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In earlier civilizations ruins were remainders and reminders of the glory of long passed times. People pondered what could still be seen of the palaces, great public buildings and places of worship. The everyday working world was left without any record to commemorate its importance. Ruins now occupy a special place in our contemporary landscape. Nearly everywhere there are vestiges of commercial buildings and machines that many people still r...

Knights in Shining Armor, is a scholarly significant, popularly written, and beautifully illustrated exploration of multiple roles of arms and armor in the Renaissance and Baroque societies.

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Organic Gardening is organized around the calendar year, starting in March. With humor and practical know-how, the author explains how to grow orchids or giant pumpkins, apple trees or a date palm from a grocery store date. Homeyer explains with charm how to garden organically and garden-interviews the late Tasha Tudor, Ray Magliozzi and special people like Donna Covais, a blind gardener and horticultural therapist, and JJ Sweeney who tends cu...

From Tokyo to Washington, D.C., [cherry blossom] festivals celebrate the ethereal and glorious springtime blooming of the ancient cherry blossom tree and its role today as an instrument of diplomacy, landscape enhancement, and eternal sign of spring and romance. Highlights [in this book] include the story of the trees' cultivation and significance in Japan for more than 1000 years, how they came to the U.S. and their importance as representati...

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A tale of terrible things that happen as situations go from bad to worse and well, just get better and then end happily ever after for Princess Olivia and her royal parents.

The hero of Cataneo's ... novel is thirteen-year-old Nicky Martini, who lives in an apartment complex known as 'Eggplant Alley' in the Bronx in 1970 and struggles to cope with a changing family, a changing neighborhood, and a changing world"--Amazon.com.

In A Child's Christmas in New England, Robert Sullivan and Glenn Wolff return together to their favorite subject. This is a memoir about a time when, and place where, (in the New England of the '50s and '60s), the snow was always deep and a light was always on in the window. At his daughter's urging Sullivan provides a Yuletide feast for the reader, full of his memories of childhood Christmases and recollections of his parents and grandparents...

Willow the Wallaby escapes from the Zoo and goes on a tour of Boston from Foxboro to Back Bay, riding Swann Boats, running the Marathon, hopping into the Science Museum and the Children's Museum before touring the Freedom Trail and taking the Duck Tour and the T to dozens more exciting places.Written in bouncy Wallaby Verse, practical and delightful, this guide will become a treasured memento of any visit to the Patriot City!

Wobar, a boy who can speak with animals, runs away from a new school with Roxie, a cougar. They encounter the ghost of a Revolutionary War soldier who was given, then lost, a magic, peace-dealing calumet (peace-pipe) and set off to find it.

What kind of adventure begins in the living room on a rainy Monday afternoon? It depends. Say you just found out that Granny, who raised you, is going to lose her house because there's nothing valuable left to sell except an unfinished tapestry. And say that your pet blackbird Mead starts talking and swells up to the size of large motorcycle, and that you suddenly find yourself on his back falling into what you could have sworn was just an old...

This introduction to the techniques and history of painting takes the young reader though more than 15, 000 years of art from cave painters to Picasso.

This is the visual history and annecdotal story of the mascots, pets, companions and best friends that have made up a whole side of air history retrieved from legendary archives of the National Air & Space Museum.

Old Glory: Unfurling History describes the histories and myths surrounding the flag of the United States of America from its revolutionary birth to the present day, and is lavishly illustrated from the archives of the Library of Congress. The Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia in the winter of 1776, received an urgent message. "Please fix upon some particular colour for a flag." It was from an understandably exasperated George Washi...

From the time of the Crimean War in 1853 to the Second Gulf War, Evans tells the stories of war correspondents who served as the "eyes of history": Ernest Hemingway, Alexander Dumas, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, John Steinback, and others. Full color. 90 photos.

Diane Asseo Griliches observes the many distinctive and dynamic ways in which music teachers interact with their students. These 60 black and white photographs capture unique moments in the lively teaching sessions with great musician and teachers (YoYo Ma, Jimmy Heath, Roman Totenberg, Bobbie McFerrin, and Ravi Shankar, to name but a few in a world where one sees the passion, devotion, the joy and agony of hard work, the concentration and bod...

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Reprocessed with the latest computer technology, George Haas' superb photography evokes the sense of place that is Los Angeles' famously artificial landscape, most of which, given three weeks without watering, would dry up and blow away. This cutting-edge art photography in the grand tradition of both American documentary and landscape photography reprocessed with 21st century photography.