Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
"Winner of the 2008 Anthony Leeds Prize in Urban Anthropology, Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology" Xiang Biao is Academic Fellow at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Transcending Boundaries.
How can America's information technology (IT) industry predict serious labor shortages while at the same time laying...
298122) El Hombre del Sombrero de Copa
Author
Language
Español
Description
Un grupo reunido alrededor de una fogata durante la fiesta de Ferragosto, decide dejar de aburrirse, contando una historia de terror al experto del grupo, Stephen. El chico cuenta la historia de una chica llamada Bea, emocionada porque su sueño está a punto de hacerse realidad. Finalmente podrá asistir al concierto de su cantante favorito, Marilyn Manson, a quien le encanta llamar "el príncipe negro". Pero algo horrible convertirá ese tan deseado...
298123) Into that Good Night: A Novel
Author
Language
English
Description
Doug Horolez is a talentless boy hopelessly in love with his only friend, E. Summerson. That's the good news. When E.'s sister is murdered in the woods behind town, Doug, to prove his devotion, joins a group of local pariahs, led by a deathly ill and eerily charismatic boy, who urges them to dig for clues to solve the girl's mysterious death. But as cultish bonds deepen within the group, their activities become more reckless and vengeful. Doug must...
Author
Language
English
Description
Sir John Fortescue holds a pre-eminent place amongst British military historians, his enduring fame and legacy resting mainly on his life's work "The History of the British Army", issued in 20 volumes, which took him some 30 years to complete. In scope and breadth it is such that no modern scholar has attempted to cover such a large and diverse subject in its entirety; but Sir John did so and with aplomb, leading to a readable and comprehensive study....
298125) Captain Tom Moore
Author
Language
English
Description
In this book from the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Captain Tom Moore, the veteran who raised over £30 million for the NHS during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. By buying a copy of this book, you are making a donation of 3% of the cover price to NHS Charities Together.
Once there was a humble boy from Yorkshire called Tom, who was born with his feet firmly on the ground. His determination and courage...
Author
Language
English
Description
John Wesley's Teachings is the first systematic exposition of John Wesley's theology that is also faithful to Wesley's own writings. Wesley was a prolific writer and commentator on Scripture-his collected works fill eighteen volumes-and yet it is commonly held that he was not systematic or consistent in his theology and teachings. On the contrary, Thomas C. Oden demonstrates that Wesley displayed a remarkable degree of internal consistency over sixty...
298127) Tea Classified
Author
Language
English
Description
A refreshing way to classify the most popular drink in the world. Over90 different teas from around the world are classified. Includes'character' and 'brewing tips' for every classified tea. Covers old andnew teas: black, green, yellow and even white teas.A refreshingly new way to understand and classify tea for all tea lovers. Over 90teas from around the world are classified, including black, green, yellow andeven white teas. The 'character' and...
Author
Language
English
Description
Not even the imminent threat of a Japanese invasion can stop the notorious Lady Emily Gascoigne-Ridley from courting disaster – or even death – wherever she goes. When she decides to spend the winter of 1943 in Bexford North, simply to spite her relative, Annie Watson, she begins to wreak havoc in the villagers' lives. Within a week, she has the village in turmoil with her insinuations, her Russian Communist propaganda and her evil tale-bearing....
Author
Language
English
Description
The most incisive writing about Switzerland from the world's most creative minds: from Tolkien to Tolstoy, Petrarch to Prince, Julius Caesar to George Sand. They wrote of wars and money, poverty and peaks, dances and prisons, wolves and fleas. "O Switzerland!" deftly weaves together over 450 first-hand accounts to paint a dazzling and disturbing portrait of an enigmatic land.
298130) Ancient People of the Andes
Author
Language
English
Description
In Ancient People of the Andes, Michael A. Malpass describes the prehistory of western South America from initial colonization to the Spanish Conquest. All the major cultures of this region, from the Moche to the Inkas, receive thoughtful treatment, from their emergence to their demise or evolution. No South American culture that lived prior to the arrival of Europeans developed a writing system, making archaeology the only way we know about most...
