Kai-lan and her friends get lost on the way to the Ladybug Festival. Which way do they go? Tolee tries to tell everyone that he has a map, but no one is paying attention to him. Kai-lan realizes it's important to hear what "all "your friends say, one of them may save the day[...]

By the early months of 1944 in the Pacific, the US Navy's burgeoning force of carrier-based F6F-3/5 Hellcats had pretty much wiped the skies clear of Japanese fighters during a series of one-sided aerial engagements. However, starting in October they faced the superb Kawanishi N1K1/2 Shiden/Shiden-K[...]

There were not many textbooks on shipping available for the students in the early 1990s. Therefore it was decided to write "Shipping" in 1996. One year earlier, Niko Wijnolst had published "Design Innovation in Shipping", based on work at the Delft University of Technology. The two books together of[...]

This title offers an insightful exploration of the mission, history, theory, practice, & future of museum education. At the heart of all good art museum teaching is an effort to bring people and artworks together in meaningful ways. But what constitutes an experience of a work of art? And what shoul[...]

Based on the author's own conversations with President Karzai and other Afghan politicians, as well as prominent international representatives, "Power Struggle Over Afghanistan" is a Norwegian diplomat's account of his two years at the United Nations. Eide was President Karzai's closest internationa[...]

"Berlitz Pocket Guide Jamaica" combines authoritative narrative detail with colour photography to uncover the home of reggae. It tells you everything you need to know about the soulful island's attractions: from Kingston, capital city with attitude, the white sands of Montego bay and Jamaica's great[...]

Physicist and polymath, as familiar with Hindu scriptures as he was with quantum mechanics, J Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb, was the most famous scientist of his generation. This biography reveals a brilliant man, profoundly involved with some o[...]