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Here, gathered in one volume, are the stories that made Clarice a Brazilian legend. Originally a cloth edition of eighty-six stories, now we have eighty- nine in all, covering her whole amazing career, from her teenage years to her deathbed. In these pages, we...

Now an Original Series on Prime Video! Summer love abounds in the New York Times bestselling The Summer I Turned Pretty series, now available in a paperback boxed set--and an original series now streaming on Prime Video! Belly has always lived for the summertime,...

Here, in Margaret Jull Costa and Patricio Ferrari's splendid new translations, are the complete poems of Alberto Caeiro, the imaginary "heteronym" coterie created by Fernando Pessoa, the Portuguese modernist master. Pessoa conceived Caeiro around 1914 and may have named him loosely after his friend,...

The Complete Works of Pat Parker includes Parker's poetic masterwork, Movement in Black, as well as the poetry collection Jonestown & other madness, in addition to her published essays and other prose, along with two unpublished plays and a number of previously uncollected poems....

Our knowledge of the functional characteristics of the plants of mediterranean-cl imate regions has increased greatly in the past decade. In recent times the possibility of large-scale util ization of biomass for energy from these regions has been proposed. In order to assess the...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe...

Would you like to reuse the scraps you produce from cooking but you don't have a garden? Need to learn more about this topic and know where to start? Do you want to start composting but fear in a smelly and poor-quality result?THEN THIS...

White, Andrew JosephSeptember 03, 2024

A Michael L. Printz Honor Book A queer Appalachian thriller that pulls no punches--following a trans autistic teen who's drawn into the generational struggle between the rural poor and those who exploit them. The INSTANT New York Times, USA Today, and Indie bestselling novel...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe...

After years of upheaval, Marley Kurtz feels like his life is finally secure. He has his job, his friends, his boyfriend Jesse, and a pretty good hold on his compulsions and addictions too, or so he thinks. Unbeknownst to him, this period of rest...

The best and most interesting stories by Robert Aickman, a master of the supernatural tale, the uncanny, and the truly weird. Robert Aickman's self-described "strange stories" are confoundingly and uniquely his own. These superbly written tales terrify not with standard thrills and gore but...

Using computational intelligence in product design is a fast-growing and promising research area in computer sciences and industrial engineering. These assembled papers from the CIMA 2010 workshop cover the full spectrum of topics in this exciting field.

Everyday life would be easier if we could simply talk with machines instead of having to program them. Before such talking robots can be built, however, there must be a theory of how communicating with natural language works. This requires not only a grammatical...

Everyday life would be easier if we could simply talk with machines instead of having to program them. Before such talking robots can be built, however, there must be a theory of how communicating with natural language works. This requires not only a grammatical...

Dr AIvy Ray Smith Executive Vice President, Pixar The pOlyglot language of computer animation has arisen piecemeal as a collection of terms borrowed from geometry, film, video, painting, conventional animation, computer graphiCS, computer science, and publishing - in fact, from every older art or...

A selection of papers presented at the MIT-JSME Workshop on Cooperative Product Development, organized into six categories: frameworks, organizational issues, negotiation techniques, transaction management, design methods, and visualization techniques.

Computerized Patternmaking for Apparel Production takes a unique approach to learning Gerber AccuMark technology. This book includes all the procedures that the fashion industry uses to create a style and rush it to a factory for cutting and mass production. Through 20 lessons focusing...

Computers in Broadcast and Cable Newsrooms: Using Technology in Television News Production takes readers through the use of computers and software in the broadcast/cable newsroom environment. Author Phillip O. Keirstead began writing about televis

For cattle rancher Laramie Bowman, family always comes first. After her brother is injured in a rodeo accident, she accepts a lucrative position in remote Godoroye, Russia, to help pay his medical bills. When she meets the woman assigned to be her interpreter, however,...

Taylor, Courtney FayeCave Canem Poetry Prize Winner

Concepts of Prioritization is a first in a series of books on Product management.The intent of the book is to serve as a textbook for product management. There are textbooks for operations and marketing in the industry which are used in management institutes, but...

Prize-winning Korean author Kim Hye-Jin's debut confronts familial love, duty, mortality, and generational schism through the incendiary gaze of a tradition-bound mother faced with her daughter's queer relationship.When a widowed, aging mother allows Green, her thirty-something daughter, to move into her apartment, all she...

This book is intended to introduce and familiarize design, production, quality, and process engineers, and their managers to the importance and recent developments in concurrent engineering (CE) and design for manufacturing (DFM) of new products. CE and DFM are becoming an important element of...

Join Fritz Emil Bischoff on a journey into the exciting world of organic chemistry with this groundbreaking study of diphenic anhydride and resorcinol. Bischoff's in-depth analysis of these compounds laid the groundwork for future research and discoveries in the field.This work has been selected...

This book provides a detailed study of the chemical reactions and properties of the condensation products of acetone. Wagner explores the applications of these compounds in industry and medicine, and includes numerous chemical equations and diagrams to aid understanding. This is an important work...

The Condensation Products of Acetone is a scientific book written by Ignatius Albert Wagner and published in 1913. The book delves into the study of the chemical reactions and properties of acetone, a colorless liquid used in the production of solvents, plastics, and other...

