Kids can learn all about Sacagawea, who was only 16 when she made the famous journey across 4,500 miles of unexplored territory with Lewis and Clark as their guide. Illustrations.
Winner of a Pulitzer Prize and the Ritz-Paris Hemingway Award, "A Summons to Memphis" is thematically a typical Southern tale of family tension, middle-aged desperation and revenge. Collections by Peter Taylor include "In the Miro District" and "The Old Forest" - winner of the PEN/Faulkner Prize.
This title is based on a series of frank interviews with both the paramilitary leaders who lead loyalist strategy and the gunmen who carried out the bombings. There are also interviews with loyalist and unionist politicians who operated centre-stage, with an account of the violence of the paramilitaries.
An introduction to the science of sound, using simple science experiments that show how we hear sounds and how we make music by such means as plucking strings, blowing pipes, and hitting percussion instruments.
The second edition of this popular collection presents 28 specially commissioned essays by leading geographers from across the world, addressing questions about how and why the world has changed, is changing, and will continue to change. The volume provides students with a series of critical insights into the economic, political, social, cultural ...
Much time and money is devoted to training - but courses do not always produce the outcomes desired. As a result many training organisations need to rethink the way they plan, design, deliver and evaluate their courses. Here, Peter Taylor shows how to improve the quality of the entire training process - from initial assessments through to delivery ...
Long before he published "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ("Lewis Carroll" to the world) took up photography as a hobby. Unlike most of the other amateurs in his circle, he persevered to become a dedicated, prolific, and remarkably gifted photographer, creating approximately 3,000 images during his twenty-five years of ...
Accompanying his grandfather's body on the train ride to its final resting place, young Nathan Longford meets his enigmatic and eccentric cousin Aubrey, an encounter that is to haunt Nathan throughtout his lifetime.
Four exciting adventures about a small fellow with an enormous personality. Each time Dudley Dormouse ventures out from his latest nap, he seems to stumble into trouble with creatures who are bigger--or faster--than he is. Cross's delicate, detailed illustrations are perfectly suited to the small subject and small format of this attractive book.
As a boy's attachment to his high class stepmother and her "means" grows, her marriage to his father begins to crumble in small, subtle ways, which ultimately lead to larger, more devastating consequences. The first Southern novel of time, memory, and family secrets by the Pulitzer Prize-winning storyteller.
This book brings together studies of Americanization and American imperialism to assess how far the twentieth century can be seen as the "American Century". The collection comprises new contributions exploring the "geographic dialogues" that arise as the result of the projection of American power and culture in the world. The book provides a ...
Vibrant art and clever wordplay introduce an adorable pig (and his long-suffering friends) as he comes to grips with that most natural--and embarrassing--of acts. Full color.
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Summons to Memphis, here is a haunting collection of fiction--including a novella, ten stories, and three one-act plays--that examines lost love, retribution, second chances, human perversity, and ghosts.
In this illustrated account, a science writer and photojournalist reveals his thoughts and images of nine daredevil scientists he watched jump into active volcanos, leap off bridges, and dive into ocean depths to collect data for their valuable research projects.
Each of the eight short stories collected here reveals the hidden places and locked rooms inside human relationships. A master of the short story and winner of the Ritz-Hemingway Award, Taylor explores the words of love in the events of ordinary life. Peter Taylor is the author of A Summons to Memphis, also a September paperback release.
Philosophy written in Arabic and in the Islamic world represents one of the great traditions of Western philosophy. Inspired by Greek philosophical works and the indigenous ideas of Islamic theology, Arabic philosophers from the ninth century onwards put forward ideas of great philosophical and historical importance. This collection of essays, by ...
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