Is (short for Isabett) Twite is the younger sister of Dido, every bit as spunky and compelling as her older sibling and with the same habit of attracting bizarre adventures. Is, travelling north to fi
Lyrical text and lush pictures show how woodland animals prepare for winter -- and find food after a big snowstorm, with a little help from some human friends.
- The Salt Roads was published in Warner hardcover (0-446-53302-5) in 11/03 and received rave reviews.- Nalo Hopkinson made her debut with Brown Girl in the Ring (1998), winning the Aspect First Novel
Bear is a comic of doe-eyed hi-jinx, crazed slaughter, and expanding heads, all wrapped up with a fuzzy bow. See Bear suffer undignified ickiness, barely escape serious injury, and flee the deranged w
Presents opposing viewpoints on animals rights, with views on animal experimentation, cloning, slaughtering methods, and the granting of legal status to animals.
When was the clarinet invented? What is the best way to look after your violin? Why is a Stradivarius violin so special? Find out in this book! Packed with fascinating facts, helpful hints and perplexing puzzles, it also contains suggestions of violin music to listen to, advice about choosing a violin, and even ideas to make practicing fun!
The way of healing wounds takes you down Memory Lane to Feeling Falls, where you connect with old, unresolved feelings you can leave in the River of Release or Lake Letting Go. Eventually, you cross E
This work guides the reader through every stage of debt recovery, from deciding to take action to serving a claim and the trial itself. It deals comprehensively with enforcing judgement and features s
Cyrenaica is thought to have had extensive commercial links with the rest of the Greek world in the 4th and 5th centuries BC. This study aims to examine the nature, frequency and routes of trading bet
Eight archaeological papers, from the Fifth Annual Meeting of the EEA held in Bournemouth in 1999, discuss light equipment across the Classical world, with emphasis on artefacts and trade in the North
Pink Ice tells the compelling story of the political struggles over Antarctica and the South Atlantic. It shows how Britain and Argentina have sought to invest these thinly populated spaces with cultu
For years we have believed in development. Indeed, with all its hopes of a more just and materially prosperous world, development has fascinated societies in both North and South. Looking at this coll
Improve your garden, with the help of superb photos of real-life garden transformations and recipes for every type of paving. One section starts with grading a site and ends with directions for a foun
On January 30, 1945, in the heart of Japanese-held Luzon, the night suddenly exploded with gunfire around a heavily guarded Japanese POW camp. For the prisoners inside - men who had scraped, crawled,
Margaret Mead collaborated with her long-time colleague Rhoda M?traux in this unique study of French culture. The Hoover Institute at Stanford University originally published this volume, which grew o
Move over, Uncle John. Here comes a hipper book with engrossing-and just plain gross-articles on subjects other bathroom books barely touch: celebrities, sex, drugs, computers, and crime, along with p
While digging for dinosaurs, Dan and his dog Bouncer find an odd-shaped stone. Later, at the museum, Dan spies the awesome T. Rex skeleton – with a tooth missing – and the tooth gap looks just the rig
Developing a sense of adventure in learning can make all the difference between teaching incipient lifelong learners or struggling with apathetic students. In this engaging book, Mary Glover and Beth
“Have you ever thought how many things are really very smelly?”In this wildly outrageous and funny book are all the things that let off the stinkiest stinks and the strongest pongs, each dealt with in
With his astonishing future vision, Howard V. Hendrix has emerged as one of the new masters of science fiction, drawing extraordinary praise from his debut novel Lightpaths and the follow-up, Sta
Ziggy must be a part of me, because he feels as if he's been with me all my life. He kept popping up in one form or another in my work over the years. And actually, it feels more like I acknowledged h
For visitors traveling with children, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew are a wonderfully exciting, not to mention educational, destination for a day trip. This action-packed source of fun facts and acti
Heartbreaking and wicked: a memoir of stunning beauty and remarkable grace. Improbable friendships and brushes with death. A schoolgirl affecting the course of aboriginal politics. Elvis and cocktail
Collection of quirky papers from the second Society for Interdisciplinary Studies Catastrophists' Convention held in Cambridge in 1997. The papers bring together thoughts from a wide range of discipli
Born in Tblissi in 1924, Armenian director Sergei Paradjanov came to International attention with his 1964 film Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, which won 16 awards in festivals around the world. His s
When a race of elegant, superintelligent dogs arrives in twenty-first century New York, they become instant celebrities, but, unable to adjust to the modern world and confronted with an incurable dise
Students will enjoy developing their reading skills with these lavishly illustrated and entertaining tales by popular author Joy Cowley. Mrs. Wishy-Washy, the Meanies, the Jigaree, and Dan, the Flying
Ten stories provide jolting excursions through a world of desperation and fleeting transcendence, with protagonists ranging from a hard-luck fighter, to a drunken doctor in a remote African aid-statio
Edward Abbey was an anarchist, activist, philosopher, and the spiritual father of the environmental movement. He was also a passionate journal keeper, a man who filled page after page with notes, phil
Born into a noble French family, but cut off from his own class by an accident which left him with the stunted legs of a child, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec threw himself into the bohemian life of fin-de-si
This catalogue focuses on numismatic gold jewelry, from pendants set with coins and medallions to stamped pseudo-medallions, or a combination of both. Special attention is given to the technical issue
Picasso's name has become synonymous with creative genius, but who was he - a public figure who lived his life in the headlines, or a private person, unpredictable and filled with secrets? This portra
Sally, now 25, is comfortably settled with her child, Harriet, her work, and her London friends. But when a complete stranger claims to be both her husband and Harriet's father, Sally's whole world co
John Thomas, a boy who lives in the woods of Tennessee with his stern guardian Luke, leads a lonely, solitary life. One morning after a storm, he finds an injured bird and makes his pet. When another
