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This series traces the growth process of a particular plant or animal, using simple, clear texts and detailed, full-color artwork.

This series traces the growth process of a particular plant or animal, using simple, clear texts and detailed, full-color artwork.

Back in print by popular demand--"A stunning revelation of the historical Macbeth, harsh and brutal and eloquent." --Washington Post Book World.With the same meticulous scholarship and narrative legerdemain she brought to her hugely popular Lymond Chronicles, our foremost historical novelist travels further into the past. In King Hereafter, Dorothy Dunnett's stage is the wild, half-pagan country of eleventh-century Scotland. Her hero is an ung...

Lost Trails of the Cimarron" is Harry Chrisman's folk history of nineteenth-century Cimarron country - southwestern Kansas, southeastern Colorado, and the neutral strip of Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle. Buffalo hunters entered the area in violation of the Medicine Lodge Treaty, followed by cowboys and settlers who formed a vast economy based on grass and beef, the beginnings of prominent cattle ranches such as Westmoreland-Hitch Outfit. Chr...

The extraordinary life of Jackie Robinson is illuminated as never before in this full-scale biography by Arnold Rampersad, who was chosen by Jack's widow, Rachel, to tell her husband's story, and was given unprecedented access to his private papers. We are brought closer than we have ever been to the great ballplayer, a man of courage and quality who became a pivotal figure in the areas of race and civil rights.Born in the rural South, the son...

When it rains on Bear's birthday, Grandfather decides to take Bear and his boy, Yancy, to a children's play at the museum, where Bear finds the perfect gift for a rainy spring day.

This practical guide book for today's Christian describes the time-tested method of praying with the Scriptures for wisdom and guidance and joy.

In the illuminating language of memory, Deborah McDowell tells the story of her family, living a segregated life in Bessemer, Alabama, where her father worked at U.S. Foundry and Pipe, nicknamed Pipe Shop. Through the intimate details of their daily lives, she shows us how civil rights affected a working-class town, among three generations of women and men. McDowell movingly uncovers a world rarely portrayed, where she was raised to love the s...

Argues that people make themselves more powerless than they need to be, and that this attitude undermines one's personal effectiveness in both love and work and negates one's willingness to pursue any large-scale visions of political or social change.

Sanu (mother born in Baltimore, father born in Senegal), Eric (mother born in New York City, father born in Puerto Rico), and April (both parents born in Taiwan) live in New York City. Their families live with one foot in America and one in another country. These first-person accounts illuminate the uniqueness of ethnic tradition and reveal how it is fostered and adapted within a family. Full-color photos.

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A delightful color look at the world of horses and horse owners, "Just Horses" examines all aspects of life with equines, from the thrill and promise of a new foal to a stallion's majestic beauty and grace. 200 color photos.

Marley has lived in heaven with her parents and her brother for 12 years since the accident. She can't imagine her life any other way, but she may have to. Does Marley have the perfect life, or is her life the perfect lie?

Published originally in 1920, this classic fly-fishing book begins with a delightful essay on the joys of angling, then proceeds to describe in detail the steps to making a bamboo fly-fishing rod. There are numerous illustrations by the author to supplement the text. It took many years to acquire this highly sought after classic.

Find Out About Series" books are the ideal introduction to information in a variety of different ways and at a number of different levels. They have wonderfully clear and well-labelled full-color photographs and illustrations. The text and language level are carefully designed for very young children.

Identifying American Furniture offers answers to the questions most people ask about furniture: "What style is that?" "How can you tell?" and "When was it popular?" Curators, collectors, appraisers, connoisseurs of furniture, and students of history, architecture, and the arts -- as well as those just learning the fascination of stylistic trends in American furniture -- will find this succinct handbook essential.Styles are arranged chronologic...

In this beautiful book, angels sing and rejoice, dance with delight, comfort the fearful, and help people find their way.

A relatively brief but comprehensive history of Christianity. Includes stories of the martyrs, councils, reformers, doctrines, missionary ventures, etc. Covers the entire scope of how Christianity began and what it has become.

Initiated by international scholars as a Catholic and ecumenical, academic and pastoral enterprise, The International Bible Commentary brings together many voices, Catholic and ecumenical, speaking from different cultural perspectives to God's Word.1