Dazzling feats of conjuring created by legendary figure in the field of magic. Tricks newly updated and edited by noted contemporary authority. Baffle friends, relatives, even professional magicians with over 190 mind-boggling feats, including "Long-Distance Mind-Reading," "Satan's Touch," "The Jord[...]

Fifty nifty full-page designs re-create one of the most popular quilt series ever, "Hearth & Home"'s States-of-the-Union series. Each ready-to-color patchwork quilt design celebrates one of the 50 states, from Alabama to Wyoming. In addition to the full-page quilt illustrations, each block is shown [...]

These revised and slightly reimagined portraits reflect the style that made artist Harrison Fisher so popular at the turn of the 20th century. More than 30 ready-to-color illustrations depict ladies in both flirty and pensive poses, showing off their athletic skills, and more. Pages are perforated a[...]

AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS TODAY, TEXAS EDITION, 2011-2012 encourages students to experience the excitement that comes with being an engaged and informed citizen and provides tools for getting involved and stories of real young people who have made a difference and impacted our political syste[...]

First published thirty years ago, the long-awaited second edition of "Growing California Native Plants" is the ideal hands-on native plant guide for both experienced and novice gardeners. In addition to the voluminous knowledge contributed by Marjorie G. Schmidt, now deceased, Katherine L. Greenberg[...]

Yoga classes and Zen meditation, New-Age retreats and nature mysticism - all are part of an ongoing religious experimentation that has surprisingly deep roots in American history. Tracing out the country's Transcendentalist and cosmopolitan religious impulses over the last two centuries, "Restless S[...]

Common Epilepsy Pitfalls is a comprehensive guide to anticipating and managing the pitfalls in the diagnosis and management of epilepsy.[...]

This volume on Hannah Arendt?s and Leo Strauss? impact on American political science after 1933 contains essays presented at an international conference held at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1991. The book explores the influence that Arendt?s and Strauss? experiences of inter-war Germany [...]

Through interviews with many of the most noteworthy authors in Law and Society, Conducting Law and Society Research takes students and scholars behind the scenes of empirical scholarship, showing the messy reality of research methods. The challenges and the uncertainties, so often missing from resea[...]

Chronicles foreign political and military interventions in all regions of Africa from 1956 to 2010, helping readers understand the historical roots of Africa's problems.[...]