Niche Marketing, the American Culture Wars, and the New Children's Literature

The Big Smallness

A Concise Manual

Forensic Nursing

The Nahua View of Colonial Mexico

Beyond the Codices

&quot;Dan Brown has to be one of the best, smartest, and most accomplished writers in the country.  THE DA VINCI CODE is many notches above the intelligent thriller; this is pure genius.&quot;-NELSON DeMILLE, #1 New York Times bestselling author&quot;Intrigue and menace mingle in one of the finest mysteries I&#8217;ve ever read. An amazing tale with enigma piled on secrets stacked on riddles.&quot;-CLIVE CUSSLER, #1 New York Times bestseller&quot;Dan Brown is my new must-read.&#160; THE DA VINCI CODE is fascinating and absorbing -- perfect for history buffs, conspiracy nuts, puzzle lovers or anyone who appreciates a great, riveting story.&#160; I loved this book.&quot;-HARLAN COBEN, New York Times bestselling author of Tell No One&quot;The Da Vinci Code sets the hook-of-all-hooks, and takes off down a road that is as eye-opening as it is page-turning.&#160; You simply cannot put this book down.&#160; Thriller readers everywhere will soon realize Dan Brown is a master.&quot;-VINCE FLYNN, New York Times bestselling author of Separation of Power&quot;I would never have believed that this is my kind of thriller, but I'm going to tell you something--the more I read, the more I had to read.  In The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown has built a world that is rich in fascinating detail, and I could not get enough of it.  Mr. Brown, I am your fan.&quot;ROBERT CRAIS, New York Times bestselling author of Hostage

The Da Vinci Code

&#8220;This is a beautiful book, filled with charm and wit and wisdom&#8230;such a fine and loving sense of detail, such mastery of storytelling.&#8221;&#8211;New York Times Book Review

Tales of a Gambling Grandma

Selected From Various Sources, For The Use Of Country Congregations (1852)

Hymns For The Services Of The Church

With Memoirs Of The Wesley Family (1807)

The Life Of John Wesley

En la lumoj de ekmiroj: Travagado inter poezia&#309;oj de la mondo

From The French Of Mercier, Including A Description Of The Principal Edifices And Curiosities Of That Metropolis; Volume 2

Paris Delineated

This Mouth is Mine

Now a Major Motion Picture from Dimension Films Starring Michael Cera

Youth in Revolt

Einführung in die Sprache der Mathematik und ihrer Anwendungsgebiete

Wie spricht man in der Mathematik? Band 2

FAITH - An adventure to be explored

Ofer Sharone's deeply researched book on the devastating stigma suffered by unemployed American workers shines a bright light on a dark corner of the American economy. His in-depth interviews reveal that even the most well-prepared job seekers struggle to find good jobs after they are laid off.

College-Educated, Experienced, and Long-Term Unemployed

The Stigma Trap

The Public Debt Described, Explained, and Historically Depicted

The Scourge of Europe (Routledge Revivals)

Scènes de la vie mexicaine

Les chasseurs mexicains

From the reviews:

"The author points out that many important applications of semiring theory can be reduced to the problem of finding solutions of affine equations … . theory with complete proofs as well as illustrating examples can be found. A carefully written index of applications and an index of terminology help the reader to find the numerous concepts mentioned throughout the book. Also an extensive bibliography (490 titles) is included to show the wide range of applications of the developed concepts in many areas … ." (Udo Hebisch, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1042, 2004)

