Author: Homer G. Thomas
Publisher: Olympia Press
Keywords: volume, virgin, prodigal
Number of Pages: 188
Published: 2008-06-05
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1596545631
ISBN-13: 9781596545632

A study of the young married set in a fashionable colony on the Dunes of Lake Michigan. Young Marion Stone is introduced to this life by some of her own family, and quickly falls in with the swing of things.

Author: Homer L. Hall
Publisher: Rosen Publishing Group
Keywords: journalism, school, schoo, workbk, students
Number of Pages: 117
Published: 2003-01
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0823939278
ISBN-13: 9780823939275

Author: Trevor Homer
Publisher: Plume
Keywords: origins, people, languages, things, food, speak, wear, discover, amazing, clothes, book
Number of Pages: 307
Published: 2007-05-29
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0452288320
ISBN-13: 9780452288324

Everything—from the mundane (the pencil) to the catastrophic (the atom bomb)—has an origin, but often it’s not what we expect. A few things you may not have known: • Gandhi was married at age thirteen! • Chinese fortune cookies are an American invention and were not eaten in China until the 1990s when they were advertised as "Genuine American Fortune Cookies." • Bayer lost the trademark for aspirin (which they had held since 1897) as part of the reparations Germany was forced to pay after World War I. • The original idea for the electric chair came from an American de

Authors:Homer, Stanley Lombardo,
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co.
Keywords: odyssey
Number of Pages: 414
Published: 2000-03-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0872204847
ISBN-13: 9780872204843

Lombardo’s Odyssey offers the distinctive speed, clarity, and boldness that so distinguished his 1997 Iliad. From the translation: "And when the wine had begun to work on his mind, I spoke these sweet words to him: ’Cyclops You ask me my name, my glorious name, And I will tell it to you. Remember now, To give me the gift just as you promised. Noman is my name. They call me Noman- My mother, my father, and all my friends too.’ He answered from his pitiless heart: ’Noman I will eat last after his friends. Friends first, him last. That’s my gift to you.’"

Authors:Homer, Stanley Lombardo,
Publisher: Hackett Pub Co
Keywords: iliad
Number of Pages: 516
Published: 1997-06-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0872203522
ISBN-13: 9780872203525

So great is the impact of ancient Greek literature on Western culture that even people who have never read Homer’s Iliad or The Odyssey know a lot about them. The Trojan Horse, Achilles’ heel, the Sirens’ call, Scylla and Charybdis--all have entered popular mythology, becoming metaphors for the less heroic situations we face in our own lives. Ever since these oral poems were committed to paper (probably in the 8th century B.C.E.), people have been translating them. The version of Iliad translated by Stanley Lombardo is a brave departure from previous translations; Lombardo at

Authors:Homer, Nicholas Richardson,
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: classics, penguin, hymns, homeric
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-10-28
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0140437827
ISBN-13: 9780140437829

From the abduction of Persephone by Hades to Hermes’ theft of Apollo’s cattle, the Homeric Hymns recount some of the most compelling and significant episodes in Greek mythology. They were recited at festivals to honor the Olympian gods and goddesses, to pray for divine favor, and for victory in singing contests. They stand now as works of great poetic force, full of grace and lyricism, ranging in tone from irony to solemnity, ebullience to grandeur. Enhanced with an informative introduction that explores the hymns’ authorship, performance, literary qualities, and influence on

Author: Thomas F. Homer-Dixo
Publisher: Princeton University Pre
Keywords: violence, scarcity, environment
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2001-07-02
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0691089795
ISBN-13: 9780691089799

The Earth’s human population is expected to pass eight billion by the year 2025, while rapid growth in the global economy will spur ever increasing demands for natural resources. The world will consequently face growing scarcities of such vital renewable resources as cropland, fresh water, and forests. Thomas Homer-Dixon argues in this sobering book that these environmental scarcities will have profound social consequences--contributing to insurrections, ethnic clashes, urban unrest, and other forms of civil violence, especially in the developing world. Homer-Dixon synthesizes work from