Describes biological rhythms and clocks evolved by marine organisms in relation to tidal, daily, lunar and seasonal life cycle events.[...]
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 3: 1926-1929, featuring many previously unpublished letters, follows a rising star as he emerges from the literary Left Bank of Paris and moves into the American mainstream. Maxwell Perkins, legendary editor at Scribner's, nurtured the young Hemingway's talent[...]
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 4, spanning April 1929 through 1931, featuring many previously unpublished letters, records the establishment of Ernest Hemingway as an author of international renown following the publication of A Farewell to Arms. Breaking new artistic ground in 1930, Heming[...]
Winnie-the-Pooh leads the way in this adventure of shapes, colors, numbers, letters, and how to tell time while exploring his oversize lift-the-flap book. Each page is packed with surprises hidden under 70 fun flaps. There is an alphabet's worth of presents to open and a clock that tells what Pooh d[...]
"Winnie-the-Pooh is a joy; full of solemn idiocies and the sort of jokes one weeps over helplessly, not even knowing why they are so funny, and with it all the real wit and tenderness which alone could create a priceless little masterpiece." "Saturday Review"1926[...]
The adventures of Christopher Robin, Winnie-the-Pooh, and all their friends in the storied Forest around Pooh Corner. "This is an example of a sequel in which there seems to be no letdown, and from all sides I catch echoes of most joyous reaction to it." --- "New York Herald Tribune," 1928[...]
Verses full of bubbling nonsense and rhythm, written for the author's son, Christopher Robin. It is for "very small children (and for their elders who get a surreptitious joy from what is meant for their little ones)."" -- "Sunday Review," 1924[...]
Lifelong devotees and new friends of the Bear of Very Little Brain will be glad to see all twenty of A. A. Milne's world-famous Winnie-the-Pooh stories brought together in one beautiful volume. Milne's prose and Ernest H. Shepard's drawings-including full-color art created especially for these editi[...]
Here are the two great storybooks chronicling the adventures of Christopher Robin and all the inhabitants of the Hundred Acre Wood, as well as the two charming volumes of poems. Bright in color and true in spirit, these are books for giving--To Pooh fans of all ages.[...]
This classic of children's literature is now available in a Spanish-language edition. Winny de Puh is the translation of the complete text of the original Winnie-the-Pooh, with all of Ernest H. Shepard's delightful illustrations. Here are Pooh, Piglet, and Eeyore (in this book Puh, Porquete, and Iiy[...]
In 1926, Winnie-the-Pooh, a collection of stories about a rather stout, somewhat confused bear, was published in England and America. The enchanting tales of Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Christopher Robin, and the others were an immediate success, and firmly established A.A. Milne, already an acclaimed dra[...]
A large format, colorfully illustrated compilation celebrates the 75th anniversary of the publication of Winnie-the-Pooh through a collection of classic tales and poems, including "Rice Pudding" and "Disobedience." 85,000 first printing.[...]
A St. Louis Post Dispatch Best Book of 2017 The first full biography of Ernest Hemingway in more than fifteen years is the first to draw on a wide array of never-before-used material, resulting in the most nuanced portrait to date of this complex, enigmatic artist. Considered in his time the greates[...]
"This is a novel in the guise of the tape-recorded recollections of a black woman who has lived 110 years, who has been both a slave and a witness to the black militancy of the 1960's. In this woman Ernest Gaines has created a legendary figure, a woman equipped to stand beside William Faulkner[...]
"Ecotopia was founded when northern California, Oregon, and Washington seceded from the Union to create a "stable-state" ecosystem: the perfect balance between human beings and the environment. Now, twenty years later, the isolated, mysterious Ecotopia welcomes its first officially sanctioned Americ[...]
If you're a developer or system administrator lured to Mac OS X because of its Unix roots, you'll quickly discover that performing Unix tasks on a Mac is different than what you're accustomed to. "Mac OS X for Unix Geeks" serves as a bridge between Apple's Darwin OS and the more traditional Unix sys[...]
At once wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, READY PLAYER ONE is a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debut--part quest novel, part love story, and part virtual space opera set in a universe where spell-slinging mages battle giant Japanese robots, entire planets[...]
Tennis players will spend hours working on shot making and strategies for an upcoming match, but what do they do to mentally prepare? What do they do to insure that the decisions they make during competition best supports them in winning the match? Mastering The Mental Side Of Tennis is a book speci[...]
With the advent of quantum physics, science must now recognize that there is something happening below our level of conscious awareness that dictates the types of experiences we create. HK: A Language of Change is a book that discusses an extraordinary success technology that explains, on a quantum [...]
The main question addressed in this book is whether individuation of the contents of thoughts and linguistic expressions is inherently holistic. The authors consider arguments that are alleged to show that the meaning of a scientific hypothesis depends on the entire theory that entails it, or that t[...]