Fifty remarkable short stories from a range of contemporary fiction authors including Junot Diaz, Amy Tan, Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, and more, selected from a survey of more than five hundred English professors, short story writers, and novelists.

Contributors include Russell Banks, Donald Barthelme, Rick Bass, Richard Bausch, Charles Baxter, Amy Bloom, T.C. Boyle, Kevin Brockmeier, Robert Olen Butler, Sandra Cisneros, Peter Ho Davies, Janet Desaulniers, Junot Diaz, Anthony Doerr, Stuar...

For a three-semester or four-quarter calculus course covering single variable and multivariable calculus for mathematics, engineering, and science majors.

This much anticipated second edition of the most successful new calculus text published in the last two decades retains the best of the first edition while introducing important advances and refinements. Authors Briggs, Cochran, and Gillett build from a foundation of meticulously crafted exercise sets, then draw students into the narrative ...

Souvent les enfants s'inventent une famille, une autre origine, d'autres parents. Le narrateur de ce livre, lui, s'est invent n fr . Un fr a , plus beau, plus fort, qu'il que devant les copains de vacances, les angers, ceux qui ne v fieront pas? Et puis un jour, il d uvre la v t impressionnante, terrifiante presque. Et c'est alors toute une histoire familiale, lourde, complexe, qu'il lui incombe de reconstituer. Une histoire tragique qui le ram aux temps de l'Holocauste, et des millions de di...

A revealing exploration of the phenomenon of 'non-promotable work', the effect it has on women's careers, and a thoroughly researched strategy for how to fight back

In de jaren ’20 en ’30 van de vorige eeuw groeit Greet op in de kalmte van het Nederlandse platteland. Door een stommiteit wordt ze op haar 23e door de Duitsers opgepakt. In de bedomptheid van een onmenselijk volle wagon ontmoet ze Sarah, een Jodin. In Kamp Ravensbrück geeft hun vriendschap haar de kracht en het vertrouwen om de lange, koude dagen door te komen en alle doodsangsten te doorstaan.

Hannelore, Aufseherin in Kamp Ravensbrück, vervult haar taken met Duitse trots. Toch begint ...

Plastics: Microstructure and Applications is a key text for senior students studying the science and engineering of plastics materials (or polymers) and will serve as a valuable introduction to the fundamentals of polymer properties for those new to the field. Starting from microstructure and physical properties, the book covers the mechanical, chemical, transport and electrical properties of plastics materials and also deals in detail with wider issues that today's engineers and materials sc...

Discover Toni Morrison's most iconic work in this Pulitzer-prize winning novel that exemplifies her powerful and important place in contemporary American literature. 'An American masterpiece' AS ByattIt is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by the violent trauma it wrought on her former enslaved life at Sweet Home, Kentucky. Her dead baby daughter, whose tombstone bears the single word, Beloved, returns as a spectre to punish her mother, but also to el...