Harriet Hamsterbone is not your typical princess. She may be quite stunning in the rodent realm (you'll have to trust her on this one), but she is not so great at trailing around the palace looking ethereal or sighing a lot. She finds the royal life rather...dull. One day, though, Harriet's parents [...]

Over the past two decades, Harriet Ritvo has established herselfas a leading scholar in animal studies and one of those most responsible forestablishing this field of study as a crucial part of environmental and socialhistory. Her two well-known books, The Platypus and the Mermaid and The AnimalEsta[...]

Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book Charlotte Zolotow Award Highly Commended Title NCTE Notable Poetry Book Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature (CSMCL) Best Book of the Year Booklist Editors' Choice Kirkus Reviews Best Picture Book EUREKA Nonfiction Honor Award N[...]

Explores the scope for informal learning within children's everyday lives. This book examines the informal acquisition of literacy and numeracy and the role of parents and others in informal learning. It shows how children proactively develop their own learning agendas. It is suitable for education [...]

"Appreciating Dance", written for the dance novice, is a concise, thorough, and accurate history and current picture of all forms of dance. It gives a brief biography of many of the notable dancers and choreographers who have contributed to each form of dance, and provides, in a nutshell, the inform[...]

"The Wave" is based on a true incident that occurred when a teacher conductedan experiment dealing with group pressure in his classes.[...]

Nowadays, "go local," "organic food," and "sustainability" are on the tip of everyone's tongue. Harriet Fasenfest's "A Householder's Guide to the Universe" takes up the banner of progressive homemaking and urban farming as a way to confront the political, social, and environmental issues facing the [...]

The world of climate politics is increasingly no longer confined to the activities of national governments and international negotiations. Critical to this transformation of the politics of climate change has been the emergence of new forms of transnational governance that cut across traditional sta[...]

The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Addiction Psychopharmacology is an authoritative collection of the most current research approaches to the study of drug addiction.[...]