This book examines how quality and good practice in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is interpreted and implemented in a variety of settings and circumstances. Drawing on her experience of research and policy making in a wide variety of countries, the author considers the variety of rationa[...]

Let's be honest--nobody has more fun than atheists. Don't believe it? Well, consider this: For nonbelievers, every day you're alive is a day to celebrate And no one celebrates life to the fullest like Penn Jillette--the larger, louder half of legendary magic duo Penn & Teller--whose spectacularly w[...]

Uniquely comprehensive...highly readable...the definitive collection of classic lyric poetry.

From Shakespeare's wise music to Marvell's profundity and wit...from the Romantics' passionate view of man and woman and nature to twentieth-centur poets' confused searching, this outstanding one[...]

From Greg Gutfeld --New York Times bestselling author of The Joy of Hate and host of Fox News's The Five and Red Eye -- comes a significantly less hardcover-y, more paperback-y version of his classic Bible of Unspeakable Truths. Greg Gutfeld, the acclaimed host of the popular, nightly Fox News show [...]

The pivotal moment for Stettner occurred in 1957, the year before he began the series in earnest. He had taken a photograph of a girl in a party dress stepping from one circular patch of sunlight to another across the vast floor of Penn station, away from the photographer into the shadowy distance. [...]

MORE! is a four-level course from a highly respected author team that's bursting with features for lower secondary students.[...]

The fourth in AbbevilleGCOs series of unusual, illustrated vacation guides, Bicycling Along the WorldGCOs Most Exceptional Routes follows the success of Cooking School Holidays in the WorldGCOs Most Exceptional Places, Spas: Exceptional Destinations Around the World, and Walking the WorldGCOs Most E[...]

The first Christians to encounter Islam were not Latin-speakers from the western Mediterranean or Greek-speakers from Constantinople but Mesopotamian Christians who spoke the Aramaic dialect of Syriac. Under Muslim rule from the seventh century onward, Syriac Christians wrote the most extensive desc[...]

Arthur Penn - director of The Miracle Worker , Bonnie and Clyde , Alice's Restaurant and Little Big Man - was at the height of his career when Robin Wood's analysis of the American director was originally published in 1969. Although Wood then considered Penn's career only through Little Big Man , Ar[...]

In photographs taken over the past 60 years, Irving Penn brings his astute and austere eye to the venerable still life tradition. From his innovative ongoing work for the editorial pages of Vogue to the harsher personal work of his later years, which explores the visual intrigue of such inconsequent[...]