Celebrate Italian cooking with this authoritative and engaging tributeAuthor Michele Scicolone offers simple recipes for delicious classics such as lasagne, minestrone, chicken cutlets, and gelato, plus many more of your favorites; a wealth of modern dishes, such as grilled scallop salad; and a trav..
Portrays life in a future time when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities Author: Orwell, George Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0151660387 ISBN-13: 9780151660384..
Details the events of the Iranian crisis from before the hostages' imprisonment on November 4, 1979, to the end of their ordeal, 444 days later Author: Wells, Tim Publisher: Harcourt Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 015132803X ISBN-13: 9780151328031..
Spanning a thirty-eight-year period, from Hemingway's first poem published when he was twelve to private verses sent to Mary Welsh Hemingway in 1950, these lyrics, parodies, and satires touch on themes that range from war and love to contemporary literature Author: Hemingway, Ernest Publisher: Harco..
A photoessay focusing on the Least Tern journeys to a beach in Maine that has become a wildlife refuge for the endangered seabird and examines the possibility for successful survival of a species that must live side by side with humans. Author: McMillan, Bruce Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Bi..
Neglected by scholars and journalists alike, the years of conflict in Vietnam from 1968 to 1975 offer surprises not only about how the war was fought, but about what was achieved. Drawing on authoritative materials not previously available, including thousands of hours of tape-recorded allied counci..
Selected by a Nobel Prize-winning poet, a collection of the world's greatest poetry from the past two thousand years brings together five hundred great pieces by more than two hundred poets, along with commentary by the editor. Author: Milosz, Czeslaw Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Binding: Ha..
We know--and love--the story of the American Revolution, from the Declaration of Independence to Cornwallis's defeat. But the Articles of Confederation, our first government, was a disaster. This crisis caused a group of men to journey to Philadelphia in 1787 to create a lasting and more stable gove..
Bill Jordan's life changed forever the day a stray cat nesting under his bougainvillea bit him on the hand. A reformed biologist, Jordan had no particular love for animals and felt vaguely contemptuous of those who did - until the cat, beckoning with a wink and a yawn, led him on a journey to exotic..
The author conveys his feelings of anguish and despair as he watches his son Noah, an autistic child, growing up. Author: Greenfeld, Josh Publisher: Harcourt Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0156168626 ISBN-13: 9780156168625..
A Child's Comfort: Baby and Doll Quilts in American Folk Art (an exhibition catalogue) (Paperback) 116 pages, mostly color illustrations. The old fabric dyes just seem to glow off the pages in these illustrations of true folk art. Includes advice on making quilts the traditional way and a few tradit..
Take a journey back in time to an era of simplicity where no telephones or electricity exists in order to experience the Christmas celebrations of one family in a rural town where sleigh rides, family stories, and moonlight skating on an ice pond are cherished elements of their special holiday tradi..
Suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, this text introduces basic concepts of linear algebra. Each chapter contains an introduction, definitions, and propositions, in addition to multiple examples, lemmas, theorems, corollaries, and proofs. Each chapter features numerous supplem..
Aphorisms and poems on life and the universe Author: Anglund, Joan Walsh Publisher: Harcourt Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 015123390X ISBN-13: 9780151233908..
Taking on a seemingly simple assignment to pinpoint the whereabouts of a cleaning woman who has allegedly stolen confidential State House documents, private investigators Patrick and Angela uncover a ring of extortion, assassination, and child prostitution. Author: Lehane, Dennis Publisher: Harcourt..
With this audio guide, you can learn to identify your favorite birds by their songs and calls alone. Backyard Bird Song includes 28 of the most common backyard birds, such as the American Robin, the Song Sparrow, and the Downy Woodpecker, arranged in groups with similar vocalizations. Author: Lawson..
A detailed guide brings to life the beauty, inhabitants, and various kinds of trees and plants of the Sierra Nevada forests, the California forests, the Pacific Northwest forests, and the boreal forests of Canada and Alaska. Original. Author: Kricher, John C. Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Bin..
Product DescriptionIdentifies North American forest fauna and floraFrom Library JournalThis latest edition to the "Peterson Field Guide" series seeks to train the reader to recognize patterns that define a woodland. Calling his book a "field guide to ecology," Kricher introduces basic ecological con..
With more than 130 color photographs and 170 drawings, this book shows how to read geological history: plate movements, earthquakes, glaciers, rivers, seas, and other forces that have shaped the earth over millions of years. Each geological region of eastern North America is described vividly and il..
Detailed descriptions of insect orders, families, and many individual species are illustrated with 1,300 drawings and 142 superb color paintings. Illustrations - which use the unique Peterson Identification System to distinguish one insect from another - include size lines to show the actual length ..
Describes the calls, range, and male and female markings of more than one thousand species Author: Edward L. Chalif Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0395171296 ISBN-13: 9780395171295..
With more than 700 color paintings arranged by families for quick comparison of similar species, and with detailed information on range, habitat, size, and voice, this field guide describes and illustrates 1,038 species of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and El Salvador. Author: Chalif, Edward L. Publish..
More than 600 species are described in detail, with more than 525 illustrations. This is the guide for quick, reliable identification of fishes that you'll encounter while fishing, snorkeling, diving, or even strolling along a Pacific Coast beach. Author: Herald, Earl S. Publisher: Houghton Mifflin ..
Accompanied by vivid illustrations and photographs, a valuable guide covers the Great Plains, South Texas, Rocky Mountain habitats, and Southwest habitats, including the riparian forest and the giant saguaro cactus forest. Original. Author: Kricher, John C. Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Bindi..