De'monte Love, a six-yr-old boy caught in the grips of the Hurricane Katrina storm with his family and others who lived in his apartment building showed true heroism - taking care of six-younger children, by himself he and the other children where dropped of by a rescue helicopter without any adults to help them. De'monte leventually got the attention of an ambulance driver who helped get De'Monte and the other children to a shelter where after a few days the children were all reunited with their parents who were resucued sometime after thier children.

The saying goes, defense wins games, offense entertains. In books 1 to 4 of the Love By the Yard series the men on the field are sure to entertain, but what happens after the final whistle blows. Two people—two different backgrounds—one goal—to learn to love one yard at a time. This collection contains all four the books on the offensive side of the ball. Discover Jermoe Speed, Dalton Gresham, Xavier Jackson and Beumont Guthry as they get schooled in the game of love.

Alexandre Dumas’ classic tale of revenge and redemption, The Count of Monte Cristo—Le Comte de Monte-Cristo is presented for the first time in English-French parallel text, complete and unabridged with black-and-white illustrations. The third of six, Volume Three includes chapters 39-57: Monte Cristo arrives in Paris and sets the stage for his persecutors to destroy themselves. The Bilingual Library presents the world’s classics in parallel text. Each page in the original language is mirrored by its English translation on the facing page. Series editor D. Bannon is a member of the American Literary Translators Association and the American Translators Association.

Alexandre Dumas’ classic tale of revenge and redemption, The Count of Monte Cristo—Le Comte de Monte-Cristo is presented for the first time in English-French parallel text, complete and unabridged with black-and-white illustrations. The fourth of six, Volume Four includes chapters 58-77: Monte Cristo courts Paris society while Noirtier and Haidee reveal their terrible secrets. The Bilingual Library presents the world’s classics in parallel text. Each page in the original language is mirrored by its English translation on the facing page. Series editor D. Bannon is a member of the American Literary Translators Association and the American Translators Association.

Alexandre Dumas’ classic tale of revenge and redemption, The Count of Monte Cristo—Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, is presented for the first time in English-French parallel text, complete and unabridged with black-and-white illustrations. The fifth of six, Volume Five includes chapters 78-97: Albert challenges Monte Cristo to a duel; Caderousse and Fernand meet their fates at last.The Bilingual Library presents the world’s classics in parallel text. Each page in the original language is mirrored by its English translation on the facing page. Series editor D. Bannon is a member of the American Literary Translators Association and the American Translators Association.

In the 1930s and ’40s, the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo toured the United States and the world, introducing many to ballet as an art form, while spreading the enduring image of the ballerina as an embodiment of feminine grace and sophistication. This sumptuous, illustrated history tells the story of the rise of modern ballet and its popularity through the life story of one of ballet’s most glamorous stars, Irina Baronova (1919–2008), prima ballerina for the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo and later for Ballet Theatre in New York. Drawing on letters, correspondence, oral histories, and interviews, Baronova’s daughter, the actress Victoria Tennant, warmly recounts Baronova’s dramatic life, from her earliest aspirations to her grueling time on tour to her later years in Australia as a pioneer of the art. She begins with the Baronov family’s flight from Russia during the Revolution, which led them to Romania and later Paris, where at the age of thirteen, Baronova became a star, chosen by the legendary George Balanchine to join the Ballets Russes, where she danced the lead in Swan Lake. Tennant provides an intimate account of Baronova’s life as a dancer and rare behind-the-scenes stories of life on the road with the stars of the company. Spectacular photographs, a mix of archival images and family snapshots, offer many rare views of rehearsals, costumes, set designs, and the dancers themselves both at their most dazzling and in their most everyday. The story of Irina Baronova is also the story of the rise of ballet in America thanks to the Ballets Russes, who brought the magisterial beauty and star power of dance to big cities and small towns alike. Irina Baronova and the Ballet Russes de Monte Carlo offers a unique perspective on this history, sure to be treasured by dance patrons and aspiring stars.

In Imagination, Meditation, and Cognition in the Middle Ages, Michelle Karnes revises the history of medieval imagination with a detailed analysis of its role in the period’s meditations and theories of cognition. Karnes here understands imagination in its technical, philosophical sense, taking her cue from Bonaventure, the thirteenth-century scholastic theologian and philosopher who provided the first sustained account of how the philosophical imagination could be transformed into a devotional one. Karnes examines Bonaventure’s meditational works, the Meditationes vitae Christi, the Stimulis amoris, Piers Plowman, and Nicholas Love’s Myrrour, among others, and argues that the cognitive importance that imagination enjoyed in scholastic philosophy informed its importance in medieval meditations on the life of Christ. Emphasizing the cognitive significance of both imagination and the meditations that relied on it, she revises a long-standing association of imagination with the Middle Ages. In her account, imagination was not simply an object of suspicion but also a crucial intellectual, spiritual, and literary resource that exercised considerable authority.