Ingredients: A trashy beginning, Leon Zeisel, a bully, a purple nurple, a wet Willie, 2 Howlitzers, 3 best friends, a Lumpkin Dunkin', 5 half-baked schemes, 2 Wedgies (1 Turbo; 1 Atomic), a hotel...
In My Parents' Bedroom, published in a New Yorker special fiction issue, Akpan takes us far beyond what we thought we knew about the tribal conflict in Rwanda. The story is told by a young girl,...
The BSG can't believe their luck. . . . Mr. Ramsey has to travel out West for research, and he's taking all the BSG on a trip to a real Montana dude ranch. Skiing, snowboarding, cowboys, wild animals,...
Rinconete y Cortadillo es, seguramente, la más popular de todas las Novelas ejemplares de Cervantes. En la andadura de estos dos muchachos desde la famosa Venta del Molinillo hasta el horrendo patio de...
In Harriet Scott Chessman's arresting first novel, Hallie Greaves comes home to Ohio one hot week in July. She hopes to help her mother, who confines her life wholly to her bedroom. To enter her...
Thorndike Prince -- handsome, levelheaded, successful -- is a high-ranking New York City executive. Cindy Territo is the janitor who cleans his office after hours....
The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom
Sean B. Carroll
For over a century, opening the black box of embryonic development was the holy grail of biology. Evo Devo -- Evolutionary Developmental Biology -- is the new science that has finally cracked open the...
El alma humana oscila entre el bien y el mal. Cuando los experimentos de un altruista médico, el Dr. Jekyll, que busca métodos para eliminar el mal de la humanidad fracasan, encuentra un brebaje que lo...
Celebrado desde su publicación incial como el relato clásico de una muchacha del barrio latino de Chicago, La casa en Mango Street ha sido elogiado por los críticos, acogido por los niños y sus...
