Identifies more than four hundred rocks and minerals, explains how rocks form, and suggests clothing, equipment, and techniques for fieldwork

Rocks and Minerals (Macmillan Field Guide)

Science & Math

WRIGHT, DAVID

Bell, Pat

Earth Sciences

Macmillan General* Reference

At the age of seven, David Wright became totally deaf, consigned to the invisible dungeon from which was later to escape as a distinguished poet and critic. Written with humour, frankness and humility, this is both a personal account and a history of deafness.

Deafness: An Autobiography

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Perennial

MyLab Statistics with Pearson eText -- Standalone Access Card -- for Business Statistics, Third Canadian Edition

Business & Money

De Veaux, Richard

Velleman, Paul

Sharpe, Norean

Education & Reference

Pearson Canada

Business Statistics, Third Canadian Edition, Loose Leaf Version

MyStatLab with Pearson eText --Standalone Access Card --for Business Statistics, Fourth Canadian Edition

Business Statistics, Canadian Edition

Mid-century English Poetry, 1940-60 (Poets)

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Penguin

"The characters of Chaucer's pilgrims," said William Blake, "are the characters which compose all ages and nations." In The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer found an original way of combining characters and anecdotes to produce a portrait of a burgeoning medieval society. His characters, finely drawn representatives of the religious and secular institutions of their time, are also individuals whose appeal has survived the six centuries since their conception. The tales range from rich exotica to crude humor, form lives of saints to the demise of scoundrels. Throughout, we are conscious of Chaucer's irony, humanity, curiosity, and sheer enjoyment of life. In this new verse translation, the first in over thirty years, poet and writer David Wright has made The Canterbury Tales accessible to all, while preserving the wit and vivacity of Chaucer's Middle English classic.

The Canterbury Tales (Oxford World's Classics)

CHAUCER, GEOFFREY

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

David Wright's new translation of The Canterbury Tales into modern verse--the first to appear in over thirty years--makes one of the greatest works of English literature accessible to all readers while preserving the wit and vivacity of Chaucer's original text.

Literary

Fire on the Beach recovers the heroic, long-forgotten story of the only all-black crew in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard. In 1871 the Life-Saving Service, the precursor to the Coast Guard, was created by Congress to assure the safe passage of American and international shipping and to save lives and salvage cargo. Although it was decommissioned in 1915, a century ago the LSS boasted some two hundred stations, and the adventures of the now forgotten "surfmen" filled the pages of popular reading, from Harper's to the Baltimore Sun to the New York Herald. This book tells the story of Station 17 of Pea Island, North Carolina, and its courageous captain, Richard Etheridge. A former slave and Civil War veteran, Etheridge was appointed Keeper of the Pea Island station, but when the white crew already in place refused to serve under him, he recruited and trained an entirely black crew. Although they were among the most courageous in the service, leading many daring rescues and saving scores of men, women, and children along the treacherous stretch of coast known as "the Graveyard of the Atlantic," civilian attitudes toward the Pea Island surfmen ranged from curiosity to outrage. When a hurricane hit the Banks in the late 1890s, they managed to save everyone aboard the wrecked E.S. Newman. This incredible feat went unrecognized for a century until, in 1996, the Coast Guard posthumously awarded Etheridge and his men the Gold Life-Saving Medal. This courageous story of a group of men who battled prejudice as well as fierce storms to carry out heroic deeds illustrates yet another example of the contribution of one group of remarkable African Americans to this country's history.

Fire on the Beach: Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Lifesavers

Biographies & Memoirs

Zoby, David

Community & Culture

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