When a fourteen-year-old baseball player catches mononucleosis, he discovers that keeping a journal and experimenting with poetry not only helps fill the time...more details Format:hardback Pages:116
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KOERTGE
ISBN:9780195117264
Cultural critics say that 'science is politics by other means,' arguing that the results of scientific inquiry are profoundly shaped by the ideological agendas of powerful elites. Physicist Alan Sokal recently poked fun at these claims by foisting a sly parody of the genre on the unwitting editors of the cultural studies journal "Social Text"...more details Format:Paperback Pages:336
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Ron Koertge
ISBN:9780152058654
Larry, Teresa, and Elliot are so tight, there's no room in their circle for more than three: boy, girl, boy. And when they graduate, they plan to move to California to start their "real" lives--together...more details Format:Paperback Pages:168
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Ron Koertge
ISBN:9780152053253
Larry, Teresa, and Elliot are so tight, there's no room in their circle for any more than three: boy, girl, boy. That's just how it is. And when they graduate in a few months...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:164
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Ron Koertge
ISBN:9780613747691
The Branston High School Class of 2001 seems familiar enough on the surface: there's the Smart One, the Fat Kid, Social Conscience, Bad Girl...more details Pages:128
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Ron Koertge
ISBN:9780763617424
In a startling, often poignant student journal, acclaimed poet and novelist Ron Koertge creates a suburban high school both familiar and terrifying. The Branston High School Class of 2001 seems familiar enough on the surface: there's the Smart One...more details Format:Paperback Pages:113
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Ron Koertge
ISBN:9780744585216
In the school they call Brimstone, Judgement Day is fast approaching...Meet the Branston High School Class of 2001 - an average class in a suburban school. On the surface they seem recognisable enough: the Smart one...more details Format:Paperback
In a startling, often poignant student journal, acclaimed poet and novelist Ron Koertge creates a suburban high school both familiar and terrifying. The Branston High School Class of 2001 seems familiar enough on the surface: there's the Smart One...more details Format:Hardback
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Ron Koertge
ISBN:9780763635800
Ron Koertge's spot-on repartee highlights the wry, poignant tale of a teen who is numbed by loss but finds an unusual route to reclaiming his life. Listening to music 24/7. Hanging out with his slacker-stoner friend...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:212
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Ron Koertge
ISBN:9781557286116
Nobody writes poetry like Ron Koertge -- nobody has the nerve. From short, acerbic lyrics to hilarious prose poems about nutty German professors and Dracula's teenage girlfriend...more details Format:Paperback Pages:88
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KOERTGE
ISBN:9780195117257
Cultural critics say that 'science is politics by other means,' arguing that the results of scientific inquiry are profoundly shaped by the ideological agendas of powerful elites. Physicist Alan Sokal recently poked fun at these claims by foisting a sly parody of the genre on the unwitting editors of the cultural studies journal "Social Text"...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:336
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Ron Koertge
ISBN:9781597094672
Traditionally, the ghazal, an ancient Persian form, has a lot of requirements (couplets, rhyme, refrain), but one specific subject--love. Especially illicit and unattainable love. So what are readers to make of Ron Koertge's ghazals which are about...more details Format:Paperback Pages:69
In Plain, Unpretentious Language, with brutal honesty, Ron Koertge can meld violence, love, human ugliness, joy, and modern depravity into a short lyric that makes us laugh out loud or socks us in the gut. His images arrive in giant clown shoes -- cigars the size of Florida...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:128
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Ron Koertge
ISBN:9780763626792
"A meticulously crafted story of an unexpected friendship." -- THE HORN BOOK (starred review) An American Library Association Best Book for...more details Format:Paperback Pages:165
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Ron Koertge
ISBN:9781844281824
Drop-dead gorgeous, razor-sharp wit, charter member of the school's most popular clique - Margaux (with an "x") is too smart, too beautiful and too haunted to ever really connect with anyone. That is...more details Format:Paperback
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Ronald Koertge
ISBN:9780763624019
Margaux, known as a "tough chick" at her Los Angeles high school, makes a connection with Danny, who, like her, struggles with the emotional impact of family violence and abuse....more details Format:hardback Pages:176
Quick repartee. Unsparing wit. Insight, poignancy, and spot-on characters. Welcome the much-awaited sequel to the acclaimed Stoner & Spaz. Beautiful but troubled Colleen Minou is the only girl who ever looked at Ben Bancroft as more than a spaz-- more than just that kid with cerebral palsy. Yet the more time Ben spends with her...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:208
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Noretta Koertge
ISBN:9780918393128
For a balanced discussion of the main social, medical, and philosophical aspects of homosexuality, here is the ideal book. Written by philosophers of science...more details Format:Paperback Pages:100
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Daphne Patai;Noretta Koertge NorettaKoertge
ISBN:9780739104552
In this new and expanded edition of their controversial 1994 book, the authors update their analysis of what's gone wrong with Women's Studies programs...more details Format:Paperback Pages:456
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Daphne Patai;Noretta Koertge
ISBN:9780739104545
In this new and expanded edition of their controversial 1994 book, the authors update their analysis of what's gone wrong with Women's Studies programs...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:456
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KOERTGE
ISBN:9780195172249
There has been much debate recently about the relationship between science and politics. This volume of essays takes an affirming, positive view of the relationship between the values embodied in science (such as honesty and precision of language) and the nature of civil society. The contributors - who include philosophers...more details Format:Paperback Pages:256
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KOERTGE
ISBN:9780195172256
There has been much debate recently about the relationship between science and politics. This volume of essays takes an affirming, positive view of the relationship between the values embodied in science (such as honesty and precision of language) and the nature of civil society. The contributors - who include philosophers...more details Format:Hardback Pages:256
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Ron Koertge
ISBN:9780763629397
"This funny and poignant novel celebrates the power of writing to help young people make sense of their lives and unlock and confront their problems." - SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL (starred review) When MVP Kevin Boland gets the news that he has mono and won't be seeing a baseball field for a while...more details Format:Paperback Pages:116
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Ron Koertge
ISBN:9780756965716
"This funny and poignant novel celebrates the power of writing to help young people make sense of their lives and unlock and confront their problems." - SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL (starred review) When MVP Kevin Boland gets the news that he has mono and won't be seeing a baseball field for a while...more details Pages:116
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Ron Koertge
ISBN:9781417694938
"This funny and poignant novel celebrates the power of writing to help young people make sense of their lives and unlock and confront their problems." - SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL (starred review) When MVP Kevin Boland gets the news that he has mono and won't be seeing a baseball field for a while...more details
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Ron Koertge
ISBN:9780763644352
Fielding his social life is a bigger challenge for Kevin than hitting a fastball in Ron Koertge’s funny, insightful sequel to Shakespeare Bats Cleanup.
