcendent.
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Bischoff, David The Crow: Quoth the Crow (The Crow)
Voyager May 5, 1998 0-00-648364-X Paperback Near Fine
Jeremy Botham is obsessed with Edgar Allan Poe. Like Poe, he is a writer of dark fantasy and has powerful enemies. One of them pretends to be a friend , even as he plots to murder Jeremy. His only hope is to learn the "truth" about his friend. But this is the realm of the Crow.
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Bishop, Claudia (Editor) Death Dines at 8:30
New York Berkley Hardcover May 1, 2001 0-425-17470-0 1st Edition Hardcover Very Good/Very Good
This collection mixes old hands at the cuisine-centered mystery like Diane Mott Davidson and Tamar Myers with first-timers like Edward Hoch and Sharan Newman. The result is highly entertaining, especially since each story con cludes with a tasty recipe. For all collections.
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Bishop, Elizabeth The Complete Poems, 1927-1979
Farrar, Straus and Giroux April 1, 1984 0-374-51817-3 Paperback Near Fine
Elizabeth Bishop was vehement about her art--a perfectionist who didn't wan t to be seen as a "woman poet." In 1977, two years before her death she wro te, "art is art and to separate writings, paintings, musical compositions, etc., into two sexes is to emphasize values in them that are not art." She also deeply distrusted the dominant mode of modern poetry, one practiced wi th such detached passion by her friend Robert Lowell, the confessional. Bishop was unforgiving of fashion and limited ways of seeing and feeling, b ut cast an even more trenchant eye on her own work. One wishes this volume were thicker, though the perfections within mark the rightness of her appro ach. The poems are sublimely controlled, fraught with word play, fierce mor al vision (see her caustic ballad on Ezra Pound, "Visits to St. Elizabeths" ), and reticence. From the surreal sorrow of the early "Man-Moth" (leaping off from a typo she had come across for "mammoth"), about a lonely monster who rarely emerges from "the pale subways of cement he calls his home," to the beauty of her villanelle "One Art" (with its repeated "the art of losin g isn't hard to master"), the poet wittily explores distance and desolation , separation and sorrow. The New York Times Book Review, David Bromwich Like all great poets, she was less a maker of poems than a maker of feelings.
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Bissell, Sallie In The Forest Of Harm
New York Bantam 2001 0-553-58270-4 Paperback Very Good
What Sallie Bissell has done so well with in In the Forest of Harm might h ave easily turned into a Deliverance-meets-"Charlie's Angels" farce in the hands of a lesser writer. Indeed, while there are echoes of Dickey's Deli verance and strains of Sharyn McCrumb's She Walks These Hills --near poeti c phrasing, ringing depictions of a majestic Southern wilderness, crisp ch aracterizations, bow-taut suspense--Bissell's words are surely her own. Al l suspense novels should be this good; that this one is a debut novel is a little scary.
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Bissoondath, Neil A Casual Brutality
Minerva 30 April 1989 0-7493-9004-2 Paperback Very Good+
Setting an ominous tone from the first page, Bissoondath ( Digging Up the M ountains ) develops this powerful novel with consummate skill. He creates a picture of a fictional Caribbean island on the verge of chaos, and of one man in exile from his heritage, caught between two alien worlds. Raj Ramsin gh is a 35-year-old physician who took his medical training in Canada, then returned to Casaquemada; now he is leaving the island for good. In oblique , beautifully nuanced flashbacks, we come to understand the circumstances t hat have tinged his life with "the darkening rubble of shattered dreams." U sing the Ramsingh family as a microcosm of the island culture, Bisoondath d epicts a society as rigidly ruled by caste as the India of Raj's ancestors. Successful businessmen and professionals, the Ramsinghs disdain blacks, an d other Indians who have not prospered. "We recognized a racial brotherhood , but we saw too in them a version of ourselves as we might have been, and this earned them our distrust and our contempt." Raj's ruthless cousin Sure in typifies the disintegration of values in a family that prides itself in its high character and good breeding. On Casaquemada moral corruption is oc curring at breakneck speed; the prosperity of the oil boom has succumbed to the politics of greed. The country is in shambles. For Raj, the free-float ing violence will take a tragic toll. Bissoondath's bleak, despairing pictu re of this world is particularized by indelibly vivid characters and minute ly observed detail. Writing in tightly controlled yet supple prose, conveyi ng the true island patois, he constructs his narrative in fragments that bu
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Biswas, Sugata Management Consulting: A Complete Guide to the Industry
New York John Wiley & Sons 1999 0-471-29352-0 Hardcover Near Fine/Near Fine
Packed with essential information on the management consulting industry, th is text contains essays by top consultants, strategists and academics provi ding perspectives on the future of the industry. Opening with a comprehensi ve history and discussion on the origins of consulting, the authors then mo ve on to examine how the industry rose to become indispensable as a provide r of professional strategy services, how it has diversified into unique spe cialities, and the many opportunities available today. The text offers guid ance through the application process to help candidates stand apart from th e competition: cover letters and applications; research; and self-assessmen t. An A-Z resource covering everything from the origins of the field to the unique specialities within the industry, complete with a directory of the top 50 consulting firms.
