Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. ‘I have quite changed my mind. I am going to run away and become a boy....

Drawing on recent scholarly advances and new evidence, Timothy Barnes offers a fresh and exciting study of Constantine and his life....

Eight-year-old ultra-fabulous Ruby Marigold Booker returns in this reissue of the Ruby and the Booker Boys series by Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Honor author Derrick Barnes!...

Eight-year-old Ruby Booker is the baby sis of Marcellus (11), Roosevelt (10), and Tyner (9), the most popular boys on Chill Brook Ave. When Ruby isn\"t hanging with her friend, Theresa Petticoat, she\"s finding out what kind of mischief her brothers are getting into. She\"s sweet and sassy and every bit as tough as her older siblings....

Eight-year-old ultra-fabulous Ruby Marigold Booker returns in this reissue of the Ruby and the Booker Boys series by Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Honor author Derrick Barnes!...

High-flying Ruby soars to new heights! After watching her big cousin Kee Kee compete in a cheerleading competition, Ruby attempts to copy some of the high-flying moves she saw earlier. This cheerleading stuff could be just the thing to bring her a ton of attention....

The journey travels from London to France; Germany; Switzerland; Denmark; Italy to Dublin; New York; Berkeley, California; the Hawaiian Islands; Japan; China; Beverly Hills, California; Austria; and Scotland, exploring the Middle East, Dubai, and Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates....

The Cordova Kid is my account of growing up in rural Kentucky in the 1950s and 60s. Often humorous, and sometimes poignant, it is a snapshot of life on a very small patch of America long ago. Many in my age group will find a lot in common with how they grew up. It was a less complex era that had far more in common with 1900 than with 2000. ...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible....

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact....

The fiery and enigmatic masterpiece - one of the greatest novels of the Modernist era. NIGHTWOOD, Djuna Barnes\' strange and sinuous tour de force, \"belongs to that small class of books that somehow reflect a time or an epoch\" (Times Literary Supplement)....

When it was first published in 1928, Djuna Barnes\'s Ryder, a bawdy mock- Elizabethan chronicle of a family very much like her own, was described in the Saturday Review as \"the most amazing book ever written by a woman....

War stories are told from many points of view. Some write the horrors of war, some boastful, others braggarts. I have never been a war enthusiast nor have I ever glorified war. A great Chinese philosopher wrote, 2500 years ago; \"the purpose of war is to make peace. Any other reason is unacceptable....

Objects First with Java: A Practical Introduction Using BlueJ, 5e, is ideal for introductory courses in Java/Introduction to Programming and Object-Oriented Programming and for beginning programmers....

As cities in developing countries grow and become more prosperous, energy use shifts from fuelwood to fuels like charcoal, kerosene and coal, and, ultimately, to fuels such as liquid petroleum gas, and electricity. Energy use is not usually considered a socio-economic issue....