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Cast for a Revolution: Some American Friends and Enemies, 1728-1814
by Jean FritzA collective biography, the story of a group friends and enemies in Massachusetts before, during and after the American Revolution.
A China Passage
by John Kenneth GalbraithIn 1972, John Kenneth Galbraith, with his two predecessor presidents of the American Economic Association, Professors Wassily Leontief of Harvard and James Tobin of Yale, was invited to visit China to obtain a privileged view of the Chinese economy.
Economics and the Public Purpose
by John Kenneth GalbraithThe third and most important of Galbraith's major works brings completely into focus his model of our modern economic society.
The Death Notebooks
by Anne SextonAnne Sexton's work is continually full of surprises. As her poems mature, they show new insights, new visions, sometimes frightening new views into modern existence. She is among our most brilliant and original of modern American poets. This is a collection of her poetry.
Katy and the Big Snow
by Virginia Lee BurtonKaty, a brave and untiring tractor who pushes a bulldozer in the summer and a snowplow in the winter, makes it possible for the townspeople to do their jobs.
An American Bestiary
by Jack SchaeferIn a series of leisurely and loving portraits, Jack Schaefer describes a whole ark-full of creatures great and small, who mostly live beyond the din of traffic and the glare of city lights, from the industrious pika, whose sophisticated stockpiling permits him to live in comfort on the desolate rockslides of the high Rockies, to the magnificent pronghorn, whose very appearance represents a perfection of successful adaptation. The book is packed with a thousand bits of information, much of it surely unfamiliar even to the well-read naturalist: the special conditions of a bat's pregnancy, the subterranean architecture of the gopher, the seasonal frustrations of the stolid porcupine. But more important is the overall warmth and geniality of the author's vision--one would like to call it his humanity, but, alas, at the present stage of our development "animality" seems a more appropriate word. In any case, the reader will end up a better mammal, and perhaps even a wiser and more understanding human being.
Recyclopedia: Games, Science Equipment and Crafts from Recycled Materials
by Robin SimonsThis vaulable resource gives us another chance to look at junk that would normally be thrown out and turn it into something truly beautiful.
America's Ethan Allen
by Stewart H. HolbrookThis book presents the life and legends of Colonel Ethan Allen and Green Mountain boys of the American Revolution.
Life with Lindsay and Crouse
by Cornelia Otis SkinnerFrom the Jacket: Whimsically funny, gentle, and generous to a fault, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse laid to rest forever the claim that nice guys finish last. They were the most successful team of playwrights in the history of the American stage. And in this double portrait their story is told by a gifted writer who is also one of the great ladies of the theatre. From their first collaboration on Anything Goes! in the mid 1930's, the names of Lindsay and Crouse were synonymous with great hits: Arsenic and Old Lace, State of the Union, Call Me Madam, The Sound of Music and, of course, Life with Father - the longest- running play in the annals of Broadway. Cornelia Otis Skinner's biography offers glimpses of such famous figures as Irving Berlin, Alexander Woollcott, Eugene O'Neill, Frank Sullivan, the Lunts, the Round Table Group, Ethel Merman, and Bob Hope. Around them bubble marvelous anecdotes of Broadway and the boondocks, by turns tart, endearing and hilarious. As Brooks Atkinson observes in his foreword, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse "loved the vitality and variety of theatre people and the excitement and insanity of the theatre's business methods. Miss Skinner also reminds us that in and out of the theatre they were thoroughbreds."
The Age of Uncertainty
by John Kenneth GalbraithThe book traces how ideas of economists and social philosophers shape actions and events even when we are unaware of their sources.
America's Paul Revere
by Esther Hoskins ForbesA vivid history of one of America's best-loved patriots.
Annals of an Abiding Liberal
by John Kenneth Galbraith Andrea D. WilliamsAddresses, essays, lectures on economic policy, economic affairs, Galbraith's personal history, several authors, and the arts - a mixed bag by the famous economist.
Baboushka and the Three Kings
by Ruth RobbinsThe children of old Russia awaited with joy the coming of Baboushka at Christmastime as our children today await Santa Claus. Baboushka's story is retold here with beauty and warmth. When the three kings ask the old woman to join them in their search for the Child, she declines because her day's work is not finished. In vain, she tries to follow them the next day. Since that distant time, Baboushka has continued her endless search for the Child. The primitive beauty of old Russia is captured in rich four-color pictures by Nicolas Sidjakov, illustrator of the well-known THE FRIENDLY BEASTS. Included is the story in verse with music composed especially for this book.