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Bix, Herbert P. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
New York, NY HarperCollins Publishers September 1, 20 0-06-019314-X 1st Edition Hardcover F/VG
A highly collectible first edition/printing, tight clean copy, protected in a new brodart wrapper, no inscriptions, unclipped dustjacket, this is not an Ex-Lib or a BCE/BOMC edition. Bix penetrates decades of "public opacity" to offer a stunning portrait of the controversial Japanese emperor, "one of the most disingenuous persons ever to occupy the modern throne." Hirohito ascended to the Japanese throne in 1926 (at the age of 25) and ruled until his death in 1989. Bix closely examines his long, eventful reign, concentrating on the extent of the emperor's influence-which was greater than he admitted-over the political and military life of Japan during WWII.
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Bjork Post
New York, N.Y. St Martins Pr March, 1996 0-312-14238-2 Paperback Near Fine
808 state formed in 1988 when Graham Massey musician and producer, met Mart in Price, owner of Manchester's most influential record shop, Eastern Bloc, They recorded an album, 'Nebuild', which they released on their own label creed.
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BLACK, ETHAN The Broken Hearts Club (Conrad Voort Novels
New York, NY Ballantine Books February 29, 20 0-345-42603-7 Paperback Near Fine
Anyone who has ever been dumped or treated badly in a relationship can symp athize with the members of the Broken Hearts Club, a group of patients of t he New York City psychologist Ian Bainbridge who meet weekly in the back ro om of a seedy steakhouse to share their pain and provide Dr. Bainbridge wit h material for a book. It's only after a couple of meetings in journalist E than Black's sly and sharply written debut thriller that our suspicions beg in to take shape. Why are all of the club members men? And why do the women who have wronged them suddenly start dying in violent, brutal ways? The NYPD's richest detective, Conrad Voort, 29-year-old heir to an historic family name and fortune, doesn't at first see how the murders are related. He's mired in a doomed relationship of his own, with TV news producer Cami lla Ryan, who happens to be one of Dr. Bainbridge's patients but definitely not a member of his Broken Hearts Club. Camilla also races kayaks for fun and exercise, so you know that some kind of water-based action scene featur ing a kayak is bound to occur. Black plays tricks and takes liberties (Voort resembles John Sandford's Lucas Davenport, another rich detective), but he has the sense to let readers arrive at conclusions at their own pace. It's only after the last page that most of them will find themselves thinking back to scenes of Club meetings and asking, "But why...?" and, "But who...?"
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Black, Sheila (Adapter) Stargate (Stargate)
New York, NY Puffin November 1, 199 0-14-037540-6 Paperback Very Good
A brilliant archeologist and a fearless military man lead a team through th e ancient StarGate and discover a planet where the humans are enslaved by t he Egyptian god Ra.
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Black, Shirley Temple Child Star
Warner Books October 1, 1989 0-446-35792-8 Paperback Very Good
This critically acclaimed, bestselling autobiography of Shirley Temple blac k is a star-studded account filled with choice Hollywood anecdotes.
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Blackmore, Susan The Meme Machine
New York Oxford University Press, USA May 16, 2000 0-19-286212-X Paperback Near Fine
In The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins proposed the concept of the meme as a unit of culture, spread by imitation. Now Dawkins himself says of Susan Bla ckmore: Showing greater courage and intellectual chutzpah than I have ever aspired to, she deploys her memetic forces in a brave--do not think foolhardy until you have read it--assault on the deepest questions of all: What is a self? What am I? Where am I? ... Any theory deserves to be given its best shot, and that is what Susan Blackmore has given the theory of the meme. Blackmore is a parapsychologist who rejects the paranormal, a skeptical investigator of near-death experiences, and a practitioner of Zen. Her explanation of the science of the meme (memetics) is rigorously Darwinian. Because she is a careful thinker (though by no means dull or conventional), the reader ends up with a good idea of what memetics explains well and what it doesn't, and with many ideas about how it can be tested--the very hallmark of an excellent science book. Blackmore's discussion of the "memeplexes" of religion and of the self are sure to be controversial, but she is (as Dawkins says) enormously honest and brave to make a connection between scientific ideas and how one should live one's life.
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Blackmore, Susan The Meme Machine
Oxford [England] ; New York Oxford University Press, USA 1999 0-19-850365-2 Hardcover Fine/Fine
A crisp clean copy, no markings throughout: Over a decade ago, Richard Dawkins, who contributes a foreword to this book, coined the term "meme" for a unit of culture that is transmitted via imitation and naturally "selected" by popularity or longevity. Dawkins used memes to show that the theory known as Universal Darwinism, according to which "all life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities," applies to more than just genes. Now, building on his ideas, psychologist Blackmore contends that memes can account for many forms of human behavior that do not obviously serve the "selfish gene." For example, a possible gene-meme co-evolution among early humans could have selected for true altruism among humans: people who help others (whether or not they are related) can influence them and thus spread their memes. Meme transmission would also explain some thorny problems in sociobiology. From a gene's point of view, celibacy, birth control and adoption are horrible mistakes. From a meme's point of view, they are a gold mine. Few or no children free up the meme-carrier to devote more energy to horizontal transmission to non-relatives (monks and nuns the world over figured that out long ago), something the gene is incapable of. With adoption, memes can even co-opt vertical transmission between generations. Blackmore posits that, in modern culture, meme replication has almost completely overwhelmed the glacially slow gene replication. Well written and personable, this provocative book makes a cogentAif not wholly persuasiveAcase for the concept of memes and for the importance of their effects on human culture.
