Textbooks
|
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri Volume 2 Purgatorio
Presented with both Italian and English text, this version of Dante's classic follows the poet's journey through Purgatory under the guidance of Virgil in search of Beatrice. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461114878
- The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri Volume 2 Purgatorio
|
|
Power Failure New York City Politics and Policy Since 1960
New York City's municipal government is the largest and most complex the nation, perhaps in the world. Its annual operating budget is now a staggering $29 billion a year, and it has a capital budget of $4 billion more. The city and its various agencies employ approximately 360,000 full-time workers. The Office of the Mayor alone employs some 1,600 people (and spends some $135 million). And the Police Department boasts a small army of over 25,000 officers, with a budget of $1.5 billion. Anyone wanting to make sense of an organization this vast needs an excellent guide. In Power Failure, Charles Brecher and Raymond Horton provide a complete guidebook to the political workings of New York City. Ranging from 1960 to the present, the authors explore in depth the political machinery behind City Hall, from electoral politics to budgetary policy to the delivery of city services. They examine the operation of the Office of the Mayor and the City Council, covering everything from the number of members and their annual salaries (Council Members receive $55,000 per year, the Council President $105,000) to the mayoral races of John V. Lindsay, Abraham Beame, and Edward I. Koch. Much of this encyclopedic work focuses on New York's ever-present financial woes, including the financial crisis of the mid-1970s, when the city had an unaudited deficit of over a billion dollars and the public credit markets closed their doors. They examine the repeated failure of collective bargaining to set wage policy before the annual operating budget is set (which undermines the integrity of the budgetary process), and they look at the main source of revenue, the property tax (homeowners pay 84 cents per hundred dollarsof market value, commercial property owners pay $4.31, a politically motivated imbalance which the authors find economically harmful and grossly unfair to renters and businesses). Finally, they examine service delivery and discover, not surprisingly, that the highest local taxes in the nation are not spent efficiently. The authors offer detailed looks at the uniformed services (police, fire, sanitation, corrections), the Department of Parks and Recreation, and the Health and Hospitals Corporation (which operates the country's largest municipal hospital system), revealing which departments are run well and which are not. For New York City residents, this is an essential volume for understanding City Hall. Indeed, anyone interested in big city government - whether you live in New York or in any major metropolis - will find in this volume a wealth of information on how to run a city well, and how to run it into the ground. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461114750
- Power Failure New York City Politics and Policy Since 1960
|
|
Chapters into Verse Poetry in English Inspired by the Bible Volume 1 Genesis to Malachi
For generations, poets have turned to the Bible for insight and inspiration. What did so many creative minds find in scripture? Is the Bible still a vital source of poetic inspirations? Chapters Into Verse is the first comprehensive collection ever made of poems written in English inspired by the Bible. A ground-breaking anthology, it introduces readers to a distinct heritage of English poetry: the scriptural tradition. Though frequently ignored and sometimes suppressed, this tradition rivals the classical and is every bit as venerable. Drawing a unique map of the history of English poetry, the two volumes of Chapters Into Verse survey and define the literary legacy of the Scriptures from the fourteenth century to the present. Each volume is arranged in scriptural order, and every poem is preceded by the biblical passage that inspired it. Thus readers can conveniently witness the various ways sacred text has sparked the imagination of poets throughout the ages. Volume II follows the Gospels (harmonized) through Revelation. The collection features verses both famous and unfamiliar, from John Donne's meditative masterpieces to D.H. Lawrence's quirky expostulations. The editors have included poems by virtually all the prominent religious poets - among them, John Milton, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Edward Taylor, Christopher Smart, and Gerard Manly Hopkins. Included, too, are devotional and visionary works from a wide range of vintage poets - Edmund Spenser, Alexander Pope, Robert Burns, William Blake, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Christina Rossetti, Alfred Tennyson, and Robert Browning. Proving that the Bible is just as powerful a source of inspiration today as it was in the past, thecollection assembles a mixed congregation of modern and contemporary poets, such as Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Delmore Schwartz, Dylan Thomas, Robert Frost, Countee Cullen, William Butler Yeats, John Berryman, Robert Graves, Sylvia Plath, Allen Ginsberg, Lee Murray, Amy Clampitt, and Richard Wilbur. Of enduring interest to readers of both scripture and literature, Chapters Into Verse is truly a poets' Bible. In selection after selection, readers will encounter an astonishing variety of religious experiences, as a host of poets from many eras and many backgrounds respond to Holy Scripture spiritually, profoundly, and imaginatively. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461114811
