D A L: 362 books
Fantastic Creatures
Fellowship of Fantasy
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Here be dragons ... and selkies and griffins and maybe even a mermaid or two. Twenty fantasy authors band together to bring you a collection of thrilling tales and magical monsters. Do you like to slay dragons? Or befriend them? Do you prefer to meet cephalopods as gigantic kraken or adorable...
Hall of Heroes
Fellowship of Fantasy, #2
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Twenty-Seven Thrilling Tales from Amazing Fantasy Authors!
Whether they are unwitting, plucky, or just plain epic, heroes capture the imagination and rescue us from everyday life. With stories set in fantastic, magical realms, gritty urban landscapes, and fairytale kingdoms, our heroes stand...
Boys in Bed
Gay anthology
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Twenty tales of hot man-on-man action showcasing the very best in erotic writing and the raunchiest gay encounters around, from wild one-night stands to the lasting connections made by long-term lovers.
Dominant masters and their willing submissives, musclebound hunks and shy, geeky guys, curious...
Breaking the Mold of Preservice and Inservice Teacher Education
Innovative and Successful Practices for the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
This unique collection of chapters takes the reader on a tour to explore innovative preservice and inservice teacher education practices from many regions of the United States, Canada and the world. Each of the chapters offers an authentic, documentary account of successful initiatives that break...
Water in Kentucky
Natural History, Communities, and Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Home to sprawling Appalachian forests, rolling prairies, and the longest cave system in the world, Kentucky is among the most ecologically diverse states in the nation. Lakes, rivers, and springs have shaped and nourished life in the Commonwealth for centuries, and water has played a pivotal role...
by Franklin A. Díaz Lárez
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
This is a great guidebook for anyone who wants to become a waiter, or for waiters who aspire to move up in the industry. Covers basic aspects of table service, the types of service offered in fine dining venues, best practices for formal dining occasions, and much more. There is an additional section...
by Rhonda Parrish, Jane Yolen, J.G. Formato
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
There’s always something magical about horses, isn’t there? Whether winged or at home in the water, mechanical or mythological, the equines that gallop through these pages span the fantasy spectrum. In one story a woman knits her way up to the stars and in another Loki's descendant grapples with...
by Franklin A. Díaz Lárez
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
In an Asian country, a chain of strange events leaves a bitter mark of desolation on hundreds of people. The unexplained disappearances reach the dozens, and reliable leads only begin to appear years later. In parallel, on the other side of the world, a young lawyer is facing a tough reality check...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of wheat Volume 1
Breeding, quality traits, pests and diseases
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Discusses ways of ensuring genetic diversity, advances in wheat breeding and their use to improve properties such as drought resistance and cold tolerance;
Summarises research on factors affecting nutritional and other aspects of wheat quality;
Reviews advances in understanding wheat pests and diseases...
by Richard G Delisle, Fabrizzio McManus, John de Vos
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Contributors from a range of disciplines consider the disconnect between human evolutionary studies and the rest of evolutionary biology.
The study of human evolution often seems to rely on scenarios and received wisdom rather than theory and methodology, with each new fossil or molecular analysis...
The Doctoral StudentOs Advisor and Mentor
Sage Advice from the Experts
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
This book focuses on using faculty mentoring to empower doctoral students to successfully complete their doctoral studies. The book is a collection of mentoring chapters showcasing professors and dissertation advisors from the most prestigious universities in the United States. They provide an extraordinary...
Contemplating Maternity in an Era of Choice
Explorations into Discourses of Reproduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Women who came of age in the late twentieth century were raised in the era of choice; they grew up believing that reproductive decision-making is a political right, a responsibility of women living the successes of second wave feminism, and under their control. Contemplating Maternity in an Era of...
Innovations in Higher Education
Igniting the Spark for Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Rising costs and increasing global competition press institutions to do more with less. At the same time, deep budget cuts and a general social and political impatience have revived calls for reform in educational affordability, curriculum, and outcome measurement. Yet within this environment, a myriad...
Software for Use
A Practical Guide to the Models and Methods of Usage-Centered Design
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 1999
In the quest for quality, software developers have long focused on improving the internal architecture of their products. Larry L. Constantine--who originally created structured design to effect such improvement--now joins with well-known consultant Lucy A. D. Lockwood to turn the focus of software development...