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Blackwell, Angela Global Links 2: English for International Business (Book with Audio CD)
Pearson ESL May 30, 2001 0-13-088396-4 Paperback Very Good+
Using authentic material about real companies, this two-level series teache s the basic language and grammar structures that busy professionals need to communicate effectively in international business. A four-skills course with emphasis on speaking and listening, Global Links meets the needs of low-language level students while acknowledging the high level of sophistication that businesspeople bring to their study of Englis h. Authentic texts, documents, graphs, and charts offer realistic practice models, while the text¿s international focus provides relevant cultural inf ormation for doing business worldwide. Student Audio CD Contains selected models and listening activities; include d in the Student Book. Phrase Book A portable reference to key language structures, expressions, and vocabulary plus a glossary of business terms; included in the Student Book.
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Blair, L.E. Peer Pressure
Golden Books February 18, 19 0-307-22009-5 Paperback Very Good
Katie is chosen for the synchronized skating team, then discovers that Stac y the great and her best friend, Laurel, have also been chosen.
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Blake, Michael Dances with Wolves
New York Fawcett August 12, 1988 0-449-13448-2 Paperback Very Good
Ordered to hold an abandoned army post, John Dunbar found himself alone, be yond the edge of civilization. Thievery and survival soon forced him into t he Indian camp, where he began a dangerous adventure that changed his life forever. Relive the adventure and beauty of the incredible movie, DANCES WI TH WOLVES.
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Blake, Michael Dances with Wolves
London Penguin Books Ltd February 7, 199 0-14-015709-3 Paperback Very Good
An American soldier is sent to a remote outpost on the frontier. He lives a lone with a horse and wolf for company until he encounters a neighbouring S ioux tribe. Slowly he becomes absorbed into the tribe - learning the langua ge and customs of the Sioux - until his old persona is transformed.
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Blake, Michael The Holy Road: A Novel
Random House Trade Paperback July 9, 2002 0-375-76040-7 Paperback Very Good+
Eleven years after winning an Academy Award for the film screenplay of his novel Dances with Wolves, Blake offers this dramatic sequel to his tale of army Lt. John Dunbar and his life with the Comanche Indians on the Great Pl ains. It is now 1874, 11 years after Dunbar deserted from the army to live among the Comanche. He has married Stands with a Fist, the captive white wo man raised by Indians, and they have three children. Dunbar has forsworn th e white man's ways and is accepted as Dances with Wolves, a full-fledged Co manche warrior. These are hard times for the Plains Indians, however, as th e advance of the white man results in war, misery and a gloomy future. When a party of white rangers attacks his village and kidnaps his wife and youn gest child, Dances with Wolves goes after them in a wild attempt at rescue. Alongside his tale of Dances with Wolves's personal turmoil, Blake more fo rcefully tells of the conflicts among the Indians regarding whether to figh t the white man or to make peace. Raids, ambushes, atrocities and bitternes s on both sides can have only one conclusion, despite an Indian peace deleg ation that goes to Washington, D.C., to meet the Great White Father. This n ovel focuses less on Dances with Wolves and much more on the confused pligh t of the Indians, who cannot understand the white man's greed, duplicity an d brutality. Familiar characters from the original novel reappear here in m ore important roles, making this a more powerful historical novel with a mu ch wider scope. Blake's ability to evoke sadness and joy, action and emotio n is as strong as ever, and the ending hits hard.
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BLAKE, STERLING CHILLER
Bantam September 1, 19 0-553-56866-3 Paperback Very Good
A promising first novel about cryonics (the freezing of human bodies for po tential revival in the future), this science-based thriller set in contempo rary Southern California challenges the idea that death as we know it is fi nal. Alex Cowell and Susan Hagerty, respectively general manager and resear cher at the cryonics firm Immortality Inc., successfully revive a cryonical ly preserved dog with the use of transglycerols, which prevent individual c ell destruction during the freezing process. Their feat attracts the skepti cal attention of the media, arouses the hidebound prejudices of Hagerty's e mployers at the university hospital on whose faculty she sits, inflames the self-righteous anger of Orange County preacher Carl Montana and inspires a holy crusade by the mysterious George, an unlikely but believable combinat ion of religious nut, computer whiz and serial killer. Thanks to an unholly alliance between George and the Reverend Montana, sabotage and murder haun t Hagerty, Cowell and his girlfriend Kathryn Sheffield, until Immortality I nc.'s future--and their own--is on the line. Written in an expansive, easyg oing style that fleshes out each character but sometimes blunts the narrati ve drive, the novel has snappy dialogue, believable science and the require d plot twist that will prompt readers to exclaim, "Of course!" Blake does a good job of tying everything together, as well as putting forward the intr iguing proposition that people are just as afraid of those who have the pow er to give life as they are of those who take it away. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavail
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Blakemore, Kenneth The Book of Gold
London, November Books Ltd. November Books Ltd January 1, 1971 0-233-96223-9 Hardcover VG+/VG
A highly collectible first edition/printing, tight clean copy, protected in a new brodart wrapper, no inscriptions, this is not an Ex-Lib or a BCE/BOM C edition. An excellent historical overview of gold in culture, jewelry and society. Readable and informative, covering the sources for gold, refining and crafting techniques ancient and modern, as well as the final uses in jewelry and money. Primarily Western orientation.
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Blanchard, Karen American Roots
White Plains, NY Pearson ESL November 10, 20 0-201-61995-4 Paperback Very Good
This reading skill-builder is designed to enrich students¿ study of English while also providing a general understanding of the social, cultural, econ omic, and political forces that have shaped the United States. Written for intermediate-level students, American Roots includes articles w ritten in a variety of styles. These readings describe major events, people , and trends within nine broad historical periods, and are designed to incr ease reading confidence while building knowledge of U.S. history and cultur e. Readings are accompanied by maps, photos, charts, and graphs, as well as fo llow-up exercises to strengthen reading skills, including: Previewing. Identifying main ideas and details. Separating fact from opinion. Summarizing. Understanding inferences, and more. In addition to building reading skills, American Roots also improves speaking, listening, and writing as students work through a variety of activities.