- Chapters into Verse Poetry in English Inspired by the Bible Volume 1 Genesis to Malachi
|
|
Cultural Poetics in Archaic Greece Cult Performance Politics
'This book provides a fascinating insight into a range of cultural, historical, political and literary aspects of archaic Greece...the articles are very clearly written and usually execute the cross-disciplinary exercise with uncommon good sense.' -- Ancient History. 'Some of the most interesting work in classical studies in the past twenty years.' -- Classical Philology. This is a paperback reprint of a hardback originally published by Cambridge University Press in 1993, and derived from a seminal conference held at Wellesley in 1990. Among the scholarly community, the book is generally regarded as the first critical milestone in the cultural poetics movement, which lies at the intersection of New Historicism and classical studies. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461115059
- Cultural Poetics in Archaic Greece Cult Performance Politics
|
|
F.u.b.a.r. America's Right-wing Nightmare
Presents a satirical analysis of life in the United States and argues that the Right-wing has a blueprint for total domination over everybody's money, mind, sex life, and even the afterlife. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461108791
- F.u.b.a.r. America's Right-wing Nightmare - description
|
|
Final Analysis The Untold Story of the Susan Polk Murder Case
The Court TV analyst and author of A Deadly Game offers an inside look at the bizarre case of Susan Polk, the mother of three and wife of her former therapist, a man twenty-five years her senior, who after years of alleged abuse, stabbed to death the man who had seduced his teenage patient three decades earlier. Read by Catherine Crier. Simultaneous. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461109196
- Final Analysis The Untold Story of the Susan Polk Murder Case - on sale
|
|
Aviator's Guide to GPS
Now thoroughly revised, this bestselling guide includes the latest how-to guidance on using Global Positioning System and the latest FAA rules governing its use; showcases the full line of current GPS products for private pilots-hand-held models, cockpit mounts, and much more. Features new firsthand general aviation pilotreports on using GPS. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461109607
- Aviator's Guide to GPS on sale
|
Dining Room Furniture Stores Dining Room Furniture Stores pages High heels, shoes, lingerie, costumes High heels, shoes, lingerie, costumes and other items and related products
|
Cycle Savvy The Smart Teen's Guide to the Mysteries of Her Body
A reference for teen girls provides real-world advice about adolescent biological cycles, discussing the hormonal process that takes place in a girl's body on a day-by-day basis while addressing such questions as the role of stress in periods and the facts about cycle regularity. Original. 35,000 first printing. - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 461108715
- Cycle Savvy The Smart Teen's Guide to the Mysteries of Her Body - description
|
|
Get Serious About Getting Married 365 Proven Ways to Find Love in Less Than a Year
A humorous and straightforward guide for women of any age outlines a practical method of achieving lasting and satisfying relationships, providing a host of tips, questionnaires, and sidebars that can be used to maximize one's marital opportunities. Reprint. 25,000 first printing. - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 461108729
- Get Serious About Getting Married 365 Proven Ways to Find Love in Less Than a Year
|
|
The HPWay How Bill Hewlett And I Built Our Company
The co-founder of a successful computer corporation describes his initial meeting with Bill Hewlett at Stanford University, their first shop in a Palo Alto garage, and their innovative management styles. - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 461108746
- The HPWay How Bill Hewlett And I Built Our Company
|
|
The Men in Your Life Timeless Advice And Wisdom on Managing the Opposite Sex
A renowned style expert, the author of A Guide to Elegance, sets out to tevery women how to manage members of the opposite sex, in a classic collection of timeless advice and wisdom, with a twist of wit. 50,000 first printing. - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 461108752
- The Men in Your Life Timeless Advice And Wisdom on Managing the Opposite Sex
|
|
The Soul of Christianity Restoring the Great Tradition
The author of The World's Religions outlines the essential teveryings of Christianity as well as his own beliefs about the Christian faith, citing the differences between liberal and fundamentalist practices while arguing for a return to more traditional Christian belief systems. Reprint. 50,000 first printing. - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 461108775
- The Soul of Christianity Restoring the Great Tradition in stock
|
|
Copyright 2009 Art Print Gallery - All rights reserved.
|
