Product Description: Nueva York, 1933. La ciudad y la nacion estan sumidas en la Gran Depresion. Las familias del crimen han prosperado durante los ultimos anos, pero al acercarse el fin de la Prohibicion, se aproxima una guerra que determinara cuales organizaciones sobreviviran y cuales veran su final...read more

Product Description: Para muchos enologos, si hay un critico temido y venerado en el mundo, ese es Robert Parker, famoso por instituir un sistema de puntos para calificar los vinos. Obtener una alta puntuacion en esta escala aumenta siempre las ventas, por lo que muchos viticultores han orientado la produccion de sus vinos segun los gustos de este critico...read more

Product Description: This provocative new title in the NCRLL Collection is a call to action for new and experienced scholars to re-examine their biases and assumptions and adopt a more critically conscious stance in their work. Balancing a historical grounding with contemporary research, this book focuses on how critical theories are manifested in language and literacy research...read more

Product Description: Hugo-winner Simmons (Olympos) brings the horrific trials and tribulations of arctic exploration vividly to life in this beautifully written historical, which injects a note of supernatural horror into the 1840s Franklin expedition and its doomed search for the Northwest Passage...read more

While visiting Baghdad twenty years after telling her legendary stories, Scheherazade gets kidnapped and resorts to her old skills to protect herself, while her angry host, Caliph Harun al-Rashid, seeks her recovery.