Hong Kong has always been many cities to many a seaport, a gateway to an empire, a place where fortunes can be dramatically made or...View more

Prominent educators and researchers propose that schooling should be a site for sustaining cultural practices rather than eradicating them. Chapters present theoretically grounded examples of...View more

Author: Philip M Weinstein  Publisher: Cambridge  Released Date: 1998 ISBN: 0521421675View more

Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Best Historical Fiction (2020) The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black...View more

When a Nigerian woman falls for a man she knows will break her mother’s heart, she must choose between love and her family. At twelve years...View more

Lonely The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Greece is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip,...View more

Mathematics is a product of human culture which has developed along with our attempts to comprehend the world around us. In A Brief History of Mathematical...View more

Spanning twenty-five years, this historic collection of writings shows Vaclav Havel's evolution from a modestly known playwright who had the courage to advise and criticize...View more

The fascinating, little-known story of how two brilliant female physicists’ groundbreaking discoveries led to the creation of the atomic bomb. In 1934, Irène Curie, working with...View more

You get away with murder. In a remote sea loch on the west coast of Scotland, a fisherman vanishes without trace. His remains are never found. You...View more

Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New York Times-bestselling novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet, about an...View more

I was dreading the Cunningham family reunion even before the first murder. Before the storm stranded us at the mountain resort. The thing is, us Cunninghams don't...View more