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Published in 1898, this abundantly illustrated trade catalog advertised tools, fertilizers, insecticides, and other essentials for the turn-of-the-century garden, farm, greenhouse, lawn, orchard, poultry yard, stable, and household. Includes butter printers, cast-iron field rollers, broadcast seeders, corn harvesters and huskers, root cutters, cider mills, veterinary remedies, and more. Approximately 680 black-and-white illustrations.

Shulman, an award-winning cookbook author who had her first baby when she was in her 40s, and Davis, an ob/gyn at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center present this sensible guide that provides all the information that expectant mothers need to keep themselves and their babies healthy.

From the widely acclaimed author of "The Last Life" come two extraordinary novellas that explore isolation, loneliness, and love. Far-flung settings and universal themes give a sweeping appeal to Claire Messud's work.

A resume and job-hunting guide for grads, this work is useful for grads in the 18- to 24-year-old age bracket. Written by the bestselling career author team of Jay Block and Mike Betrus, this book includes resumes for more than 50 areas of specialization, and job-hunting strategies, from networking to job-hunting etiquette.

Teaching the lessons of New York's most famous public school, Deborah Meier provides a widely acclaimed vision for the future of public education. With a new preface reflecting on the school's continuing success.

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Bulwer-Lytton is legend nowadays for the qualities of his prose: but we find his prose attractive, in its languid way, and certainly the man was a profound thinker. "Vril" is a mysterious energy used by Lytton's subterranean race -- refugees from the deluge that submerged Atlantis -- to power their advanced civilization. Generations of occultists have mistaken this bit of business for something other than fiction, and still more generations of...

There is a great doppelganger tradition in literature, but there is nothing is quite like Fyodor Dostoevsky's _The Double_. (Jacketless library hardcover.)

Includes character profiles of the twelve animal signs of Chinese astrology, and how they interact.

A selection of IQ tests compiled by Mensa UK puzzle editors.

This is a practical, comprehensive, and inspirational guide to living a wheat-free, gluten-free lifestyle. Millions of people are choosing to eliminate wheat and gluten from their diets because of medical conditions such as celiac disease (sprue), gluten intolerance, wheat allergies, and autoimmune disorders. Others believe that dietary intervention programs are effective in reducing or eliminating behaviors associated with autism, ADD, ADHD, ...

Carnival takes on social and political importance in this recognized classic. The people of the shantytown Calvary Hill, usually invisible to the rest of society, join the throng and flaunt their neighborhood personas in masquerade during Carnival. Aldrick, the dashing "king of the Hill, " becomes a glorious, dancing dragon, his lovely Sylvia, a princess, Fisheye, rebel idealist, a fierce steel band contestant, and Philo, Calypso songwriter, a...

A trace of Raymond Carver mixed with Dave Barry. "What a good read!"--Norman Mailer

Veteran activist Mab Segrest takes readers along on her travels to view a world experiencing extraordinary change. She visits Beijing, for the Fourth World Conference on Women, Atlanta, to examine gentrified Olympic development, Memphis, for the twentieth anniversary of Elvis's death, Honolulu, for a conference linking gay issues, and Johannesburg and Harare, Zimbabwe, for a world gathering of Christians. The book is a journey of both intellec...

Take a luminous journey deep into the heart of hidden Venice, with Frederick Franck as you guide. His quietly evocative drawings and descriptions bring to vivid life the city of islands, La Serenissima, the Queen of the Sea, "that most human of cities, " Venice.