For all the baby boomers who are no longer babies, for thirty-somethings who are pushing forty and beyond, and everyone who no longer wants his MTV, here is a little book of knowing observations on the nature of being an adult. Illustrated.
The perfect gift for the 99% of the human race who think that 99% of the human race are completely lazy. Hanson and New Yorker cartoonist Lorenz offer a tribute to those beleaguered people who live for Monday mornings and go to bed with the goal of solving a personnel problem in dreams. Illustrated throughout.
Sumptuous soups for all occasions! There is nothing more enjoyable or adaptable than soup. It can be prepared hot or cold; eaten before, after, or between meals; served with almost anything; and made as healthily or unhealthily as you want it to be. The Everything Soup Cookbook serves up 300 delicious traditional and creative soup recipes, providing you with simple step-by-step-instructions for each. From chicken noodle to clam chowder, this highly accessible cookbook gives you original recipes for all your favorite soups, stews, and chilis. Features: -Bean, grain, and nut soups -Cold soups -Fruit soups -Meat soups and stews -Vegetable and pasta soups From simple starters to hearty soups that work as filling meals, The Everything Soup Cookbook overflows with easy recipes that can be made with everyday ingredients found right in your pantry.
A captivating introduction to the world's most fascinating caves, Caves, Revised Edition explores every nook and cranny of these nature-made creations—including lava caves, sea caves, and glacial caves—from Kentucky's Mammoth Cave, to the amazing Paleolithic paintings of Lascaux, to Fingal's Cave of Scotland, which inspired Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture. Engrossing facts about the geologic origins of these underground voids; their astonishing speleothems, or formations, such as stalactites and stalagmites; and the microscopic extremophile organisms that dwell within are enhanced by exciting photographs and a wealth of other educational resources for further exploration.
Jeanne Hanson explores one of our culture's most powerful icons of hope and mystery from a number of fascinating perspectives. Interspersed among Hanson's descriptions of the religious, scientific, scholarly, and philosophical importance of the star are dozens of passages from literature and fable that illustrate how the Star of Bethlehem has captivated Babylonian clerics, Chinese astronomers, and modern-day watchers of the sky."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Michelle Obama: First Lady, American Rhetor is an edited anthology that explores the persona and speech-making of the country’s first African American first lady. The result of these thought-provoking essays is an interdisciplinary text that explores the First Lady from a rhetorical and cultural point of view. Authors analyze her Democratic National Convention speeches, her brand as First Lady, her communication from her latest trip to Africa, her agenda rhetoric in Let’s Move! and Reach Higher, and her coming out as a Black feminist intellectual when she spoke at Maya Angelou’s memorial service. Readers will recognize Michelle Obama as a rhetor of our times—a woman who influences America at the intersections of gender, race, and class and who is representative of what women are today.
Give this book a green thumb's up. Includes CD-ROM. This guide provides the home landscaper with all the information necessary to plan, plant, and nurture trees and shrubs. Arborist professional Josh Plunkett provides the kind of practical, hands-on guidance necessary to transform yards into beautiful havens. Includes a dynamic, interactive CD-ROM featuring hundreds of full-colour photos of trees and shrubs in every season and a checklist of the most important factors necessary in choosing the right tree or shrub More than 200 different trees and shrubs featured Insider advice on how to select the healthiest plants from local and online nurseries Dozens of illustrated, step-by-step instructions for planting, feeding, and pruning
A fun, fascinating, accessible introduction to astronomy basics In this latest installment in the bestselling Utterly Confused series, an astronomy professor and a popular science writer team up to fill you in on all the essentials of modern astronomy. From the solar system and the constellations to space-time, gravity, and quantum physics, you'll go on a fascinating journey through the cosmos, becoming acquainted with the most recent astronomical phenomena and concepts, and dozens of fun facts.
e-Jeanne was a precursor of currently popular ?blogs, ? although we called her an ?e-zine.? She was assembled early in the morning (right after my morning devotions ? in fact, I realize that many of my morning devotions somehow crept into the e-Editorials), and then forwarded by e-mail to over 300 people all around the world. I did this two or three days a week for 10 years. Like I said, maybe I am a little crazy. ... 2004 was a lengthy year, filled with commentary about the impending American Presidential Election (yes, George W. Bush won again), fluctuating health issues, and much sharing of prayer requests and praise reports among the faithful and beloved Readers. 2004 was so long that I had to split it into two books; this is Part Two, covering July through December. Like its sister books, e-Jeanne: 2004 (Part Two) comes out looking like a fair-sized phone book; you?ll need strong arms and strong hands to hold it while reading ... and I strongly suggest you have a sturdy bookmark.
A compendium of facts and lore about some of the world's most fearsome creatures disproves popular myths about such creatures as vampire bats, killer bees, and various carnivores. Original.
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