Authors:Emily Cox, Henry Rathvon, Henry Hook, Paul Sloane, Des
Publisher: Sterling
Keywords: spiral, bound, book, puzzle, challenge, mind
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2002-12-12
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1402704771
ISBN-13: 9781402704772

Think ordinary conundrums are just too humdrum? Do you finish crossword puzzles in ink and in no time flat? Then get ready for a serious test of your skills, with the ultimate in mental challenges. We’ve got crosswords of course; more than 50 tough, "regular" ones. But you’ll also enjoy dozens and dozens more of different varieties, including devilish "Crushwords" where you have to put more than one letter in each square, and mind-blowing math and logic teasers known as pixel puzzles, where if your answers are correct you’ll create a picture of success! And if that isn’

Author: Henry Hook
Publisher: Random House Puzzles & Games
Keywords: trivia, crostics, crosswords, delight, puzzler
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2006-04-11
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0812936647
ISBN-13: 9780812936643

Wildly creative Henry Hook is known for his unique ability to take a traditional puzzle, add his own spin, and turn it into something brand-new. This collection offers 150 of Henry’s most innovative puzzles, brought together for the first time in one volume guaranteed to challenge puzzlers of all types. From film-related crosswords, to crosswords that create a "Who Am I?" limerick, to trivia-based crostics, there’s something for everyone![PuzzleMeter: difficulty--4; style--5]

Authors:Charlotte Brontë, Andrew Hook, Judith Hook,
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: classics, penguin, shirley
Number of Pages: 624
Published: 1974-07-30
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 0140430954
ISBN-13: 9780140430950

Struggling manufacturer, Robert Moore has introduced labour saving machinery to his Yorkshire mill, arousing a ferment of unemployment and discontent among his workers. Robert considers marriage to the wealthy and independent Shirley Keeldar to solve his financial woes, yet his heart lies with his cousin Caroline, who, bored and desperate, lives as a dependent in her uncle’s home with no prospect of a career. Shirley, meanwhile, is in love with Robert’s brother, an impoverished tutor - a match opposed by her family. As industrial unrest builds to a potentially fatal pitch, can the

Author: ell hook
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: masculinity, men, black, cool, real
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2003-11-12
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0415969271
ISBN-13: 9780415969277

Black men are cool. But most books about black men miss the mark, making the same points-difficult childhood, white racism, poverty-they describe without meaningful explanation. bell hooks’ brilliant new book We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity goes where everyone else has been unwilling to go. Without casting blame, hooks tells hard truths: black men are feared, admired, made the objects of sexual fantasy, envied, but rarely loved. Black men are hated, and hooks tells us why. In these critical essays, hooks examines what black males fear most (maternal sadism, loss, emasculation) an

Author: ell hook
Publisher: Washington Square Pre
Keywords: love, masculinity, men, change
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2004-12-21
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0743456084
ISBN-13: 9780743456081

Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways that patriarchal culture keeps them from knowing themselves, from being in touch with their feelings, from loving. In The Will to Change, bell hooks gets to the heart of the matter and shows men how to express the emotions that are a fundamental part of who they are -- whatever their age, marital status, ethnicity, or sexual orientation.With trademark candor and fierce intelligence, hooks addresses the most common concerns of men, such as fear of intimacy and loss of their patriarchal place

Author: ell hook
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: place, culture, belonging
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2008-10-20
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 041596816X
ISBN-13: 9780415968164

What does it mean to call a place home? Who is allowed to become a member of a community? When can we say that we truly belong? These are some of the questions of place and belonging that renowned cultural critic bell hooks examines in her new book, Belonging: A Culture of Place. Traversing past and present, Belonging charts a cyclical journey in which hooks moves from place to place, from country to city and back again, only to end where she began--her old Kentucky home. hooks has written provocatively about race, gender, and class; and in this book she turns her attention to focus on issue

Author: Brian Hook
Publisher: No Starch Press
Keywords: software, multiple, platforms, developing, introduction, portable, code, write
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2005-07-15
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1593270569
ISBN-13: 9781593270568

Portable software development is writing software that runs on a broad range of computer systems instead of just one (e.g., Windows). Programmers often pick up the idioms, tricks and methodologies for developing cross-platform software through sheer trial and error, as they encounter the same mistakes and patterns of code over time. If you’re an intermediate-to advanced-level programmer who’d rather cut to the chase, Write Portable Code contains the lessons, patterns and knowledge you’ll need for developing cross-platform software. Write Portable Code explains how to: av