Theory and Applications

Semirings and Affine Equations over Them

What Teachers Can Do to Make a Difference

Girls, Social Class, and Literacy

&ldquo;A truly surprising, brilliant, and wonderful book. Reading it, you suddenly see that there is something greater that is before us, right here, right now. Les Kaye and co-author Teresa Bouza reveal a different kind of mind (and heart) in the midst of Silicon Valley and of our lives. This marvelous book is not only about the search for balance but for meaning in the midst.&rdquo; &mdash;ROSHI JOAN HALIFAX, Upaya Zen Center, author of Standing at the Edge &#160; &ldquo;Zen meditation may call forth images of Japanese rock gardens and old monasteries, but Les Kaye places it naturally in the midst of twenty-first- century urban American life. Using interviews with individual practitioners by Teresa Bouza, A Sense of Something Greater vividly illustrates how this simple practice can offer remarkable clarity and ease to those who work in competitive, high-tech, high-stress settings.&rdquo; &mdash;KAZUAKI TANAHASHI, Painting Peace at a Time of Global Crisis &#160; &ldquo;A warm, remarkably intimate introduction to a spiritual community in the heart of Silicon Valley. Through personal interviews with the community&rsquo;s members, we meet the real people of the Valley, as they struggle to find their bearings in the fast lane of the high tech world; through the wise counsel of the community&rsquo;s leader, Les Kaye, we are welcomed into the ancient tradition of Soto Zen, where meditation is our most natural act and spiritual practice is its own reward.&rdquo; &mdash;CARL BIELEFELDT, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Stanford University

Zen and the Search for Balance in Silicon Valley

A Sense of Something Greater

&#8220;Surgeon Ruggieri tutors readers on the economic forces that make the surgical theater tick. Ruggieri is a fine storyteller, which is a good thing, for although he peppers the book with dramatic anecdotes from his practice, his real exploration focuses on the financial side of the medical equation... Top-shelf instruction on the mechanics of the medical economy.&#8221;&#8212;Kirkus Reviews&#160;&#8220;A vital conversation about money in medicine that we have not had, but desperately need to have. A deeply personal and powerful analysis with sweeping implications for addressing waste in medicine. Dr. Ruggieri challenges why healthcare continues to have an expensive carve-out to the same accountably principles that govern other industries. He offers serious ways to cut waste and increase value by making medicine more patient-centered, more efficient, and more transparent.&#8221;&#8212;Marty Makary MD, Johns Hopkins surgeon and author of UnaccountablePraise for Confessions of a Surgeon&#160;&#8220;Honest and angry, this cutting memoir by a midcareer surgeon feels like an act of penitence.&#8221;&#8212;Booklist&#8220;Looks hard at a profession that is changing in ways that Ruggieri does not always find to be positive&#8230;[a] look into a corner of medicine we seldom see.&#8221;&#8212;Providence Journal

A Surgeon Reveals the Truth Behind a Multibillion-Dollar Industry

The Cost of Cutting

PRAISE FOR THE SERIES:A&#160;New York Times&#160;bestselling series&#160;"Discover the coolest library in the world." &mdash;James Patterson&#160;"Lots of&#160;Action&#160;action&#160;and quirky humor." &mdash;The Washington Post&#160;* "A worthy successor to the original madman puzzle-master himself, Willy Wonka." &mdash;Booklist,&#160;starred review&#160;* "A winner for readers and game-players alike." &mdash;Kirkus Reviews,&#160;starred review&#160;* "A fun-filled, suspenseful intellectual puzzle." &mdash;Shelf Awareness,&#160;starred review&#160;"Will have readers racing to pick up the next volume." &mdash;School Library Journal

Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics

"The Lean Startup has a kind of inexorable logic, and Ries&rsquo; recommendations come as a bracing slap in the face to would-be tech moguls: Test your ideas before you bet the bank on them. Don&rsquo;t listen to what focus groups say; watch what your customers do. Start with a modest offering and build on the aspects of it that prove valuable. Expect to get it wrong, and stay flexible (and solvent) enough to try again and again until you get it right. It&rsquo;s a message that rings true to grizzled startup vets who got burned in the Great Bubble and to young filmgoers who left The Social Network with visions of young Zuckerberg dancing in their heads. It resonates with Web entrepreneurs blessed with worldwide reach and open source code. It&rsquo;s the perfect philosophy for an era of limited resources, when the noun optimism is necessarily preceded by the adjective cautious." &mdash;Wired&ldquo;I make all our managers read The Lean Startup.&rdquo;&#160;&mdash;Jeffery Immelt, CEO, General Electric"Eric has created a science where previously there was only art.&#160; A must read for every serious entrepreneur&mdash;and every manager interested in innovation." &mdash;Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, Opsware Inc. and Netscape&ldquo;This book should be mandatory reading for entrepreneurs, and the same goes for managers who want better entrepreneurial instincts. Ries&rsquo;s book is loaded with fascinating stories&mdash;not to mention countless practical principles you&rsquo;ll dearly wish you&rsquo;d known five years ago.&rdquo; &mdash;Dan Heath, co-author of Switch and Made to Stick&ldquo;Ries shows us how to cut through the fog of uncertainty that surrounds startups. His approach is rigorous; his prescriptions are practical and proven in the field. The Lean Startup will change the way we think about entrepreneurship. &#160;As startup success rates improve, it could do more to boost global economic growth than any management book written in years.&rdquo; &mdash;Tom Eisenmann, Professor of Entrepreneurship, Harvard Business School&#160;&ldquo;The Lean Startup is the book whose lessons I want every entrepreneur to absorb and apply.&#160; I know of no better guide to improve the odds of a startup's success."&mdash;Mitchell Kapor, Founder, Lotus Development Corp.&#160;"At Asana, we've been lucky to benefit from Eric's advice firsthand; this book will enable him to help many more entrepreneurs answer the tough questions about their business."&mdash;Dustin Moskovitz, co-founder of Facebook and Asana&#160;&ldquo;Ries' splendid book is the essential template to understand the crucial leadership challenge of our time: initiating and managing growth!&rdquo; &mdash;Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business, University of Southern California and author of the recently published, Still Surprised: A Memoir of a Life in Leadership.&#160;"The Lean Startup isn't just about how to create a more successful entrepreneurial business, it's about what we can learn from those businesses to improve virtually everything we do. I imagine Lean Startup principles applied to government programs, to healthcare, and to solving the world's great problems. &#160;It's ultimately an answer to the question 'How can we learn more quickly what works, and discard what doesn't?'"&mdash; Tim O'Reilly, CEO O'Reilly Media&#160;&ldquo;Eric Ries unravels the mysteries of entrepreneurship and reveals that magic and genius are not the necessary ingredients for success but instead proposes a scientific process that can be learnt and replicated. Whether you are a startup entrepreneur or corporate entrepreneur there are important lessons here for you on your quest toward the new and unknown.&rdquo; &#160;&mdash;Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO&#160;&ldquo;The roadmap for innovation for the 21st century. The ideas in The Lean Startup will help create the next industrial revolution.&rdquo; &mdash;Steve Blank, lecturer, Stanford University, U.C. Berkeley Haas Business School&#160;"The key lesson of this book is that start-ups happen in the present&mdash;that messy place between the past and the future where nothing happens according to PowerPoint. Ries's &lsquo;read and react&rsquo; approach to this sport, his relentless focus on validated learning, the never-ending anxiety of hovering between &lsquo;persevere&rsquo; and &lsquo;pivot&rsquo;, all bear witness to his appreciation for the dynamics of entrepreneurship." &#160;&mdash;Geoffrey Moore, Author, Crossing the Chasm&#160;"If you are an entrepreneur, read this book. If you are thinking about becoming an entrepreneur, read this book.&#160; If you are just curious about entrepreneurship, read this book.&#160; Starting Lean is today's best practice for innovators.&#160; Do yourself a favor and read this book." &mdash;Randy Komisar, founding director of TiVo and author of the bestselling The Monk and the Riddle&#160;&ldquo;How do you apply the 50 year old ideas of Lean to the fast-paced, high uncertainty world of Startups? This book provides a brilliant, well-documented, and practical answer. It is sure to become a management classic.&rdquo; &mdash;Don Reinertsen, author of The Principles of Product Development Flow&#160;&ldquo;The Lean Startup is a foundational must-read for founders, enabling them to reduce product failures by bringing structure and science to what is usually informal and an art.&#160; It provides actionable ways to avoid product-learning mistakes, rigorously evaluate early signals from the market through validated learning, and decide whether to persevere or to pivot, all challenges that heighten the chance of entrepreneurial failure.&rdquo; &mdash;Professor Noam Wasserman, Harvard Business School&#160;&ldquo;One of the best and most insightful new books on entrepreneurship and management I&rsquo;ve ever read.&#160; Should be required reading not only for the entrepreneurs that I work with, but for my friends and colleagues in various industries who have inevitably grappled with many of the challenges that The Lean Startup addresses.&rdquo;&#160; &mdash;Eugene J. Huang, Partner, True North Venture Partners&#160;"What would happen if businesses were built from the ground up to learn what their customers really wanted? The Lean Startup is the foundation for reimagining almost everything about how work works. Don't let the word startup in the title confuse you. This is a cookbook for entrepreneurs in organizations of all sizes." &mdash;Roy Bahat, President, IGN Entertainment&#160;&ldquo;Every founding team should stop for 48 hours and read Lean Startup. Seriously stop and read this book now.&rdquo; &mdash;Scott Case, CEO Startup America Partnership&#160;&ldquo;In business, a &lsquo;lean&rsquo; enterprise is sustainable efficiency in action. Eric Ries&rsquo; revolutionary Lean Startup method will help bring your new business idea to an end result that is successful and sustainable. You&rsquo;ll find innovative steps and strategies for creating and managing your own startup while learning from the real-life successes and collapses of others. This book is a must read for entrepreneurs who are truly ready to start something great!&rdquo; &mdash;Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One Minute Manager&#174; and The One Minute Entrepreneur&ldquo;Every entrepreneur responsible for innovation within their organization should read this book. It entertainingly and meticulously develops a rigorous science for the innovation process through the methodology of &ldquo;lean thinking&rdquo;. &#160;This methodology provides novel and powerful tools for companies to improve the speed and efficiency of their innovation processes through minimum viable products, validated learning, innovation accounting, and actionable metrics. These tools will help organizations large and small to sustain innovation by effectively leveraging the time, passion, and skill of their talent pools.&rdquo; &mdash;Andrea Goldsmith, professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, and cofounder of several startups&#160;&ldquo;Business is too important to be left to luck.&#160; Eric reveals the rigorous process that trumps luck in the invention of new products and new businesses.&#160; We've made this a centerpiece of how teams work in my company . . . it works!&#160; This book is the guided tour of the key innovative practices used inside Google, Toyota, and Facebook, that work in any business.&rdquo; &mdash;Scott Cook, Founder and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Intuit

