A definitive new history of the origins, evolution, and scope of the ancient Greek city-stateThe Greek polis, or city-state, was a resilient and adaptable political institution founded on the principles of citizenship, freedom, and equality. Emerging around 650 BCE and enduring to 350 CE, it offered a means for collaboration among fellow city-states and social bargaining between a community and its elites—but at what cost? Polis proposes a panoram...

KATIE's life should be falling into place. She can fence like a demon on wheels, her boyfriend is the High King of Faerie, and she saved all Avalon not six months ago. So why is everything coming apart? Maybe it's that her relationship is illegal. Maybe it's that she just wanted to see a punk show with her best friend, and now they're under attack by aliens with laser weapons. What's a girl to do?BERI cultivates a frozen facade, but when the aliens take KATIE from his side, he melt...

Love across worlds was never supposed to be easy. Then the aliens got involved.Katie thought saving Avalon would be the hard part. Turns out, dating its High King while navigating Faerie politics is way worse—and being kidnapped by laser-wielding aliens really puts a damper on her social life.Fox isn't doing much better: trapped aboard an alien worldship while he should be pacifying the Mountain at the Center of Everything, nursing old scars and new secrets, he's about to f...

Katie has become a problem. Armed with a talent for being exactly where she shouldn't be, she's crawling through vents, lurking in shadows, and eavesdropping on conversations that could get her sent back to the Machine if anyone noticed. She's also acquired a case of deeply suspicious mystery glitter that may be magic, drugs, or a mixture of both.Fox is thriving, which is to say, lying constantly, manipulating outcomes just enough to stay alive, an...

The pioneering text in emergency ultrasound—the only guide you will needA Doody's Core Title for 2023, 2024 & 2026!!Ma and Mateer's Emergency Ultrasound has been the definitive text for clinicians since it was first published. Now updated with new chapters, expanded coverage, and new video, this generously illustrated guide covers the training, techniques, and skills for successfully applying point-of-care ultrasou...

Un abogado acusado de asesinato se embarca en una carrera contrarreloj para descubrir al verdadero culpable en un trepidante nuevo thriller del maestro Grisham.Simon Latch es un modesto abogado de Virginia que gana lo justo para pagar sus facturas mientras contempla cómo su matrimonio se desmorona poco a poco. Hasta el día en que entra en su despacho Eleanor Barnett, una anciana que necesita redactar un nuevo testamento. Según relata, su marido le dejó una pequeña ...

As a young boy is walking through the mountains in search of a gift for his mother’s birthday, he comes across an ancient house. An old lady beckons him inside and asks him to find “Hua Ma”. As he leaves, he finds himself inexplicably transported to the distant island of Hainan while the old lady and the house have disappeared. Unsure of who or what Hua Ma is, he sets out on a quest to find him, realizing this mysterious Hua Ma may be his only chance to find his way back home!Manda...

An examination of how America’s colleges have become an intellectual hell on Earth for anyone who wishes to think rationally and seek truth and wisdom, as well as a plan for how young citizens can claim and safeguard the learning and heritage to which they are entitled.From safe-spaces and trigger warnings, to grievance studies and neo-Marxist indoctrination, to sexual degeneracy and hook-up culture, to student loan indentured servitude, to useless degrees with no ...

As a young boy is walking through the mountains in search of a gift for his mother’s birthday, he comes across an ancient house. An old lady beckons him inside and asks him to find “Hua Ma”. As he leaves, he finds himself inexplicably transported to the distant island of Hainan while the old lady and the house have disappeared. Unsure of who or what Hua Ma is, he sets out on a quest to find him, realizing this mysterious Hua Ma may be his only chance to find his way back home!Manda...

Psychologists and best-selling authors John and Linda Friel have written an enormously readable and infinitely practical book that delves into what makes a relationship enduringly successful. Wherever readers are in their own relationships, this book can improve those relationships dramatically, bringing them immediate and lasting benefits.In the tradition of their bestseller, The 7 Worst Things (Good) Parents Do, the authors examine the behaviors that happy, effective couples disp...

**Traditional Chinese Edition**A movie star, a politician’s nephew, and a photograph with compromising implications, Gao Ming (Sherlock Holmes) faces a high stakes case involving the international community of 1920’s Shanghai. With the trusty Dr. Watson at his side, Sherlock finds himself pitted against the beautiful Hu Die, a star of Chinese cinema. Will Sherlock retrieve the picture in time or will Hu Die outwit the master of deduction?Level 2 is intended for Chinese lear...

John Grisham, «El mejor autor vivo de thriller» según Ken Follett, siembra cizaña en el paraíso con su nueva y entretenida novela. Una historia que arranca con un robo de manuscritos y evoluciona hacia una persecución entre un seductor criminal y la mujer que se ha propuesto desenmascararlo.Una banda de ladrones consigue robar algo que, pese a no tener precio, está asegurado en veinticinco millones de dólares: los cinco manuscritos originales de las novela...