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Human beings have always been mythmakers. So begins best-selling writer Karen Armstrong s concise yet compelling investigation into myth: what it is, how it has evolved, and why we still so desperately need it. She takes us from the Paleolithic period and the myths...

Turn your backyard into a bright summer paradise with a collection of 35 projects to create stylish, fragrant, and abundant displays. There are gorgeous flowering plants, lush foliage, special occasion displays, and edible fruit and vegetable harvests. The projects in Small Summer Gardens include...

The West Country in wartime, and the land girls are gathering on the farm of John and Faith Lawrence. This is a story of three different women from different backgrounds, who find themselves thrown together, sharing an attic bedroom.Author: Angela HuthPublisher: Little, Brown Book...

Paddlenorth tells the riveting story of Jennifer Kingsley's 54-day paddling adventure on the Back River in the northern wilderness of the Arctic as she and her five companions battle raging winds, impenetrable sea ice, treacherous rapids, and agonizing sores and blisters while contending with...

One of the most iconic villains in the history of television, the enigmatic Cigarette Smoking Man fascinated legions of fans of the 1990s' hit TV series, The X-Files. Best known as "Cancerman," he was voted Television's Favourite Villain by the readers of TV Guide....

Vocational Education and Training for a Global Economy investigates the greatly varying ways in which four countries--Singapore, Switzerland, China, and the United States--prepare young people for the twenty-first-century workplace. The book looks first at the highly successful vocational education and training (VET) systems in...

Buscabas un buen libro sobre gesti n del tiempo para mejorar tu productividad personal y ser efectivo en la administraci n de tus proyectos? En este libro aprender s estrategias ya probadas, simples pero efectivas para administrar tu valioso tiempo. El autor te mostrar...

Get ready for the GED(R) Math Test with a PERFECT Math Exercise Book GED Math Comprehensive Exercise Book is designed to help you review all Math topics being covered on the GED test, and challenge you for achieving a high score on your real...

U.S. Marshal Bull Morrison and his deputy, Slim Calhoun, ride into Aurora, a rowdy Nevada mining camp, to escort a large gold shipment to the U.S. Mint in Carson City. A gang, led by local businessmen and the deputy city marshal are determined to...

Two four-men college teams, who couldn't possibly be more opposite, are playing a new radical military game called laser tag. There's gambling, deception, high- and low-tech strategy, and finally, unique methods of cheating as the Ragtags and the Melting Pot viciously slug it out...

A hard look at the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program and the families desperately trying to navigate their way through it. "Here you have it, in black and white: the unfairness, the corruption and system-wide bias, documented for the world to see."--Sylvia Pimentel, Vice...

Subject of a recent story on NPR's Here and Now, Our Table of Memories is an amazing book that pairs powerful, heartfelt poetry about their native foods by high school students who are refugees from conflict zones (part of a program Stories of Arrival:...

In this intimate, inspiring, empowering and heartfelt memoir, the "world's first Latina supermodel" Patricia Velasquez reveals the naked truth about her life. The riveting story of a Latina actress and supermodel and her rise from a poor neighborhood in Venezuela to the fashion runways...

Cosmologists have reasons to believe that the vast universe in which we live is just one of an endless number of other universes within a multiverse-a mind-boggling array that may extend indefinitely in space and endlessly in both the past and the future. Victor...

Presents the evidence (or lack thereof) and stories of both reported sightings and hoaxes of the large, hairy, man-like creature known as Bigfoot or Sasquatch.Author: Patrick PerishPublisher: Amicus High InterestPublished: 08/01/2013Pages: 32Binding Type: Library BindingWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 9.70h x 6.80w x 0.20dISBN: 9781607533870Audience: Ages 4-8Accelerated...

Considered one of the best treatments of the presidency of Abraham Lincoln of its time, this portrait of the man and his administration of the United States at the moment of its greatest upheaval is both intimate and scholarly. Written by two private secretaries...

Masks are an ancient tradition of the Alutiiq people on the southern coast of Alaska. Alutiiq artists carved the masks from wood or bark into images of ancestors, animal spirits, and other mythological forces; these extraordinary creations have been an essential tool for communicating...

The revelation shown in Types and Shadows reveals to believers the richness and grandeur of the Old Testament when seen in light of the anti-types of the New Testament.Author: Shirley ChristianPublisher: Xulon PressPublished: 08/17/2006Pages: 292Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.66dISBN: 9781597819114

The Book of the Ancient Greeks is an introduction to the history and civilization of Greece from the coming of the Greeks to the conquest of Corinth by Rome in ad 146. Dorothy Mills again makes history a vital thing and historians, statesmen, and...

John Kerner's story that began with A Combat Medic will bring you inside the mind of a clear-thinking and accomplished physician. The mud and blood of World War II provide a unique education and tell an important story. "John Kerner was not only a...