Hachette Books: 1744 books
The Shopper's Guide to GI Values
The Authoritative Source of Glycemic Index Values for More Than 1,200 Foods
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
World-renowned researcher Jennie Brand-Miller and her team have changed the way the world thinks about food and nutrition. Every year, their Shopper's Guide helps thousands of readers achieve and maintain health and wellness by providing an easy guide to eating according to the glycemic index. The...
Things I Wish My Mother Had Told Me
A Guide to Living with Impeccable Grace and Style
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2008
Lucia van der Post has dispensed advice on living stylishly for more than three decades, and her common sense, confidence, and wit have garnered her legions of fans worldwide. A bestseller in the United Kingdom, Things I Wish My Mother Had Told Me offers-in van der Post's distinctively warm, aphoristic...
Applying To College
A Planning Guide For Students
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2009
Applying to college can be a stressful process, and it's never too early in high school for students to start thinking about what will make their application stand out from the crowd.An easy-to-read handbook for freshmen and seniors alike, Applying to College will help students develop a personal...
Body of Truth
How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession with Weight--and What We Can Do about It
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Over the past twenty-five years, our quest for thinness has morphed into a relentless obsession with weight and body image. In our culture, "fat" has become a four-letter word. Or, as Lance Armstrong said to the wife of a former teammate, "I called you crazy. I called you a bitch. But...
The Science Writers' Handbook
Everything You Need to Know to Pitch, Publish, and Prosper in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Popular science writing has exploded in the past decade, both in print and online. Who better to guide writers striving to succeed in the profession than a group of award-winning independent journalists with a combined total of 225 years of experience? From Thomas Hayden’s chapter on the perfect...
The Preschooler's Busy Book
365 Fun, Creative, Screen-Free Learning Games and Activities to Stimulate Your 3- to 6-Year-Old Every Day of the Year
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
The Preschooler's Busy Book contains 365 activities (one for each day of the year) for three- to six-year-olds using things found around the home. It shows parents, baby-sitters, and daycare providers how to:
Save money by making your own paints, play dough, craft clays, glue, paste and other...
The Children's Busy Book
365 Creative Learning Games and Activities to Keep Your 6- to 10-Year-Old Busy
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
365 fun, creative activities to stimulate your child every day of the year. The Children's Busy Book is from the line of all-time #1 selling line of Busy Books.
365 fun, creative activities to stimulate your child every day of the year This book contains 365 activities (one for each day of...
The Irreducible Needs Of Children
What Every Child Must Have To Grow, Learn, And Flourish
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2009
What do babies and young children really need? For the first time, two famed advocates for children cut through all the theories, platitudes, and controversies that surround parenting advice to define what every child must have in the first years of life. They lay out the seven irreducible needs of...
Who Will Take Care of Me When I'm Old?
Plan Now to Safeguard Your Health and Happiness in Old Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Everything you need to know to plan for your own safe, financially secure, healthy, and happy old age
For those who have no support system in place, the thought of aging without help can be a frightening, isolating prospect. Whether you have friends and family ready and able to help you or...
Total Health the Chinese Way
An Essential Guide to Easing Pain, Reducing Stress, Treating Illness, and Restoring the Body through
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
A fourth-generation Chinese doctor, Esther Ting has treated more than 140,000 patients on two continents. Total Health the Chinese Way is based on Ting's core belief that we can achieve lasting health without surgery or drugs the moment we start listening to our bodies. She and Marianne Jas, a former...
You Won't Believe It's Vegan!
200 Recipes for Simple and Delicious Animal-Free Cuisine
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Gourmet chefs Sher and Doherty, former owners of the highly successful restaurant Down to Earth, offer a collection of innovative yet simple restaurant-quality recipes, for every day and special occasions, all toxin- and animal-free. From basic dishes to world-class entrees and hors d'oeuvres, You...
Homo Domesticus
Notes from a Same-Sex Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
In this sweet, funny, true tale of same-sex romance” (PUBLISHERS WEEKLY), David Valdes Greenwood sets the record straight on gay marriage-and reminds us what really matters to any couple. Here he charts the ups and downs of an all-too-human relationship: going on that first non-date”; learning...
Minding the Children
Child Care in America from Colonial Times to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
Beyond childcare theories and early childhood gurus, here is how children have actually been raised in America over the last four centuries. From wet nurses and Southern mammys, settlement houses and orphan trains, to rigid British nannies, foster care, and the modern two-worker family, Geraldine...
by Aaron Frankel
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2009
Brimming with advice and techniques, this essential reference for book- and songwriters clearly explains the fundamentals of the three crafts of a musical-book, music, and lyrics. Using copious examples from classic shows, Frankel has created the quintessential musical writers' how-to. Among the topics:definitions...