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This pocket-size guide provides parents and teachers the opportunity to teach more than 500 basic American Sign Language (ASL) signs to their infants, toddlers, and young children.

G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown may seem a pleasantly doddering Roman Catholic priest, but appearances deceive. With keen observation and an unerring sense of man's frailties-gained during his years listening to confessions-Father Brown succeeds in bringing even the most elusive criminals to justice. This definitive collection of fifteen stories, selected by the American Chesterton Society, includes such classics as "The Blue Cross, ” "The Sec...

The Humphrey Jennings Film reader' tells the story of his brief, varied life in his own words, using many previously unpublished letters, treatments and screen-plays. it reprints all of his unpublished critical writings on literature, painting and other subjects (most of them unavailable in book form since the 1930s), the texts of his radio broadcasts for the BBC, and a selection of his poems.

New revelations about the secret war against Cuba

Hitler's desperate last throw during the depths of winter 1944/45 came perilously close to being a major disaster for the Allies. Their offensive through the Ardennes fell on the Americans and caught them totally by surprise. Unaccustomed to set-backs, the situation was for a time extremely serious and in some areas panic set in and events went out of control. It was only after the most bitter fighting and massive reinforcement that the rot wa...

An absolute beginner's guide to home baking. Every loaf is pictured in colour with clear, straightforward instructions.

The journal from eight action-filled patrols in the South Pacific

The crushing defeat suffered by the British Army by the Zulus at Isandlwana on 22 January 1879 is by any standards a gripping and shocking story. The discovery of a complete set of diaries written by a young Royal Artillery officer who was the only survivor of his unit which lost all their guns is a very important find. Not only does this superb record tell of the dramatic events of that fateful day but it captures the atmosphere of the whole ...

India is widely regarded as the most celebrated case of a "failed" developmental state, seemingly the exception that belies the prediction of a triumphant Asian century. Its central political and economic institutions have been variously characterized as both "soft" and "strong"--at once weak, predatory, and interventionist. Aseema Sinha presents an innovative model that questions conventional views of economic development by showing that the ...

Close-quarters combat during the Korean War

31 great pop/rock songs, including: Bennie and the Jets * Brown Eyed Girl * Crazy Little Thing Called Love * Good Times * I Did It * Maneater * Smooth Operator * Veronica * You Oughta Know * and more.

In The Chevalier de Montmagny, Jean-Claude Dubé documents the extraordinary career of Charles Huault de Montmagny, first governor of the colony of New France. Born in Paris in 1601, and educated by the Jesuits, Montmagny studied law at the Université d'Orléans, joined the Order of Malta, and enjoyed a colourful career as a Hospitalier privateer in the Mediterranean, before arriving in New France in the spring of 1636.While Montmagny wasted lit...

In northwestern New Mexico's Chaco Canyon lies a spectacular array of ruins. Like Stonehenge, they are both a monument to our pre-history and a cryptic puzzle. We know that in Chaco Canyon, one thousand years ago, there arose among the Pueblo people a great and culturally sophisticated civilization. But many questions remain: Just what function did Chaco Canyon fulfill? How great was its extent and influence? Why did its culture collapse? Firs...

A reader-friendly presentation of the history of Christianity from the time of Jesus to the early missionaries in the sixth century A.D., written by one of the evangelical world's most respected professors.

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En esta aventura, Kika investiga el misterioso robo de la bicicleta de su madre. De pronto, y gracias a la magia, se encuentra siguiendo las huellas del ladrón de bicis más astuto de la ciudad. ¡Un caso superdifícil para Kika Superbruja!

For thousands of years ships have sailed the seas of the world, but little thought goes into what happens to a ship when it reaches the end of its natural life. Some, like Titanic or Exxon Valdez, are wrecked, some are left to rot, some are broken up for scrap and recycled, others go on to fulfil new roles whether as a floating warehouse or hotel, as a training ship or a heritage ship, and a few have salvageable parts sold from them which surv...

The long-awaited memoirs of New Directions' founder. James Laughlin, the late founder and publisher of New Directions, was also a poet of elegance and distinction. At his death in 1997 at the age of eighty-three, he left unfinished his long autobiographical poem, Byways. It is no exaggeration to say that his publishing house, which he began in 1936 while still an undergraduate at Harvard, changed the way Americans read and write serious litera...

A collection of pieces by convicted murderer, Erwin Jones, which appeared in "The Guardian". Controversial content on the British prison service - will generate media interest. "What does it say about a man who has done almost twenty years in prison that his writing should be marked by such humanity, compassion and wisdom". Ronan Bennett.

Karl Wolff stood at the top of the infamous Nazi hierarchy. Involved in some of the most gruesome atrocities, Wolff was promoted to general then to SS and became police chief in Italy in 1943-1045.