This doodle book lets children strut their stuff as a fashion designer, drawing garments from dresses to hats and putting together their own fashion line. Ages: 8+.
The stories in John J. Clayton's newest collection are luminous, expressing a struggle to see growth and meaning in life as much as possible. Nearly all focus on family, and the characters, most of them Jewish, grapple with questions of living, dying, loving and worshipping. These are masterful stories of spiritual questing, emotional depth and often great humour.
In Pirates You Don't Know, John Griswold writes poignantly and hilariously about the contingent nature of this life, tying it to his birth in the last American enclave in Saigon during the Vietnam War, his upbringing in a coal town in southern Illinois, and his experience as an army deep-sea diver and frogman. He investigates class in America through four generations of his family and portrays the continuing joys and challenges of fatherhood w...
One of the few books to recount events from both American and Iraqi perspectives, Fallujah Awakens tells the story of the remarkable turnaround that began to take place in 2006-2007. Journalist Bill Ardolino explains how local tribal leaders and US Marines forged a surprising alliance that helped secure the famous battleground.
Was macht FINE aus? Jede Ausgabe - vierteljährlich mit über 160 Seiten erscheinend - ist reich an passionierten, überraschenden Reportagen, exklusiven Hintergrundgeschichten und aktuellen Degustationen - ausschließlich über die edelsten Weine der Welt. Kenner schreiben hier für Kenner über die größten Kunstwerke des Weins, ihre Entstehung, ihre Pflege, ihre Geschichte und ihren Mythos. FINE erschließt mit außergewöhnlicher Fotografie und anspr...
A collection of 50 recipes from the brilliant young chef Greg Marchand, organised seasonally, with step-by-step photos. Includes new techniques, and vibrant juxtapositions of flavours, colours and textures.
Instead of asking literature to meet the entertainment, cultural, and of course educational needs of today's youth, Literature Activities Teens Actually Love empowers teachers to guide students in working with literature on their own terms in order to rediscover the joys it holds.
Plucky toddler Edgar the Raven is mischievious, disobedient and contrary, but his mum knows a bedtime story will settle him down. A BabyLit First Steps picture book. Ages: 3+.
This book is a comprehensive blueprint of the Five Ps of Marketing (www.The5Ps.com): Product, Packaging, Price, Promo, and Place. Using the Five Ps presents you with key strategies and principles to deliver "must-have" solutions for your current and future business needs. Inside are several strategies for anyone who wants to learn how to identify, create, and deliver a hi-tech product or service that will be purchased by a critical mass of peo...
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which the Great Western Railway has changed and developed over the last century between Paddington and Swindon.
In this accessibly-written volume, central issues in global energy are discussed through interdisciplinary dialogue between experts from both North America and Europe. The first section provides an overview of the nature of the global energy. In the second section, contributors outline the technology and policy issues facing the development of major conventional and renewable energy sources. The final section explores policy and technology cha...
Presumption of Guilt examines the excessive use of pretrial detention: the practice of jailing criminal defendants without trial. Around the world, millions of people who should be presumed innocent are held in pretrial detention for months or even years while they await trial. Many pretrial detainees are held in appalling conditions, tortured, denied medical care and access to a lawyer, and exposed to disease, they can lose their homes, jobs,...
This introduction surveys the theological, spiritual, and monastic writings of Basil of Caesarea, showing the importance of his work for contemporary theology and spirituality.
Studies indicate that approximately four percent of adolescents experience serious depression. Depression and other mood disorders such as bipolar disorder, occur across all age groups, genders, economic classes, and ethnic groups. This informative title examines the causes and symptoms of depression and other mood disorders and provides information about treatment options. A chapter on caring for others discusses the difficulties young people...
