Teens

Normans never feel fear--but they do believe that terror literally gives one wings, enabling a person to fly. Now they're planning to test their theory on Vitalstatistix's cowardly nephew Jusforkix by pushing him right off the edge of a cliff.... More

Each volume of the Vival Library in a Book series is carefully designed to be a first-stop research source on important current issues. Written clearly and carefully so that even the most complex aspects of the topic are easily understandable, the book give the reader the essential information to be... More

Set in 50 B.C., these hysterical historical tales follow the adventures of Asterix and his pals in the days of the Roman Empire. Normally, he's concerned about protecting his town from the legionnaires (with the help of a magic potion), but here something else is on his mind: his surprise birthday p... More

The experts from Dale Carnegie & Associates, Inc. bring their time-tested techniques to teenage girls in order to help with the challenge of finding, developing, and enhancing great friendships during adolescence. Illustrations.It's all about making friends and being a good friend The teen years can... More

Hemingway’s women and men know that we have an interval, and then our place knows us no more. Our one chance is to pack that interval with the multiplied fruit of consciousness, with the solipsistic truths of perception and sensation. What survives time’s ravages in A Farewell to arms is precise... More

Youngest of the world religions, the Baha'i Faith focuses on social and spiritual teachings in tune with the issues of today such as the need for world peace and equality of men and women. This readable, informative introduction examines key aspects of Baha'i history and offers clear explanations of... More

Because of Beloved’s concern with violence committted both against and within african american communities, the novel can be read as an intervention in two distinct but related debates on American histories of race... The neoconservative and Reaganist polemics of the 1980s.... the liberal politics... More

Thoroughly revised and expanded, this accessible single-volume reference features a foreword by an expert in neuropsychology and will serve lay readers and medical professionals alike. More than 600 clear, concise entries explore such topics as the anatomy of the brain the role of the brain in the c... More

The Associationof castration, blindness, and death, so crucial in Freud, is already a given in Chaucer, just as the strangely authentic power of the Pardoner’s sermon, which transcends his overt tricksterism, testifies to the weird prolepsis of Dostoevsky in the Canterbury Tales. A Professional hy... More

Life in the March household is full of adventures and accidents as the four very different March sisters follow their varying paths to adulthood, always maintaining the special bond between them. Sensible Meg, impetuous Jo, shy Beth and artistic Amy each have to confront different challenges as they... More

The Metamorphosis cannot be interpreted coherently as a fantasy of death and resurrection, or as an allegory on the less is more fate of being a writer. Gregor’s death is not an effectual sacrifice, not a self fulfillment, and not even a tragic irony of any kind. It is another Kafkan negation that... More

'They are terrible. They are like the demons of old ...They must be stopped, and you are here to bring that about, where everyone else has failed. You must find the Ropemaker.' Despite his immense powers, the Ropemaker alone could not control the chaos raging through the Empire, so he chose twenty-f... More

The thrilling final volume in this official, licensed manga tie-in to the "Gundam Seed" animated TV series features giant fighting robots and a future war in space.THE FINAL BATTLE The Aube have struggled to remain neutral, but now the Earth Alliance threatens to destroy Aube's Onogoro Island. In a ... More

This volume presents the life and work of the Leakey family (Louis, Mary, Richard, Philip and Jonathan), whose discoveries of prehistoric fossil remains in Africa led to major breakthroughs in understanding our own origins.... More