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A boxed set including the popular Arte Kids board books. Titles included are: "1, 2, 3, Si, Hello Circulos, Colores Everywhere, Amazing Animales, " and "Black & Blanco.

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An international exploration of how our physical environments shape and define us

This volume chronicles the compelling history of Robert B. Green Memorial Hospital in San Antonio, Texas, a nationally recognized teaching hospital and its network of outpatient healthcare centers with archival photographs and extended captions.

Six short stories about the natural world by the National Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams

Intelligent commentary about the history, people, and politics of San Antonio

An accessible and lively portrayal of 100 moments that define the epic history of Mexico

This board book introduces children to the wonders of nature by connecting them to art in a unique, fun, and colorful way. Work from the collections of the San Antonio Museum of Art is incorporated with phrases and words in English and Spanish. Full color. 7 x 7.

Introducing children to body concepts by connecting them to art in a unique, fun, and colorful way, this board book invites readers to dance and play using bilingual language and art imagery that ignites their imagination. Full color. 7 x 7.

Hailed by book reviewers as a "masterpiece, " "gorgeous and fascinating, " and "sheer pleasure, " Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape was published in fall 2006 in hardcover. It was met with outstanding reviews and strong sales, going into three printings. A language-lover's dream, this visionary reference revitalized a descriptive language for the American landscape by combining geography, literature, and folklore in one volume. T...

The Road of a Naturalist is a fascinating autobiographical wonder written by one of America's most beloved naturalists at the height of his fame. A scientist, a philosopher, and a poet, Donald Culross Peattie takes us on an confessional journey across the landscape of his life. Told in flashbacks of years past and interspersed with impressions of a journey by motorcar across the American West, it is intensely personal. It is American in the be...

A volume for a lifetime" is how The New Yorker described the first of Donald Culross Peatie's two books about American trees published in the 1950s. In this one-volume edition, modern readers are introduced to one of the best nature writers of the last century. As we read Peattie's eloquent and entertaining accounts of American trees, we catch glimpses of our country's history and past daily life that no textbook could ever illuminate so vivid...

A Gathering of Birds is an anthology containing selected prose about birds by nineteen famous authors, such as Hudson, Audubon, and Thoreau, and includes brief biographical information about each. The New York Times called the collection "a delightful 'gathering' that Mr. Peattie has presented, and his own contributions to the book make it something new and valuable in this field.

Cargoes and Harvests, famed naturalist Donald Culross Peattie's first book, eloquently explores agriculture and trade within America's past using thoughtful language that is well ahead of its time. Originally published in 1926, Peattie takes readers on a compelling adventure through the socioeconomic histories of staples such as tea, coffee, cocoa, potatoes and tobacco. Starting with the seeds and roots of the American landscape, Cargoes and H...

Diversions of the Field contains a collection of essays tackling the subjects of hunting, fishing, game animals, and wildlife throughout different regions of the country. The Atlantic called it "a refreshing animal book, " and The New York Times praised Peattie's work, contending that "it is written by a naturalist, who is at heart a poet, to the land that bore him.

A Book of Hours contains 24 essays, one for each hour of the day, that seek to bridge the gap between definitive scientific philosophy and the sheer unadulterated beauty that Donald Culross Peattie envisioned within everyday life. The Boston Transcript referred to this collection as "science, in sheer poetry, " and the Chicago Daily Tribune mused that "it leaves one a better man for having read it" and offers "the inevitableness of natural law...

An Almanac for Moderns contains a short essay for each day of the year that contemplates a unique but factual aspect of unbridled nature. According to a review in Nation, this collection of essays manages to "appeal to the ordinary lover of nature ...but the turn of Peattie's mind is poetic and speculative." The New York Times calls this book "a fine and subtle perception ...rising at times to an intense lyric beauty ...a book which the reader...

In these thoughtful, richly personal essays, Marianne Boruch takes a fresh view on old poets, considering such questions as how the atomic bomb changed William Carlos Williams's poetry and how Edison's listening, through his famous deafness, informs our sense of poetics. Other essays explore how the car's danger and solitude helps us understand American poetry, and how Dvorak and Whitman shared darker things than their curious love for trains....