"Meets the very high standard set by Alfred Kazin's "Starting Out in the Thirties for describing a young man's intellectual coming-of-age with nuanced honesty and genuine emotion."-"Kirkus Reviews
"First Loves tells of a life driven by the twin lusts of romantic love and writing. A legendary editor and literary critic, Ted Solotaroff takes the reader over the rocky course of his education and rebellion in the '50s and through an early marriage that commutes between heaven and hell.
Ted Solotaroff's first memoir, "Truth Comes in Blows (1998), won the PEN Martha Albrand Award. An associate editor of "Commentary and the editor of "Bookweek, he founded the influential literary journal "New American Review, later "American Review, and was a senior editor at HarperCollins.
The Best of America's Test Kitchen: The Year's Best Recipes, Equipment Reviews, and Tastings
With the debut of this four-color annual cookbook, the editors at America's Test Kitchen feature the best of the best--the recipes and culinary discoveries from a year's worth of cooking and testing for their books, magazines, and Public Television cooking show. 150 recipes.
The Best of America's Test Kitchen: The Year's Best Recipes, Equipment Reviews, and Tastings
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Business Mathematics by William L. Kindsfather, ISBN 0130866997
Covering the basic concepts of business mathematics more thoroughly than other books on the market, "Business Mathematics" stresses not only the mathematical concepts but also the business applications of those concepts, enabling readers to relate the material to their business needs. More complete explanations involve readers and aid in understanding the concepts and processes used in successful problem-solving for business. This comprehensive, readable book covers basic mathematics for business (a review which includes Percentage Applications ); fundamentals for doing business (such as employee payroll, and buying and selling goods); banking and finance in business (reviews the use of checking accounts and how to maintain them, various methods of calculating interest, installment buying, and mortgages); record keeping and analysis (calculating depreciation, keeping accurate inventory and overhead records, taxes, maintaining adequate insurance coverage, and buying and selling...
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Wendell Berry and the Agrarian Tradition: A Common Grace by Kimberly K. Smith, ISBN 0700612300
Farmer and conservationist Wendell Berry has published more than thirty books, making his name a household word among environmentalists. From his Kentucky farm, Berry preaches and practices stewardship of the land as he seeks to defend the value and traditions of farm life in an industrial capitalist society. A central figure in the greening of American agrarianism, Berry has been an advocate of small farming and traditional values who has tirelessly reminded readers that sustainable agriculture is more than a catchphrase. Kimberly Smith now reveals the depth of his ideas and their relevance for American social and political theory. Berry's central teaching focuses on the fragility of our natural and social worlds; Smith's timely book revisits the problem of living a meaningful life in a world filled with both deadly perils and unimagined possibilities. Hers is the first book to explore the implications of this central tenet and other key aspects of Berry's thought, as well as his overall...
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Supercomputers: Charting the Future of Cybernetics by Charlene W. Billings, ISBN 0816047308
Praise for the previous edition:
...an admirable translation of incredibly complex technical information...Kirkus Reviews
Some computers are so fast and powerful that they are known as supercomputers. The next generation of these computers will be able to complete more than one trillion operations per second.
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Time Flies by Eric Rohmann, ISBN 0517595982
Time Flies, a wordless picture book, is inspired by the theory that birds are the modern relatives of dinosaurs. This story conveys the tale of a bird trapped in a dinosaur exhibit at a natural history museum. Through Eric's use of color, readers can actually see the bird enter into a mouth of a dinosaur, and then escape unscathed.
Eric Rohmann's Caldecott Honor-winning debut is now available as a "Dragonfly paperback. It is at once a wordless time-travel adventure and a meditation on the scientific theory that dinosaurs were the evolutionary ancestors of birds. "The New York Times Book Review called "Time Flies "a work of informed imagination and masterly storytelling unobtrusively underpinned by good science...an entirely absorbing narrative made all the more rich by its wordlessness." "Kirkus Reviews hailed it as "a splendid debut.
Time Flies by Eric Rohmann, ISBN 0517595982
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Nystce (Rea) - New York State Teacher Certification Exams with CDROM
This book includes three full-length exams for the Liberal Arts arid Sciences Test (LAST), Assessment of Teaching Skills-Performance (ATS-P), and the Assessment of Teaching Skills--Written (ATS-W) tests. Comprehensive reviews in mathematics, English language and literature, history, the social and physical sciences, and communication skills are included. Essential for anyone seeking a teaching certificate in the state of New York.
Nystce (Rea) - New York State Teacher Certification Exams with CDROM
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Mathematical Methods in Risk Theory by M. Berger, ISBN 3540617035
From the reviews: "The huge literature in risk theory has been carefully selected and supplemented by personal contributions of the author, many of which appear here for the first time. The result is a systematic and very readable book, which takes into account the most recent developments of the field. It will be of great interest to the actuary as well as to the statistician who wants to become familiar with the subject." "Math. Reviews Vol. 43"
"It is a book of fundamental importance for all interested in the application or teaching of the subject and a significant addition to the literature."
"Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (England) 1971"
"This latest addition to the literature of risk theory is a masterful work..
Mathematical Methods in Risk Theory by M. Berger, ISBN 3540617035
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On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society by Dave Grossman, ISBN 0316330116
The twentieth century, with its bloody world wars, revolutions, and genocides accounting for hundreds of millions dead, would seem to prove that human beings are incredibly vicious predators and that killing is as natural as eating. But Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman, a psychologist and U.S. Army Ranger, demonstrates this is not the case. The good news, according to Grossman - drawing on dozens of interviews, first-person reports, and historic studies of combat, ranging from Frederick the Great's...
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Globalization And American Popular Culture
This concise and insightful book examines the way that American movies, music, and television as goods marketed and consumed around the world are key elements of contemporary globalization. Lane Crothers offers a nuanced exploration of these influential cultural products and their contradictory impact: in some cases promoting a desire for integration into the broader world community, in others generating disgust and outright rejection. Concluding with a projection of the future influence of American...
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Screening the Los Angeles 'Riots': Race, Seeing, and Resistance by Darnell M. Hunt, ISBN 0521578140
On April 29, 1992, the "worst riots of the century" (Los Angeles Times) erupted. Television newsworkers tried frantically to keep up with what was happening on the streets while, around the city, nation and globe, viewers watched intently as leaders, participants, and fires flashed across their television screens. Screening the Los Angeles "riots" zeroes in on the first night of these events, exploring in detail the meanings one news organization found in them, as well as those made by fifteen groups...
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