Author: Rubem Fonseca
Publisher: Open Letter Books; Univ of Nebraska Press
Keywords: stories, taker
Number of Pages: 166
Published: 2008-11-12
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 193482402X
ISBN-13: 9781934824023

"Each of Fonseca’s books is not only a worthwhile journey; it is also, in some way, a necessary one."--Thomas Pynchon Most widely admired for his short fiction, The Taker and Other Stories is Fonseca’s first collection to appear in English translation, and it ranges across his oeuvre, exploring the sights and sounds of the modern landscape of Rio de Janeiro. Rubem Fonseca’s Rio is a city at war, a city whose vast disparities--in wealth, social standing, and prestige--are untenable. In the stories of The Taker, rich and poor live in an uneasy equilibrium, where only overwhe

Authors:Gerald Hausman, Bob Kapoun, Joe Medicine Crow,
Publisher: World Wisdom
Keywords: edward, curtis, photographs, stories, taker, selected, image
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2009-05-25
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 1933316705
ISBN-13: 9781933316703

The work of Edward Curtis captures forever the images, myths, and histories of a vanishing age. The Image Taker features essential selections of photographs and the seldom- seen tribal stories recorded and preserved by Curtis in his 20-volume masterpiece, The North American Indian, offering the reader a bridge through time to the last generation of Indians from the Buffalo Days of pre-reservation life.

Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review
Keywords: test, college, preparation, cracking, guide, taker, anxious
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2009-07-07
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0375429352
ISBN-13: 9780375429354

It might seem like high school, college and graduate school are all about tests: standardized tests for college and grad school admissions, and in-class exams given in course after course, subject after subject. If you’re anxious about the onslaught of testing during your school years, look no further. The Anxious Test-Taker’s Guide to Cracking Any Test will help you get over the testing anxiety (for ANY test) by giving you strategies and advice on how to succeed on all kinds of exams. The experts at the Princeton Review have been sharing their test prep techniques in popular test specifi