Cannery Row is an English language novel by American author John Steinbeck. It was published in 1945. A film version was released in 1982. A stage version was produced in 1995. Cannery Row takes place on a small fictional street lined with sardine fisheries in Monterey known as Cannery Row (Ocean View Avenue in Monterey, the thinly disguised location, was later re-named "Cannery Row" in honor of the book). It revolves around the people living there during the Great Depression: Lee Chong, the local grocer; Doc, a marine biologist based on Steinbeck's friend Ed Ricketts; and Mack, the leader of a group of bums.
This book is by best-selling author, Josh McDowell. This incisive look at popular culture and American values in the light of 911 is not available in print or any other form. The tragedy of September 11 directly challenges post-modernism and commonly held popular views of relativism. In a culture the eschews moralism, 911 forces people to take sides and confronts them face to face with unspeakable evil. Some things really are immoral. A well-known apologist for the Christian faith, McDowell calls people to acknowledge and step up to the moral war that is being waged. Knowing Good from Evil is a thought-provoking book designed to challenge the very foundations of how you live.
100 Little Secrets Why Dogs Make Us Happy - The Science Behind What Dogs Lovers Already Know
Why do people who have dogs live happier, longer, and more fulfulling lives? Sociologists and veterinarians have spent years investigating the positive effects that dogs have on people's health and happiness yet their findings are inaccessible to ordinary people, hidden in obscure journals to be shared with other experts.
No one conducts a more chilling, suspenseful, thoroughly engrossing tour through the winding corridors of criminal behavior and the secret chambers of psychopathology than Jonathan Kellerman, the bestselling “master of the psychological thriller” (People). Now the incomparable team of psychologist Alex Delaware and homicide cop Milo Sturgis embark on their most dangerous excursion yet, into the dark places where risk runs high and blood runs cold.
If you're about to take off for a far corner of the globe where for the rest of your life you will hear and speak only Swahili, you won't need this book. But if every day of your life you're going to need your English in order to understand what you hear and read, and to make yourself understood, this book is for you. Language is your chief means of communication with the people around you, the most expressive way of getting your ideas, thoughts and wishes across. Many English-speaking people think they handle the language well. And many are still making the same grammatical errors, spelling the same words incorrectly, overworking the same cliches they were too lazy to correct 'way back.
