Product Description: When impoverished American sculptor Roderick Hudson creates what is described as a work of genius, he is sent to Rome, where he becomes the talk of the city. But Roderick soon loses his inspiration and falls in love with a woman he ll never be with...read more

Product Description: An intimate, authorized, yet frank biography of Gore Vidal (1925-2012), one of the most accomplished, visible, and controversial American novelists and cultural figures of the past century.The product of thirty years of friendship and conversation, Jay Parini's Empire of Self probes behind the glittering surface of Gore Vidal's colorful life to reveal the complex emotional and sexual truth underlying his celebrity-strewn life...read more

DADiSPA (R) is an interactive graphics worksheet-- a visually-oriented software package for the display, management, analysis and presentation of scientific and technical data. If you collect, manipulate, edit, reduce, transform, display or analyze data, DADiSP can simplify your data needs. The DADiSP Student Manual Package contains the following items: * The User Manual-- offers an overview of how to navigate the DADiSP environment. It provides instructions for both PC and workstation users of DADiSP. The software is functionally equivalent across all platforms. * The Reference Manual CD-ROM-- contains detailed descriptions of each command and function available at the Worksheet level. Once you have read the DADiSP User Manual and are familiar with the DADiSP environment, you should rely on the electronic Reference Manual for most of your day-to-day work. * The DeveloperA 's Guide-- describes the tools to help you customize your DADiSP system. * Download Instructions-- contains steps for downloading the STUDENT EDITION of DADiSP from the DSP Corporation website, http://www.dadisp.com.

Product Description: [Read by John Lescault] Stillton Academy, a small art college on the New England coast north of Boston, is in financial trouble, and its days are numbered unless someone provides extraordinary help. The final straw may be the sudden disappearance of an instructor with a female student, daughter of the Academy's only significant donor...read more

Product Description: Acclaimed author Stephen Dando-Collins sifts facts from myths of the great calamity that beset Rome in 64 A.D. and uncovers the truth behind the legend that Nero fiddled while Rome burned. In A.D. 64, on the night of July 19, a fire began beneath the stands of Rome's great stadium, the Circus Maximus...read more

Product Description: [This is Part 1 of a 2-part Audiobook CD Library Edition in Vinyl case.][Part 2 has ISBN: 9781433261589] [Read by Patrick Cullen] Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for History Winner of the 2008 American History Book Prize In this addition to the esteemed Oxford history series, historian Daniel Walker Howe illuminates the period from the battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War, an era of revolutionary improvements in transportation and communications that accelerated the extension of the American empire...read more