Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Simon & Schuster $16.95
Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character.In a sweeping narrative that follows Franklin's life from Boston to Philadelphia to London and Paris and back, Isaacson...

Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition by Hard Press $25.95
The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Dreams; Dream interpretation; Symbolism (Psychology); Dreams; Psychology / General; Self-Help / Dreams; Self-Help / General; Body, Mind & Spirit / Parapsychology / General; Body, Mind & Spirit / Dreams;...

The Devil's Dictionary by Roy Morris Jr. $74.00
These caustic aphorisms, collected in The Devil's Dictionary, helped earn Ambrose Bierce the epithets Bitter Bierce, the Devil's Lexicographer, and the Wickedest Man in San Francisco. First published as The Cynic's Word Book (1906) and later reissued under its preferred name in 1911, Bierce's notorious collection of barbed definitions forcibly contradicts Samuel Johnson's earlier definition of a...

The Elements of Moral Philosophy with Dictionary of Philosophical Terms by McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages $9.22
Firmly established as the standard text for undergraduate courses in ethics, this concise, lively book combines clear explanations of the main theories of ethics with discussions of interesting examples. Topics covered include famine relief, homosexuality, and the treatment of animals. The text's versatility allows it to be widely used not only in ethical theory courses, but also in applied...

Medical Terminology For Dummies by For Dummies $21.99
Confused by medical terms? Don’t know a carcinoma from a hematoma? Medical Terminology For Dummies gets you up to speed quickly on medical terminology fundamentals and helps you master medical definitions, pronunciations, and applications across all health care fields. Once you understand medical prefixes, suffixes, and root words, you’ll approach even unfamiliar medical terms with...

Medical Terminology for Health Professions by Delmar Cengage Learning $98.95
A proven and unique combination of learning principles and exercises, this highly acclaimed book continues to get better! Medical Terminology for Health Professions, Sixth Edition, simplifies the process of learning hundreds of complex medical terms. The See and Say pronunciation system makes pronouncing unfamiliar terms easy. Because word parts are integral to learning medical terminology,...

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt $29.95
In this fast-paced information age, how can Americans know what's really important and what's just a passing fashion? Now more than ever, we need a source that concisely sums up the knowledge that matters to Americans -- the people, places, ideas, and events that shape our cultural conversation. With more than six thousand entries,The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy is that invaluable source....

The Iroquois Book of Rites (Brinton's Library of Aboriginal American Literature) by BiblioBazaar $22.99
How long the five kindred but independent tribes who were afterwards to compose the Iroquois confederacy remained isolated and apart from one another, is uncertain.

Dictionary Of Word Roots by McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages $17.00
One of the outstanding problems of the biologist, whether he be beginning student or specialists, is that of understanding technical terms. The best way to understand and remember technical terms is to understand first their component parts, or roots. This dictionary has been designed primarily to meet the needs of the beginning student, the medical student, and the taxonomist, but it should be...

Dos mundos: En breve (Student Edition) by McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages $69.06
This text is perfect for the school that offers a two-semester first-year course and cannot finish Dos mundos, Fifth Edition, in one year. Dos mundos: En breve contains all of the same content features and design of Dos mundos, Fourth Edition, but without the last 4 chapters, making it a manageable option for the beginning Spanish course. Based on the Natural Approach the text stresses the use...