Writer Rick Remender continues his acclaimed new series, joined by fan-favorites Eric Canete (Iron Man) and Andy MacDonald (Punisher: War Journal), for an all-new storyline, "Weathered Statues." After the shocking events of the previous volume, in which half the cast was lost, Black and Arachnakid risk everything to take their revenge on the Smiling Man in his twisted city of Lore. Across the world in New Berlin, the fascist Wolfsangel puts a bounty on the remaining heroes in order to obtain the one item he requires to snatch lordship of Earth from Dead Lexington: An altruistic heart.

Product Description: The critique of white male society that Charles W. Chesnutt launched in A Marrow of Tradition continues in Evelyn's Husband, one of six manuscripts left unpublished when this highly regarded African American innovator died. Set in Boston society, on a deserted Caribbean island, and in Brazil, Evelyn's Husband is the story of two men-one old, one young-in love with the same young woman...read more

Product Description: Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932), critically acclaimed for his novels, short stories, and essays, was one of the most ambitious and influential African American writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Today recognized as a major innovator of American fiction, Chesnutt is an important contributor to de-romanticizing trends in post-Civil War Southern literature, and a singular voice among turn-of-the-century realists who wrote about race in American life...read more

Product Description: Published in paperback for the first time, A Business Career is the story of Stella Merwin, a white woman entering the working-class world to discover the truth behind her upper-class father's financial failure. A "New Woman" of the 1890s, Stella joins a stenographer's office and uncovers a life-altering secret that allows her to regain her status and wealth...read more

Product Description: Who decides the worth of a life? Does being a doctor really give one the right to casually throw away a man's future for convenience? You might think Mark Wilson was unlucky to be beaten up and suffering head trauma, but it seems that for him the bad luck really set in once he got to hospital...read more

Explains how to use the powerful STL features of C++ to create a wide variety of applications, covering essential concepts and techniques for applying, expanding, and extending STL, and includes a CD-ROM containing a range of compilers, libraries (including the STLSoft libraries), software samples, test programs, and tools. Original. (Intermediate/Advanced)

Product Description: Author Matthew J. Wilson tackles the difficult subject of racism in an honest, yet simple way, through the eyes of a little boy who finds himself surrounded by birds of "color." In Don't Judge A Bird By Its Color Wilson encourages and challenges young readers to realize that the differences that often separate us from each other are the very tools that each of us can use to compliment one another...read more