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Blanchard, Kenneth The One Minute Manager
New York Berkley Trade 1983 0-425-09847-8 Paperback Fine
The blockbuster #1 national bestselling phenomenon is back... not that it e ver really went away. An easily-read story which quickly demonstrates three very practical management techniques, it also includes information on seve ral studies in medicine and in the behavioral sciences, which help readers understand why these apparently simple methods work so well with so many pe ople. The book is brief, the language is simple, and best of all...it works .
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Blaylock, James The Paper Grail
Collins 1993 0-586-21217-5 Paperback Very Good
This supernatural thriller is enjoyable: a combination of Charles William's books War in Heaven and The Greater Trumps, but moved to a small town in N orthern California. Here the Holy Grail is actually an origami cup which, f olded to form different shapes, provides the owner with diverse powers. A q uiet group of ordinary people have been helping Michael Graham, its guardia n, to protect it. When Graham is about to die of old age, the Grail summons Howard Barton to visit his relatives and take over its guardianship. Of co urse, he has no idea that he has been summoned, nor even that the Grail exi sts, but neither factor stops Heloise Lamey and her greedy crew from using Howard to attempt to obtain the Grail for themselves. Blaylock ( The Last C oin ) redeems the familiarity of his plot with a gift for drawing character s who are eccentric in delightful and original ways, whichever side of the war they are on.
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Blaylock, James P. All the Bells on Earth
Ace Books December 1997 0-441-00490-3 Paperback Very Good+
With acrobatic grace, Blaylock (Night Relics), winner of two World Fantasy Awards, once again walks the dividing line between fantasy and horror?this time, as he relates a deal-with-the-devil story set in suburban Southern Ca lifornia. Two decades ago, a clergyman masquerading as a satanic emissary d uped three businessmen from the small town of Orange into selling him their souls. As soon as one of them spontaneously combusts during the current Ch ristmas season, however, the others scurry to break the deal. It turns out that there exists a good luck charm that can save the soul of one, milliona ire malefactor Robert Argyle, but when that charm is accidentally delivered to Walt Stebbins, Argyle's unsuccessful rival in the mail-order business, a chain of misadventures begins in which Walt, his wife, her uncle and an u nlikely pair of clergymen all recognize the taint of the devilish deal in t heir daily lives. Blaylock's gentle satire on "capitalism gone rancid" is s upported by his authentic rendering of a small town where the economic real ity of having to pay the bills occupies much of people's time. While the au thor probes the dark side of small-town life, he ultimately celebrates the virtues of simple living, yielding the sort of homey moral one finds in a G arrison Keillor monologue.
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Bledsoe, Jerry Bitter Blood: A True Story of Southern Family Pride, Madness, and Multiple Murder
Onyx Books May, 1997 0-451-40210-3 Paperback Fine
This book recreates a complex case that claimed nine lives, one of the more shocking crimes of recent years. The links in all the deaths were Susan Ly nch and her cousin Fritz Klenner, each from a prominent, upper-middle-class Southern family. The murders began with the shootings of Lynch's ex-mother -in-law and ex--sister-in-law in Kentucky, and continued with the slayings of her parents and grandmother in North Carolina. What connected the killin gs was the bitter divorce between Susie and her husband Tom, and the impend ing custody battle for their children, particularly since it became increas ingly clear that Susie regarded the boys as pawns in a power struggle. The deaths that she prepared for her two sons, and which inadvertently killed h er and Klenner as well, provide a dramatic climax to this account of famili es too blind to realize that well-bred folk can be dangerous.
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Blincoe, Nicholas Manchester Slingback
London Pan March 1, 1999 0-330-36927-X Paperback Very Good
Jake is a successful 34-year-old man when DI Davey Green arrives to take hi m back to Manchester, where 15 years ago, Jake ran wild. In Manchester, Jak e's friend, Johnny, had been murdered. Now another corpse has been found, a nd Jake must finally confront the ghosts of despair that haunt him.
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Blish, James A Case of Conscience
Connecticut Easton Press 1989 Hardcover Fine
A highly collectible Easton Press Limited First Edition, bound in brown lea ther with gold gilt pattern to front and back boards, and gilt print on spi ne; gilt page edges; bound-in ribbon placemarker.A full color frontispiece plus one other color illustration by Ellen Sull Farley. Introduction by Wal ter Meyers.
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Blixen, Karen Out of Africa
Harmondsworth Penguin Books June 1994 0-14-018041-9 Paperback Near Fine
About the Author Born Christentze Dinesen on April 17, 1885, in Rungsted, Denmark, Isak Dinesen is known for her plays, short stories, novels, and poetry. She was considered by many to be Denmark's greatest lyric poet. She also produced a widely read autobiography and memoirs. Dinesen studied English at Oxford University, 1904 and painting at the Royal Academy in Copenhagen, and in Paris and Rome. Dinesen's career as a writer spanned from 1907 to 1962. She was published in Danish under the name of Karen Blixen and in English under the pseudonym of Isak Dinesen. Her short story collections include Winter Tales (1942) and Last Tales (1957). Novels inspired by her experiences in Africa include Out of Africa (1937) and Shadows in the Grass (1960). Actress Meryl Streep portrayed Dinesen in the Oscar-winning film Out of Africa, which was adapted from her work in 1985. Isak Dinesen died of emaciation September 7, 1962, in Rungsted.