How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

The Lean Startup

Praise for The Zach & Zoe Mysteries"Lupica kicks off a new series starring a pair of 8-year-old twins who solve sports-themed mysteries . . .&#160;Along with plenty of suspenseful sports action, the author highlights in both tales the values of fair play, teamwork, and doing the "right thing."&#160; . . .&#160;&#160;the supporting cast shows some racial and ethnic diversity. Wholesome, uncomplicated fare for the younger Matt Christopher crowd."--Kirkus Reviews"Mike Lupica is bringing his sports knowledge and excellent writing ability to the chapter book world...[Zach and Zoe]&#160;have exciting playoff games, supportive parents, and act true to their ages . . . there is no evil involved in the mysteries, and the community is supportive. It is evident early on who or what is behind the mysteries, but this should be a positive for youngsters who are just getting started with guessing the outcomes of chapter books."--School Library Connection"Zach and Zoe are likable and kind to each other, and their parents are supportive. Lupica knows how to write sports action with a heart . . . Give these to young readers who are looking for easy sports fiction or who are new to the mystery genre."--School Library Journal

The Football Fiasco

&ldquo;Dazzling . . . brilliantly written . . . [Hamilton] is as evocative writing about people and places as she is at writing about cooking.&rdquo;&mdash;Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times&ldquo;Rhapsodic, profane, wonderful . . . A fabulously talented writer-cook, Gabrielle Hamilton is also a contrarian one, and you never know quite what will come next.&rdquo;&mdash;The Wall Street Journal&ldquo;Hamilton&rsquo;s writing about food is so vivid it could make you half-crazed with hunger, leaving you in front of the open fridge with a cold chicken leg in one hand and the book in the other.&rdquo;&mdash;The Boston Globe&#160;&ldquo;Luminous . . . [Readers will] marvel at Hamilton&rsquo;s masterly facility with language.&rdquo;&mdash;The Washington Post&#160;&ldquo;The author/chef is an original&mdash;tough, tender, gritty, dreamy. . . . She has written Blood, Bones & Butter with her whole, generous heart.&rdquo;&mdash;The Miami Herald&#160;&ldquo;Magnificent. Simply the best memoir by a chef ever. Ever.&rdquo;&mdash;Anthony Bourdain

