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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011
The Best American Series
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
The Best American Series®
First, Best, and Best-Selling
The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee, a leading cancer physician and researcher, selects the year’s top science and nature writing from journalists who dive into their fields with curiosity and passion, delivering must-read articles from a wide array of fields.
The Well-Adjusted Dog
Dr. Dodman's 7 Steps to Lifelong Health and Happiness for Your Best Friend
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2009
One of the greatest myths in dog ownership is that once a puppy is housetrained and has graduated from a puppy training class, an owner’s work is done. In fact, that work is just beginning.Drawing on some twenty-five years of clinical experience, Dr.Dodman offers what he calls "continuing education"...
The Possibility Dogs
What I Learned from Second-Chance Rescues About Service, Hope, and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
“Reading The Possibility Dogs is like taking an amazing literary journey with a dear friend by your side. The characters you meet will enchant you, but the storyteller will capture your heart. If you love dogs, this is a can’t-miss book written by a kindred spirit.” —Jennifer Arnold, author...
The Knowledge Deficit
Closing the Shocking Education Gap for American Children
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
The Knowledge Deficit illuminates the real issue in education today -- without an effective curriculum, American students are losing the global education race. In this persuasive book, the esteemed education critic, activist, and best-selling author E.D. Hirsch, Jr., shows that although schools are...
Horace's Hope
What Works for the American High School
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1997
From America's "most prominent school reformer" (LOS ANGELES TIMES) comes a stirring personal meditation on what works-and what doesn't-in our high schools today. Revisiting America's classrooms, Sizer assesses the changes over the past decade and a half - from school choice to interdisciplinary...
by Brian Sibley
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Journey deeper into the magical world of the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, through exclusive interviews with director Peter Jackson, Martin Freeman, Orlando Bloom and principal filmmakers and new cast members, including Stephen Fry as the Master of Lake-town, Evangeline Lilly, who plays Tauriel the Elf,...
Word Court
Wherein verbal virtue is rewarded, crimes against the language are punished, and poetic justice is d
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
In 1993, the Atlantic Monthly's senior editor Barbara Wallraff began answering grammar questions on America Online. Instantaneously the site became one of AOL's most popular forums, as questions, and responses to Wallraff's responses, came flooding in. This vibrant exchange became the bimonthly "Word...
Whose Game Is It, Anyway?
A Guide to Helping Your Child Get the Most from Sports, Organized by Age and Stage
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2006
In an era when parents and kids are overwhelmed by a sports-crazed, win-at-all-costs culture, here is a comprehensive guide that helps parents ensure a positive sports experience for their children. In Whose Game Is It, Anyway? two of the country’s leading youth sports psychologists team up with...
by Italo Calvino
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
“The thought . . . called up the flavors of an elaborate and bold cuisine, bent on making the flavors’ highest notes vibrate, juxtaposing them in modulations, in chords, and especially in dissonances that would assert themselves as an incomparable experience.” — From Under the Jaguar Sun
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2019
Sy Montgomery, New York Times best-selling author and recipient of numerous awards, edits this year’s volume of the finest science and nature writing.
New York Times best-selling author of How to Be a Good Creature, The Soul of an Octopus, The Good Good Pig, and more, Sy Montgomery, selects...
by Alexis M. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
**“Eerie and intriguing . . . captivates in the first few pages and delivers a gripping, compelling story throughout.”—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
“Smith’s excellent command of language gives life to arresting characters and their creepy surroundings, keeping the suspense in this dark...
Mustang
The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Mustang is the sweeping story of the wild horse in the culture, history, and popular imagination of the American West. It follows the wild horse across time, from its evolutionary origins on this continent to its return with the conquistadors, its bloody battles on the old frontier, its iconic status...
River of No Reprieve
Descending Siberia's Waterway of Exile, Death, and Destiny
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
One of today's most intrepid writers chronicles a deadly trek through the legendary region that gave birth to the gulag and gave Siberia its outsize reputation for perilous isolation.
In a custom-built boat, Jeffrey Tayler travels some 2,400 miles down the Lena River from near Lake Baikal to...