It's Grandma's birthday, and Max wants to make her an icky, worm-infested cake. But Ruby says, "No, Max. We are going to make Grandma an angel surprise cake, with raspberry-fluff icing." Will Max let his bossy older sister keep him out of the kitchen? Or will they both become bunnies who bake?[...]

H.G. Wells was acclaimed during his lifetime as one of the most original and creative thinkers of the 20th century, and retains to this day a position of considerable importance in the history of ideas. In 1928 when he wrote this cry for a new age of worldwide knowledge networking, there was no Inte[...]

Stong-willed, reckless and fiercely independent, Ann Veronica Stanley is determined to be a 'Person', to work, love and, above all, to live. Walking away from her stifling father and the social conventions of her time, she leaves drab suburbia for Edwardian London and encounters an unknown world of [...]

Ruby wants to teach her little brother Max all the things a wise big sister knows, such as the alphabet, numbers, and colors, but first she has to teach him to pay attention, in a picture reader that includes twenty-four flashcards. Original.[...]

United by the belief that the most significant factor in shaping the minds of young people is the cultural setting in which learning takes place, the twenty eminent contributors to this volume present new thinking on education across the boundaries of school, home, work and community.[...]

Classic / British English
A stranger arrives in a small village wearing a long coat and gloves. His head is covered in bandages and dark glasses hide his eyes. The villagers are curious. Who is he? When they discover the stranger?s terrible secret, they realize that they are in great danger. Thi[...]

Master Chá ng, known as the "scholar-boxer," lived and practiced in Hé ná n province, at the center of Chinese culture and martial arts near the Shà olí n Temple and legendary Luò yá ng. His extensive writings reflect many of the ideas, even the phraseology, now familiar from classic Tai Chi [...]