In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers, suspended a quarter mile above the ground. In the streets below, a slew of ordinary lives become extraordinary in bestselling novelist Colum McCann’s stunningly intricate portrait of a city and its people

From the 1996 National Book Award-winning author of Ship Fever and Other Stories. What begins as a classic boy-meets-girl tale in 1955 becomes something far different when marriage and two children do not bring a family closer together. Lucid Stars is the moving story of how one family learns to survive by becoming a planetary system that just happens to be missing its sun

On one level Les Miserables is a detective story in which the relentless Inspector Javert obsessively pursues the escaped convict Jean Valjean. On another level, it is a drama of crime, punishment and rehabilitation set against a panoramic description of French society after Napoleon. But above all, Hugo’s masterpiece is about the metaphysical struggle between good and evil in the soul of every man

This book as a teacher`s guide. It contains information about classroom organization and management, articles about children as Learners, motivation students, assessment and evaluation, home-school-community connections

The leveled speaking parts in these fun-to-read plays encourage students with a range of reading abilities to participate in class - and comprehend it all. As students read, review, and repeat their lines, they practice fluent oral reading. At the same time, they learn the history and importance of five key holidays: Independence Day, Labor Day, President`s Day, Earth Day, and Memorial Day

As the novel opens, Constance Chatterly finds herself trapped in an unfulfilling marriage to a rich aristocrat whose war wounds have left him paralyzed and impotent. After a brief but unsatisfying affairs with a playwright, Lady Chatterley enjoys an extremely passionate relationship with Oliver Mellors, the gamekeeper on the family estate. As Lady Chatterley falls in love with Mellors, she moves from the heartless, bloodless world of the intelligentsia and aristocracy into a vital and profound connection rooted in sexual fulfillment

Now the original 1855 version and the "Death-bed Edition" of 1892 have been brought together in a single volume, with additional poems written throughout Whitman`s life, allowing the reader to experience the total scope of Whitman`s genius, which produced love lyrics, visionary musings, glimpses of nightmare and ecstasy, celebrations of the human body and spirit, and poems of loneliness, loss, and mourning.

This book is written to assist both the learner and teacher in locating high-powered reading materials. The concepts presented here are both leading adge and thoroughly field tested

This book covers most SAS programming techniques, from the basics to intermediate and advanced topics. As indicated by the title, every programming technique is illustrated by one or more examples. Each chapter contains problems so that it could also be used as a textbook in a college course. Solutions to the odd-numbered problems are included in the book, while a complete set of solutions are available online for instructors

The starting point is the transition from central planning and totalitarian government to a mixed economy and democratic pluralism- its pains, its controversies, and the reasons for its success- and the role of labor market reform and social policy in assisting that process.