Tarzan loves Jane, but she has promised to marry another. Heartsick and lonely, Tarzan sails to Paris to learn the ways of civilization from his friend D'Arnot. On board ship--and later in the cafes and streets of Paris--he learns that the jungle is not the only place where savage beasts dwell. Before setting foot on French soil, Tarzan is caught up in a whirlwind of blackmail, attempted murder, kidnapping, and the intrigues of desperate men and beautiful women. When a secret mission takes him back to Africa, he struggles with a decision: Can he stay in the world of the woman he has loved and lost? Or does destiny call him back to his original African home

The key insight of Gaia Theory is that the entire Earth functions as a single living super-organism. But according to James Lovelock, the theory’s originator, that organism is now sick. It is running a fever born of increased atmospheric greenhouse gases. Earth will adjust to these stresses, but the human race faces a severe test. It is already too late, Lovelock says, to prevent the global climate from “flipping” into an entirely new equilibrium that will threaten civilization as we know it. But we can do much to save humanity. In the tradition of Silent Spring, this is a call to address a major threat to our collective future

The fragile life-form that hides within its puny frame a curiously unquenchable something . . . call it

The Cambridge Thesaurus of American English is an orginal and up-to-date collection of more than 200,000 synonyms and antonyms for the most commonly used words and phrases in contamporary American English

The most reliable and intertaining guide to effective writing and speaking for Americans today, The Columbia Guide to Standard American English belongs on the desk of everyone who uses our ever-changing language. This book will help you write and speak clearly and appropriately for a full range of purposes and audiences. Unlike most writers on English usage (who so often reflect British practises) Wilson focuses on American English. In eddition, his guide is the first to present a systematic, comprehensive view of our language - both spoken and written - as influenced by context

This remarkable book speaks to the heart of every classroom teacher offering a proven, practical approach that can help reduce the exhausting and often overwhelming classroom management problems confronting today

For solvers looking for puzzles they can enjoy throughout the weekend, here`s a fun, accessible collection of end-of-the-week New York Times crosswords in a spiral-bound format for easy solving, from legendary crossword editor Will Shortz

This book is the first to present in one volume an up-to-date guide to the central areas of teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL). Edited by two leading figures in TESOL, it contains 30 chapters written by internationally recognised language teaching professionals and applied linguistics. Current topics in TESOL are examined and future developments mapped out in an accessible but comprehensive way