Fourteen-year-old Kevin Boland has a passion for playing baseball...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:170
Fielding his social life is a bigger challenge for Kevin than hitting a fastball in Ron Koertge's funny, insightful sequel to SHAKESPEARE BATS CLEANUP. Fourteen-year-old Kevin Boland has a passion for playing baseball...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
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Ron Koertge
ISBN:9780763621506
For sixteen-year-old Ben Bancroft -- a kid with cerebral palsy, no parents, and an overprotective grandmother -- the closest thing to happiness is hunkering alone in the back of the Rialto Theatre and watching Bride of Frankenstein for the umpteenth time. The last person he wants to run into is drugged-up Colleen Minou...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
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Ron Koertge
ISBN:9780613748209
For sixteen-year-old Ben Bancroft--a kid with cerebral palsy, no parents, and an overprotective grandmother--the closest thing to happiness is hunkering alone in the back of the Rialto Theatre and watching Bride of Frankenstein for the umpteenth time. The last person he wants to run into is drugged-up Colleen Minou...more details Pages:176
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Ron Koertge
ISBN:9780763657574
A funny, in-your-face novel starring an unlikely teenage pair - a sheltered cinemaphile with cerebral palsy and the tattooed, straight-talking stoner who steals his heart. For sixteen-year-old Ben Bancroft - a kid with cerebral palsy...more details Format:Paperback Pages:169
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Ron Koertge
ISBN:9780763616083
A funny, in-your-face novel starring an unlikely teenage pair - a sheltered cinemaphile with cerebral palsy and the tattooed, straight-talking stoner who steals his heart. For sixteen-year-old Ben Bancroft - a kid with cerebral palsy...more details Format:Hardback
A beautifully written, uncompromising yet poignant account of the relationship between a boy with cerebral palsy and a girl with a drug habit. Ben Bancroft is the invisible man. Nicknamed "Spaz" because of the cerebral palsy that has disabled him since birth...more details Format:Paperback
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Ron Koertge
ISBN:9780763627058
Could life as a foster kid lead to unexpected benefits? A teenager's link to animals gives way to human connection in a smart, incisive new novel. Sixteen-year-old Ted O'Connor's parents just died in a fiery car crash...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:167
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Ron Koertge
ISBN:9781406316124
A teenager's link to animals gives way to human connection in this smart, incisive new novel.Sixteen-year-old Ted O'Connor's parents just died in a fiery car crash...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:176
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Ron Koertge
ISBN:9780763643775
Could life as a foster kid lead to unexpected benefits? A teenager's link to animals gives way to human connection in a smart, incisive new novel. Sixteen-year-old Ted O'Connor's parents just died in a fiery car crash...more details Format:Paperback Pages:167
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Ron Koertge
ISBN:9780763626952
A trip out West to work at a racetrack -- and a sojourn with a sophisticated gay uncle -- bring unexpected discoveries in this quick-witted coming-of-age novel by the author of STONER & SPAZ and MARGAUX WITH AN X. From the moment sixteen-year-old Billy steps off the train in Tucson...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:304
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Noretta Koertge
ISBN:9780684313207
In December of 2007, Charles Scribner's Sons will release the first major reworking of the Dictionary of Scientific Biography, entitled New Dictionary of Scientific Biography...more details Format:Hardback Pages:4400
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Ron Koertge
ISBN:9780763626969
When a teenage boy's widowed mom gets a job as a stripper, it makes for some tricky social maneuvering in this coming-of-age story from the wonderfully witty Ron Koertge. "Anyway...more details Format:Paperback Pages:250
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Ron Koertge
ISBN:9780763625436
When a teenage boy's widowed mom gets a job as a stripper, it makes for some tricky social maneuvering in this coming-of-age story from the wonderfully witty Ron Koertge. "Anyway...more details Format:Hardback