Sherlock HolmesThe Complete Novels and Stories Volume ISince his first appearance in Beeton\'s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle\'s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyle\'s classic hero--a truly complete collection of Sherlock

In this postapocalyptic fantasy, a sea of sand swallows everything but the past. In an endless sea of sand drifts the Mud Whale, a floating island city of clay and magic. In its chambers a small community clings to survival, cut off from its own history by the shadows of the past. Lykos and Ouni have been captured by Orca, but instead of organizing a rescue, Suou has ordered the Mud Whale to set sail

Undertaken at the interface of critical theory and world literature, Moments of Capital sets out to grasp the unity and heterogeneity of global capital in the postcolonial present. Eli Jelly-Schapiro argues that global capital is composed of three synchronous moments: primitive accumulation, expanded reproduction, and the \"synthetic dispossession\" facilitated by financialization and privatization.

The Number One Bestseller______________ For over thirty years, David McDonald worked in Ireland\'s biggest prisons. This is his story. As a young officer, McDonald got a baptism of fire in Mountjoy. In 1989 it was a chaotic, pungent and overcrowded place, and the approach to keeping order was primitive. Returning to his hometown two years later, he entered Portlaoise Prison, which - due to the presence

This title was first published in 2000: The theme of this collection of essays is \"technology transfer\". The topic has three major aspects: the interchange of technologies between military and civilian applications - \"spin-off\", \"dual use\", \"conversion\" and \"diversification\" fall under this heading; the proliferation of military arms, which could occur either through arms races between developed

Sustainability meets DIY in this instructive guide to garment embroidery from designer and fiber artist Alexandra StratkotterCombining comprehensive instruction with photography and illustrations, The Embroidered Closet guides novice and experienced stitchers through the process of adorning and upcycling garments. Now more than ever, we are all pitching in to help the planet: This book offers a fun

\"Music From Big Pink is a moving book that succeeds not just in vividly evoking its time and place but in distilling one young man\'s cliched and minor destiny into something approaching tragedy....This well-written first novel captures not just some of the dreams of that bygone era, but the way those dreams died.\" -Greg Kamiya, The New York Times Book ReviewMusic From Big Pink is faction: real people

This wonderfully silly young graphic novel from Graphix Chapters about fin-tastic friends from Graphix Chapters is perfect for fans of The Bad Guys and Narwhal and Jelly!It\'s time for Seaweed Elementary annual talent show, but Squizzard can\'t decide on an act. He\'s too distracted by the fact that it\'s also prank week! And he has some fin-tastically silly pranks planned. But his friends have a few

Walk This Way: The Autobiography of Aerosmith is available in time for the Aerosmith\'s 40th Anniversary. It\'s the New York Times bestselling autobiography by the legendary rock group that lived by the motto \"Anything worth doing was worth overdoing.\" Aerosmith shook the music world out of its \'70s doldrums...and made living on the edge an art form. Walk This Way is the complete and candid story

As portraits, private diaries, and estate inventories make clear, elite families of the Italian Renaissance were obsessed with fashion, investing as much as forty percent of their fortunes on clothing. In fact, the most elaborate outfits of the period could cost more than a good-sized farm out in the Mugello. Yet despite its prominence in both daily life and the economy, clothing has been largely overlooked

This comprehensive text introduces regression, the general linear model, structural equation modeling, the hierarchical linear model, growth curve models, panel data, and event history models, and includes discussion of published implementations of each technique showing how it was used to address substantive and interesting research questions. It takes a step-by-step approach in the presentation of

Describes Tolstoy\'s crisis of depression and estrangement from the world. This work describes his search for \'a practical religion not promising future bliss but giving bliss on

Formed by a convergence of the Buddha\'s teachings with Taoism and local tradition, Zen has had a profound impact on the art and culture of Japan. As a philosophy, Zen promotes a recognition of emptiness and impermanence. As an aesthetic, it is marked by striking simplicity and a reverence for space. It operates on the principle of wabi-sabi, the harmony found in all things transient and imperfect.

An exquisite tarot card deck and guidebook boxed set by Rachel True, beloved for her role as the co-star of the cult-classic movie The Craft Rachel True, an actress best known for her role in The Craft, is a lifelong occultist--she had been reading tarot cards long before being cast in the 90s witchy cult classic. Now, True shares her tarot knowledge through her unique guidebook and deck boxed set.

From a \"born storyteller\" (Seattle Times), this playful and moving bestselling book of essays invites us into the miraculous and transcendent moments of everyday life. When Brian Doyle passed away at the age of sixty after a bout with brain cancer, he left behind a cult-like following of devoted readers who regard his writing as one of the best-kept secrets of the twenty-first century. Doyle writes

Cinema has undergone huge changes in the last decade: Asian filmmaking has been making the running; the ne\'er do well genre, documentary, has broken through; digitalization and DVD has revived film history and is revolutionizing projection; world cinema has shifted in the direction of the real and the visually grainy; and animation has become more dominant that any time since Disney. Month by month,

Nanna\'s Poems is a poignant collection about life. It spins a bittersweet tale of childhood, marriage, and death. For Dora, the one consistency was God. Though temptation is everywhere and the world in which we live is a harrowing one, at its heart, this collection explores the power of His love and His

Handsome and collectible, the books are produced to the highest standards. Each volume contains full-page reproductions printed in superb duotone, together with a critical introduction and a full bibliography. Now back in print, the series was awarded the first annual prize for distinguished photographic books by the International Center of Photography. Elliott Erwitt (b. 1928), an American by adoption,

Ideální kniha pro děti, které se zajímají o koně. Koně jsou úžasná stvoření. Poznejte je blíže v této knize, nabité pohyblivými obrázky a informacemi. Obsahuje odklápěcí okénka, prostorové prvky, otočná kolečka, detailní ilustrace s popisky a zasvěcený vhled do světa koní v průběhu dějin. Více než 40 pohyblivých prvků v této knize názorně dokládá, že dějiny lidí a koní jdou odjakživa ruku v ruce. Poznejte