The title of this book is taken from Henry Miller's "Into the Night Life" and expresses the way Lawrence Ferlinghetti felt about these poems when he wrote them during a short period in the 1950's - as if they were, taken together, a kind...

After four decades, the peerless wit and indulgent absurdity of A Confederacy of Dunces continues to attract new readers. Though the manuscript was rejected by many publishers during John Kennedy Toole's lifetime, his mother successfully published the book years after her son's suicide, and...

A two-day conference explored Indian and U.S. views on security across the Indo-Pacific, identifying areas of mutual interest and disagreement. Discussions were informed by six papers discussing common approaches to bilateral security cooperation, Russian arms sales to India, and the challenges posed by China...

La lucha por los derechos de las mujeres ha tomado el mundo por asalto, pero ¿por qué muchas de sus simpatizantes caen en tantas contradicciones? ¿Por qué parece haber tantas malas feministas? Roxane Gay, profesora universitaria, colaboradora de The New York Times, ensayista y...

Airey, CatherineJanuary 14, 2025

Shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize"Confessions is a remarkable debut. A complex and compulsive read that unravels the intricate twists and revelations among three generations of women with elegance and urgency." --Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper PalaceA "dazzling puzzle box of...

Tom Rastrelli is a survivor of clergy-perpetrated sexual abuse who then became a priest in the early days of the Catholic Church's ongoing scandals. Confessions of a Gay Priest divulges the clandes­tine inner workings of the seminary, providing an intimate and unapologetic look into...

Confessions of a Mask tells the story of Kochan, an adolescent boy tormented by his burgeoning attraction to men: he wants to be "normal." Kochan is meek-bodied, and unable to participate in the more athletic activities of his classmates. He begins to notice his...

Toshimitsu Yamamura owns a real estate company and loves baking delicious, healthy snacks in his spare time. When his coworker comes to him one day with the idea of advertising their real estate agency as LGBT-friendly, Toshi realizes this little change could really help...

A New York Times Editors' Choice: "A mind-bending romp through a gender-fluid, eighteenth century London . . . a joyous mash-up of literary genres shot through with queer theory and awash in sex, crime, and revolution." NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE...

One of The Washington Post's 50 Best Works of Fiction of 2023 A New York Times Editors' Choice One of Them's Best Books of 2023 One of Crimereads Best Crime Novels of 2023 "Theranos but make it gay." --Electric Literature Best friends (and occasional...

"Theranos but make it gay." --Electric Literature Best friends (and occasional lovers) Ezra and Orson are teetering on top of the world after founding a company that promises instant enlightenment in this "propulsive, cheeky, eat-the-rich page-turner" (The Washington Post) about scams, schemes, and the...

Discover your confidence with this fun and empowering journal based on the #1 bestseller The Confidence Code for Girls. This middle grade journal is an excellent choice for tween readers and makes a thoughtful birthday or graduation gift for the girl in your life....

Cheng uses the gothic figure of the undead to explore everything from erotic entanglements to power hierarchiesThe fourth installment in Ivan Cheng's (born 1991) vampire novels, Confidences/Production deals with education and is related to the role of substitute teachers in the foundation of the...

Software Configuration Management (SCM) is the discipline which deals with the procedures or methods that involve in controlling the evolution of complex software systems. Software Product Line (SPL) is a family of products that increases reusability, reduces development effort besides increasing productivity. It is...

Conflicts are more effectively managed if people understand the layers meaning in their conflicts and collaborate based on those meanings. In this book, author Peter M. Kellett analyzes and interprets real-life conflict stories as a way to create opportunities for more productive ways to...

From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated accusations of harm are used to avoid accountability. Illuminating the difference between Conflict and Abuse, Schulman directly addresses our contemporary culture of scapegoating. This deep, brave, and bold work reveals how...

While projecting a calm and peacefulness, libraries are not immune to workplace stress and conflict. In a research survey conducted over three years, the authors asked, What are the common causes of workplace conflict in libraries? From the results of the study, as well...

Workaholic Detective Aiden Carlisle isn't looking for love-and certainly not at the law enforcement seminar she reluctantly agreed to attend. But the first lecturer is not at all what she expected. Psychologist Dawn Kinsley has just found her place in life. After a failed...

Wielder and blade. One heart together.Spring 2011. Surveying the ruins of her wife's hometown, River Victoria Eginian felt useless. Still adjusting to her cybernetic prostheses-the result of career-ending combat wounds-amid coming out as trans, life was already a challenge. She hated being on the...

A nobleman must work with a dashing soldier to save his sister from a mystical bargain gone awry in this swoon-worthy romance from the bestselling author of Boyfriend Material. "The utterly enchanting second installment of Alexis Hall's Mortal Follies series brings back all the...

Just two weeks before his death in January 1999, George L. Mosse, one of the great American historians, finished writing his memoir, a fascinating and fluent account of a remarkable life that spanned three continents and many of the major events of the twentieth...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - This inspiring meditation on kindness from the author of Lincoln in the Bardo is based on his popular commencement address.Three months after George Saunders gave a graduation address at Syracuse University, a transcript of that speech was posted on...