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When the World Was Young
Wally Baker is no ordinary girl. Living in her grandparents' Brooklyn Heights brownstone, she doesn't like dresses, needlepoint, or manners. Her love of Wonder Woman comics and ants makes her feel like a misfit--especially in the shadow of her dazzling but unstable mother, Stella. Acclaimed author... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Metropolis
'The age of cast iron had not yet begun, but by 1868, you could feel a growth spurt of some sort coming on, you could sense it in the wide open sky. Steamships were edging out the tall ships, ripping out the threads of the way things had once been done. You could say the city's extraordinary natur... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2005 -
You Can't See The Elephants
One brave girl takes an extreme step to protect two abused childrenWhen thirteen-year-old Mascha is sent to her grandparents' for the summer, she spends her days bored and lonely at a nearby playground. There she meets Julia and Max, two young siblings who are incredibly shy and withdrawn. Mascha so... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Affinity: The Friendship Issue (Conjunctions #66)
by Jonathan Carroll • Joyce Carol Oates • Rick Moody • Bradford Morrow • Robert Coover • Jedediah Berry • John Ashbery • Robert Clark • Elizabeth Gaffney • Stephen O'Connor • Robert Duncan • Sallie Tisdale • Matthew Cheney • Rachel Blau Duplessis • Elizabeth Robinson • Tim Horvath • Paul Lisicky • Darcey Steinke • Andrew Ervin • Roberta Allen • Brandon Hobson • Charles B. Stozier • Diane Josefowicz • Emily Houk • Gilles Tiberghien • Isabella Hammad • J. W. Mccormack • M. J. Rey • Michelle Herman • Spencer MathesonNew writings on the topic of friendship from Stephen O’Connor, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Clark, Elizabeth Gaffney, Rick Moody and Darcey Steinke, and more. Aristotle proposed that a friend is, in essence, “another self,” and it is indisputable that our relationships with our friends are nearly as co... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Being Bodies (Conjunctions #69)
by Maud Casey • Edward Carey • Rick Moody • Bradford Morrow • Kyoko Mori • Peter Orner • Elizabeth Gaffney • Nomi Eve • Stephen O'Connor • Sallie Tisdale • Carole Maso • Michael M. Weinstein • Aurelie Sheehan • Anne Waldman • Dina Nayeri • Forrest Gander • Rosamond Purcell • Jessica Reed • Mary Caponegro • Rachel Blau DuPlessis • Bin Ramke • Sejal Shah • Samantha Stiers • Kristen Posehn • Alan Rossi • Gregory Norman Bossert • Fern Seiden • Jorge Ángel Pérez • Jean Osman • Emily Geminder • Michael IvesThe human body is admired, displayed, and dissected in this eclectic collection of stories, poems, and essays from Rick Moody, Edward Carey, and more. Being Bodies is an exploration of the complex circumstances of our flesh-and-blood existence. Our bodies dance; they’re inked; they contain prosthet... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
One Health: The Theory and Practice of Integrated Health Approaches
by Barbara Jones • Paul Coleman • Anna Dean • David Waltner-Toews • Michael Clarke • Iain J. Gordon • Rea Tschopp • Susan Cork • Susan C Welburn • Karin Hediger • Mahamat Bechir • Hung Nguyen-Viet • Marcel Tanner • Solveig Danielsen • Professor Craig Stephen • Esther Schelling • Angela Cassidy • Martin Bunch • Maxine Whittaker • Dennis C Turner • Abigail Woods • Michael Bresalier • Michel de Garine-Wichatitsky • Wiku Adisasmito • Cécile Aenishaenslin • Seid Mohamed Ali • Ian Allen • Silvia Alonso • Vilda Amir • Maurizio Aragrande • Sara Babo Martins • Zolzaya Baljinnyam • William Bazeyo • Andrea Beetz • Jeffrey Bender • Mónica Berger-González • Benjamin Blair • Barry Blakley • Massimo Canali • Nakul Chitnis • Guéladio Cissé • Kathryn C. Conlon • Lisa Crump • Soledad Cuevas • Paula Dominguez-Salas • Colleen Duncan • Kaylee Errecaborde • Patricia Farnese • Thomas Fries • Samuel Fuhrimann • Christa A. Gallagher • Ratna B. Gurung • Felix Hafner • Barbara Häsler • Jan Hattendorf • Joldoshbek Kasymbekov • Julia S. Lankton • Huong Le Thi • Henrik Lerner • Michael Mahero • Stephanie Mauti • Céline Mbilo • Hélène Meier • Mary Elizabeth Miranda • Vi Nguyen-Viet • Brigit Obrist • Peter Odermatt • Anna Okello • Christopher A.L. Oura • Katharine Pelican • Kristina Pelikan • Phuc Pham-Duc • Sue Pollock • Sangay Rinchen • Karma Rinzin • Felix Roth • Johanne Saint-Charles • Alexandra Shaw • Jonathan M. Sleeman • Woutrina Smith • Keira Spinner • Katharina D. Stärk • Arlette C. Szelecsenyi • Tenzin Tenzin • Jimmy Tickel • Karin Tschanz-Cooke • Hoang Van Minh • Alain Vandermissen • Tu Vu-Van • Daniel P. Walsh • Sylvia Wanzala • Lenke Wettlaufer • C. LeAnn White • Andreas F. Widmer • Hind Yahyaoui • Christian ZurbrüggOne Health, the concept of combined veterinary and human health, has now expanded beyond emerging infectious diseases and zoonoses to incorporate a wider suite of health issues. Retaining its interdisciplinary focus which combines theory with practice, this new edition illustrates the contribution ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021