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Bliznakov, Emile The Miracle Nutrient : Coenzyme Q10
Bantam January 1, 1987 0-553-26233-5 Paperback Very Good+
A medical researcher and a medical journalist provide a detailed encycloped ic description of the discovery, history of research, and myriad potential uses of the biochemical compound coenzyme Q10. The compound was identified in 1957 as an integral part of cell physiology, and in the past several yea rs its status and importance in medical science have greatly expanded. Rese arch is ongoing regarding its use in counteracting heart disease, lowering blood pressure, bolstering the immune system, and fighting cancer. The auth ors' writing is clear and understandable, though at times dry and exhortati ve. However, they provide the latest technical/research information, refere nces, and information on the compound's dietary forms and availability.
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Block, Alex Ben The Legend of Bruce Lee
USA DELL 1974 1st Edition Paperback Very Good
A highly collectible as stated First printing-March 1974, first thus, in ve ry good condition, minor creasing to the cover, o/w clean throughout, b/w p hotos in the centre.
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Block, Lawrence Even the Wicked: A Matthew Scudder Novel
Avon February 1, 199 0-380-72534-7 Paperback Very Good
This is far from the best of Lawrence Block's landmark Scudder series-too l ittle action or suspense, too much domestic bliss--so I'll just use its pub lication as an excuse to introduce newcomers to some past glories. The best of them all is still When the Sacred Ginmill Closes, definitely on my shor t list of the 100 Best Mysteries. But close behind are such other Scudder c lassics as A Long Line of Dead Men, A Dance at the Slaughterhouse, The Devi l Knows You're Dead, Eight Million Ways to Die, In the Midst of Death, A Ti cket to the Boneyard, and A Walk Among the Tombstones.
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Block, Lawrence Hit List
HarperTorch February 1, 200 0-06-103099-6 Paperback Near Fine
Few mystery authors have a stable of protagonists as uniformly appealing as Lawrence Block's. Whether Block's taking the reader into PI Matthew Scudde r's world of dimly lit bars and basement AA meetings, quirky burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr's used bookstore, or the international hot-spot hangouts of Eva n Tanner, the spy who never sleeps, he always provides good company. John K eller, star of Block's 1998 story collection Hit Man, is a typical Block in vention: an unassuming, get-the-job-done-and-move-on New York contract kill er who collects stamps, does the morning crossword, eats Vietnamese takeout , and falls for the occasional woman.
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Block, Lawrence Hit Man
HarperTorch February 1, 199 0-380-72541-X Paperback Near Fine
A man known only as Keller is thinking about Samuel Johnson's famous quote that "'patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel'... If you looked at it objectively, he had to admit, then he was probably a scoundrel himself. He didn't feel much like a scoundrel. He felt like your basic New York single guy, living alone, eating out or bringing home takeout, schlepping his was h to the Laundromat, doing the Times crossword with his morning coffee... T here were eight million stories in the naked city, most of them not very in teresting, and his was one of them. Except that every once in a while he go t a phone call from a man in White Plains. And packed a bag and caught a pl ane and killed somebody. Hard to argue the point. Man behaves like that, he 's a scoundrel. Case closed." But Lawrence Block is such a delightfully sub tle writer, one of the true masters of the mystery genre, that the case is far from closed.
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Block, Lawrence The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart (Bernie Rhodenbarr Mysteries
Onyx Books July 1, 1996 0-451-18634-6 Paperback Very Good
This time out, the recently revived Bernie Rhodenbarr, Greenwich Village bo okseller and dedicated burglar, is swept away by a gorgeous foreigner who c omes into his store one day. They share a passion for old Bogart movies and are soon spending successive nights sharing popcorn at a Bogart film festi val. There is even more to Ilona than meets the eye, however, as Bernie fin ds out after he retrieves a portfolio from a locked apartment for another c ustomer. Soon his client is dead, and so is one of the client's partners, a nd Bernie is up to his eyes in a bizarre mystery involving exiles from a ne ver-never land in Central Europe, retired CIA men and what may (or may not) be a fortune in ancient bearer bonds. The tale goes down smoothly, much he lped by the usual ditsy conversations with Bernie's lesbian best friend Car olyn and some neat use of famous Bogart dialogue.
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Block, Lawrence The Topless Tulip Caper: A Chip Harrison Novel
Signet Book April 1, 1998 0-451-18799-7 Paperback Very Good
Edgar Award-winning author Lawrence Block returns with another outrageous c aper featuring Chip Harrison...a sleuth who always seems to get into troubl e with a capital T! Now a man about town working for a famous detective, Chip Harrison finds himselfat a Times Square Club waiting for his latest client, a stripper, to finish a night's work. When she completes her set, she introduces him toher roommate, a dancer who's targeted for murder...and killed in the club right before their very eyes! The list of suspects is as long as the line outside the club, and now it will take all of Chip's street smarts to trap a killer!
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Block, Lawrence Transgressions Vol. 1: Volume 1
Forge Books August 1, 2006 0-7653-4750-4 Paperback Near Fine
New York Times bestsellers Lawrence Block and Jeffrey Deaver each provided a brand-new, never-before-published tale for this unique collection of stor ies edited by New York Times bestselling author and mystery legend Ed McBai n.Keller's Adjustment, by Lawrence Block: Block returns to everyone's favor ite hit man, Keller, from his bestsellers The Hit Man and The Hit List. In the Aftermath of 9/11, Keller is questioning his life and the choices he's made, dealing out philosophy and murder on a meandering road trip from one end of the America to the other.Forever by Jeffery Deaver: Talbot Simms is an unusual cop. He's a statistician with the Westbrook County Sheriff's Dep artment. When wealthy county resident's begin killing themselves one after another, Simms begins to believe that there is something more at play. And what he discovers will change his life . . . forever.
