Author: Mike Barnes
Publisher: Porcupine’s Quill
Keywords: syllabus
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2002-11-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 088984254X
ISBN-13: 9780889842540

Prompted by a questionnaire sent to him by an old friend turned psychologist, the narrator of The Syllabus - M - digresses, fantasizes, catalogues and invents, slowly recovering the strands of childhood exploration and adolescent obsession, joy and morbidity, that have led him to both alienation and freedom. First friend, first love, first sex, inklings of vocation: all of the elements of the Bildungsroman are here, but put in a high-speed blender that tracks the hallucinatory smears they leave on the mind. Using a collage-like technique that mixes times and genres - flashing forward and backw

Author: Mike Lupica
Publisher: Puffin
Keywords: field
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2009-02-05
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0142419109
ISBN-13: 9780142419106

Playing shortstop is a way of life for Hutch—not only is his hero, Derek Jeter, a shortstop, but so was his father, a former local legend turned pro. Which is why having to play second base feels like demotion to second team. Yet that’s where Hutch ends up after Darryl “D-Will” Williams, the best shortstop prospect since A-Rod, joins the team. But Hutch is nothing if not a team player, and he’s cool with playing in D-Will’s shadow—until, that is, the two shortstops in Hutch’s life betray him in a way he never could have imagined. With the league championship on the line, just h

Author: Mike Resnick
Publisher: Wildside Press
Keywords: branch
Number of Pages: 173
Published: 2000-08
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1587151634
ISBN-13: 9781587151637

The Messiah of the Old Testament was no Prince of Peace. He was expected to come with sword and fire and raze the old kingdoms to the ground. There were four signs by which he would be known. Jesus of Nazareth fulfilled only one of the signs. That was more than a dozen other would-be Messiahs could boast. Until 2047 A.D., when a grifter named Jeremiah the B fulfills them all and puts the world in more jeopardy than it’s been in since the comet hit 65 million years ago! Back in print after 15 years, complete and unabridged, here is Mike Resnick’s controversial classic, The Branc

Author: Mike Goldsmith
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Keywords: weather
Number of Pages: 24
Published: 2009-08
List price: $21.27
ISBN-10: 0778747247
ISBN-13: 9780778747246

Author: Mike Rose
Publisher: New Press, The
Keywords: school
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2009-09-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1595584676
ISBN-13: 9781595584670

This little book is driven by big questions. What does it mean to be educated? What is intelligence? How should we think about intelligence, education, and opportunity in an open society? In Why School?, award-winning author and lifelong educator Mike Rose calls on us to consider our fundamental beliefs about education, eloquently arguing that contemporary education policy has lost its way. In the tradition of Jonathan Kozol, Rose explores those core principles that ought to guide education in beautifully written chapters that are both rich in detail--a first-grader conducting a science ex

Author: Mike Clarke
Publisher: Robert D. Reed Publishers
Keywords: latte, thanks
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2004-09
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 1931741468
ISBN-13: 9781931741460

Not for the Serious Coffee Drinker! This collection of clever cartoons will change the way you look at a cup of coffee. Smart aleck lattes, medieval bagel comedians, roughneck muffin gangs, and caffeine-inspired takeoffs on the masterpieces of famous artists are all part of Clarke’s wacky world of coffee-based humor. Mike Clarke’s Thanks-a-Latte cartoon book is a must for the coffee table of latte drinkers everywhere, and anyone else who can’t live without their coffee. So order that triple shot latte, retire to the nearest empty table, and immerse yourself in a comic wor

Author: Mike Sewell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: war, cold
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2001-12-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0521798086
ISBN-13: 9780521798082

The Cold War is one of the theme texts in the Cambridge Perspectives in History series. The Cold War was an economic, ideological and political confrontation. There was no single cause, no single driving force and no single factor that brought it to an end. In this incisive and thought-provoking book, Mike Sewell examines the complex historiography surrounding the Cold War as well as the events and issues themselves. The result is a telling account of the fifty-year war that shaped our world. Topics include: the origins of the Cold War, the globalisation of the War culminating in the Cuban Mis