This ground-breaking work draws upon the authors interviews with leading postmodern artists, including Baudrillard, Beckett, Cage and Glass. It offers a challenging and positive view of postmodern culture.

Brilliant and impassioned, The Glass Palace is a masterly novel by Amitav Ghosh, the gifted novelist Peter Matthiessen has called an exceptional writer. This superb story of love and war begins with the shattering of the kingdom of Burma and the igniting of a great and passionate love, and it goes on to tell the story of a people, a fortune, and a family and its fate. **Winner of the 2001 Frankfurt ebook Award for Fiction**

Why is it that love seems to come easily to some people and not to others? In her first book, What's Holding You Back? Eight Critical Choices for Women's Success, Dr. Linda Austin explored the 'psychological glass ceiling,' the emotional barriers that keep women from achieving career success. This book is about a different kind of inner glass ceiling: the one that holds you back from the heights of great love.

The first edition of Statistics and the Evaluation of Evidence for Forensic Scientists established itself as a highly regarded authority on this area.  Fully revised and updated, the second edition provides significant new material on areas of current interest including: Glass InterpretationFibres InterpretationBayes’ Nets

Knowing how to read people - picking up on and interpreting their hidden cues - is a tremendous asset for virtually anything you do, from your home life to your love life to your work life. Now psychologist, communications expert, and bestselling author Dr. Lillian Glass presents a complete guide that can teach anyone to read people. In this book, Dr. Glass shares with readers her breakthrough program based on the four codes of communication reading people through their voice, speech, facial, and body language codes which has helped Dr. Glass?s private clients from all walks of life. If you?re thinking about going out with, marrying, hiring, or going to work for someone, interpreting these codes is especially crucial.

Stained glass artist Deni Sparks has inherited a house on the lake. Now Glass From The Past, the business she's dreamed of, can become a reality.Architect Shane Anderson wants to build a resort to enhance the community. If Deni doesn't stay her three months, and he's sure she won't want to, the property becomes his. Two dreams, one house. And a powerful attraction only complicates matters....

Ebook Special Feature: Includes essays written by Anita Shreve and chapter excerpts from Sea Glass, The Last Time They Met, and Fortune's Rocks.A man escaping from a hotel fire sees a woman standing beneath a tree. He approaches her and sets in motion a series of events that will change his life forever. Years later, traveling from New England to Florida by train, he reflects back on his obsession with this unknown and ultimately unknowable woman-his courtship of her, his marriage to her, and the unforgivable act that ripped their family apart. Spanning three decades from 1899 to 1933, ALL HE EVER WANTED gives us a tale of marriage, betrayal, and the search for redemption. It has the unmatched attention to details of character, place, and emotion that have made Anita Shreve one of America's best-loved and bestselling novelists.

Volume 2 contains two Nebula Award Nominees, "Shatterday" and "Shattered Like a Glass Goblin," and many more excellent Ellison works, spanning the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres. Enjoy!

Now bestselling author D.A. Benton shows you how to break through your personal glass ceiling and earn $100,000 a year - or more! Her can-do plan not only helps you change your whole approach to making money but, more important, helps you make new choices that lead to a happier, more successful life in every way. Benton's effective approach to high earnings will help any reader improve their quality of life.

Shadows of the Rose is a varied collection of short stories, but all have one thing in common, an ending with a twist. They take place in various times, various places, from medieval witch trials, to the far reaches of space and future.Here is just a taste:In The Witch Hunter, a young girl is accused of sorcery and the witch hunter sent to condemn her is not as he seems...Baby Blues is set in a future where family planning is controlled by the state and it is illegal to make love... Free Falling is set in space, where some friendly aliens have found the cure for most of human diseases, except for one - the one you have...Shadows of the Rose, tells the story of a lover's tryst in a ruined abbey, but there is something not quite right...In The Glass Guitar, Meg thinks a haunted guitar might be just the present for her boyfriend's birthday...

A boy, a patchwork girl, and a glass cat go on a mission to find the ingredients for a charm which will transform some people turned to marble. Book 7 of L. Frank Baum's immortal Oz Series, in which Scraps, the Patchwork Girl, is brought to life and the Munchkin boy Ojo sets out on a quest to find the magical cure that will release his Unc Nunkie from a spell that has turned him into a marble statue.