Ketchum, Idaho - Christmas, 1959: Blizzard-bound, Ernest Hemingway occupies himself with wine and prose, recreating his own rendition of Charles Dickens's classic "A Christmas Carol". The story he spins carries echoes of himself. Afflicted by depression and concern over what he feels are his failing artistic powers, he reaches back to a timeless story of renewal, and to memory, to kindle a sense of joy and redemption.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL Retold in the Manner of ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Literature & Fiction

New Street Communications, LLC

Genre Fiction

"As an adolescent, I sang along with Three Dog Night, never really thinking about the words of the song. Until now. BLACK AND WHITE, like many little books, is enormous." - ANN HOOD, bestselling author of THE KNITTING CIRCLE and other novels ... "A simple, lovely, powerful book." - TOM CHAPIN, singer/songwriter Lyricist, graphic artist and teacher David Arkin (1906-1980) created the book BLACK AND WHITE in 1966. Arkin based his book on the song of the same name crafted years before by he and composer Earl Robinson (1910-1991) - a song meant to celebrate the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down segregation in public schools. Recorded by Pete Seeger in 1956 and Sammy Davis Jr. in 1957, "Black and White" was much later, in 1971, a #6 hit for the Reggae group Greyhound in the UK and (1972) a #1 hit for the band Three Dog Night in the United States. Pete Seeger - a longtime friend of both Arkin and Robinson, a multi-Grammy winning performer and composer, and a Kennedy Center Honoree - has written an Introduction for this edition.

Black and White: A Song That is a Story About Freedom to go to School Together

Arkin, David

Children's Books

When first published in December of 1843, Charles Dickens's A CHRISTMAS CAROL was hailed instantly as a masterpiece. Since that time, the work has never been out of print. As well, the book has been translated into dozens of languages, adapted into countless stage and film versions, and even made into operas and ballets. In this penetrating 10,000-word study, Michael Norris tells the complete story behind Dickens's writing of the book. Norris dives deep into his topic to discover the altruistic angels and monetary demons which drove Dickens, the public debates and rancor which informed him, and the terrible childhood memories which both haunted and inspired him. Here, at last, we have the ideal reader’s companion for Dickens's Christmas classic.

Charles Dickens and the making of A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Norris, Michael

History & Criticism

In Teaching Salinger’s NINE STORIES, Brad McDuffie ... provides an examination of Salinger’s Nine Stories that is forensically detailed and thought provoking. ... The book’s greatest value may be in its ability to display the interaction between each separate story, revealing Salinger’s Nine Stories to be a unified work of art. This achievement is long overdue and is an innovative and invaluable resource. - Kenneth Slawenski, author of J. D. Salinger: A Life
 This study is the most thorough and close reading that we have on Salinger's Nine Stories." - James Finn Cotter, Professor of English, Mount Saint Mary College

Teaching Salinger's NINE STORIES

McDuffie, Brad

The funniest book about cancer you will ever read. Capuano manages to humanize his harrowing journey without bathos and yet I still walked away crying, with tears of sadness and laughter. No mean trick. ... A memoir both tender and hard for the healthy and the sick. - David Duchovny Nothing about cancer is funny – so why did I laugh so hard at James Capuano’s personal story about his struggles with Stage 4 colon cancer? Simply put: because it’s hilarious. Never one to run away from the truth, his in-your-face account tells it like it is, providing valuable insight into how this disease affects not only the body and the mind, but also family and friends. ... a surprisingly life-affirming tale. - Susan Sarandon

Beast: A Slightly Irreverent Tale About Cancer (And Other Assorted Anecdotes)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Capuano, James

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Lars Nielsen and Noreen Burlingame provide a brief, understandable, user-friendly guide to all aspects of Data Science. The authors address the various skills required, the key steps in the Data Science process, software technology related to the effective practice of Data Science, and the best rising academic programs for training in the field. CONTENTS: Data Science Summarized * What is Big Data * Hadoop * Data Management * Data Cleaning * Data Modeling for Unstructured Data * Predictive Analysis * Creativity and Intuition (or Posing the Right Question, at the Right Time, for the Right Data) * Data Visualization (or Telling the Story) * Cassandra * Academic Programs

