This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Muyesinbo, . Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Muyesinbo (also Muyeshinbo) is Korean martial arts manual published in 1759. The…
This beautiful collection of copyright-free clip art-all on the subject of books-can be used in producing flyers, posters, newsletters, bulletin boards, bookmarks, and dozens of other forms of visual communication. Chapters cover seven subject areas: Just Books, People with Books, Animals, Nursery Rhyme and Storybook Characters, Holidays, Sports…
BOOKS by Murray McCain and John Alcorn, the beloved classic children's book originally published in 1962, is now re-released for the first time in a new large format. This 1962 New York Times book of the year is beloved for its charming hand-drawn illustrations, inventive typography, and sweet homage to the very nature of books themselves…
Tacitus (Cornelius), famous Roman historian, was born in 55, 56 or 57 CE and lived to about 120. He became an orator, married in 77 a daughter of Julius Agricola before Agricola went to Britain, was quaestor in 81 or 82, a senator under the Flavian emperors, and a praetor in 88. After four years' absence he experienced the terrors of Emperor…
Laura Purdie Salas, the acclaimed author of "STAMPEDE , "is back with another collection of wild and weird, wacky and winsome poems about all the magic to be found on a single bookshelf. In "BOOKSPEAK " each poem gives voice to a group who seldom get a voice...the books themselves. In "I've Got This Covered," a…
At the age of forty-eight, film critic David Denby, dissatisfied with his life within the media bubble, went back to Columbia University and took again the two famous courses in Western classics (Literature Humanities and Contemporary Civilization) required of all students--courses he first took in 1961. In recent years, collections of literary…
Delighting in the look and feel of books, conceptual artist Nina Katchadourian's playful photographic series proves that books' covers--or more specifically, their spines--can speak volumes. Over the past two decades, Katchadourian has perused libraries across the globe, selecting, stacking, and photographing groupings of two, three, four,…
Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles.
These how-to classes in a book encourage the imaginations of budding young artists, scientists, biologists, and thespians.
Poetry. "Stephen Hemenway's attention to language is constant, and his attention to "reality" is equally faithful. The world of people, of cities and of nature is rendered with an honesty that is possible only in the most serious of poetries. There is a gravity, an acceptance of the responsibilities that speech entails, in every…
For over 2000 years, book burners have laid their torches to millions of books condemned as heretical, blasphemous, immoral, obscene, subversive or seditious. Books have been reduced to ashes in church yards, college yards, school furnaces, public squares and city streets. The goals of the book burners have been to extirpate history, to intimidate…
'A Christmas Carol', the famous story of Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim, and the ghosts of Marley and Christmases past, present, and future, is among these five warm and humane books with which Dickens hoped 'to awaken some loving and forbearing thoughts'. This volume also includes 'The Cricket on the Hearth' and 'The…
Inspired by the acclaimed Opposing Viewpoints series, this series helps readers gain an awareness of current issues and develop critical thinking skills by presenting a wealth of information on contemporary issues in a colorful, easy-to-read format.; This new title in the Introducing Issues with Opposing Viewpoints series discusses the topic of…
American Indian affairs are much in the public mind today--hotly contested debates over such issues as Indian fishing rights, land claims, and reservation gambling hold our attention. While the unique legal status of American Indians rests on the historical treaty relationship between Indian tribes and the federal government, until now there has…
Romantic Opera and Literary Form is a provocative and provoking book on appear. It's idiosyncratic essay about the transformation of literature through music forces the reader to re-examine some of his own convictions about opera and drama.
The Nazi burning of the books in 1933 was one of the most infamous political spectacles of the twentieth century. In Berlin and all over Germany, Nazi officials and students organized elaborate parades and bonfires to mark their embrace of Hitler's new government. Book burning has since become the symbol of any oppressive regime, and a modern…
Ash and Lake have left no stone unturned in their quest for these books and have found titles such as ''H ow to become a schizophrenic'', and books written by such lum inaries such as A. Clot, Cecil Nutter and Solomon Slack. '
Children will be inspired to create their own picture books with these sturdy hardcover, completely blank books. Teachers will find limitless uses for Create-A-Story Books in the classroom, from art projects and journal-keeping to science lab notebooks and portfolios. A lifelong appreciation for books often begins by encouraging children to create…
As the digital revolution sweeps us toward the twenty-first century, what issues, passions, and anxieties are evoked when we consider the place of the library in the future? Humanists and social scientists are only beginning to recognize that the current revolution in the dissemination of knowledge is comparable to the one that followed the advent…
Collins Gems are smartly designed pocket reference guides, providing knowledge at a glance on a wide variety of popular and timely subjects. Packed with outstanding color photos and illustrations, and featuring durable flexi-bindings, these unique quick-reference books offer the minimum in size and the maximum in information.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Fantagraphics Books is an American publisher of alternative comics, classic comic strip anthologies, magazines, graphic novels, and the adult-oriented Eros Comix imprint. Many notable cartoonists publish their work through Fantagraphics, including Jessica Abel, Peter Bagge, Ivan Brunetti, Charles Burns,…
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Baen Books is an American publishing company established in 1983 by long time science fiction publisher and editor Jim Baen. It is a science fiction and fantasy publishing house that emphasizes space opera, hard science fiction, military science fiction, and fantasy. Soon after Baen died on 28 June 2006,…
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact.…
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Ladybird Books is a London-based publishing company, trading as a stand-alone imprint within the Penguin Group of companies. The Ladybird imprint publishes mass-market children's books.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Anova Books is a UK-based publishing company founded in 2005, with the acquisition of the Chrysalis Books Group from the Chrysalis Group. Since its inception, the firm has acquired or created several other imprints. Current imprints include:
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Bantam Books is an American publishing house owned entirely by Random House, the German media corporation subsidiary of Bertelsmann; it is an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group. It was formed in 1945 by Walter B. Pitkin, Jr., Sidney B. Kramer, and Ian and Betty Ballantine. It has since been…
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Pocket Books is a division of Simon Schuster that primarily publishes paperback books.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Panther Books Ltd was a British publishing house especially active in the 1950s and 1960s, specialising in paperback fiction. It was established in May 1952 by Hamilton's Ltd and titles carried the line "A Panther Book" or "Panther Science Fiction" on the cover. Science fiction…
In the mid-1800s, life on a Vermont farm is hard work for the whole family. Crops have failed, and the rich soil far across the continent make Mama and Papa want to leave their home behind and start over. They will travel by covered wagon to a new region called Oregon. Anna wonders what life will be like so far from home. Where will the children…
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain - Animal Farm by George Orwell - The Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - and many more.