Tree-ear, an orphan, has become fascinated with the potters' craft; he wants nothing more than to watch master potter Min at work, and he dreams of making a pot of his own someday. When Min takes on Tree-ear as his helper, Tree-ear is elated--until he finds obstacles in his path: the backbreaking labor of digging and hauling clay, Min's irascible ...
Wild game and domestic meats are prepared in any of dozens of marinades and brines, then set in a smoke cooker to absorb the flavor of hickory, applewood, mesquite, chestnut, or maple smoke. Recipes are included for beef, pork, lamb, venison, chicken, turkey, duck, fish, shellfish, jerky, sausages, nuts, cheese, and even pasta. Lists sources for ...
In bouncy rhyming text, a hungry child tells about helping her mother make bee-bim bop: shopping, preparing ingredients, setting the table, and finally sitting down with her family to enjoy a favorite meal. Includes the author's own recipe. Full color.
Where did we come from? To answer this question, anthropologists reconstruct the human past and study the human present from both biological and cultural perspectives. "Human Antiquity" offers an absorbing, straightforward explanation of human origins and evolution by thoroughly integrating physical anthropology and archaeology. Co-authors Kenneth ...
Parks humorously cuts his way through a forest of scientific proclamations of varying legitimacy in an effort to raise scientific literacy. His method is out-and-out debunking of fraudulent sciences, popular misconceptions, and scientific malapropisms from Deepak Chopra to the International Space Station.
In her first novel with a contemporary setting, the Newbery Medal-winning author of "A Single Shard" delivers a funny, lively story that illuminates both the process of writing a novel and the meaning of growing up American.
The recent rash of school shootings and youth violence across the nation has brought home to educators the value of having a text that can be used in mental hygiene classes by teachers and pupils to discuss mental illness in classroom settings. This is that book. The authors define and describe the many forms of mental illness in a simple but ...
The Newbery Medal-winning author of "A Single Shard" delivers a funny and suspenseful adventure, incorporating intriguing bits of Korean history and lore that will captivate even reluctant readers.
"This powerful and riveting tale of one close-knit, proud Korean family movingly addresses life-and-death issues of courage and collaboration, injustice, and death-defying determination in the face of totalitarian oppression."--"Kirkus," starred review.
Both Maggie Fortini and her brother, Joey-Mick, were named for baseball great Joe DiMaggio. Unlike Joey-Mick, Maggie doesn't play baseball--but at almost ten years old, she is a dyed-in-the-wool fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Maggie can recite all the players' statistics and understands the subtleties of the game. Unfortunately, Jim Maine is a ...
Sibling rivalry is at the heart of this story set in 15th century Korea. Young-sup and his older brother Kee-sup are excited about the New Year kite competition. While Young-sup is an expert at kite flying, Kee-sup has trouble handling his kite, but can build and design a kite fit for a king. According to tradition, the first-born son is to ...
Jennifer Ecch is so tough... She's at Rotten School on an Arm Wrestling scholarship! Bernie Bridges calls her Nightmare Girl. But she'll do anything to get him to be her boyfriend. That's why she joined the all-boys football team. With Jennifer playing, they can't lose. But wait. If they win, they have to play the National Champion team -- ...
From uttering a prayer before boarding a plane, to exploring past lives through hypnosis, has superstition become pervasive in contemporary culture? Robert Park, the best-selling author of Voodoo Science, argues that it has. In "Superstition", Park asks why people persist in superstitious convictions long after science has shown them to be ill ...
Chipmunk is so shy... He inhales when he sneezes! He even blushes when he's asleep! He plays guitar in the closet so he won't disturb anyone. But he just may be the best rock 'n' roll guitarist of all time! And Bernie Bridges needs him to win the annual Talent Contest for Rotten House. Bernie will do anything to keep the prize away from ...
Bernie Bridges has it all figured out. April-May June--the hottest girl in the fourth grade--will ask him to the annual girl-invite-boy school dance. They'll dance the night away, and April-May June will totally fall for him. There's only one problem: "Reality." April-May June doesn't WANT to go with Bernie. She wouldn't go with Bernie even if ...
Bernie brings his pet bulldog--aptly named Gassy--to his dorm, despite the school's strict No Pets rule. To hide Gassy, Bernie enrolls the dog as a transfer student. But how can the new student succeed when he won't let go of the teacher's leg? Illustrations.
Is Belzer a loser? Just because he wears T-shirts that say I need a Tutor and Ask Me About My Allergies? Just because he picks scabs off his knees and eats them? Belzer's parents think he's a loser. They want to take him out of Rotten School. Every year Mrs. Heinie awards the Heinie Prize to the Most Outstanding Fourth Grader. Bernie Bridges ...
Bernie is lucky thanks to his lucky parrot, Lippy, but when Bernies buddy Freeman touches Lippy, the good luck turns to bad. Luckily Bernie has a plan. He gives the bird to his archenemy, Sherman Oaks. Its perfect--until Bernie finds out Lippy is still lucky after all. Illustrations.
For Halloween, Bernie Bridges and Sherman Oaks are making scary movies, and the winner of the scariest one will get to star in a genuine horror film. Bernie and Sherman have the same plan--scare each other and capture it on film. But neither is prepared for just how scary things will become. Illustrations.
You already have what you need for success! Discover what you really want and how the universal laws will assist you in obtaining it. Layton Park has simplified the self-hypnosis process by identifying the "universal laws of mind"-laws that affect everyone whether or not we are aware of them-and applying them through questions and simple ...
This text explores ways in which European naturalists from the High Middle ages through to the Enlightenment used wonder and wonders, the passion and its objects, to envision themselves and the natural world. Monsters, gems that shone in the dark and celestial apparitions adorned romances and puzzled philosophers. Drawing on the histories of art, ...
The journals of Richard "Dick" Proenneke are now available in an edited and annotated volume covering the years 1974 through 1980. The nation first became aware of the remarkable life of Dick Proenneke with the publication of One Man's Wilderness in 1973. Master of woodcraft and camp craft, keen observer of the natural world, mechanical genius, ...
Parks humorously cuts his way through a forest of scientific proclamations of varying legitimacy in an effort to raise scientific literacy. His method is out-and-out debunking of fraudulent sciences, popular misconceptions, and scientific malapropisms from Deepak Chopra to the International Space Station.
Enterprising fifth grader Bernie Bridges loves going to Rotten School. With no parents around, he and his gang get to run wild. Not only did he get the cafeteria to serve candy in place of vegetables, he talked the coach into adding "Giving Wedgies" to the varsity sports. But his nemesis, Sherman Oaks of Nyce House, has something that Bernie ...
Next to the nuclear industry, the largest producer of contaminants in the air, land, and water is the electronics industry. Silicon Valley hosts the highest density of Superfund sites anywhere in America and leads the country in the number of temporary workers per capita and in workforce gender inequities. Silicon Valley offers a sobering ...
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