For eight years, single mother Grace Archer has been living a picture-perfect life raising her daughter on a horse farm in the small town of Tallanville, Alabama. Watching Frankie grow into a talented and confident young girl has made Grace as happy as any mother could hope to be. Happy enough, even, to forget the past. But the past never quite goes away. Which is why a certain charismatic man also moved to Tallanville eight years ago to watch over her. But when violence threatens to shatter Grace and Frankie's idyllic home, the waiting is over. The ghosts of the past have returned. And they're hungry for blood. Now Grace must resume an identity she thought she had cast off forever, and match wits with an opponent as deadly as he is cunning. The prize: an extraordinary secret that only she can unfold. The forfeit: losing the thing more precious to her than life itself.From the Hardcover edition.

For eight years, single mother Grace Archer has been living a picture-perfect life raising her daughter on a horse farm in the small town of Tallanville, Alabama. Watching Frankie grow into a talented and confident young girl has made Grace as happy as any mother could hope to be. Happy enough, even, to forget the past. But the past never quite goes away. Which is why a certain charismatic man also moved to Tallanville eight years ago to watch over her. But when violence threatens to shatter Grace and Frankie's idyllic home, the waiting is over. The ghosts of the past have returned. And they're hungry for blood. Now Grace must resume an identity she thought she had cast off forever, and match wits with an opponent as deadly as he is cunning. The prize: an extraordinary secret that only she can unfold. The forfeit: losing the thing more precious to her than life itself.From the Hardcover edition.

For eight years, single mother Grace Archer has been living a picture-perfect life raising her daughter on a horse farm in the small town of Tallanville, Alabama. Watching Frankie grow into a talented and confident young girl has made Grace as happy as any mother could hope to be. Happy enough, even, to forget the past. But the past never quite goes away. Which is why a certain charismatic man also moved to Tallanville eight years ago to watch over her. But when violence threatens to shatter Grace and Frankie's idyllic home, the waiting is over. The ghosts of the past have returned. And they're hungry for blood. Now Grace must resume an identity she thought she had cast off forever, and match wits with an opponent as deadly as he is cunning. The prize: an extraordinary secret that only she can unfold. The forfeit: losing the thing more precious to her than life itself.From the Hardcover edition.

Many otherwise enlightened people often dismiss etiquette as a trivial subject or worse yet as nothing but a disguise for moral hypocrisy or unjust social hierarchies. Such sentiments either mistakenly assume that most manners merely frame the real issues of any interpersonal exchange or are the ugly vestiges of outdated, unfair social arrangements. But in On Manners, Karen Stohr turns the tables on these easy prejudices, demonstrating that the scope of manners is much broader than most people realize and that manners lead directly to the roots of enduring ethical questions. Stohr suggests that though manners are mostly conventional, they are nevertheless authoritative insofar as they are a primary means by which we express moral attitudes and commitments and carry out important moral goals. Drawing primarily on Aristotle and Kant and with references to a wide range of cultural examples from Jane Austen 's Pride and Prejudice to Larry David 's Curb Your Enthusiasm the author ultimately concludes that good manners are essential to moral character.

Jack Johnson has found himself a groove. Indeed, the Hawaiian surfing champion turned alternative pop-folk star really hasn't changed things one iota for his sophomore release. Fans of Brushfire Fairytales should be delighted with the results. The groove is a mellow one--most of the 16 tracks here are semi-acoustic--and that easy-going spirit filters into Johnson's lyrical philosophies. "What will be will be / And so it goes" he sings on "Times Like These," the opening track. Thankfully, Johnson is never too mellow, and there's a "Don't worry, be happy" vibe to most of his music. "The Horizon Has Been Defeated" even has a pseudo-reggae feel to it. Although classified as an alternative musician, the singer-songwriter's compositions owe much to past hits. "Traffic in the Sky" is reminiscent of Jim Croce's "Operator" and Looking Glass's one-hit-wonder, "Brandy." On the splendid "Taylor," Johnson sounds an awful lot like Donovan. And "By The Way" recalls the Lovin' Spoonful. -- Bill Holdship

A new, illustrated edition of a foundational work on architecture, engineering, and urban planning The only treatise on architecture to have survived from Roman times, Vitruvius' "On Architecture" provides a fascinating picture of how the Romans planned and built their great structures and cities. Dedicated to Augustus, it sets out all the information an architect of the time needed-from plans for temples, public baths, government buildings, and private homes to the best materials and techniques for building-and introduces longstanding principles of architecture, from the use of nature's harmonies in design to the ideal modular proportions of the human body, which later inspired Leonardo da Vinci. This new translation, accompanied by 100 black-and-white images, captures the clear, pragmatic tone of Vitruvius' writings, showing why the ancient architect and engineer's theories have remained influential for two millennia.

