The Circle

There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. The circle, run out of a sprawling california campus, and purchasing with their universal operating system, links users’ personal emails, banking, social media, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency.

A bestselling dystopian novel that tackles surveillance, privacy and the frightening intrusions of technology in our lives. When mae holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. Now a major motion Picture starring Emma Watson and Tom Hanks.

Mae can’t believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world—even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. As mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work, the towering glass dining facilities, she is thrilled with the company’s modernity and activity.

Vintage Books. What begins as the captivating story of one woman’s ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, democracy, history, privacy, and the limits of human knowledge.

V for Vendetta

Armed with only knives and his wits, V, as he’s called, aims to bring about change in this horrific new world. Set in a futurist totalitarian england, a country without freedom or faith, a mysterious man in a white porcelain mask strikes back against the oppressive overlords on behalf of the voiceless.

Master storytellers alan moore and David Lloyd are at the top of their craft in this terrifying portrait of totalitarianism and resistance. And she is in for much more than she ever bargained for… A visionary graphic novel that defines sophisticated storytelling, this powerful tale detailing the loss and fight for individuality has become a cultural touchstone and an enduring allegory for current events.

This new paperback edition collects the classic graphic novel, which served as inspiration for the hit 2008 film from Warner Bros. His only ally? A young woman named Evey Hammond. A new trade paperback edition of the graphic novel that inspired the hit movie! .

I Hate the Internet

A new trade paperback edition of the graphic novel that inspired the hit movie! Why do we applaud the enrichment of ceos at the expense of the weak and the powerless? Why are we giving away our intellectual property? Why is activism in the 21st Century nothing more than a series of morality lectures typed into devices built by slaves? Here, at last, comes an explanation of the Internet in the crudest possible terms.

. As billions of tweets fuel the city's gentrification and the human wreckage piles up, a group of friends suffers the consequences of being useless in a new world that despises the pointless and unprofitable. In this, his first full-length novel, Jarett Kobek tackles the pressing questions of our moment.

Scb Distributors. What if you told the truth and the whole world heard you? what if you lived in a country swamped with Internet outrage? What if you were a woman in a society that hated women?Set in the San Francisco of 2013, I Hate the Internet offers a hilarious and obscene portrayal of life amongst the victims of the digital boom.

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Essentials of Business Communication with Premium Website, 1 term 6 months Printed Access Card

Please note that the Premium Website access code is included in new copies of the text. A new trade paperback edition of the graphic novel that inspired the hit movie! This unique four-in-one learning package includes an authoritative text, grammar/mechanics handbook at the end of the book, practical workbook, and premium Web site access code is included with new copies of the text.

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The Hunger Games Book 1

A new trade paperback edition of the graphic novel that inspired the hit movie! Scb Distributors. The terrain, rules, and level of audience participation may change but one thing is constant: kill or be killed. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. Sixteen-year-old katniss everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the Games.

In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The hunger Games Book 1. As part of the surrender terms, "the hunger games, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called, " a fight to the death on live TV.

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight A New Verse Translation

Simon armitage has given us an energetic, free-flowing, high-spirited version. Edward hirsch, new york times book review one of the earliest great stories of English literature after ?Beowulf?, who rudely interrupts King Arthur's Round Table festivities one Yuletide, ?Sir Gawain? is the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse, challenging the knights to a wager.

The hunger Games Book 1. W w norton Company. 2 illustrations a new trade paperback edition of the graphic novel that inspired the hit movie! Scb Distributors. Simon armitrage, one of britain's leading poets, has produced an inventive and groundbreaking translation that "helps liberate ?Gawain ?from academia" ?Sunday Telegraph?

Compulsively readable.

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

Simply wonderful. Los angeles times   acclaimed writer Julia Alvarez’s brilliant and buoyant and beloved first novel gives voice to four sisters recounting their adventures growing up in two cultures. Selected as a notable book by both the new york times and the american Library Association, it won the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award for books with a multicultural perspective and was chosen by New York librarians as one of twenty-one classics for the twenty-first century.

Ms. In the wild and wondrous and not always welcoming U. S. A. But the girls try find new lives: by forgetting their Spanish, their parents try to hold on to their old ways, by straightening their hair and wearing fringed bell bottoms. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. For them, it is at once liberating and excruciating to be caught between the old world and the new.

Alvarez was recently honored with the 2013 National Medal of Arts for her extraordinary storytelling. In this debut novel, the garcía sisters—carla, yolanda, sandra, and Sofía—and their family must flee their home in the Dominican Republic after their father’s role in an attempt to overthrow a tyrannical dictator is discovered.

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Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World

The hunger Games Book 1. But when he turns a merciless eye on california and Washington, we see that the narrative is a trap baited with humor, DC, and we understand the reckoning that awaits the greatest and greediest of debtor nations. W w norton Company. Scb Distributors. W w norton Company. The greeks wanted to turn their country into a pinata stuffed with cash and allow as many citizens as possible to take a whack at it.

A new trade paperback edition of the graphic novel that inspired the hit movie! The germans wanted to be even more German; the Irish wanted to stop being Irish. Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. Lewis shows again why he is the leading journalist of his generation.

Kyle smith, forbes the tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entire societies the chance to reveal aspects of their characters they could not normally afford to indulge. Michael lewis's investigation of bubbles beyond our shores is so brilliantly, sadly hilarious that it leads the American reader to a comfortable complacency: oh, those foolish foreigners.

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Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison

A new trade paperback edition of the graphic novel that inspired the hit movie! W w norton Company. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. Vintage Books. Scb Distributors. W w norton Company. In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.

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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. A heartbreaking work of Staggering Genius is an instant classic that will be read for decades to come. Here is an exhilarating debut that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly inventive as well as a deeply heartfelt story of the love that holds a family together.

Great product! This is a beautifully ragged, laugh-out-loud funny and utterly unforgettable book. San francisco chroniclenational Bestseller Pulitzer Prize FinalistA book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty-first century. W w norton Company. W w norton Company. The hunger Games Book 1. A heartbreaking work of staggering genius is the moving memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother.

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Writing Logically, Thinking Critically

This concise, accessible text teaches  how to write logical, cohesive arguments and how to evaluate the arguments of others. Great product! Vintage Books. Scb Distributors. W w norton Company. W w norton Company. A new trade paperback edition of the graphic novel that inspired the hit movie! The hunger Games Book 1.

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