On one side is an army of gunmen dead-set on springing a murderous cohort from jail. On the other is Sheriff John T. Chance and his two deputies: one a recovering drunkard, the other a crippled codger. Also in their ragtag ranks are an unseasoned, trigger-happy youth and a woman with a past-- and her eye on Chance.

New Year's Eve in Las Vegas. Roulette wheels spin and the champaign fizzes. It's the perfect time to steal a kiss or a $25 chip. But for Danny Ocean and his 10 partners in crime, it's the perfect moment to steal millions. Danny devises a scheme to knock out power to the Vegas strip, electronically rig five big casinos vaults and raid them all at the same time.

"A unique collection of poetry so powerful that 100 grown men--bestselling authors, poets laureate, and other eminent figures from the arts, sciences, and politics--have been moved to tears. Here they deliver touching and insightful personal introductions to a range of beloved poems. Grown men aren't supposed to cry. Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, however, a rare and fascinating collection, will profoundly move the strongest men--and women--to heartfelt...

V.1 includes poems by Nathaniel Ward, John Cotton, John Wilson, William Bradford, Edward Johnson, Roger Williams, John Fiske, Anne Dudley Bradstreet, Samuel Danforth I, John Saffin, Urian Oakes, Michael Wigglesworth, John Cotton of "Queen's Creek," Edward Taylor, Benjamin Tompson, Richard Steere, Samuels Seawall, John Danforth, Cotton Mather, Mather Byles, Joseph Green, Ebenezer Cook, William Livingstone, Thomas Godfrey, and Nathaniel Evans. V.2...

""The only art I'll ever study is stuff that I can steal from." --David Bowie // Three years before David Bowie died, he shared a list of 100 books that changed his life. His choices span fiction and nonfiction, literary and irreverent, and include timeless classics alongside eyebrow-raising obscurities. // In 100 short essays, music journalist John O'Connell studies each book on Bowie's list and contextualizes it in the artist's life and work. How...

An anthology of more than 1200 poems by 155 British and American poets, beginning with Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" and culminating during the first half of the twentieth century.

This book covers the demonstrations and revolutions in the Arab world, during the spring of 2011. It discusses the history of these revolutions, America's role in them, their causes, impact on the world at large and their implications for the future.

Contains brief biographical sketches of the 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787 as well as historical background information.