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The Vampire Gideon's Suicide Hotline and Halfway House for Orphaned Girls
A vampire who runs a suicide hotline tries to do what he can to help humans who don't want to live any longer and, in the process, accidentally adopts a teenage girl. This dark comedy follows the vampire Gideon as he tries to help the contemporary "children" he meets over the hotline-even as he avoids finding ways to help himself.
I Just Want to Be Super
Kids can be super in so many ways. One morning, Nino findsa mask that gives him amazing powers. He can't wait to blast into action! Butno one will let him do all the super things he wants to do. Instead, everybodytells him stuff like, Put away yourdishes. Get dressed. BeCAREFUL. Will Nino ever get thechance to show just how super he can be? With empathy,exuberance and imagination reminiscent of Calvinand Hobbes and Where The Wild ThingsAre, dynamic writer-illustrator duo Andrew Katz and Tony Luzano tell astory all children will relate to, one about stretching their limits and discoveringjust what it means to be super.
The Daughters of Yalta
The untold story of the three intelligent and glamorous young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference in February 1945, and of the conference's fateful reverberations in the waning days of World War II.
Open Design Now
Digital information about physical products and the availability of production tools and facilities transforms design into an open discipline
The Vietnam Antiwar Movement
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
How to Catch a Bear Who Loves to Read
Julia has many friends in the forest by her house, but she dreams of meeting a bear--one she can play with and hug. Julia tries to attract one with delicious food. To her surprise, it's not just good smells that attract bears--books do, too! Full color.x 11 5/16.
Environmental Pragmatism
Environmental pragmatism is a new strategy in environmental thought. It argues that theoretical debates are hindering the ability of the environmental movement to forge agreement on basic policy imperatives. This new direction in environmental thought moves beyond theory, advocating a serious inquiry into the merits of moral pluralism. Environmental pragmatism, as a coherent philosophical position, connects the methodology of classical American pragmatic thought to the explanation, solution and discussion of real issues. This concise, well-focused collection is the first comprehensive presentation of environmental pragmatism as a new philosophical approach to environmental thought and policy.
Thinking like a Mall
A provocative argument that environmental thinking would be better off if it dropped the concept of “nature” altogether and spoke instead of the built environment. Environmentalism, in theory and practice, is concerned with protecting nature. But if we have now reached “the end of nature,” as Bill McKibben and other environmental thinkers have declared, what is there left to protect? In Thinking like a Mall, Steven Vogel argues that environmental thinking would be better off if it dropped the concept of “nature” altogether and spoke instead of the “environment”—that is, the world that actually surrounds us, which is always a built world, the only one that we inhabit. We nee...
Beneath the Surface
This book approaches deep ecology as a philosophy, not as a political, social, or environmental movement.
Private Sins, Public Crimes
A groundbreaking scholarly study of crime and punishment in Qajar Iran Drawing on a rich array of primary sources in multiple languages, Farzin Vejdani argues that the ambiguity in defining the boundaries between private and public in Qajar Iran often corresponded with the jurisdictional friction between government authorities and religious scholars regarding who had the authority to police and punish public crimes. This ambiguity had implications for the spaces in which illicit acts were carried out: “private” parties in domestic residences where music, alcohol, and prostitution were present were often tolerated by local police officials but raised the ire of religious authorities and t...
