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The current trends of living a sedentary lifestyle and eating ever-increasing fast-food portions has resulted in a large number of out-of-shape, energy-deficient children.

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These wonderful agreements and gadgets turn your everyday bidding system into something personal, something that fits the exact style that you and your partner want to play. And now you can choose from some seventy expert-level ideas to add to your bidding arsenal, quickly and painlessly.

So you tend to be dealt very bad hands. I know exactly you feel! But, facing the facts of life and recognising that it is not your fault, you are going to have to accommodate this failing and improve your defence. It is a hard part of the game, even in international competitions, the standard of defensive play is, to put it kindly, modest. Yes, you will get plenty of reports of brilliances involving spectacular switches, deceptions, unblocks a...

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The authors delve deeply inot the causes and dimensions of bullying and develop strategies that work to prevent child-to-child violence and treat its victims.

This is Dumas's ultimate D'Artagnan Romance. As it opens, Baisemeaux is conducting Aramis to see the eponymous prisoner.

True Books are an indispensable addition to any collection. Each book guides readers through the facts that nurture their need to know.Get down and dirty with this introduction to one of our most important resources. Learn how soil is formed, what it's made of, what it's used for, and how we can protect it from dangers like erosion and pollution.

She was the loneliest puppy in the litter—a deaf and partially blind albino Great Dane. She had huge, sky blue eyes. And when Dan Dye reached for her, she struggled to her feet like a clumsy foal, raised her forehead to his, and announced, as clearly as if she had actually spoken the words, You know I'm the one. Now get me outta here!

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The Muses Among Us is an inviting, encouraging book for writers at any stage of their development. In a series of first-person letters, essays, manifestos, and notes to the reader, Kim Stafford shows what might happen at the creative boundary he calls "what we almost know." On the boundary's far side is our story, our poem, our song. On this side are the resonant hunches, griefs, secrets, and confusions from which our writing will emerge. Guid...

In these 19 quirky, smart, and wryly humorous pieces, Solnit offers a nervy, eclectic, and lyrical exploration of aesthetic and literal landscapes. 60 photos.

DuBose Heyward (1885-1940) was a central figure in the Charleston and the Southern Renaissance. His influence extended to the Harlem Renaissance as well. However, Heyward is often remembered simply as the author of Porgy, the 1925 novel about the poorest black residents of Charleston, South Carolina. Porgy -- the novel and its stage versions -- has probably done more to shape views worldwide of African American life in the South than any twent...

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One upon a time" meets science in a children's picture book that tells the thrilling story of how life began on Earth. The second in a trilogy of Universe stories as told by the Universe, "From Lava to Life" picks up with the formation of Earth and the first presence of life forms as Earth triumphs over crisis to create bacteria, jellyfish, flowers . . . even dinosaurs.

This work of nautical history recounts the 1789-90 voyage from England to Australia of a ship full of female convicts. The book covers the women's crimes, trials, and appalling jails back home, which for many put a more favorable cast on the prison ship and the near-starving colony receiving them in Sydney Cove. Illustrations.

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The author of the acclaimed novel "Four Letters of Love, " Williams again features a father undone by grandiose dreams. His adventures--which tell the story of Ireland itself--unfold in passionate and vivid scenes with gypsies, horse races, sea voyages, and beautiful women.

This instruction book on how to live and actually enjoy life guides the millennial generation young adults in what to do now that they are out of college and living in the real world. It addresses such topics as avoiding debt, mastering job interviews, changing a tire, staying in shape, and maintaining a home.

By the end of World War I, in November 1918, Europe's old authoritarian empires had fallen, and new and seemingly democratic governments were rising from the debris. As successor states found their place on the map, many hoped that a more liberal Europe would emerge. But this post-war idealism all too quickly collapsed under the political and economic pressures of the 1920s and '30s. Howard M. Sachar chronicles this visionary and tempestuous e...