Richard Hammond describes his childhood and adolescence and the emergence of the adrenalin junkie, the first ridiculous stunts on his tricycle....

What is art really about? What is its true sense? For John Sallis, we cannot gain a genuine understanding of art by merely translating its effects into conceptual language. Rather, works of art must be approached in a way that does justice to their sensuous and enigmatic character—that illuminates their capacity to present truth without pretending to dispel the real mystery at art’s core.             Transfigurements develops a framework for thinking about art through innovative readings of some of the most important philosophical writing on the subject by Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger. Sallis exposes new layers in these texts and theories while also marking their limits. By doing so, his aim is to show that philosophy needs to attend to art directly. Consequently, Sallis also addresses a wide range of works of art, including paintings by Raphael, Monet, and Klee; Shakespeare’s comedies; and the music of Beeth

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Despite growing a respectable mullet at the height of the band's fame, keyboardist Roddy Bottum never seemed at ease with Faith No More 's menacing rap-rock doctrine. Things haven't been easy since striking out with Imperial Teen in 1996--the group's first two albums, Seasick and 1999's What Is Not to Love, didn't even rack up a fraction of The Real Thing's massive sales. But rather than retreating to safer commercial ground, Bottom and his coed San Francisco crew sound more determined than over on this third album. Employing angular new-wave rhythms, furious pop riffs, and stop-start melodies that gyrate over lines like "Shake, shake, va va voom / vis a vis / Go go I do you, you do me," songs like "Undone" and "Teacher's Pet" evoke the high-gloss punch of early MTV acts like Altered Images and Sparks while steadfastly looking forward. It's not only good fun, but far more illuminating than anything the latter-day nu-metal crybabies are whining on about. --Aidin Vaziri

Despite growing a respectable mullet at the height of the band's fame, keyboardist Roddy Bottum never seemed at ease with Faith No More 's menacing rap-rock doctrine. Things haven't been easy since striking out with Imperial Teen in 1996--the group's first two albums, Seasick and 1999's What Is Not to Love, didn't even rack up a fraction of The Real Thing's massive sales. But rather than retreating to safer commercial ground, Bottom and his coed San Francisco crew sound more determined than over on this third album. Employing angular new-wave rhythms, furious pop riffs, and stop-start melodies that gyrate over lines like "Shake, shake, va va voom / vis a vis / Go go I do you, you do me," songs like "Undone" and "Teacher's Pet" evoke the high-gloss punch of early MTV acts like Altered Images and Sparks while steadfastly looking forward. It's not only good fun, but far more illuminating than anything the latter-day nu-metal crybabies are whining on about. --Aidin Vaziri

East Coast meets West Coast in a pairing of American grindcore titans AGORAPHOBICNOSEBLEED and DESPISE YOU . DESPISE YOU blast out their first new material inalmost ten years; grinding through eighteen tracks of their classic hardcore injust under seventeen minutes, while grind chameleons AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED churnthrough seven sludgy tracks with the subtlety of a runaway tank .For fans of:PIG DESTROYER, (early) NAPALM DEATH,SPAZZ, MAN IS THE BASTARD , INFEST,DROPDEAD, MAGRUDERGRINDAgoraphobic Nosebleed has sold over 50,000records to date!First new DESPISE YOU material in almost adecade!Features/ Reviews confirmed for Hails &Horns, Terrorizer , Revolver , Outburn ,Excl aim!, Kerrang ! , Decibel, MetalSucKs,Metal Inj ection , and many more!Mul t i -tier ed online banner ad campai gnfeatured on Blastbeat Network, FixionNetwork, MySpace, Fa cebook , Google,Lambgoat . com, Blabbermouth. The Gauntlet,Loudtrax and all prominent online metal,hardcore, and punk portalsPrint advertising already running in, butnot l imited to: Revol ver , Decibel . MetalHammer, Outhurn, Hails & Horns, and manymore continuing throughout 2011!Bulletins/Blasts via MySpace / Twitter /Facebook / iLike / etc. to a network ofover 250,000 unique users !Direct info mailing to our mass ivedatabase (175,000+ ) p r ior to street date

