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John Goodall weaves together the story of the castle throughout English history. From the medieval period to Civil War engagements, right up to modern manifestations in Harry Potter, Goodall reveals that the castle has always been put to different uses, and to this day continues to serve as a source of inspiration.

The creators of the critically-acclaimed Windy Days, Sunny Days and Snow Days return with a new Toddler Tough padded hardcover celebrating rainy weather in their signature collage art and whimsical rhyme

Daniel is preparing the gift of whistling for his new adoptive baby sister.

Pinki hails from a long line of rakkosh resisters, demons who have spent years building interspecies relationships, working together to achieve their goal of overthrowing the snakey oppressors and taking back their rights. But she has more important things to worry about, like maintaining her status as fiercest rakkosh in her class and looking after her little cousins. There is also the teeny tiny detail of not yet being able to control her fi...

A dazzlingly unconventional love story for readers of Ask Again, Yes and Tell the Wolves I'm HomeThe summer before Sally Holt starts the eighth grade begins as a gloriously uneventful one. It's full of family trips to the beach and long afternoons at the local pool with her older sister Kathy, which they mostly use as an excuse to ogle Billy Barnes, who works the concession stand there. A rising senior and local basketball star, Billy has been...

In Smile, Sophia, a smart, relatable picture book by author/illustrator Skylaar Amann, a serious dino-loving little girl just doesn't feel like smiling...and that's okay.Sophia loves finding fossils and digging up dinosaur bones. But she doesn't love the way all the grownups just want her to smile. What does smiling have to do with the very serious business of being a scientist?! She'll smile when she has something to smile about! In this pict...

Life sucks for Vanessa. Her mother just died and her boyfriend is cheating on her (with her own sister!). To clear her mind, Vanessa is taking the California road-trip that she's been dreaming about for years. Her postcard-perfect drive through old growth forests quickly turns when THE BREACH hits. A bizarre anomaly in the sky plunges California into a nightmare-world populated with strange, extra-dimensional creatures. Now Vanessa, along with...

Bringen Sie Ordnung in den Klassenraum Ordnung und Sauberkeit sind sicherlich Eigenschaften, die Grundschüler*innen mehr oder weniger im heimischen Umfeld von ihren Eltern lernen. Und deshalb sind diese Tugenden auch mehr oder weniger stark ausgeprägt. Wenn in Ihrem Klassenzimmer die Unordnung überhandnimmt und sich das Chaos einzelner auf die gesamte Klasse ausweitet, ziehen Sie die Notbremse! Dieser Band unterstützt Sie dabei. Einfache I...

Ferlinghetti: A LifeThis expanded edition of Ferlinghetti: A Life-published one year after Ferlinghetti's passing in 2021 at the age of 101-includes a fascinating, hilarious new foreword about how the book came to be written in the late 1970s, an epilogue covering the last forty years of Ferlinghetti's life, and a personal, tender afterword about the long relationship between the author and his subject.Originally published in 1979, long out-of...

From the bustling cityscape of New York to the sloping hills of San Francisco, Shrimp ‘n Lobster are keen to explore the characteristic sights of cities around the United States. In this third installment, the animated duo takes to Yankee territory to discover landmarks like the USS Constitution, Paul Revere House, and Fenway Park, the home of the Boston Red Sox. Filled with spirited illustrations and local charm, this guide to New England wil...

The usefulness of time and place as defining categories would seem to be baked into the very notion of nineteenth-century American literary studies, yet they have challenged scholars practically since the field's inception. In Neither the Time nor the Place seventeen critics consider how the space-time dyad has both troubled and invigorated Americanist scholarship in recent decades and make explicit how time and place are best considered in ta...

The usefulness of time and place as defining categories would seem to be baked into the very notion of nineteenth-century American literary studies, yet they have challenged scholars practically since the field's inception. In Neither the Time nor the Place seventeen critics consider how the space-time dyad has both troubled and invigorated Americanist scholarship in recent decades and make explicit how time and place are best considered in ta...

A user-friendly introduction to the Old Testament prophetic books"This survey textbook is grounded in the view that the prophetic books of the Old Testament should be read as Christian Scripture. Although it covers critical issues such as authorship, background, and history, its primary focus is on the message and theology of the prophetic books and the contribution they make to the Christian canon. The prophetic books covered are Isaiah, Jere...

Have we gotten manhood all wrong?The world needs real men. But here's the problem: While we know what men are not supposed to be, it's not clear to us what masculinity looks like when men are at their absolute best.Into our cultural confusion, Brant Hansen paints a refreshingly specific, compelling picture of what men are designed to be: keepers of the garden. Combining depth and humor, he calls for men of all interests and backgrounds (includ...

Discover the faith-strengthening power of hopeHave you ever felt hopeless? Perhaps you're facing circumstances you never prepared for or even imagined. Maybe you're looking for any hint of encouragement, any inkling that this--whatever your this might be--won't last forever or destroy you. Maybe you're afraid to hope, or you're not even sure what hope is. Part of a four-book Bible Study series, Create in Me a Heart of Hope walks you through Go...

This book investigates institutional dimensions of urban water supply in India, with a specific focus on institutional capabilities to provide drinking water to urban households in an efficient, equitable and sustainable manner. This book has been developed through empirical research within the context of growing urbanisation and increasing water needs of Indian cities, and the wider developmental goal of achieving universal and equitable acce...

Seeing and imagining music in a pandemic: a dialogue of found scenes and inspired sounds between two protagonists of experimental musicKnown for his ability to locate music and sound in the most unexpected contexts, artist Christian Marclay (born 1955) began photographing the emptied London streets when the world shut down in the spring of 2020. He found the quiet--the absence of all the city sounds--both haunting and peaceful. On his daily wa...

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A work of brilliant and innovative historical fiction, Asylum delves into the disturbing and seductive relationship between a young hysteric named Augustine and renowned nineteenth-century French neurologist J.M. Charcot. As Charcot risks his career to investigate the controversial disease of hysteria, Augustine struggles to make him acknowledge their interdependence and shared desires-until a new lover, M., drives them all to the brink of fra...

Reading Great Literature as a Spiritual DisciplineHow do we become better people? We often settle for small goals--frugal spending, less yelling at the kids, more time at the gym--but we are called to something far greater. We are created to be holy.In The Scandal of Holiness, award-winning author Jessica Hooten Wilson shows that learning to hear the call of holiness requires developing a new imagination--one rooted in the act of reading. Read...