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Peters--career soldier, controversial strategist, prize-winning, bestselling novelist, erstwhile rock musician, popular columnist, and old-fashioned adventurer--recounts the personal experiences that have shaped his views of the world.

This is the first work to highlight the contributions of regiments of the Pennsylvania Dutch and the post-1820 immigrant Germans at the Battle of Gettysburg. On the first day, the 1st Corps, in which many of the Pennsylvania Dutch groups served, and the half-German 11th Corps, which had five regiments of either variety in it, bought with their blood enough time for the Federals to adequately prepare the high ground, which proved critical in th...

This book contains a wealth of practical and specific activities and materials to use with infants and toddlers to enhance growth and development. Writing in the accessible style that her readers appreciate, Ann Lewin-Benham looks at current research from the neurosciences to show what teachers and childcare providers can do with very young children. For each material or activity presented, the text examines its relation to the rapid brain gro...

Mary Ann Larkin's book captures the intertwining of sensuality and spirituality, of physical and spiritual longing, in poems that wed narrative to lyric. They are always alive and surprising. Above all they are poems of love-of the body, the physical world, of friends, the past, the incomprehensible stars-that remain compassionate and clear-eyed beginning to end. -Jean Nordhaus

Martin Galvin's work reminds us that poems say things the way most people would say them if only they could. In conversation with the reader, many of these poems have a voice that rings with a slight Irish lilt, echoing his boyhood neighborhood in Philadelphia. But rising out of that, the voice is almost always quirky and folksy, angular and hooked, and yet somehow surprising and tender and lyrical. -Rod Jellema

In ten wilderness walks, mother and son explore natural history and the mystique of being human.

Drawing on his rich experience in public service and teaching, Jacques Parizeau, former premier of Quebec, explains in these pages how the idea of an independent Quebec first took root and evolved. This is the first book of Parizeau's political writing to be translated into English, and it provides lively commentary on the Quiet Revolution in the 1960s, on the the author's career as finance minister under Premier Rene Levesque, and on his own ...

Moldaw's "lyric junctures of shivering beauty" illuminate and transform the life within us all.

THE PHILOSOPHY OF AS IF" is a poetry collection that describes ideas that may not correspond with reality but help us to interact with reality better. Fiction writers often say that they tell a higher truth, but poets like to pretend that what they write is sincere, direct truth-telling. However poems are also fictions, and deal with what might be. Poets behave "as if" the world matches their models. The poems in this collection play on tensio...

Additional contributors to this collection include: Richard Van Camp, Joanne Arnott, Marilyn Dumont, Greg Scofield, John McDonald, Rolland Nadjiwon, Lesley Belleau, Al Hunter, Joseph Dandurand (Tony), Basil Johnston, and David Groulx.

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This text contains a comprehensive guide on creating the best possible horse, with complete information on how to know him, how to train him, how to breed him, how to shoe him, and how to drive him. This book comprises illustrations of the best contemporary trotting stock-horses in the United States, done from life, with their pedigrees, records, and full descriptions. The chapters of this text include: 'Points of a Horse, or the Marks by whic...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

George Sand was the pseudonym of Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin, Baroness Dudevant (1804-1876), the first female novelist in France to become popular.

Alexandre Dumas, born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (1802-1870) is one of the most widely read French novelists. Known for his historical adventure tales, many of his novels have been adapted for stage and screen. This novel is concerned with fraternal ro

Robert Keable (1887-1927) was a former Church of England minister. His first book, Simon Called Peter, about a priest's affair with a nurse during the First World War, was considered scandalous and brough him much notoriety. He moved to Tahiti and conti