In chunky board book format, perfect for young hands, young children will be able to have great fun counting from one to ten in the first five spreads, and then counting every single animal all gathered together in the final spread![...]
In HEALTH REVOLUTION FOR MEN, Professor Charles Clark, leading authority on diabetes and author of the bestselling THE NEW HIGH PROTEIN DIET, tackles the health of the middle-aged man - a large proportion of his patient base. Based on his many years of experience in this area, Professor Clark's huge[...]
The definitive chronicle of the ancient peoples of Mexico & Central America - including the Aztec, Maya, Olmec, Mixtec, Toltec & Zapotec Over 1000 colour photographs, paintings, artefacts, maps & artworks explore the magnificent art, architecture, mythology & social history[...]
The history, myth and romance of the medieval knight on crusade, with over 500 stunning images of the battles, adventures, sieges, fortresses, triumphs and defeats[...]
A vivid account of the life and times of the medieval knight, an examination of the code of chivalry, and a detailed history of the crusades. This book examines both the life and position of the medieval knight, from courtly page to war hero, including the training, tournaments, obligations, honours[...]
This is a magnificent visual account of Britain's architectural and historical heritage celebrated in over 500 beautiful photographs, fine-art paintings, drawings and maps. It is a truly impressive reference to the historic buildings of the United Kingdom - the castles, royal palaces, stately homes,[...]
The cast of Peanuts characters has entertained us with their humorously insightful perspectives since 1950. A year-long marketing campaign by licensor United Media launched this Diamond Anniversary and creates the perfect setting for Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Peanuts. This small, ha[...]
The classic holiday show "A Charlie Brown Christmas" is now a whimsical snow globe ornament featuring those beloved characters Charlie Brown and Snoopy beside their famed Christmas tree. Also includes a 32-page book featuring full-color illustrations
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Charles Finney's ministry rolled like a spiritual shock wave across the American landscape in the nineteenth century. He attributed his effectiveness in large part to prayer. Now his superb insights are condensed and collected in a single book. Principles of Prayer provides a 40-day devotional study[...]
This book presents for the first time a complete and accurate picture of their development, organization and operational use before and during the war.[...]
This is the classic guide to dressage training, now revised and updated. Dressage the art of making horse and rider move gracefully as one has become an increasingly popular competitive sport at horse shows and the Olympics. This book, first published in 1994, is a unique guide to the art and techni[...]
Inspired by a ubiquitous piece of graffiti that U.S. servicemen left behind during World War II, Emmy Award-winning television journalist Charles Osgood has collected an assortment of classic stories and comic tales that buoyed the spirits of Americans who served on land, at sea, and in the air.[...]
Fair-minded and sympathetic to Jewish, Muslim, and Christian concerns, Lutz and Smith provide a clear account of the Israeli-Palestinian situation and a compelling plea for Christian involvement in the area. Carefully sorting out the tangled historical and religious roots of the problems, they revea[...]
What is wrong with bureaucracy? What does the post-bureaucratic organization offer in the way of improvement? These and other such questions are addressed in this volume which critically examines the implications of the transformation of organizations from bureaucratic to post-bureaucratic. Beginnin[...]
The last half-century has witnessed dramatic declines in gender inequality, evidenced by the rise of egalitarian views on gender roles and the narrowing of long-standing gender gaps in university attendance and labor force participation. This development, while spectacular, has been coupled with sim[...]
In What Writing Does and How It Does It, editors Charles Bazerman and Paul Prior offer a sophisticated introduction to methods for understanding, studying, and analyzing texts and writing practices. This volume addresses a variety of approaches to analyzing texts, and considers the processes of writ[...]
Working With Numbers and Statistics: A Handbook for Journalists will bolster math skills and improve math confidence for journalists at all skill levels. Authors Charles Livingston and Paul Voakes developed this resource book to improve journalistic writing and reporting, enabling journalists to: *m[...]
This book provides an up-to-date review of commonly undertaken methodological and statistical practices that are sustained, in part, upon sound rationale and justification and, in part, upon unfounded lore. Some examples of these "methodological urban legends", as we refer to them in this book, are [...]
In this book, nine librarians from across the country describe their libraries' best practices in this key area. Their contributions range from all-encompassing customer service policies and models any library can both adapt and be proud of to micro-approaches that emphasize offering excellent user-[...]
Northern California has a dark side, a hidden world of ghosts, monsters, and devils. This region includes the North and Central coasts, the Santa Clara and Sacramento valleys, the East Bay, and the Northern Sierra, where readers will experience strange encounters at Alcatraz, in the abandoned town o[...]