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Check out the greats of comedy with their early routines when they were young and struggling.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Step back in time to the creation of America’s founding document with this fascinating history for young readers, part of the beloved What Was? series. The perfect way to celebrate the U.S.A.’s 250th anniversary! On a hot summer day near Philadelphia in 1776...

Becoming a new teacher is one of the most fun, exciting, and challenging experiences you'll encounter in your life. Who wouldn't want a little help getting ready before sitting down behind the teacher's desk for the first time? That's where First-Year Teaching For Dummies comes in. You'll find easy-to-follow strategies and techniques to help you navigate the politics of education in your community, develop fun and fulfilling relationships with your students, and refine your own instructional style.

It was 1964 and black men didn't fly commercial jets. But David Harris was about to change that ... After years of flying B-52 bombers in the United States Air Force, David Harris applied to be a pilot for commercial airliners, an opportunity no other African American before him--not even the...

For millennia, Corpse Angels have taken young women for training to fill their ranks in their war of hatred with the J’Shi. Unsuspecting mortals are making unholy pacts with demons in exchange for knowledge and power. The demons then use those possessed bodies to spread fear, ruin, and devastation far and wide simply for their own demonic amusement. Will Talian, Slasher, and Jean-Kar be able to survive a war between bitter ancient beings who no longer even remember why they are fighting, as well as demons who wish to turn the world of the living into a charnel pit?

Retroceda en el tiempo al nacimiento de Estados Unidos en esta obra en español de la serie WHO HQ, y conozca a los rebeldes de la vida real que hicieron libre a este país. En un caluroso día de verano de 1776, cerca de Filadelfia, Thomas Jefferson se sentó en su escritorio y escribió...

Hathaway is a prison where the Gods have placed the worst monsters in all of creation, hoping they will never again see the light of day. These vile beings are kept locked away by a group of strange and twisted priests, who are their jailers. Deep within this prison is a prisoner known as Joyless.

To live in a world of shadows and ash is to know a horrific existence. One of Pain, blood, and sickness. Gods have turned a deaf ear to the suffering and prayers of the devout. In response, worshippers have turned to Darker Gods, who demand tithe in the form of blood, pain, and souls. Many see the war between the Necromancers and the Mages as the cause of the world’s woes. A war that devastated the land, in which things were created and things done that never should have been.

Governor General's Award-winner Michael Harris explores the profound emotional and intellectual benefits of solitude, and how we may achieve it in our fast-paced world. The capacity to be alone--properly alone--is one of life's subtlest skills. Real solitude is a contented and productive state...

In Party of One, Investigative journalist Michael Harris gives us an intimate look at Stephen Harper and draws a portrait of a prime minister whose policies and instincts, Harris believes, are a clear and present danger to Canada's democracy. Fueled by the election victory of May 2011, unchecked by the opposition, the staggering gap between Stephen Harper's stated political principles and his practices starkly drive Harris' arguments home.

"Kerry Shale's reading delivers lots of information clearly as Harris discusses technological developments that threaten our solitude today. While much of Harris's book is critical of those developments, Shale also captures Harris's humor and occasional indignance." — AudioFile Magazine With a...

Our lives are defined by a story of endless growth and consumption. Now a climate crisis demands that we change. Can we write new stories? In All We Want, award-winning author Michael Harris dismantles our untenable consumer culture and delivers surprising, heartwarming alternatives. Drawing on...

Harris' Brandywine is the first complete study to merge the strategic, political, and tactical history of this complex operation and important set-piece battle into a single compelling account. More than a decade in the making, his sweeping prose relies almost exclusively upon original archival research and his personal knowledge of the terrain. Told largely through the words of those who fought there, Brandywine will take its place as one of the most important military studies of the American Revolution ever written. 

Today, Germantown is a busy neighborhood in Philadelphia. On October 4, 1777, it was a small village on the outskirts of the colonial capital whose surrounding fields and streets witnessed one of the largest battles of the American Revolution. The bloody battle represented George Washington's attempt to recapture Philadelphia but has long been overshadowed by better-known events like Brandywine, Saratoga, and Valley Forge.