Author: D. Anne Love
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry
Keywords: diva, defying
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2008-03-25
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 1416934812
ISBN-13: 9781416934813
For Haley Patterson, freshman year of high school boils down to having a good time with her two best friends and making a name for herself at the school newspaper. But when Haley reveals one too many juicy details in her gossip column, superdiva and queen bee Camilla Quinn makes sure that Haley’s life changes...for the worse. Completely ostracized by everyone at school, including her best friends, Haley finds herself alone and miserable. Reprieve comes in the form of a summer job at an exclusive mountain resort, where Haley forges new friend-ships, snags a cute lifeguard, and learns ho
Author: Irons
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Keywords: secrets, beauty, defying
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-10-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1402200617
ISBN-13: 9781402200618
Following in the footsteps of successes like Bargain Beauty Secrets and Teen Beauty Secrets comes Diane Irons’s newest book of quick and affordable tips and tricks for feeling great and looking even better. The fountain of youth does exist…in your very own home! Using items found in any pantry or medicine cabinet, beauty expert Diane Irons reveals how women can keep their youth (and youthful spirit) without breaking the bank!
Author: Sebastian Haffner
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: memoir, hitler, defying
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2003-08-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0312421133
ISBN-13: 9780312421137
Written in 1939 and unpublished until 2000, Sebastian Haffner’s memoir of the rise of Nazism in Germany offers a unique portrait of the lives of ordinary German citizens between the wars. Covering 1907 to 1933, his eyewitness account provides a portrait of a country in constant flux: from the rise of the First Corps, the right-wing voluntary military force set up in 1918 to suppress Communism and precursor to the Nazi storm troopers, to the Hitler Youth movement; from the apocalyptic year of 1923 when inflation crippled the country to Hitler’s rise to power. This fascinating personal histo
Authors:Reva Klein, Jay Smink,
Publisher: Trentham Book
Keywords: disaffection, defying
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2001-01-01
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 1858561620
ISBN-13: 9781858561622
This book describes how disaffection is endemic in education systems in the west. It affects middle class young people as it does the working class, white and black. It is there because schools are not meeting the needs of many of our children. Instead they are alienating places which impose a curriculum for which many lack a literacy, and a regime which strips away individuality and expression. It’s no wonder that so many walk out the door and never come back. And it’s no wonder that youth crime, apathy and unemployment are the problems they are. This author examines some American
Authors:Kim ""Tip"" Frank, Mike Paget, Jerry Wilde,
Publisher: YouthLight, Inc.
Keywords: defiance, defying
Number of Pages: 140
Published: 2005-08-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1889636770
ISBN-13: 9781889636771
Every class has a range of students from those who are always cooperative to those who predictably fight the teacher for control every step of the way. In the most challenging classes, this oppositional and defiant student is on the verge of preventing him/herself and many of other students from focusing on learning. This book will help the classroom teacher find effective ways to avoid disruption and increase cooperation from the most resistant students. As you begin to understand the underlying causes and dynamics of opposition, you will be able to develop additional strategies that will lea
Author: David Brown
Publisher: MBI
Keywords: defying, nature, years, thousand, three, bridges
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2001-11-12
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0760312346
ISBN-13: 9780760312346
This stunning visual presentation, filled with photographs and illustrations depicting the world’s greatest bridges, explains the manners in which laborers, engineers and architects have surmounted the problem of spanning the seemingly impassable from ancient times to the 21st century. A brilliantly written text explains in understandable terms the physics of different bridge types, while fascinating histories describe the "hows" and "whys" behind the world’s most recognizable structures.
Author: Prill Boyle
Publisher: Clerisy Press, Emmis Books
Keywords: women, blooming, celebration, gravity, defying
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2004-06-01
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 1578601541
ISBN-13: 9781578601547
Every day, regular women are accomplishing extraordinary things later in life. Prill Boyle gathered the encouraging stories of twelve daring and determined women who accomplished incredible things at an age when most people are beginning to wind down.
