Pseudopanax ferox
A bizarre, slow-growing evergreen tree from New Zealand, it looks more like the folded spokes of an umbrella attached to a central, slender stem. The vicious leaves (which don't look like leaves at all) are 45cm long and just 1cm wide, often with ... [... more]
BBC |
Beyond the Trauma Vortex
Gina Ross proposes a collaboration between the media, trauma researchers, and helping officials in order to break the vicious cycle of trauma and violence. The media, Ross suggests, can use their tremendous influence to promote peace rather than ... [... more]
Random House |
Keith Durham
In the year 1296, Edward I of England launched a series of vicious raids across the Anglo-Scottish Border in his attempt to annexe Scotland. The Scots retaliated and the two countries were plunged into 300 years of war in which the Borderland ... [... more]
Random House |
Geoffrey Household
1930-something: a professional hunter is passing through an unnamed Central European country that is in the thrall of a vicious dictator. The hunter wonders whether he can penetrate undetected into the dictator's private compound. He does. He has ... [... more]
Random House |
The Outsiders
Ponyboy can count on his brothers. And on his friends. But not on much else besides trouble with the Socs, a vicious gang of rich kids whose idea of a good time is beating up "greasers" like Ponyboy. At least he knows what to ... [... more]
Random House |
Victoria Nelson
1930-something: a professional hunter is passing through an unnamed Central European country that is in the thrall of a vicious dictator. The hunter wonders whether he can penetrate undetected into the dictator's private compound. He does. He has ... [... more]
Random House |
Barb Bentler Ullman
Barb Bentler Ullman lives with her family -- husband Jim, two daughters, a blind grandma, a vicious house cat, and an overweight dog -- in a house that her husband built in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains of Washington State. "My daughter ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Wolves 2009 Deluxe Wall Calendar
 Wolves Wall Calendar: Our image of the wolf is a tainted one. Wolves are not vicious, threatening animals as they have been portrayed. Rather, they are highly intelligent and profoundly social. Their only known predator is the human, who has nearly [... more]
Calendar Club CA |
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