Spies and Commandos
Time after time during the Vietnam War, the United States sent Vietnamese spies and commandos behind enemy lines only to have them killed, captured or compromised into reporting back false information. This is a sobering account of the disastrous ...
Zenobia
Hailing from the Syrian city of Palmyra, a woman named Zenobia (also Bathzabbai) governed territory in the eastern Roman empire from 268 to 272. She thus became the most famous Palmyrene who ever lived. But sources for her life and career are scar...
Medical Ethics and Moral Psychology
Medical Ethics and Moral Psychology: An Integrative Approach is a pioneering book which provides a comprehensive exploration of the ethical challenges in contemporary healthcare. Seamlessly combining insights from medical ethics and moral psycholo...
Fresh Floral Jewelry
An innovative designer is always looking for new concepts. Fresh Floral Jewelry, an instructional introduction to the world of making jewelry that incorporates fresh flowers, is the first of its kind. For everyone from beginners to experienced jew...
How Taiwan Became Chinese
At the beginning of the 1600s, Taiwan was a sylvan backwater, sparsely inhabited by headhunters and visited mainly by pirates and fishermen. By the end of the century it was home to more than a hundred thousand Chinese colonists, who grew rice and...
Last Embassy
From the acclaimed author of The Gunpowder Age, a book that casts new light on the history of China and the West at the turn of the nineteenth century George Macartney's disastrous 1793 mission to China plays a central role in the prevailing narra...
Zenobia
Zenobia
Last Embassy
From the acclaimed author of The Gunpowder Age, a book that casts new light on the history of China and the West at the turn of the nineteenth century George Macartney's disastrous 1793 mission to China plays a central role in the prevailing ...
Lost Colony
During the seventeenth century, Holland created the world's most dynamic colonial empire, outcompeting the British and capturing Spanish and Portuguese colonies. Yet, in the Sino-Dutch War - Europe's first war with China - the Dutch met their matc...
Things You Think About When You Bite Your Nails
This is a book about fear. About how it works, how it takes hold over us, and how it dogs us from childhood to adulthood. But this is also a book about that monster our fear can warp into when it grows too powerful, a phenomenon we are all too fam...
Gunpowder Age
The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West. But by the early 1800s, China had fallen so far behind the West in gunpowder warfare that it was ea...
Cat Shaming 2026 Day-to-Day Calendar
This tenth edition of the desktop calendar features photos of some new furry felons along with notorious felines from the past who have gotten into some kind of trouble and are being called out on it in writing. But since these purr-petrators rarely seem to feel any remorse for their actions, there's not much pet parents can do besides share their misdeeds publicly. As an added bonus, the back of each page includes Daily Extra content such as puzzles, fun facts, coloring, and trivia. Features include: * No single-use plastic * Page size 5.354' x 4.488' * Recyclable chipboard easel backer for desk or tabletop display * Printed on FSC® certified paper with soy-based ink * Full-color tear-off pages * Back of pages contain Daily Extra content such as puzzles, jokes, coloring fun, and trivia * Day/Date reference on each page * Combined weekend pages * Official major world holidays and observances * Owner-contributed photos and stories of their cats' shame-worthy behavior
Cat Shaming 2024 Day-to-Day Calendar
Cats behave badly in all kinds of ways, which are hilariously documented in the pages of this day-to-day calendar. Each page features a photo of a cat who's gotten into some kind of trouble and is being called out on it in writing. It might be a little easier to laugh at the crimes of other peoples' cats, though you may be reminded of your own furry little monster's misdeeds. As an added bonus, the back of each page includes Daily Extra content such as puzzles, jokes, quotations, and trivia. Features include: * Page size 5.25' x 4.375' * Easel backer for desk or tabletop display * Printed on FSC certified paper with soy-based ink * Full-color tear-off pages * Back of pages contain Daily Extra content such as puzzles, jokes, quotations, and trivia * Day/Date reference on each page * Combined weekend pages * Official major world holidays and observances * Owner-contributed photos and stories of their cat's shame-worthy behavior
Killing the Messiah
Long ago, on a spring morning in Jerusalem, Pontius Pilate passed judgement on a mysterious preacher. Jesus of Nazareth was nailed to a cross shortly after and died in agony. The effects of this verdict have reverberated throughout the world and h...
Apprentice Tourist
'My life's done a somersault,' wrote acclaimed modernist writer Mário de Andrade. After years of dreaming about Amazonia, he finally embarked on a three-month odyssey up the great river and into the wild heart of his native Brazil with a group of ...
Syrian Identity in the Greco-Roman World
By engaging with recent developments in the study of empires, this book examines how inhabitants of Roman imperial Syria reinvented expressions and experiences of Greek, Roman and Syrian identification. It demonstrates how the organization of Gree...
Macunaíma
Here at last is an exciting new translation of the modernist Brazilian epic Macunaíma, by Mário de Andrade. This landmark novel from 1928 has been hugely influential. It follows the adventures of the shapeshifting Macunaíma and his brothers as the...
Macunaima - The Hero with No Character
Here at last is an exciting new edition of the Brazilian modernist epic Macunaíma: The Hero with No Character, by Mário de Andrade. This landmark 1928 novel follows the adventures of the shapeshifting Macunaíma and his brothers as they leave their...
