Authors:Andrea Chesman, Dottie Rankin, Dorothy Rankin,
Publisher: Crossing Press
Keywords: noodle, kitchens, western, asian, fusion, dishes
Number of Pages: 231
Published: 1999-12-14
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0895949563
ISBN-13: 9780895949561

Author: David Rankin
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: world, classical, celts
Number of Pages: 340
Published: 1996-10-21
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0415150906
ISBN-13: 9780415150903

’This book does provide a thoroughly researched and clearly presented picture of those Celts who strayed into the classical world and of the fronge Celtic communities at the moment when they were overrun and assimilated by Rome.’ - THES

Authors:Kevin J. McMahon, David M. Rankin, Donald W. Beachle
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: vote, region, house, winning
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2005-07-15
List price: $116.95
ISBN-10: 1403968802
ISBN-13: 9781403968807

What does it take to win the White House? This text helps students understand both the issues and how and why people vote for a candidate. After discussing the dynamics of the primary campaigns, the authors examine three broad sets of issues that play a key role in voting: foreign policy, domestic policies, and the culture wars. This sets the foundations for an examination of regional similarities and differences in voting patterns, as the varying salience and valence of issues--whether general or specific--is explored across and within regions. Special attention is paid to battleground stat

Authors:Kevin J. McMahon, David M. Rankin, Donald W. Beachle
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: house, winning
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2009-08-15
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0230619339
ISBN-13: 9780230619333

Change was the theme of the 2008 presidential election. In Winning the White House, 2008, the authors explore the historical and emerging voting patterns shaping this transformative election.  After examining the selection of the Republican and Democratic nominees, they address the most compelling economic, social, and foreign policy concerns facing the electorate during the general election campaign. Surveying the electoral map, they then analyze how control of the White House and Congress hinged on the developing trends across the nation’s four main regions. Within regions, special attent

Author: Rankin
Publisher: teNeues
Keywords: heidilicious, rankin
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2009-10-15
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 3832799869
ISBN-13: 9783832799861

Shooting to international superstardom as a runway model for Victoria’s Secret and a cover model for Sports Illustrated’s coveted Swimsuit edition, Heidi Klum is no stranger to success. Gifted with sizzling looks and a dynamic peronality, this German-born beauty is one of the most recognizable faces of our time. Whether as a sultry sex kitten or sophisticated femme fatale, this tribute by one of Ms. Klum’s favorite photographers, Rankin, captures her many moods and personas. Because of their long friendship, this photographic master has a unique insight to this unparalleled

Author: Ian Rankin
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Keywords: inspector, rebus, novels, novel, falls
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2003-02-17
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0312982402
ISBN-13: 9780312982409

When the privileged daughter of a merchant banker disappears, a search through her e-mails uncovers her secret life-and a bizarre correspondence with an on-line game player who delights in macabre puzzles. The first game was for the girl. The next one is for Inspector John Rebus, a man haunted by the impenetrable riddles of his own troubled past. But the lead is soon complicated by an unexpected twist.A hand-carved wooden doll in an eight-inch coffin is found on the grounds of the victim’s home-a clue that links her vanishing to the deaths of four other women, and to a centuries-old offe

Author: Ian Rankin
Publisher: St. Martin’s Paperbacks
Keywords: rebus, inspector, novels, novel, souls, dead
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2000-08-15
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0312974205
ISBN-13: 9780312974206

Weary, wary, hard-drinking Detective John Rebus returns in author Ian Rankin’s internationally acclaimed, award-winning series. As complex and unpredictable as the brooding mists that envelop his Edinburgh beat, Rebus is ever resourceful and determined-but this time, vulnerable and challenged as never before, with complications in his personal life, and events that shake him to the depths of his being...A colleague’s suicide. Pedophiles. A missing child. A serial killer. You never know your luck, muses Rebus. Driven by instinct and experience, he searches for connections, against o