298131) Après toi
Author
Language
Français
Description
Aprè toi. by Diana Scott. Nouvelle romantique, première d'une série de sept livres. Elle décrit la seconde opportunité que la vie offre à Susy. Une nouvelle romantique, à te couper le soufflé¡ Plus de 100.000 lecteurs ont déjà lu cette saga. Parce que nous méritons tous une nouvelle opportunité. Susy vit une vie normale dans son couple, une vie que la majorité des gens appèlerait normale. Cependant, les choses ne sont pas toujours celles...
298132) The Dating Game
Author
Language
English
Description
The Social Network gets a romantic twist in this fresh and engaging new read from the author of Frat Girl, Kiley Roache. Experience the whirlwind ups and downs of college life in this authentic and entertaining new novel!
When a notoriously difficult class for future entrepreneurs leads to three freshmen developing the next "it" app for dating on college campuses, all hell breaks loose…
Type A control freak Sara lives by her color-coordinated...
298133) The Shanghai Tunnel
Author
Language
English
Description
Portland, 1868. It is a roughhewn place, an exploding trading post that has dreams of becoming a metropolis.
Horace Stratton, one of Portland's wealthiest heirs, has decided to come home for good after amassing yet another fortune in Shanghai. With him comes his wife Emily, a shy daughter of missionaries, and their teenaged son. On the brink of that happy return, Horace suddenly falls ill and dies in San Francisco.
Emily and her son bring her...
Author
Language
English
Description
What do skeletons say before they eat?
Bone appétit!
What did the ghost wear to the party?
A boo-tie!
Belly Laugh Scary, Spooky Halloween Jokes for Kids is full of hilarious and spooky fun! From snappy one-liners to hilarious stories, this collection is complete with 350 jokes for kids and is complemented by creepy line drawings. Perfect for long car rides and rainy days, this book is sure to bring laughter and fun into your home.
For kids ages five...
298135) Worlds of Weinbaum
Author
Language
English
Description
Weinbaum's worlds are eight tales of action, adventure, and alien discovery that revolve around the planets and moons of New Sol, a system redder and more compact than our own, but much like how our Solar System was imagined in the 1930s. We've updated Stanley G. Weinbaum's original science fiction short stories into a new setting, a system where his dreams could really take place, not too different from how he first wrote them, in the not-so-distant...
298136) Maserati
Author
Language
English
Description
The Maserati brothers loved cars, engines, and racing. On December 1, 1914 in Bologna, Italy, they founded the Officine Alfieri Maserati. Discover more in Maserati, a title in the Supercars series.
Author
Language
English
Description
Putting the voices of the enslaved front and center, Gloria Garcia Rodriguez's study presents a compelling overview of African slavery in Cuba and its relationship to the plantation system that was the economic center of the New World. A major essay by Garcia, who has done decades of archival research on Cuban slavery, introduces the work, providing a history of the development, maintenance, and economy of the slave system in Cuba, which was abolished...
298139) The A.R.Ex. Origin
Author
Language
English
Description
It has been five years since the A. R. EX. projects first genetics experiment to create a new breed of super-efficient reptilian soldiers. Rivers, a newly created being, feels out of place in the human world, burdened by his creation, physical appearance, and the reality of his nonexistent identity and past life as Erikson Meyers. As he tries to enjoy his life living as Alex Rivers in New York City, he has no idea that someone out there hates him...
298140) Dispatches from the Republic of Letters: 50 Years of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature
Author
Language
English
Description
For the last fifty years, The Neustadt Prize has been one of the most prestigious literary prizes in the world, second only to the Nobel. Poets, novelists, and playwrights from Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Orhan Pamuk to Czeslaw Milosz and Dubravka Ugresic are listed among the ranks of laureate. Now, in honor of the fiftieth anniversary, Dispatches from the Republic of Letters gathers the acceptance speeches of these twenty-five pioneering writers into...
Borrow from another library
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Darien Library can be requested from other libraries via our interlibrary loan system (ILL).