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Putting a new spin on a classic trope, Kate Evangelista explores family bonds, changing relationships, and senior year as our heroine tries to get over her brother's best friend in this young adult novel. The only way to get over a hopeless crush is to find someone new . . . Enter: The Boyfriend Bracket!

A bisexual teen drummer has to find a way to be true to herself in the midst of family betrayal, relationship drama, and ever-present paparazzi attention in this YA novel by the author of Queens of Geek.

In this gorgeously written coming-of-age YA novel, debut author Aminah Mae Safi tells a fresh, funny, and real story of angry, messy teenage girls, complex relationships, and bad decisions.

Two young people must hide their true feelings for each other while figuring out who means them harm in this YA regency romance from the author of Love, Lies and Spies and Duels & Deception.

A girl caring for her comatose boyfriend begins to connect with another boy at the hospital in this steamy YA romance from #1 New York Times bestselling author Abbi Glines.

In this YA fantasy, a young scriptologist with the ability to write worlds into creation joins forces with a group of other geniuses to save her kidnapped mother.

A teen werewolf finally meets her destined soulmate only to discover that he's not quite what she expected in this steamy debut YA romance.

In this edgy young adult contemporary romance, a girl plays games of the heart with the school bad boy.

Relatable and sweet, My So-Called Superpowers follows a girl whose emotions physically manifest themselves for the whole world to see in this middle-grade contemporary novel (the first in a series).

From Newbery Honor and National Book Award-winning author Polly Horvath comes this magical middle-grade novel about a garden that grants wishes.

A hybrid text - part testimonio, part linguistic and cultural analysis, and part art criticism - this is also a history of New York Latino neighborhoods during this period of devastating disinvestment and gentrification, as well as a personal, heart-felt meditation on the art of listening and the ethical limits of representing queer Latino lives.

This book traces the theory of violence from nineteenth-century symmetrical warfare through today's warfare of electronics and unbalanced numbers.

When students are self-motivated, they work harder at learning even if resources are inadequate. This book argues that students and teachers waste time and energy because the curriculum rests on flawed mental models. Change requires theories of motivation and learning based on advances in neurobiology and cognitive studies.

Royster begins with Shakespeare's original appropriation of Plutarch, and then moves on to analyze performances of the Cleopatra icon by Josephine Baker, Elizabeth Taylor, Pam Grier (Cleopatra Jones) and Queen Latifah (in Set It Off ).

Based on a two-year study for the Ford Foundation by the Henry L. Stimson Centre, this book includes 20 case studies of UN peacekeeping operations from 1947 to 1991 - suitable for use in courses on international law and organization, regional conflict, conflict management and co-operative security.

A new collection that addresses the problematic pathologization of queer youth, this book argues that the majority of educators and youth workers still know little about queer youth's negotiations of identity and community.

After an extended period of major political upheaval and remarkably low regime stability before the Second World War, Germany has become one of the most stable democracies in western Europe.

Kim Dae Jung, Korea's legendary dissident-turned-president, ranks along with Nelson Mandela as the victor in one of the greatest political reversals of the 20th century. Elected president by 1.7% of the vote at the height of Korea's economic crisis in December 1997, DJ, as he is popularly known, faces his most severe challenge.

Kant defined the Enlightenment as humanity's attempt to leave behind its self-imposed immaturity. Social theory is thus charged with enlightening the human condition and its social constitution in order to achieve maturity and human dignity. The Politics of Change emphasizes 'change' as a project of human emancipation.

Presents a portrait of a fractured nation whose many faces include those of Islamic fundamentalist and American ally. This work includes a chapter that sheds light on: the new king and conflicts to come; why Saudi Arabia is the source of insurgents and suicide bombers in Iraq; the troubling effects of high oil prices on Saudi society; and more.

In his most ambitious book yet, Clifford Pickover bridges the gulf between logic, spirit, science, and religion. While exploring the concept of omniscience, Pickover explains the kinds of relationships limited beings can have with an all-knowing God. Pickover's thought exercises, controversial experiments, and practical analogies help us transcend our ordinary lives while challenging us to better understand our place in the cosmos and our dreams of a supernatural God. Through an inventive blend of science, history, philosophy, science fiction, and mind-stretching brainteasers, Pickover unfolds the paradoxes of God like no other writer. He provides glimpses into the infinite, allowing us to think big, and to have daring, limitless dreams.

Animal behaviour expert, Dr Jonathan Balcombe, combines rigorous evidence, elegant argument and amusing anecdotes to show that that animals, like humans, enjoy themselves. It debunks the popular perception that life for most is a continuous struggle for survival and suggests that creatures feel good thanks to play, sex, food, comfort and more.

This book offers contemporary perspectives on English pronunciation teaching and research in the context of increasing multilingualism and English as an international language.

Many global companies have been focused upon strategic executive development within a competitive environment. This book shows how action learning can result in the effective and successful implementation of strategic executive development.

Told entirely through notes passed in school, diary entries, and the occasional e-mail, Cathleen Daly's Flirt Club is a hilarious and touching tween novel about love and lust with a heart, a brain, and a whole lot more. Isabelle and Annie are two self-professed middle-school drama geeks who have no idea how to flirt with boys-successfully. Their sweet, awkward, and painful attempts at romance are getting them nowhere, so they start Flirt Club, an after-school support group for similarly afflicted friends who decide to take decisive and strategic action.

But the global villagers are also perplexed about the new social service needs that seem to accompany the high-tech economy: child care needs for working couples, elder care facilities for infirm senior citizens, burgeoning health care costs accompanying high-tech medicine, nursery school and college tuition costs, and more.

This book argues that correspondence theories of truth fail because the relation which holds between a true thought and a fact is that of identity, not correspondence.

Blake's comic brilliance has been variously dismissed as the nervous ramblings of a neglected genius, the tomfool doodles of a distracted youngster, or a crude tool for destabilizing textual authority.