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A seventeen-year-old pirate captain must race her father, the Pirate King, to a legendary hidden treasure in this thrilling, action-packed YA sequel to Daughter of the Pirate King.

A collection of stories set in the world of the Lunar Chronicles continues the #1 New York Times and USA Today Bestselling series by Marissa Meyer!

This volume is a synthesis of economic, political, and cultural theories of value. David Graeber re-examines a century of anthropological thought about value and exchange and argues that projects of cultural comparison are in a sense necessarily revolutionary projects.

Princess Lia's life follows a preordained course. She is expected to have the revered gift of sight - but she doesn't - and she knows her parents are perpetrating a sham when they arrange her marriage to secure an alliance with a neighbouring kingdom - to a prince she has never met. On the morning of her wedding, Lia flees to a distant village.

There is a great deal of interest in the history of Armenia since its renewed independence in the 1990s and the ongoing debate about the genocide - an interest that informs the strong desire of a new generation of Armenian Americans to learn more about their heritage and has led to greater solidarity in the community.

In The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville , Nadine George-Graves provides an historical narrative of their achievements and uses black feminist theories, feminist theories of performance, and theories of class and popular culture to analyze the many layers of performance in which the Whitman Sisters participated, on and off the stage.

Twin thieves attempt to pull off a daring heist in Stolen City, the sophomore fantasy novel from Dauntless author Elisa A. Bonnin.The city of Leithon is under Imperial occupation and Arian Athensor has made it her playground.In stealing magical artifacts for the Resistance, bounding over rooftops to evade Imperial soldiers, and establishing herself as the darling thief of the underground, Arian lives a life wrapped in danger and trained towards survival. She'll steal anything for the right price, and if she runs fast enough, she can almost escape the fact that her mother is dead, her father is missing, and her brother, Liam, is tamping down a wealth of power in a city that has outlawed magic.But then the mysterious Cavar comes to town with a job for the twins: to steal an artifact capable of ripping the souls from the living--the same artifact that used to hang around the neck of Arian's mother. Suddenly, her past is no longer buried under adrenaline but intimately tied to the mission at hand, and Arian must face her guilt and pain head-on in order to pull off the heist.As Arian and Cavar infiltrate the strongest fortress in Leithon and Liam joins the Resistance as their resident mage, the twins find themselves embroiled in court politics and family secrets, and the mission becomes more than just another artifact theft. The target is now the Imperial rule, and Arian will go to any length necessary to steal her city back.

The Great American Makeover is a collection of essays that explore the American makeover mythos that has been recently repackaged in the form of popular makeover television programs such as Extreme Makeover, The Swan, Supernanny, and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.

The American State Normal School is the first comprehensive history of the state normal schools in the United States.

The author builds two macro foundations which lead to an understanding of the economic conditions a society must satisfy in order to exist, survive, and develop. Social subsistence is used as the entry point and fundamental principle, while both production and distribution survival conditions are formulated.

This volume collects selected papers on the European Union from the 13th Congress of the International Economic Association held in Lisbon, September 2002.

Firstly it examines the nexus between the illegal narcotics enterprise as a social phenomenon and political economy as a scholarly issue area. Secondly it explores the regional and global contexts of the political economy of illegal narcotics operations in the Caribbean.

Are bad girls casualties of patriarchy, a necessary evil, or visionary pioneers? By tracing the concept of the bad girl as a product of specific cultural assumptions and historical settings, Bad Girls of Japan maps new roads and old detours in revealing a disorderly politics of gender.

Presenting a new era of Tolkien studies, this book will be of use to students (and teachers) of Medieval/Old English literature and general readers interested in the origins of Tolkien's most widely-known works.

VictorianStudies on theWebCritics Choice!Rudyard Kipling: Hell and Heroism is an exploration of two fundamental yet greatly neglected aspects of the author's life and writings: his deep-seated pessimism and his complex creed of heroism.

The deluxe edition of the National Book Award winning novel - now with a foreword by New York Times bestselling and Newbery Honor author Sheila Turnage.

This book investigates -s marking in English verbs, specifically its manifestations in main verbs, in the past tense of BE, and in existential constructions.

Anyone who plans to do business in China shouldn't get on the plane without this book. It cracks the code of marketing to the new Chinese consumer by uncovering core drivers of behaviour and preference in key market segments. It includes indispensable practical advice and common pitfalls.

Claire, the daughter of a high school football coach, falls for the high school quarterback (and total pain in the ass) Adam Meade in this YA debut.

A dark, propulsive, tale about a trick box, two worlds entwined, and a mystery that may be best left unsolved.

Essays exploring world of Fela Kuti: legendary Nigerian Afrobeat musician, political leader, keeper of 28 wives, black icon

Dark secrets and conflicting loyalties abound as four super powered teens try to stop a war in this YA dystopia.

This landmark book describes and analyzes the original contributions Sir Roy Harrod made to fields including microeconomics, macroeconomics, international trade and finance, growth theory, trade cycle analysis and economic methodology.

From the acclaimed author of First & Then comes a warm and witty YA novel about long-hidden truths - and what it really means to come home.

A hilarious debut middle-grade series about a superhero chicken with the lightning powers of Thor.

An attraction between foster-siblings sets fire to forbidden love in this contemporary YA debut re-imagining of Wuthering Heights.

In this contemporary YA, when Kate has to move, she falls for the boy across the hall. Only problem? He has a girlfriend.

A life on the prairie is not all it's cracked up to be in this middle-grade novel where one girl's mum takes her love of the Little House series just a bit too far.