Product Description: Planet Earth provides factual information explaining the physical world in which we live by first setting the Earth within the context of the planetary system which orbits the Sun. Inevitably, because Earth is part of a bi-planetary system, the book explains how the Moon was formed from the Earth at a time very close to the beginning of the solar system, and how it has influenced the evolution of the Earth...read more

Product Description: A humorous and evocative debut novel about a food journalist’s desperate attempt to save his career―and possibly, his marriage―by tracking an extremely valuable bottle of wine stolen by the Nazis over half a century ago.Ten years ago, Bruno Tannenbaum was a passionate food journalist with a respected newspaper column, a popular segment on the evening news, and a bestselling guide to relationships through food...read more

Product Description: Award-Winning Finalist in the Fiction: Historical category of the 2012 International Book AwardsWhen the Germans invade Belgium in 1940, chemistry professor André Sauverin fears the worst. His colleagues believe their social and political positions will protect them during the occupation, but André knows better...read more

Product Description: In a raging sandstorm, two men with their pregnant wives fatefully meet in the desert: Samir Al Fay, a Muslim doctor whose son will be named heir to the Prince of Beirut; and Isaiah Ben Ezra, a grizzled Jewish militant Zionist heading to the Promised Land...read more

Product Description: Travis s Tacey s mother has had an accident, a bad one, and the family is falling apart. His father, lost in a haze of grief, has focused his anger and guilt on his oldest son. Which is why, at age fourteen, Travis finds himself out of a home and on the road in New York State s Adirondack Mountains...read more

Product Description: Charles Benoit has created a stunner of a debut novel. Told entirely in the second person, the story quickly immerses us in the world of bright, disaffected Kyle Chase, who once showed great potential but by tenth grade has become a genuine slacker...read more

Product Description: Provides a hands-on, in-depth introduction to the most important aspects of the Maple system. Among the topics covered are integration and summation, ODEs, graphics, and Maple data structures. No previous exposure to symbolic computation is required. 84 illustrations.

This book fully covers the requirements of the revised National Curriculum and the Framework for Teaching Mathematics extension requirements.

Product Description: Only 150 years ago, the majority of the world's population was largely illiterate. Today, not only do most people over fifteen have basic reading and writing skills, but 20 percent of the population attends some form of higher education...read more

In Show Me Your Environment, a penetrating yet personable collection of critical essays, David Baker explores how a poem works, how a poet thinks, and how the art of poetry has evolved—and is still evolving as a highly diverse, spacious, and inclusive art form. The opening essays offer contemplations on the “environment” of poetry from thoughts on physical places and regions as well as the inner aesthetic environment. Next, Baker looks at the highly distinctive achievements and styles of poets ranging from George Herbert and Emily Dickinson through poets writing today. Finally, he takes joy in reading individual poems—from the canonical to the contemporary; simply and closely.

Product Description: (LKM Music). En Rouge et Noir means literally "in red and black". While this can be interpreted many ways, this 17 minute work by renowned "Third Stream" composer David Baker explores both "red-hot" and "black" influences in three jazz-steeped movements: swing, jazz waltz, and bebop...read more

Product Description: The Me 262 was designed in the early 1940s as a fast interceptor by one of Germany's most successful aircraft manufacturers, powered by a Junkers Jumo gas turbine (jet) engine giving the type unprecedented speed. In theory it had a degree of invulnerability brought about by its high performance but in practice it had failings induced by the fickle nature of its engine - slow to provide acceleration at low speed and requiring new and innovative handling practices by its pilots...read more

Product Description: (LKM Music). Written for his colleague Janos Starker, David Baker's Quintet (also called the "Two Cello Quintet") was premiered at Indiana University's Eva Janzer Memorial Concert. The Bloomington press wrote of the performance: "a romantic work...read more

Product Description: Matt Dodson arrives at Space Academy little prepared for the rigorous program he is about to enter. But that's the point of the academy: to take young men and steep them in a demanding tradition of honor, courage, and sacrifice until they have earned the right to join the Patrol as guardians of the solar peace...read more