Contains the text of letters that the famed author wrote to children, as he shared his feelings about school, writing, and animals, among other topics, and demonstrated his deep understanding of young people. Reprint.[...]

Following the sensational success of her first book, Coming of Age in Samoa, Margaret Mead continued her brilliant work in Growing Up in New Guinea, detailing her study of the Manus, a New Guinea people still untouched by the outside world when she visited them in 1928. She lived in their noisy fish[...]

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world."--Margaret Mead This quotation--found on posters and bumper stickers, and adopted as the motto for hundreds of organizations worldwide--speaks to the global influence and legacy of the American anthropologist Mar[...]

If you have ever wanted to learn to play all sorts of Guitar styles from Pop and Rock to Jazz and Blues, then this book is for you! "Learn To Play Guitar In 24 Hours" offers you 24 clear, self-contained lessons fully illustrated with photographs, diagrams and musical examples, for you too take at yo[...]

Offering coverage of the major points of the CIMA 2006 certificate syllabus, these revision cards use diagrams and bulleted lists to display the key points.[...]

Georgina, a succubus who draws her power from other men's pleasure, finds her personal life in chaos as she deals with a possessed co-worker, her immortal best friend's obsession with an ultra-conservative talk radio star, and a rising evil. Original.[...]

Mead may have been "discovered," as some suggest, when one of our not-yet-upright forebears stuck their hand in a fermenting bee hive and came away with a honeycomb containing a little more than they bargained for. Whatever the truth, brewers have brought this beverage into the twenty-first century,[...]

As anthropologists, public intellectuals, and feminists, Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead played remarkable roles in twentieth-century life and thought-and far beyond the academy. Their work helped to popularize anthropology while introducing such terms as culture and racism into common parlance. At [...]