Product Description: Jon Ash doesn't like school or following rules so much. When he snaps in his history class and throws a desk against the chalk board, it's the last straw, or so he thinks. Mrs. Kramer, the school principal offers Jon one last chance to get his act together and actually graduate, but that opportunity means going into the school's alternative program...read more

Product Description: Book annotation not available for this title.Title: Medical Spanish PocketAuthor: Fischaess, Claudia (EDT)/ Lopez-Cubero, Santiago Otero (EDT)/ Morrison, Robert (EDT)/ Lorenz-StruvePublisher: Borm Bruckmeier Pub LlcPublication Date: 2012/06/15Number of Pages: 251Binding Type: PAPERBACKLibrary of Congress: 201247113...read more

Product Description: A masterful biography of England's most notorious literary figure.Author of the scandalous Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) has long lacked a full-fledged biography. His friendships with leading poets and men of letters in the Romantic and Victorian periods― including William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge―have long placed him at the center of nineteenth century literary studies...read more

The titular essay in this volume of work by Thomas De Quincey centers on the notorious career of the murderer John Williams, who in 1811 brutally killed seven people in London's East End. De Quincey's response to Williams's attacks turns morality on its head, celebrating and coolly dissecting the art of murder and its perfections. This volume also contains De Quincey's best-known piece of literary criticism, "On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth," and his finest tale of terror, "The Avenger," a disturbing exploration of violence, vigilantism, and religious persecution. Ranging from gruesomely vivid reportage and brilliantly funny satiric high jinks to penetrating literary and aesthetic criticism, these essays had a remarkable impact on crime, terror, and detective fiction. They are also a key contribution to the satiric tradition, as well as on the rise of nineteenth-century decadence. The bibliography is the most extensive available on critical responses to De Quincey's essays on murder and violence, and the essays included here have never been annotated so thoroughly before. They reveal--often for the first time--De Quincey's debts, remarkable erudition, and encyclopedic knowledge of contemporary crime.

John Polidori's classic tale "The Vampyre"(1819), was a product of the same ghost-story competition that produced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The present volume selects thirteen other tales of mystery and the macabre, including the works of James Hogg, J.S. LeFanu, Letitia Landon, Edward Bulwer, and William Carelton. The introduction surveys the genesis and influence of "The Vampyre" and its central themes and techniques, while the Appendices contain material closely associated with its composition and publication, including Lord Byron's prose fragment "Augustus Darvell."

Product Description: The eye doctor for kings, queens, and stars and the co-patent holder of the soft contact lens for the Western Hemisphere describes how applying a simple philosophy of life has led to a life of incredible achievement and excitement...read more

Product Description: A dark cloud of sin hangs over the puritanical village of Omer, a town lost to history and bound there by the stifling doctrine of its evil pastor, Icabod Kroll. Under the pretense of a curse, and encouraged by Kroll, the pilgrims of the town shun Eva Wirdth during her pregnancy...read more

Product Description: ...bilingual dictionary containing Spanish medical terminology...clearly organized by situation: interview examination, course of visit...

Product Description: Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) is considered one of the most important English prose writers of the early-19th century. This is the first part of a 21-volume set presenting De Quincey's work, also including previously unpublished material.

Product Description: This book shows small business and professional people how to survive and prosper in a rigged game - the business game where the rules are made by big government, big labor and big business. Morrison shows you how to use other people's money to play this game, how to be a pied piper for other entrepreneurs, and how to make IRS stand for Income Retention System...read more

Product Description: Why S. O. B.'s Succeed and Nice Guys Fail in Small Business