The Three Bears
by Paul GaldoneThis familiar nursery tale features a warmly appealing bear family and a naughty, gap-toothed Goldilocks.
Shamrocks, Harps, and Shillelaghs: The Story of the St. Patrick's Day Symbols
by Edna BarthSt. Patrick's Day is one of exuberant, merry, traditions. Barth explains the religious, social and political beliefs being commemorated on St. Patrick's Day by explaining the source of the symbols incorporated in the celebrations from dawn till dark. She points out how the holiday observance varies in Ireland from The United States where the population with Irish ancestry is larger than the population of Ireland itself. Concisely she traces the origins and importance of shamrocks harps, and Shillelaghs and goes on to summarize St. Patrick's life and the 30 to 40 years he spent first as a slave and eventually as a Bishop in Ireland. She traces the emergence and meaning of the orange, white and green Irish flag, summarizing Ireland's opposition to English occupation, the deprivations suffered by the Irish and their struggle to preserve their language and heritage. She describes parades, holiday foods, Leprechauns, Fairies, dance and the high value placed on song, poetry and storytelling both in pubs and in world renowned literature. Includes lists of Stories for St. Patrick's day, resources and an index.
A Life in Our Times
by John Kenneth GalbraithThe chapters on his ambassadorship to India during the Sino-Indian war, on the Vietnam war, and on Lyndon Johnson will provide historians with some new footnotes. Without Galbraith the political literature of our time would be far drearier.
The Puzzle Palace: A Report on America's Most Secret Agency
by James BamfordThe operation of our National Security Agency.
Selected Poems
by Galway KinnellThe poems include two of Kinnell's most frequently reprinted poems, "Saint Francis and the Sow" and "After Making Love We Hear Footsteps" Kinnell draws for his poetry from experiences living in Vermont and New York, as well as from teaching in France, Australia, Iran, and many colleges and universities in this country. Kinnell is now retired from his position as the director of the Creative Writing Program at New York University. <P><P> Winner of the National Book Award<P> Pulitzer Prize Winner
Arnie, the Darling Starling
by Margarete S. Corbo Diane M. BarrasThis true story of a talking starling and the grandmother who raised him is as heartwarming a book as you will ever read-a new classic in the tradition of Rascal, Born Free, and That Quail, Robert. When Margarete first came upon Arnie, he was just a familiar springtime sight: a baby bird lying helpless in the daisy patch. After unsuccessfully trying to return him to his nest, she took him into her Texas home and raised him as carefully as she had raised her own child, teaching him to perch, to fly, even to talk. Arnie resisted all attempts to restore him to the wild, preferring steak and canned corn to worms, which frightened him, and even developing a taste for wine. Most astonishing of all, he learned to talk and sing, and he had a remarkable influence on a number of lives. Lenny, the young drug addict, paused on the road to self-destruction, so enthralled by Arnie that he carried a dog-eared picture of him in his wallet. Suzanne, the Vietnamese refugee, learned from Arnie that the wrong home can be a prison and fled to Colorado to start a happier, new life. Marguerette also learned that change could be a good thing from that little bird.
The Anatomy of Power
by John Kenneth GalbraithA critical analysis of power by renowned author John Kenneth Galbraith, where he discusses its origins and manifestations, and culminates in a discussion of the response to power in a largely democratic context.
A View from the Stands
by John Kenneth GalbraithIn the decades since World War II, no American writer has done more to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable than John Kenneth Galbraith. Galbraith reflects on many famous people, including Mencken, Hemingway, O'Hara, Muggeridge, Buckley, and more.
My First Summer in the Sierras
by John MuirMuir kept this journal on his first extended trip to Yosemite in 1869. Here he faithfully recorded his impressions of the dazzling animal and plant life he encountered in the magnificent Sierra.
The Carbohydrate Craver's Diet Cookbook
by Judith J. Wurtman Margaret LeibensteinThis cookbook includes a carbohydrate-rich, nutritionally well-balanced, 1100-calorie diet, menu plans and recipes for everything called for by the diet.
Economics in Perspective (A Critical History)
by John Kenneth GalbraithGalbraith gives students and professional economists alike the history behind current economic concepts. He outlines the ethical judgments that remain from the household economies of the Greeks to modern capitalism.
Geography
by Arthur Getis Judith M. GetisGeography introduces students to the scope and excitement of geography and its relevance to their daily lives. This edition continues to convey the breadth of geography and to provide insight into the nature and intellectual challenges of the field of geography itself.