A Simple Introduction to DATA SCIENCE

Computers & Technology

Nielsen, Lars

Burlingame, Noreen

Computer Science

Here it is ... the bestseller now revised and expanded to reveal the most important Cloud innovations for 2013, including key Big Data tools from Amazon, IBM, Google, Microsoft and many other industry leaders. This concise, jargon-free volume fully explains the state-of-the-art (and the state of the industry) in Cloud Computing. Using a completely user-friendly approach that assumes no prior knowledge, noted systems developer Lars Nielsen describes the most vital fundamentals of Cloud Computing - that powerful approach to enterprise systems by which today's smart organizations cut costs while still maintaining access to all the digital capacity they need. Nielsen explains tested, effective strategies for maximizing the latest Cloud Computing tools and economies, putting them to work for your organization. He also provides a vivid snapshot of the major industry players, surveys current trends in the Cloud marketplace, and lays out vital issues of Cloud security. This new edition incorporates coverage of Amazon Elastic MapReduce and PowerShell, Google BigQuery and Google SQL, IBM Platform Symphony, Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Big Data, Microsoft's HDInsight, and much more. CONTENTS: Introduction * The Basics * Technology and Business Fundamentals * Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Including Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR), RedShift - a Data Warehouse Solution Bringing Analytics “To the Masses,” - and PowerShell * IBM Cloud Services - Including IBM Platform Symphony for Breakthrough Hadoop Results and Optimal MapR Implementation * Microsoft and the Cloud – Including HDInsight for Big Data * Google and the Cloud - Including BigQuery for Gaining Real-Time Big Data Insights, Google Compute Engine for Quickly Crunching Big Data, and Google SQL * Red Hat - Including Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Big Data, OpenShift and Other Goodies * Cloud in a Box – The Pre-Fab Track to a Robust Private Cloud * Apple and Other Purveyors of Consumer Cloud Services * VMware, Cetas, EMC, Greenplum, The Pivotal Initiative and Big Data * Hewlett-Packard, Oracle/Sun Microsystems, Cisco Systems, Virtual Computing Environment Coalition/Acadia, Rackspace and GoGrid * Cloud Security, the Need for Data Loss Prevention (DLP), And Various Other Fun Stuff

The Little Book of Cloud Computing, 2013 Edition: Including Coverage of Big Data Tools

Networking & Cloud Computing

Speaking in 1957, Evelyn Waugh commented that Hemingway was "really at heart a Catholic author." In this groundbreaking study, Matthew Nickel explores Hemingway's Catholic faith through close scrutiny of his fiction and other writings. Using previously unpublished Hemingway letters, Nickel reveals how Hemingway's profound sacramental sense of ritual, pilgrimage and sacrifice informed his work ... and his life. "Matthew Nickel is a thorough and careful scholar. He has delved beneath the surface and has found a treasure trove of meaning. This book will enrich every reader’s understanding of Hemingway, the man and his work." - Valerie Hemingway, author of Running with the Bulls: My Years with the Hemingways "Nickel's scholarship is impeccable, thoroughgoing and perspicacious. ... A cutting-edge study of the most urgent concerns of one of our greatest writers." - H.R. Stoneback, Distinguished Professor English, SUNY New Paltz "Nickel has written a very strong Catholic reading of all of Hemingway, grounded in lucid textuality and exhaustive research." - Allen Josephs, past president of the Hemingway Foundation and Society, author of Ritual and Sacrifice in the Corrida

Hemingway's Dark Night: Catholic Influences and Intertextualities in the Work of Ernest Hemingway

Nickel, Matthew C

Completely updated for 2013, this new edition of the bestseller provides lay readers with a concise, to-the-point, up-to-date, no-nonsense introduction to the fundamental security issues confronting those enterprises who have moved, or are considering a move, to the Cloud. In a jargon-free approach that assumes little prior knowledge, Lars Nielsen explores both the advantages and the pitfalls of various options in order to provide the very best data by which enterprises can make informed decisions about how to proceed with their own Cloud security paradigms. CONTENTS: Introduction * Fear and Loathing in the Cloud * Rudiments * Cloud Security Alliance, the CSA GRK Stack, and STAR * Open Data Center Alliance (and Cooperation with CSA) * Microsoft's Free Cloud Security Readiness Tool * Cloud Standards Customer Council, and the Question: Which Standards Organization Will Prevail? * Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP)

The Little Book of Cloud Computing SECURITY, 2013 Edition

Henry James described John Burroughs as a “more humorous, more available, and more sociable Thoreau.” Burroughs's close friend and mentor Walt Whitman called him an “Audubon of prose.” Throughout his long writing career, the Catskills and Hudson Valley native infused his writing with images of nature as seen and experienced within his own home region. “Nature comes home to one most when he is at home,” he wrote, “the stranger and traveler finds her a stranger and traveler also. One's own landscape comes in time to be a sort of outlying part of himself; he has sowed himself broadcast upon it, and it reflects his own moods and feelings; he is sensitive to the verge of the horizon: cut those trees, and he bleeds; mar those hills, and he suffers.” With this poetic sensibility and emphasis on the local, Burroughs created a unique literature of nature – one aptly represented by the essays here-in. CONTENTS Introduction. A Sharp Lookout. The Falling Leaves. A Snow Storm. Wild Life in Winter. Winter Neighbors. April. A Young Marsh Hawk. Strawberries. Speckled Trout. Birch Browsings. Notes by the Way. The Heart of the Southern Catskills.

Catskills and Hudson Valley Essays

Science & Math

Burroughs, John

Nature & Ecology

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