Direct from the creators of the Java(t) programming language, the completely revised fourth edition of The Java(t) Programming Language is an indispensable resource for novice and advanced programmers alike. Developers around the world have used previous editions to quickly gain a deep understanding[...]

"Pediatric Surgery, 7th Edition" - edited by Arnold G. Coran, Anthony Caldamone, N. Scott Adzick, Thomas M. Krummel, Jean-Martin Laberge, and Robert Shamberger - features comprehensive, up-to-date guidance on all aspects of childhood surgery, including congenital malformations, tumors, trauma, and u[...]

Patterns of Fashion 2 focuses on the eighty-year period preceding the Second World War. Beginning with a day dress from c. 1861-3 from the London Museum and ending with a 1938 Evening dress from the V&A costume historian and researcher Janet Arnold traces period and style and draws up patters from t[...]

No one interested in the history of dress, from art historians to stage designers, from museum curators to teachers of fashion and costume, can function effectively without Janet Arnold's "Patterns of Fashion" series, published by Macmillan since 1964. Since her untimely death in 1998, admirers of h[...]

Using a fictious character called Harry, this book offers theories about how children learn and applies the theories to their observations. This book demonstrates that how the character accesses each area of the curriculum through his interests. It also shows how he develops coping strategies when t[...]

4 cassettes / 4 hours
Read by LeVar Burton

AudioBook contains the historic recording of Jackie Robinson's Baseball Hall of Fame induction speech.

The extraordinary life of Jackie Robinson is illuminated as never before in this full-scale biography by Arnold Rampersad, who was chosen[...]

Updated version of a classic text (first published 1974 in Russian, and 1978 in English translation) by a man who for several decades has been universally acknowledged to stand at the forefront of the effort to clarify the deep mathematical problems to which classical mechanics gives rise, and who h[...]

Winslow Homer's primary medium was oil painting, although to make ends meet, he did commercial illustration and chronicled the New York City social scene. Eventually, Homer withdrew from city life altogether to settle at Prout's Neck in New England. There he turned to watercolor, in part for financi[...]

The Eighth Edition features a diverse and balanced variety of works and thorough but judicious editorial apparatus throughout. The new edition also includes more complete works, much-requested new authors, 170 in-text images, new and re-thought contextual clusters, and other tools that help instruct[...]

Now in a board book format, this delightful poem with charming folk-art style pictures from renowned illustrator Tomie dePaola is a perfect first book for sharing with young children.
"The sounds that animals make is the joyful subject of this very simple rhyme in the three verses and dePaola's [...]

This book explores one of the most dramatic features of the late medieval and early modern period: when voyagers from Western Europe led by Spain and Portugal set out across the world and set up links with Africa, Asia and the Americas.[...]

Shaping London, Shaping Lives explores the role and significance of hospitals as agents of change in London c1700-1840.[...]

Rev. ed. of: Occupational health services / Tee L. Guidotti, John W.F. Cowell, Geoffrey G. Jamieson; with the assistance and contribution of Alan L. Engelberg. c1989.[...]