BISAC

Proudly promoting itself as "the largest home building organization in the world," Sears, Roebuck and Company advertised in 1932 products in a handsome catalog that also displayed a full-size replica of Mount Vernon, created from Sears materials for a Paris exposition in 1932.At the...

Learn to create cool characters in the style of manga and anime, Japanese animation and comic book art. Step-by-step directions show how to draw more than a dozen figures, including teenage heroes, monstrous villains, and supernatural animals.Author: Andrés Bernardo Giannotta,DrawingPublisher: Dover PublicationsPublished: 12/22/2010Pages: 64Binding...

A #1 Amazon New Release in Children's Train Books! Four young orphans discover an abandoned boxcar and move in, embarking on a life of self-reliance and hard work -- but they also enter a world of freedom and adventure. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny...

As adventure sports like climbing and mountaineering become popular, women's visibility in the sport has also grown. Mountaineering Women is a richly illustrated collection of the awesome and often surprising stories celebrating the achievements of twenty women climbers from across the globe.From the Amazigh...

David Sylvester's Interviews with Francis Bacon remain the most consulted writing on Bacon. For the first time, Bacon's words appear here in their unredacted form. Other essays throw light on form and accident in Bacon's work, chimera and liminal entities, the psychology of the...

Inspirational, practical, and easy to use, this book was created with the aim of conveying the awesome diversity and beauty of California's native plants and demonstrating how they can be brought into ecologically sound, attractive, workable, and artful gardens. Structured around major California plant...

PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD WINNER - WHITING AWARD WINNER - Smart, moving, and funny, a unique coming-of-age story about a quirky, overworked narrator who seems to be on the cusp of a perfect life but finds herself on a new path of discoveries about everything she...

With simple instructions and bright, clear illustrations, award-winning artist Taeeun Yoo invites children to enjoy yoga by assuming playful animal poses. And she sparks their imagination further by encouraging them to pretend to be the animal - to flutter like a butterfly, hiss like...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES - When there's a friend in need, it's time to call Theodore Boone--"a terrific character, an everyman kind of kid" (USA Today)! "Edge-of-your-seat drama, sophisticated plotting, and plenty of spunk."--Chicago Sun-TimesTheo has been worried about his good friend...

The New York Times Best Historical Fiction of 2020 The Guardian's Best Fiction of 2020Thrillist's Best Books of the Year Daniel Kehlmann transports the medieval legend of the trickster Tyll Ulenspiegel to the seventeenth century in an enchanting work of magical realism, macabre humor,...

The most comprehensive and up-to-date visual Bible dictionary available. With a fresh new look and updated, full-color photographs and maps, this new and enhanced edition of a classic Bible dictionary is a wealth of Bible study information for any level of study. Nelson's Illustrated...

An introcuction to Australia, focusing on its geographical features, people and native animalsRookie Read-About: Continents series gives the youngest reader (Ages 3-6) an introduction to the components that make each continent distinctive and exceptional. Readers will get to know each continents' geography, history, and...

Richard Betts is one of fewer than two hundred master sommeliers in the world, but he's no wine snob and he hates wine-speak. In the first book of its kind, he helps readers scratch and sniff their way to expertise by introducing the basic...

Read the history behind the series THE HUNTERS (starring Al Pacino) in this "captivating book rooted in first-rate research" (New York Times Book Review) that tells the true story of how America became home to thousands of Nazi war criminals. For the first time,...

Deep, deep down in their underground town, the prairie dogs live in harmony--until a mysterious, fluorescent, very fuzzy thing (otherwise known as a tennis ball) rolls down their hole. When the prairie dogs discover that they can pluck and pull the fuzz into fabulous...

According to the Common Core State Standards, students should be able to read closely to determine what a text says explicitly, make logical references from it, and cite specific textual evidence to support conclusions drawn from the text. Each of the 40 short, nonfiction...

Mastering the art of cursive writing is painless when you add motivating practice pages to the mix! Each page features some quick "word warm-ups" plus a fascinating fact for kids to copy with care. And here's more good news: When the pages are complete,...

An artist searches for God so he can paint his portrait in Philip K. Dick's collaboration with Roger Zelazny. After World War III, the Servants of Wrath cult deified the mysterious Carlton Lufteufel, creator of the doomsday weapon that wiped out much of humanity....

Can the three Billy Goats Gruff cross the troll's bridge without being eaten? Find out in the perfect introduction to the beloved must-have classic by two-time Caldecott Honor-winner Paul Galdone. The three Billy Goats Gruff are hungry! They want to go over the bridge...

Now a practicing physician brings Edgar Cayce's remarkable healing methods to you What opens the door to disease in our body? What enables us to get well? Dr. William A. McGarey answers these questions and shows us the way to glowing good health. Guided...