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Block, Lawrence (Other Contributor) Stab in the Dark/A
Jove Books August, 1982 0-515-06717-2 Paperback Very Good
Louis Pinell, the recently apprehended "Icepick Prowler," freely admits to having slain seven young women nine years ago—but he swears it was a copyca t who killed an eighth victim attributed to him. Matthew Scudder believes h im and, at the behest of the victim's family, searches for a vicious murder er who's either long gone, long dead ... or patiently waiting to kill again .
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Bloom, Allan CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND
New York Simon & Schuster May 15, 1988 0-671-65715-1 Paperback Very Good
The Closing of the American Mind, a publishing phenomenon in hardcover, is now a paperback literary event. In this acclaimed number one national best- seller, one of our country's most distinguished political philosophers argu es that the social/political crisis of 20th-century America is really an in tellectual crisis. Allan Bloom's sweeping analysis is essential to understa nding America today. It has fired the imagination of a public ripe for chan ge.
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Bloom, Harold Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
New York Riverhead Hardcover October 26, 199 1-57322-120-1 1st Edition Hardcover Fine/Near Fine
A highly collectible first edition, protected in a new brodart wrapper "Personality, in our sense, is a Shakespearean invention, and is not only S hakespeare's greatest originality but also the authentic cause of his perpe tual pervasiveness." So Harold Bloom opines in his outrageously ambitious S hakespeare: The Invention of the Human. This is a titanic claim. But then t his is a titanic book, wrought by a latter-day critical colossus--and befor e Bloom is done with us, he has made us wonder whether his vision of Shakes peare's influence on the whole of our lives might not be simply the sober t ruth. Shakespeare is a feast of arguments and insights, written with engagi ng frankness and affecting immediacy. Bloom ranges through the Bard's plays in the probable order of their composition, relating play to play and char acter to character, maintaining all the while a shrewd grasp of Shakespeare 's own burgeoning sensibility. It is a long and fascinating itinerary, and one littered with thousands of sharp insights. Listen to Bloom on Romeo and Juliet: "The Nurse and Mercutio, both of them audience favorites, are nevertheless bad news, in different but complementary ways." On The Merchant of Venice: "To reduce him to contemporary theatrical terms, Shylock would be an Arthur Miller protagonist displaced into a Cole Porter musical, Willy Loman wandering about in Kiss Me Kate." On As You Like It: "Rosalind is unique in Shakespeare, perhaps indeed in Western drama, because it is so difficult to achieve a perspective upon her that she herself does not anticipate and share." Bloom even offers some belated vocational counseling to Falstaff,
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Bloom, Murray Teigh Trouble with Lawyers, The
Pocket Books 1970 0-671-78027-1 Paperback Very Good
In the tradition of Silent Spring, The American Way of Death, The Case Agai nst Congress, and Unsafe ant Any Speed -- this vital book dramatically conf ronts a major threat to the nation's welfare. Publisher's Weekly hails it a s: "A long overdue examination-in-depth of what's wrong with some members o f the legal profession." A controversial best seller, the book that shows h ow the American middle class is victimized by inept, lazy, and corrupt lawy ers.
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Bloomberg, Michael Bloomberg by Bloomberg
New York John Wiley & Sons March, 1997 0-471-15545-4 1st Edition Hardcover
Members of the world's financial communities are increasingly securing the information that drives them from Michael Bloomberg. His specialized media- -including manipulable online data feeds, a global newswire, and extensive magazine and broadcast outlets--have turned the business of business news u pside down. Along the way, he's made a substantial fortune and a significan t name for himself. In Bloomberg by Bloomberg, he reveals (with help from c olleague Matthew Winkler) how it all came to be.
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Blue, Violet (Editor) Best Women's Erotica 2006
Cleis Press 2005 1-57344-223-2 Paperback Fine
Under the stylish editorship of Violet Blue, Best Women's Erotica 2006 offe rs risky, authentic stories that linger in memory like slippery, hot aftern oon sex. Sydney Beier's "Reading to Horst" is a paean to possibility: an Am erican woman living in Germany has a languorous encounter with a tourist wh o asks her to read aloud to him from Anaïs Nin's Little Birds. In Alis on Tyler's "Four on the Floor," a pair of lovers hunt for and conquer other couples. And Elizabeth Coldwell's "Heat" describes the fierce affair betwe en a barmaid and her brutish temporary boss: a man she doesn't even like bu t who sets her heart pounding.
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Blue, Violet (Editor) Best Women's Erotica 2007
Cleis Press 2006 1-57344-258-5 Paperback Fine
All steamed up and nothing to read? Best Women's Erotica 2007 opens a Pando ra's box of pleasures, with scorching encounters, dreamy partners, and hear t-pounding thrills that won't put a run in your fishnets (and a few that wi ll). In Teresa Noelle Roberts's "Voice of an Angel," an opera costumer help lessly infatuated with a countertenor - a man who sings a female part in ba roque opera -makes interesting discoveries as she measures his inseam. In S usie Hara's "Puffy Lips," a refined woman indulges her primitive urge to ta ke what she wants from a modern-day caveman in a dark alley. Kathleen Brade an's "Chill" describes the lengths to which the heroine will go to enact he r unusual, icy fetish at an exclusive "spa." "Kink was the candy coating th at made sex tastier," she explains. "Fetish was sweet dark chocolate, strai ght up." Stylishly edited by sex guru Violet Blue, the Best Women's Erotica series showcases the most daring, best-written erotica available. And, lik e a gorgeous lover, it complements any bedroom decor.
