Authors:David Vise, Mark Malseed,
Publisher: Delta
Keywords: technology, success, time, media, business, story, inside, hottest, google
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2006-08-29
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0553383663
ISBN-13: 9780553383669

"Here is the story behind one of the most remarkable Internet successes of our time. Based on scrupulous research and extraordinary access to Google, the book takes you inside the creation and growth of a company whose name is a favorite brand and a standard verb recognized around the world. Its stock is worth more than General Motors’ and Ford’s combined, its staff eats for free in a dining room that used to be run by the Grateful Dead’s former chef, and its employees traverse the firm’s colorful Silicon Valley campus on scooters and inline skates.The Google Story is t

Author: James Jones
Publisher: Delta
Keywords: eternity
Number of Pages: 864
Published: 1998-10-20
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0385333641
ISBN-13: 9780385333641

Diamond Head, Hawaii, 1941. Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt is a champion welterweight and a fine bugler. But when he refuses to join the company’s boxing team, he gets "the treatment" that may break him or kill him. First Sgt. Milton Anthony Warden knows how to soldier better than almost anyone, yet he’s risking his career to have an affair with the commanding officer’s wife. Both Warden and Prewitt are bound by a common bond: the Army is their heart and blood . . .and, possibly, their death.In this magnificent but brutal classic of a soldier’s life, James Jones portrays th

Author: Nicola Graime
Publisher: Delta
Keywords: boost, child, intelligence, recipes, over, foods, kids, brain
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2005-03-01
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0553383353
ISBN-13: 9780553383355

After writing several award-winning health and nutrition titles that have had great success in the UK, Nicola Graimes makes her debut in the US market with the first book to focus on children and brain power and the foods that truly can improve intelligence and those that can hinder it. With her exciting positive twist on the link between the food that children eat and their mental development, Graimes offers parents new ways and reasons to give their children (from pregnancy through primary school) and the essential foods and nutrients they require. BRAIN FOODS FOR KIDS includes:-A clear and

Author: Anna Quindle
Publisher: Delta
Keywords: club, book, oprah, blue, black
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2000-02-08
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0385333137
ISBN-13: 9780385333139

Oprah Book Club® Selection, April 1998: "The first time my husband hit me I was nineteen years old," begins Fran Benedetto, the broken heroine of Anna Quindlen’s Black and Blue. With one sweeping sentence, the door to an abused and tortured world is swung wide open and the psyche of a crushed and tattered self-image exposed. "Frannie, Frannie, Fran"--as Bobby Benedetto liked to call her before smashing her into kitchen appliances--was a young, energetic nursing student when she met her husband-to-be at a local Brooklyn bar. She was instantly captivated by his dark, brooding looks and ma

Author: James Baldwi
Publisher: Delta
Keywords: room, giovanni
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2000-06-13
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0385334583
ISBN-13: 9780385334587

Set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. With a sharp, probing imagination, James Baldwin’s now-classic narrative delves into the mystery of loving and creates a moving, highly controversial story of death and passion that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart.

Author: Sherrie Eldridge
Publisher: Delta
Keywords: adoptive, parents, wish, kids, things, adopted, twenty
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1999-10-12
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 044050838X
ISBN-13: 9780440508380

"Birthdays may be difficult for me.""I want you to take the initiative in opening conversations about my birth family.""When I act out my fears in obnoxious ways, please hang in there with me.""I am afraid you will abandon me."The voices of adopted children are poignant, questioning. And they tell a familiar story of loss, fear, and hope. This extraordinary book, written by a woman who was adopted herself, gives voice to children’s unspoken concerns, and shows adoptive parents how to free their kids from feelings of fear, abandonment, and shame.With warmth and candor, Sherrie Eldridge re

Author: E.D. Hirsch Jr.
Publisher: Delta
Keywords: core, knowledge, series, learning, lifetime, needs, preparing, child, kindergartner
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1997-08-11
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0385318413
ISBN-13: 9780385318419

With its comprehensive curriculum providing a sound basis in the fundamentals of math, art, history, language arts, science, and technology, the phenomenally successful Core Knowledge series has becom