The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef

Blood, Bones & Butter

Delicious... &#8220;...is a book to be savored over and over...It totally satisfied my romance-loving heart.&#8221;&#8212;Romance Junkies&#8220;...is a nonstop powerhouse of suspense and sexy eroticism! Delicious is by far one of the best books that I have ever read.&#8221;&#8212;TwoLips Reviews is &#8220;exciting, thrilling, full of action, and sexy as hell.&#8221;&#8212;Fresh Fiction is&#8230;&#8220;sizzling hot.&#8221;&#8212;The Romance Studio More praise for the Wicked Lovers novels &#8220;Shayla Black creates emotional, searingly sexy stories that always leave me wanting more.&#8221;&#8212;New York Times bestselling author Maya Banks&#8220;A wicked, sensual thrill from first page to last. I loved it!&#8221;&#8212;Lora Leigh, #1 New York Times bestselling author&#8220;Make[s] your toes curl!&#8221;&#8212;Angela Knight, New York Times bestselling author&#8220;Will&#8230;have you panting for more!&#8221;&#8212;Susan Johnson, New York Times bestselling author&#8220;Shayla Black...you rocked it!&#8221;&#8212;The Romance Reviews &#8220;Thoroughly gripping and&#8230;so blisteringly sexy.&#8221;&#8212;Fallen Angel Reviews &#8220;Five-alarm HOT!&#8221;&#8212;Books-n-Kisses Angel Reviews&#8220;Scrumptiously erotic, sensual, heady, and very arousing.&#8221;&#8212;Affaire de Coeur&#8220;[A] fabulous read.&#8221;&#8212;Fresh Fiction

Delicious

Elite Perceptions and Indonesian Foreign Policy

Torn Between America and China

&#8220;[Fry] has once again proven that he is an entertainer of the very first rank.&#8221; &#8212;Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times&#8220;It&#8217;s an old story...but Fry...has the wit and erudition to make it run like a well-made pocket watch. Be warned: the vengeance promised by the title has an unabashedly nasty flavor that&#8217;s distinctly British and quite refreshing.&#8221;&#8212;Newsweek&#8220;In his first attempt at thriller writing, British actor-novelist Stephen Fry doesn&#8217;t stumble at all....Revenge is sweet.&#8221; &#8212;People&#8220;A brisk thriller...smooth, clever, bittersweet, and dramatically entertaining.&#8221; &#8212;The Seattle Times

A Novel

Revenge

Praise for the Cupcake Bakery Mysteries &#160; &ldquo;Jenn McKinlay delivers all the ingredients for a winning read.&rdquo;&mdash;Cleo Coyle,&#160;New York Times&#160;bestselling author&#160; &#160; &ldquo;[McKinlay&rsquo;s] characters are delicious.&rdquo;&mdash;Sheila Connolly, New York Times bestselling author &#160; &ldquo;A real treat...I gobbled it right up.&rdquo;&mdash;Julie Hyzy, New York Times bestselling author &#160; &ldquo;A spirited heroine, luscious cupcakes, and a clever murder...a sweet read.&rdquo;&mdash;Krista Davis, New York Times bestselling author &#160; &ldquo;A tender cozy full of warm and likable characters.&rdquo;&mdash;Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Vanilla Beaned

Contenant Une Série d'Anecdotes Tirées Des Auteurs Musulmans, Suivi d'Un Dictionnaire Analytique

Anecdotes Musulmanes, Texte Arabe Ou Cours d'Arabe Élémentaire

Pocketguide to Western Hatches

Introduction by Victoria Glendinning

Barchester Towers

The Big Smallness

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