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City Of The Dead (The Haunting Of Derek Stone)

City Of The Dead (The Haunting Of Derek Stone)

by Tony Abbott

Could the road to the afterlife be a two-way street? Derek Stone just turned fourteen. He's lived in the heart of New Orleans with his dad and older brother, Ronny, his whole life. He's a little overweight. He can't hear well out of his left ear. Oh, and he's on the run from the dead. Derek never imagined that the dead could be anything but dead. But there's no denying it. They're back --... (more)

Teaching in Your Office: A Guide to Instructing Medical Students and Residents, Second Edition

Teaching in Your Office: A Guide to Instructing Medical Students and Residents, Second Edition

by Patrick C. Alguire, Dawn E. Dewitt, Linda E. Pinsky, Gary S. Ferenchick

This newly revised edition of Teaching in Your Office is an excellent resource for physicians interested in improving their techniques in office-based teaching while maintaining the efficiency of their practice. Updated and redesigned, this new edition offers teaching skills in a format succinct and focused enough to allow busy clinicians to identify chapters that address their specific needs. Additionally, each... (more)

Drives U Nuts - Things that make you mad, annoyed or ticked off!

Drives U Nuts - Things that make you mad, annoyed or ticked off!

by Angel Potter

Do you do things that annoy others: make other people mad, angry or ticked off? Do you know people that do? Then this book is for you. Drives U Nuts is a compilation of hilarious situations, observations and anecdotes that we all have experienced and that have driven us nuts at one point or another like: bad drivers, rude people, nosey co-workers, annoying family and friends, frustrating relationships, etc. Read... (more)

Harriet the Spy

Large Type Edition, 8.5" x 12" with Illustrations.

The Purloined Letter - Public Domain

by Edgar Allan Poe

The brilliant Dupin uses psychological reasoning to deduce the hiding place of a stolen letter.

Kiln People (The Kiln Books)

by David Brin

In a perilous future, disposable duplicate bodies fulfill every citizen's legal and illicit whim. Life as a 24-hour "ditto" is cheap, as Albert Morris knows. A brash investigator with a knack for trouble, he's sent plenty of clay duplicates into deadly peril, then "inloaded" memories from copies that were shot, crushed, drowned . . . all part of a day's work. But when Morris tackles a ring of crooks making... (more)

After Dark

by Haruki Murakami

A short, sleek novel of encounters set in Tokyo during the witching hours between midnight and dawn, and every bit as gripping as Haruki Murakami’s masterworks The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Kafka on the Shore. At its center are two sisters—Eri, a fashion model slumbering her way into oblivion, and Mari, a young student soon led from solitary reading at an anonymous Denny’s toward people whose lives are... (more)

How to Be an Alien (Penguin Joint Venture Readers S.)George Mikes

How to Be an Alien (Penguin Joint Venture Readers S.)

by George Mikes

Findings

by Kathleen Jamie

“A book of unparalleled beauty, sharpness of observation, wit, delicacy, strength of vision and rare exactness of language.” — The Daily Telegraph I had noticed, more than noticed, the cobwebs, and the shoaling light, and the way the doctor listened, and the flecked tweed of her skirt, and the speckled bird and the sickle-cell man’s slim feet. Isn’t that a kind of prayer? The care and maintenance of the web of... (more)

PLAYS VOL.2 (Wordsworth Collection , Vol 2)

PLAYS VOL.2 (Wordsworth Collection , Vol 2)

by Oscar Wilde

This Vintage edition of The Plays_of Oscar Wilde contains the plays that made Wilde one of the most important dramatists of his time, including The Importance of Being Earnest, one of the great works of modern literature. Oscar Wilde's plays demonstrate once again why their author must be seen as both an inaugurator and a master of modernism. In his best work, the subversive insights embedded in his wit continue... (more)

Rosie's Walk (Red Fox Mini Treasure)

by Pat Hutchins

Rosie was a busy, fat, comfortable hen, and one day she decided to go for a walk. But Rosie didn't know she was being followed by a wicked fox. Unwittingly she led him into one disaster after another, and got back home safely.

Independent Component Analysis: A Tutorial Introduction (Bradford Books)

Independent Component Analysis: A Tutorial Introduction (Bradford Books)

by James V. Stone

Independent component analysis (ICA) is becoming an increasingly important tool for analyzing large data sets. In essence, ICA separates an observed set of signal mixtures into a set of statistically independent component signals, or source signals. In so doing, this powerful method can extract the relatively small amount of useful information typically found in large data sets. The applications for ICA range from... (more)

Bayesian Brain: Probabilistic Approaches to Neural Coding (Computational Neuroscience)

Bayesian Brain: Probabilistic Approaches to Neural Coding (Computational Neuroscience)

A Bayesian approach can contribute to an understanding of the brain on multiple levels, by giving normative predictions about how an ideal sensory system should combine prior knowledge and observation, by providing mechanistic interpretation of the dynamic functioning of the brain circuit, and by suggesting optimal ways of deciphering experimental data. Bayesian Brain brings together contributions from both... (more)

Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in Papago Indian Country

Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in Papago Indian Country

by Gary Paul Nabhan

From mountain shrines to lowland oases, ethnobiologist Gary Nabhan takes us on a series of journeys with contemporary Papago Indians, the Tohono O'odham, or "Desert People." From these journeys we discover how much the Desert People know about the dynamics of their arid homeland in Arizona and Sonora, Mexico. The Desert Smells Like Rain offers insights into the natural history of desert plants and animals as it... (more)

New Tech, New Ties

How Mobile Communication Is Reshaping Social Cohesion

by Richard Seyler Ling

Honorable Mention, Sociology & Social Work category, 2008 PROSE Awards presented by the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers. The message of this book is simple: the mobile phone strengthens social bonds among family and friends. With a traditional land-line telephone, we place calls to a location and ask hopefully if someone is "there"; with a mobile... (more)

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