Offers a constructive alternative to modern education by explaining how to help children grow toward full maturity through the emphasis of spritual values. This book is the basis for the Education for
Sixteen-year-old Mary records for a friend back in England her experiences during the difficult first eleven years of the New Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts.
Euripides' romantic melodrama of the reunion in Tauris of Iphigenia with the brother she thought was dead abounds in situations of danger and of touching reminiscence. Plays for Performance Series.
Poinsett, a journalist and long-time contributor to Ebony magazine, documents the remarkable influence that Louis Martin had on national politics for more than four decades. Chapters trace Martin's
This report uses information from the RAND RaDiUS research and development (R&D) database, complemented by agency interviews, to catalogue international cooperative R&D and to construct a fram
RAND designed the survey to assist states in defining problems with their employment-based health insurance markets and in analyzing the impacts of policy options. This report briefly describes the su
The authors find that in the long term, an air-launched military TAV would be more cost effective than a small expendable launch vehicle such as Pegasus.
In this handy little book, George Reid describes the numerous causes of compass error: variation, deviation, misalignment, lazy compass, frozen compass, and intermittent deviation.
The book is composed of 49 short chapters that develop classical monastic themes of hospitality, poverty, celibacy, and obedience, exploring what these might mean to men and women living at the end of
The Perfect Baby is a clarion call for a more realistic discussion of biotechnology. This captivating book offers balanced new insights for individual decisions and for public policy. --John Lachs, Va
The story of Kansas City's Plaza district is told with an array of photographs and artwork. Describes the development of the Plaza from its days as a hog farm to the Spanish architecture, sidewalk sh
After World War II Manya Gerson, a member of the Polish resistance, discovers her Jewish neighborhood in Warsaw has been obliterated and moves to a displaced persons camp in occupied Germany, where sh
Appalachian humor can be dry, colorful, and earthy, and this collection of over 450 jokes includes some of the best there is. The chapters vary greatly: Love and Marriage
A delightful story of how Little Jay Eagle is introduced to the concepts of honor in the martial arts. Book includes educational word games and vocabulary builders as well as interactive activities fo
Describes free attractions and events in and around London, with addresses, phone numbers, hours, and the nearest Underground stations and bus routes for each entry
Now in its 14th printing, I Am With You has been the best-selling devotional in the UK since then. These words of divine encouragement were given to John Wooley in his work as a hospital chaplain, an
The author turns to the great teachers of the past--Augustine, Maximus the Confessor, Bonaventure, Hugh of St. Victor, Calvin and Luther, George Herbert--to recover a spirituality that is rich with th
This miniature hardcover book has a magnet on the back so you can attach it to your refrigerator door, and a collection of great bread machine recipes inside.
This miniature hardcover book has a magnet on the back so you can attach it to your refrigerator door, and a collection of great pizza dough and topping recipes inside.
America's Best Brews describes and rates more than 375 of the best craft beers, identifies who actually makes them, explains how beer is made, guides you in homebrewing, lists beer festivals, and reve
Safety Preparations for Cruising begins with a discussion of gebneral preparations and proceeds to comprehensively cover safety material related to every facet of cruising. Topics include the structur
Type It Right! the little black book for your computer describes everything you'll need to know to create correctly-typed documents! Type It Right! represents a compilation of information and advice f
Universal service is a focal point of telecommunications policy in the 1990s, not only in the United States, but in every other country that has begun to liberalize or deregulate its telecommunication
Vincent Wingfield returns home to Virginia after four years of school in England to find conditions in the South and the country unsettled. War breaks out, and Vincent goes to fight for the South. He
The first book in Edward Stratemeyer's series for young people about the American Revolution. Follow Roger Morse and his friends as they help battle the British in a rousing adventure story. Written i
Ernst Gisel’s town hall for Fellbach is one of the very few buildings that make one enthuse about the town. Like Stirling’s Neue Staatsgalerie it invites you to linger – even without a reason: in the
A down-to-earth complete book on the study of horses, this book includes up-to-date information on over 50 breeds, history and evolution, and horse husbandry. Topics include reproduction and genetics,
Texas and Texans have been known to boast of having the best or the worst, the most or the least, the largest or the tiniest of just about everything. Join author Bill Cannon as he reveals facts that
Reconstructed from hundreds of survivors' accounts and naval documents and with a new preface that puts to rest several theories about the cargo of the fated ship, The Last Voyage of the Lusitania chr
However one regards the longstanding publish or perish credo of academia, 15 published wordsmiths (English and writing teachers, editors, and a psychologist) offer guidance on the idiosyncracies of wr
This report summarizes an examination of the air campaign planning process, including observation of how the process was conducted in recent exercises and a review of how the process was performed dur
Likened by critics to Garrison Keillor only more deliberate and elegiac Jim May writes the stories of his youth, growing up in the rural Midwest between the Truman and the JFK eras, where trading stor
No American history buff should be without this book, as it ties together the sights and scenes and places associated with turn-of-the-century Philadelphia.
A biography of the great America poet draws upon a broad range of sources and quotes liberally from Whitman's poetry to discuss his many jobs, his sexual fluidity, his solitariness, and his work