Despite growing a respectable mullet at the height of the band's fame, keyboardist Roddy Bottum never seemed at ease with Faith No More 's menacing rap-rock doctrine. Things haven't been easy since striking out with Imperial Teen in 1996--the group's first two albums, Seasick and 1999's What Is Not to Love, didn't even rack up a fraction of The Real Thing's massive sales. But rather than retreating to safer commercial ground, Bottom and his coed San Francisco crew sound more determined than over on this third album. Employing angular new-wave rhythms, furious pop riffs, and stop-start melodies that gyrate over lines like "Shake, shake, va va voom / vis a vis / Go go I do you, you do me," songs like "Undone" and "Teacher's Pet" evoke the high-gloss punch of early MTV acts like Altered Images and Sparks while steadfastly looking forward. It's not only good fun, but far more illuminating than anything the latter-day nu-metal crybabies are whining on about. --Aidin Vaziri

The best-selling author of How Proust Can Change Your Life and The Art of Travel revisits his utterly charming debut novel, On Love. The narrator is smitten by Chloe on a Paris-London flight, and by the time they've reached the luggage carousel he knows he is in love. He loves her chestnut hair, watery green eyes, the gap that makes her teeth Kantian and not Platonic, and her views on Heidegger's Being and Time -- but he hates her taste in shoes. Plotting the course of their affair from the initial delirium of infatuation to the depths of suicidal despair, through a fit of anhedonia -- defined in medical texts as a disease resulting from the terror brought on by the threat of utter happiness -- and finally through the terrorist tactics employed when the beloved begins, inexplicably, to drift away, On Love is filled with profound observations and useful diagrams, examining for all of us the pain and exhilaration of love.

Charged with misconduct in a high-profile solicitation of murder case, Lt. Shane Scully is forced to resign from the LAPD or face criminal prosecution. His wife, Alexa leaves him, and his son won't speak to him. In order to make a living, Scully ends up at the Haven Park, California Police Department. Haven Park is a small, incorporated city near Los Angeles, largely populated by illegal immigrants. The department has the reputation of being the mayor's personal goon squad and collection agency. Relentlessly harassed by an over-zealous FBI agent, and under the constant paranoid scrutiny of his fellow officers, Shane thinks Alexa may be the only one who can get him out of the situation he's in. The question is: will she;

East Coast meets West Coast in a pairing of American grindcore titans AGORAPHOBICNOSEBLEED and DESPISE YOU . DESPISE YOU blast out their first new material inalmost ten years; grinding through eighteen tracks of their classic hardcore injust under seventeen minutes, while grind chameleons AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED churnthrough seven sludgy tracks with the subtlety of a runaway tank .For fans of:PIG DESTROYER, (early) NAPALM DEATH,SPAZZ, MAN IS THE BASTARD , INFEST,DROPDEAD, MAGRUDERGRINDAgoraphobic Nosebleed has sold over 50,000records to date!First new DESPISE YOU material in almost adecade!Features/ Reviews confirmed for Hails &Horns, Terrorizer , Revolver , Outburn ,Excl aim!, Kerrang ! , Decibel, MetalSucKs,Metal Inj ection , and many more!Mul t i -tier ed online banner ad campai gnfeatured on Blastbeat Network, FixionNetwork, MySpace, Fa cebook , Google,Lambgoat . com, Blabbermouth. The Gauntlet,Loudtrax and all prominent online metal,hardcore, and punk portalsPrint advertising already running in, butnot l imited to: Revol ver , Decibel . MetalHammer, Outhurn, Hails & Horns, and manymore continuing throughout 2011!Bulletins/Blasts via MySpace / Twitter /Facebook / iLike / etc. to a network ofover 250,000 unique users !Direct info mailing to our mass ivedatabase (175,000+ ) p r ior to street date