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Blue, Violet (Editor) Lips Like Sugar: Women's Erotic Fantasies
San Francisco, Calif. Cleis Press 2006 1-57344-232-1 Paperback Fine
Lips Like Sugar dishes up a feast of unabashedly sexual scenarios. This exc iting new collection from Violet Blue (editor of Sweet Life: Erotic Fantasi es for Couples) celebrates women's erotic imagination with expertly crafted stories of hot, hot sex. You'll find women on top, bottom, and everyplace in between. Sure to keep you up past bedtime, the stories in Lips Like Sugar will arouse your appetite for something truly sweet. Read Lips Like Sugar in private or aloud to your favorite bedmate. Or turn down the corner of your favorite story's opening page and slip the book into just the right spot, where someone is sure to discover it.
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Blue, Violet (Editor) Lust: Erotic Fantasies for Women
Cleis Press 2007 1-57344-280-1 Paperback Near Fine
Who can live without lust? All day and night, our minds run through delicio us possibilities - a silky hand beckoning us into the VIP lounge; a strange r in the backseat; the hunky FedEx driver bringing his package to the door - not to mention our own lascivious memories. Lust is a collection of eroti ca by and for women, a fierce and joyous celebration of female desire - and the triple-X trouble it gets us into. In Kay Jaybee's "Tied to the Kitchen Sink," a birthday boy finds his present - nude except for tall, high-heele d boots - happily devoted to domestic duties. Maria Grigoriadis's "Pleasant Surprise" shows what can happen when you knock on the wrong apartment door - without your panties. And Bonnie Dee's "Ripe Fruit" teasingly elaborates the sweet, sticky encounter of a soap opera idol and a fruit-stand employe e on a stretch of rural roadside. Let the witty and provocative Violet Blue , best-selling writer, sex columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and ho st of the popular podcast Open Source Sex, lead you down a primrose path to a forest of wicked, lustful surprises.
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Blum, Howard The GOLD OF EXODUS
New York Simon & Schuster February 9, 199 0-684-80918-4 1st Edition Hardcover Fine/Fine
A highly collectible first edition, tight clean copy, protected in a new br odart wrapper, no inscriptions, unclipped dustjacket, this is not an Ex-Lib or a BCE/BOMC edition. When a millionaire adventurer goes in search of the true Mount Sinai, he gets more than he bargained for. Spies, missiles, and secret military installations are just some of the obstacles that Larry Williams and his sidekick Bob Cornuke must confront in their unprecedented journey to find the lost treasures of Moses. In The Gold of Exodus, award-winning journalist Howard Blum records a page-turning story of an adventure that makes history. While risking their necks by sneaking into the xenophobic Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, amateur archaeologists Williams and Cornuke become pawns in a game of international espionage that eventually leads them to the top of the most sacred mountain in the world, and into the hands of shotgun-wielding Bedouins. The Gold of Exodus is a true story that is too unbelievable to be fiction, too suspenseful to be put down, and too significant to soon be forgotten.
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Blumay, Carl DARK SIDE OF POWER: THE REAL ARMAND HAMMER
New York Simon & Schuster November 1, 199 0-671-70053-7 1st Edition Hardcover Very Good/Very Good
In this relentlessly grim portrait of Armand Hammer, his former public rela tions consultant Blumay and journalist and novelist Edwards characterize th e powerful international businessman as a skinflint, a womanizer, a liar, a browbeater of his staff and, above all, a man obsessed with money, power a nd fame. Ironically, Blumay in this book undoes his 25-year-long attempt to build an image of Hammer (1898-1990) as "caring, compassionate and wise." Unfortunately, the book lacks an organized overview and, although it procee ds chronologically, it is difficult to follow. Moreover, while Blumay offer s insider details, the book strains credibility. It lacks both footnotes an d bibliography, relies on deceased sources such as Hammer's brother Victor for damaging information and serves up numerous verbatim quotes from decade s-old conversations. Armand Hammer, Steve Weinberg's 1989 biography, remain s the standard.
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Blume, Judy Summer Sisters
Dell May 4, 1999 0-440-22643-0 Paperback Very Good
Judy Blume first won legions of fans with such young adult classics as Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret and Forever, in which she tackles the cult ural hot button of teenage sexuality. In Summer Sisters, her third novel fo r adults, the author again explores the ramifications of love--and lust--on two friends. Initially, the differences between Caitlin Somers and Victori a Leonard (or "Vix," as Caitlin christens her) draw them together: privileg ed Caitlin is wild and outspoken, beautiful but emotionally fragile, while working-class Vix is shy, reserved, and plain in comparison. After Caitlin selects Vix to accompany her to her father's home in Martha's Vineyard for the summer, the two become inextricably connected as "summer sisters."
