“zlata filipovic”

Shocked by the teenage violence she witnessed during the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, Erin Gruwell became a teacher at a high school rampant with hostility and racial intolerance. For many of these students-whose ranks included substance abusers, gang members, the homeless, and victims of abuse... More

From the author of the international bestseller "Zlata's Diary" comes a haunting testament to how war's brutality affects the lives of young people, spanning from World War I to the war in Iraq that continues today. From the author of the international bestseller "Zlataas Diary" comes a haunting te... More

An international bestseller, the extraordinary diary that awakened the world's conscience is now updated with a new Introduction by the author. "The only bright thing to come from [Sarajevo's] recent history."--"USA Today." When "Zlataas Diary" was first published at the height of the Bosnian confl... More

This book is a fascinating and revealing biography of Slobodan Milosevic. It is an up to date account of his life, career and downfall. It sheds much-needed new light on the man that is known as "Belgrade's tyrant" and the successor to Tito, who was known as the "Butcher of the Balkans." Stevanovic ... More

Great for beginners These nine songs teach common expressions, modes of transportation, clothing, mealtime, weather, parts of the body, pets and rooms of the house. There is even a song teaching the correct use of prepositions Entertaining activities are included in the lyrics book to help reinfor... More

This book provides an introduction to the mathematics of term structure models in continuous time. Topics include: practical matters for fixed-income markets such as day-count conventions, duration of coupon-paying bonds and yield curve construction; arbitrage theory; short-rate models; the Heath-Ja... More

Paperback. Scientific research is a constant confrontation between observational results and theoretical models. Inevitably, the observations and the theory tend to get out of step. A new observatory, improved instrumentation, or the opening up of a new waveband often results in the discovery of a... More