"Not only has irresistible charm but in Cousins's signature fashion, there's a lot to learn. . . . There's a world of interactive enjoyment here." -- Booklist (starred review) Little woodpecker has just learned to peck. He's having so much fun that he peck-peck-pecks right through a door and has a g[...]

A "hole" lot of fun!Today my daddy said to me, "It's time you learnt to peck a tree." Little Woodpecker has just learnt how to peck and - ooh! yippee! - what fun it is! Off he goes, on his first big pecking adventure, and he peck, peck, pecks his little heart out. He pecks the hat and then the mat, [...]

In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually begins to better understand and admire her grandmother's unusual qualities.During the recession of 1[...]

This handsome book showcases the Metropolitan Museum's superb collection of 151 American quilts and coverlets. First published in 1990 and revised in 2007 to feature 32 new acquisitions and updated scholarship, this volume chronicles the development of quilt and coverlet production in the United Sta[...]

Describes the unique characteristics of the the bald eagle, blue whale, African elephant, panda, Galapagos tortoise, mountain lion, whooping crane, grizzly bear, manatee, rhinoceros, and mountain gorilla[...]

Metalsmiths reveal new findings in jewelry trends! Following up their best-selling book Handcrafted Wire Findings, Denise Peck and Jane Dickerson give jewelers more techniques, more (and different) findings, and more inspiration. Handcrafted Metal Findings features 30 step-by-step tutorials for meta[...]

For more than two decades, Whole Child/Whole Parent, the first spiritually oriented book on parenthood and the first to address the value of parenthood for the parent as well as for the child, has provided a sound, practical, psychological and spiritual footing for parenthood and family life. This f[...]

This best-seller has been fully updated for Crystal Reports XI (extreme insight) - the first jointly developed release of this leading report writing and analysis software since the acquisition of Crystal Decisions by Business Objects. Readers will learn to create visually appealing reports that com[...]

"The patient suddenly resembled a writhing snake of great strength...More frightening than the writhing body, however, was the face. The eyes were hooded with lazy reptilian torpor..." This is the second bestselling book by Dr M. Scott Peck. In this gripping psychology book, the leading psychiatrist[...]

Join Joey and his sister Mary Alice as they spend nine unforgettable summers with the worst influence imaginable-their grandmother[...]

One of the most adored characters in childrenOs literature is the eccentric, forceful, bighearted Grandma Dowdel, star of the Newbery Awardwinning "A Year Down Yonder" and Newbery Honorwinning "A Long Way from Chicago." And it turns out that her story isnOt over. ItOs now 1958, and a new family has [...]

Stephen Rogers Peck's Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist remains unsurpassed as a manual for students. It includes sections on bones, muscles, surface anatomy, proportion, equilibrium, and locomotion. Other unique features are sections on the types of human physique, anatomy from birth to old age[...]

Amongst intellectuals and activists, neoliberalism has become a potent signifier for the kind of free-market thinking that has dominated politics for the past three decades. Forever associated with the conviction politics of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, the free-market project has since bec[...]