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On the publication of this book in 1941, W.W. Tarn described it in the Journal of Roman Studies as "the most important [work] which has appeared in our time on the Hellenistic world....a very great book, alike in its vast learning, in the ease with which the author handles this huge and complex mass of often very refractory material, in the closeness of its reasoning, and in the sanity of its judgments." Forty-seven years later, it is still th...

Paradise Isle is just a little bit of land in the middle of a muddy creek, but to Adam it is home. When the city decides to demolish everything on the island and build a motorway through it, Adam and his neighbors fight back. In the end of this, Charles Keeping's last book, everyone gets some of what he or she wants -- well, almost everyone.

Anna was 13 when the war started. Her sister Kati was 8 and her brother Nikki was 6. They lived in a small village in Germany and because they had black hair and dark eyes, the other children called them gypsies or Jews and threw stones at them. This is the story of how three German children went through the Second World War -- the trains, the air-raids, the fires, the Gestapo, the journeys -- and of how they matured and grew up on the edge of...

An absorbing activity book for very young children, it's a colorful show-and-tell resource. Pull the tab on every page and watch as four windows open. There is a barn, a castle, a cave, an igloo, a haunted house, and more. See who lives inside each of the dwellings and who finally invites the children in.

It started with a single seed, but soon Maisy took to planting seeds in every pot she'd got. Eventually a mammoth mountain of hanging, spotted, spiky, prickly, tickly potted plants grew as tall as the sky and rearranged everything -- and everyone -- in Maisy's house. You'll want to frame every exquisite full-page illustration.

Tom felt left out at the fair -- too young or too little to ride anything -- until he discovered the merry-go-round and climbed atop a magical horse. Colorful characters and thrilling action abound in the ensuing Golden Gallopers' Grand National Stakes and in this fast-moving fantasy from a gifted new artist.

If you have ever thought there might be someone hiding in your closet or underneath your bed when it's time to go to sleep, this gentle little book, with wonderful before and after (the light's turned on) pictures, will bring comfort and take away all those night-time fears.

Life felt dull and empty to Mr. Bunion after he retired -- uuntil the day he cleaned out his attic. When he puts on his old school cap, peculiar things began to happen, veryu peculiar indeed, and he becomes a boy again. In this brilliantly inventive, animatedly illustrated fantasy, Mr. Bunion discovers there is life after the "good old days.

for SATB and piano Jonathan Wikeley's choral arrangement of Vaughan Williams's Four Last Songs offers a new way to engage with these beautiful late works. The first and last songs are accompanied with the middle two unaccompanied. The original settings are available in the first volume of Collected Songs by Vaughan Williams.

for SATB and piano or small ensemble A collaboration with poet Charles Bennett, this celebratory work explores all that we can learn from the natural world. The work may be accompanied by piano, playing from the vocal score, or a small ensemble of flute, oboe, clarinet in A, horn in F, timpani, and organ, using the materials available separately.

This wartime biography of the Chester W. Nimitz, Commander-in-Chief of U.S. forces in the Pacific Ocean Area during World War II, gives a bird's eye view of the war from inside the theater headquarters of the man most responsible for eventual victory against Japan.

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This book provides a nonmathematical, descriptive approach to modern nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, using examples from organic, inorganic, and biological chemistry to help chemists decide which NMR technique will solve their particular structural or mechanistic problem. The authors offer practical advice about the acquisition and use of spectra, starting from the simple 'one pulse' sequence and moving on to consider multiple pulse a...

When Molly persuades her reluctant cat Marmalade to go shopping on a blustery day, neither can guess what's in store. The purchase of a duck-headed umbrella -- no ordinary umbrella -- soon propels them into a grand adventure. The book's beautifully detailed illustrations capture the whimsy of the story and add to its appeal.

This is the strange and mysterious story of Mr. Punch and how he became the wooden puppet that we all love to hate. In this richly and dramatically illustrated book, you'll meet Judy and her baby, Napoleon Bonaparte, the German Kaiser, Queen Victoria, and many odd and bizarre characters -- tops among them, Mr. Punch himself.

Discover things to make, games to play, mysteries to solve, a play to perform, stories and poems to savor. Learn about all the Christmas traditions: mistletoe, the Yule log, the holly and the ivy, Christmas puddings, Saint Nicholas, and Christmas in other lands. A perfect gift for the whole family and a wonderful resource for classroom activities.