On the Strand Kevin L.Gray World Audience 303 Park Avenue South, Suit 1440, New York, NY 10010-3657 978193544405. $20 "What we have here is an autobiography about growing up in Virginia, getting married, moving to Kansas that reads like a classic American novel. Gray really gets inside feelings and brings the reader adroitly into the heart of his own life. As classic as Catcher in the Rye and the basis of what could be great film." ---Dr. Hugh Fox Was it fate or responsibility that brought me to the plains? Or an escape? And why Kansas? Certainly a girl was involved. Three for sure! The reason for heading west from my home in Virginia and making a new one in Kansas is long and complicated. Maybe this is why I always looked at myself as the silent observer, as well as the kid who continually questioned his actions. When I finished my original manuscript, a memoir called On the Strand for Antioch University, I asked an old friend, who happens to be a character in this story, how she remembered me from age 11, when we first met, to 21 the last time we talked in a favorite Richmond bar, until I tracked her down via the internet in 2001, and she wrote, "Kind, shy, quiet, and very loyal. You had a dry sense of humor and were 'on the wild side' and always ready for something different--always questioning things and authority: REBELLIOUS!!" She ended her memory with a telling statement: "You were hard on yourself and did not believe in Kevin." She pegged me alright! I began publishing my memories with Waking Up in the Studebaker (2009), which covers my childhood in Richmond, Virginia's suburbs, through entering high school. On the Strand (2010) carries my story forward through high school and leaving Virginia to give college a try in Kansas. What an East Coast attitude I took with me: "I'm here to get the bullshit classes out of the way and return to a good college in Virginia." Life happened. And what a ride, including the girls, endless trips to Virginia Beach, keeping track of and protesting the war (Vietnam), defeating the high school dress code, the Atlantic City Pop (Pot) Festival, bars and clubs, the Fillmore East, the Valencia Hotel in Greenwich Village, knowing a long-haired Bruce Springsteen - prior to beginning the E Street Band, the 1970 draft lottery, the 1971 march in Chicago to stop the war, cross country hitch hiking and trips in my Fastback VW, and constantly wondering how I could make something of myself, when I had barely graduated from high school. Would college be any different? Would I be able to get past the bullshit given students by teachers and from both private and public school curriculum expectations back in the grades? Would I stop feeling like the dumbass? Who knows, but I knew travel would be required to place me in Pittsburg, Kansas, in 1971, and that sounded damn good to me, the wayward kid with no set direction. Little did I know I had chosen Playboy magazines' latest first place choice for the national Small College Party School, dominated by dime pitchers, bucket night, Coors (not sold east of the Mississippi), and Rod Stewart's "Maggie May". This is my story, the one so many of my high school and community college English students asked about for so many years, when their curiosity spoke, and they asked, "Why Kansas Gray?" As if I had been a nut for leaving Virginia, they would ask, "But don't they have the ocean and the mountains?" And, so, I had to answer with whatever sounded good but for the most part still ended up skirting the truth. Against the odds, I became an English teacher, journalist and columnist. Not bad for a shy, asthmatic kid, who hated school and especially English classes for so many years. Not bad at all. I invite you to read On the Strand due to publish in January, 2010.

Insights from artists at the top of their game   "Here is a book that tells it like it is, a book that everyone can learn from."--Rasta Thomas, director, Bad Boys of Dance   "Right at my fingertips, helpful, firsthand advice from some of the greatest dance teachers in the world. This book is full of essential information for students, teachers, scholars, and directors at every level."--Rick McCullough, Florida State University   "An interesting and unique book that shows both commonalities and divergent opinions that guide all ballet teaching professionals."--John White Jr., author of Advanced Principles in Teaching Classical Ballet   "What a wonderful adventure to open a book and read about so many of the world’s finest dance luminaries. Thank you for giving us such a marvelous opportunity to learn about these wonderful dancers and their teaching techniques."--Lauren Jonas, artistic director, Diablo Ballet   On Technique provides a fascinating look into the careers and teaching philosophies of eighteen of the world’s most respected ballet masters, principals, and artistic directors. Author Dean Speer sat down with prominent ballet pedagogues and asked each a standard set of questions, including "What do we mean when we say someone has beautiful technique?" and "How did you become a dancer?"             Featuring such artists as Peter Boal (artistic director of the Pacific Northwest Ballet) and Bene Arnold (first ballet mistress of the San Francisco Ballet), this volume offers fascinating insights into the nature of both performance and artistic instruction. Speer's approach reveals sometimes surprising convergences among these world-class talents, despite their varying pedagogical backgrounds and divisions.