This third edition of Marie Clay's highly-valued An Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement presents her familiar assessment tasks designed for systematic observation of young children as they learn to read and write. Always respecting the author's intention, the editors have taken a fresh [...]

The death of her beloved novelist uncle forces thirty-two-year-old Violet Clay, currently producing jacket paintings for Gothic romances, to reassess her vision of herself as an artist and the evaded truths of her life. Reader's Guide included. Reissue. 12,500 first printing.[...]

An unforgettable and sweeping family saga from Markus Zusak, the storyteller who gave us the extraordinary bestseller THE BOOK THIEF This is a signed edition with limited copies available. The breathtaking story of five brothers who bring each other up in a world run by their own rules. As the Dun[...]

Among the world's most popular birds, hawks can be some of the hardest birds to identify. They're most often seen flying high above and at a distance. In the first edition of "Hawks in Flight," Pete Dunne, David Sibley, and Clay Sutton presented a holistic method of hawk identification, using genera[...]

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Provides a comprehensive account of the reactions between clay minerals and organic polymers. This book opens with a discussion of the structures of common clay minerals, clays colloid chemistry, and the behaviour of organic polymers at clay surfaces. It also includes a chapter on clay-polymer nanoc[...]

For more than two thousand years, a secret army of life-size terra-cotta soldiers lay buried underground in China. But in 1974, some farmers digging a well discovered the first of what turned out to be an army of more than 7,000. Who made them? And why? In this fascinating reader, kids will learn al[...]