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Blundell, Lesley Task Listening Student's book (English Language Learning: Reading Scheme)
1981 Cambridge University Press March 12, 1981 0-521-23135-3 Paperback Very Good
Task Listening aims to develop the listening skills of students who have ha d little exposure to authentic spoken English. It is suitable for lower-int ermediate and also more advanced students whose listening has been develope d primarily as a means to a grammatical or structural end. Each of the twen ty-six units consists of a short tape recording and related tasks. The reco rdings are of people speaking at normal speed in everyday situations. Each unit has as its theme a setting or situation in which listening plays a maj or part, for example, at an airport listening for flight announcements or a t a travel agency being told about different means of transport. In each ca se, having completed the necessary language work, students listen to the ta pe and extract the information necessary to complete a simple task, such as labelling a picture or filling in a grid. Related reading and writing task s are provided as a follow-up to each listening task. Task Listening aims t o help students to sift out utterances of relevance and ignore redundant fe atures, a skill vital to efficient listening at all levels of language lear ning. The Teacher's Book contains extensive notes on how to use the materia l and completed tasks for each unit. The notes give suggestions to prepare students for listening and include the key language for each recording.
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Blundell, Lesley Task Listening Teacher's book (Teacher's Book)
1981 Cambridge University Press March 26, 1981 0-521-23136-1 Paperback Fine
'It is a rare pleasure to be able to give an EFL book a wholehearted and un equivocal recommendation, but in this case I can ... In addition to the hig h quality tape, the tasks in the Student's Book are attractively laid out a nd carefully designed ...' International House News and Reviews
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Blundell, Lesley Task Listening [AUDIOBOOK]
Cambridge University Press June 30, 1981 0-521-23137-X Audio Cassette Very Good+
(One Cassette Only) Task Listening aims to develop the listening skills of students who have had little exposure to authentic spoken English. It is suitable for lower-intermediate and also more advanced students whose listening has been developed primarily as a means to a grammatical or structural end. Each of the twenty-six units consists of a short tape recording and related tasks. The recordings are of people speaking at normal speed in everyday situations. Each unit has as its theme a setting or situation in which listening plays a major part, for example, at an airport listening for flight announcements or at a travel agency being told about different means of transport. In each case, having completed the necessary language work, students listen to the tape and extract the information necessary to complete a simple task, such as labelling a picture or filling in a grid. Related reading and writing tasks are provided as a follow-up to each listening task. Task Listening aims to help students to sift out utterances of relevance and ignore redundant features, a skill vital to efficient listening at all levels of language learning. The Teacher's Book contains extensive notes on how to use the material and completed tasks for each unit. The notes give suggestions to prepare students for listening and include the key language for each recording.
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Bly, Robert Iron John: A Book About Men
Reading, Mass. Perseus Books 1990 0-201-51720-5 Hardcover Very Good/Very Good
Today's sensitized male may be in touch with his "feminine" side, but, writ es poet Bly, this "soft male" possesses little vitality and is hobbled by g rief and anguish. To achieve real masculinity, Bly argues, men must cultiva te a fierce tenderness to be found neither in the macho/John Wayne model no r in the "interior feminine." Taking as his starting point the Grimm fairy tale "Iron John," the author sets forth an eight-stage initiatory path whos e steps include remembering one's psychic wounds, communion with a mentor o r "inner King," becoming a lover, reviving one's inner warriors and receivi ng a "second heart." Bly avoids cant as he ransacks Jung, Freud and Reich; referents include Greek, Egyptian and Celtic myths, the Parsifal legend, Bl ake and Amerindian ritual. A wise and healing book full of fresh insights, Bly's odyssey will help men grapple with identity, fatherhood, relationship s and such crises as addiction and divorce.
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Bobrow, Jerry CBEST (Cliffs Test Prep)
New York, N.Y. Cliffs Notes September 11, 2 0-7645-8608-4 Paperback Near Fine
The CliffsTestPrep series offers full-length practice exams that simulate t he real tests; proven test-taking strategies to increase your chances at do ing well; and thorough review exercises to help fill in any knowledge gaps. CliffsTestPrep CBEST, 6th Edition, can help you prepare for the California Basic Education Skills Test, a requirement for obtaining teaching credenti als in California and Oregon. The test is based on the theory that teachers should be able to use the same skills taught to students -- skills essenti al to students both in the classroom and outside school. Inside this test p rep tool, you'll find Full-length practice tests with answers and complete explanations Analysis of all exam subject areas An assessment mini-test to gauge a candidate's strengths and weaknesses with the various test sections Introduction to the format and scoring of the exam, overall strategies f or answering multiple-choice questions, and questions commonly asked about CBEST A list of last-minute test-taking tips. This book will help you understand the types of questions that will test y our knowledge in three general subjects: reading, mathematics, and writing. You can get ready to show what you know in areas such as Basic math and algebra, including whole numbers, fractions, decimals, pe rcents, and simple equations Practical applications of arithmetic operations, such as invoices, unit cost, and totals. Standard units in the U.S. measurement system Reading comprehension with emphasis on interpreting and analyzing passag es Essay writing in a descriptive/narrat
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Bodansky, Steve The Illustrated Guide to Extended Massive Orgasm
Alameda, CA Hunter House 2002 0-89793-362-1 Paperback Near Fine
In this fully illustrated book by sex workshop leaders Steve and Vera Bodan sky, readers delve deeper than ever before into the actual techniques for p rolonged orgasm. Written for men and women, straight and gay, the book grap hically, playfully, and sensually discusses the best hand and body position s, the enticements of teasing and begging, and the subtle intricacies of pe aking and coming down. It also reveals little-known erogenous zones, giving specific information on the sensitivity of each area. While Extended Massi ve Orgasm focused on female pleasure, the authors have devoted 50 percent o f this book to techniques for men. The book includes a Q&A section along wi th the extensive drawings and photographs.
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