“What's an inventor? Who invented the light bulb?” Introducing beginner readers to the fascinating story of inventors through history with accurate illustrations, interesting facts and simple text for idependent reading.
like all young elephants,Elly sometimes forgets her manners!In this beautifully illustrated story,Elly finds out how good table manners can make meal times much more fun.
After a year's sabbatical in Kyoto, a college professor presents a collection of essays on traditional Japanese culture.
An annually updated road map of the USA, covering the major road networks across the country. Highlights places of interest, national parks, state flags. Scale: 1/3,450,000 - 1cm = 34.5km - 1in = 55 miles. Legend/Key in three languages.
First published in 1913, Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country is a scathing novel of ambition featuring one of the most ruthless heroines in literature. Undine Spragg is as unscrupulous as she is magnetically beautiful. Her rise to the top of New York's high society from the nouveau riche provides a provocative commentary on the upwardly mobile and the aspirations that eventually cause their ruin. One of Wharton's most acclaimed works, The Custom ofthe Country is a stunning indictment of materialism and misplaced values that is as powerful today forits astute observations about greed and power as when it was written nearly a century ago.
Ferrari-in the world of cars,no other name generates such passion.Enzo Ferrari began building racing cars in 1947,and within a few years Ferrari had won most of the major races in the world.Alongside the racing cars,Ferrari have always produced the most thrilling of road cars.The gigantic racing success of the past ensures that Ferrari road cars are the most coveted cars today-combining fabulously exciting,powerful engines with stunning,elegant lines. Nothing can equal the sight and sound of a Ferrari,and this fascinating book brings you all the thrills of those road cars with superb color photographs and informative,detailed text and specifications for each model. That there have been more books written on the subject of Ferrari cars than any other motoring subject is really not surprising,as no other manufacturer can match the glamour and excitement produced by the blood-red cars from Maranello.This book covers the cars built by Ferrari for the road,but inevitably this overlap with some GT racers whi
Book De*ion Marco Polo?s account of his journey throughout the East in thethirteenth century was one of the earliest European travelnarratives, and it remains the most important. Themerchant-traveler from Venice, the first to cross the entirecontinent of Asia, provided us with accurate de*ions of lifein China, Tibet, India, and a hundred other lands, and recordedcustoms, natural history, strange sights, historical legends, andmuch more. From the dazzling courts of Kublai Khan to the perilousdeserts of Persia, no book contains a richer magazine of marvelsthan the Travels. This edition, selected and edited by the great scholar ManuelKomroff, also features the classic and stylistically brilliantMarsden translation, revised and corrected, as well as Komroff?sIntroduction to the 1926 edition. Book Dimension length: (cm)19.7 width:(cm)12.8
Learn how to hot-pepper marmalade and make homemade itching powder and whoopee cushions among other time-tested pranks in this charming little book.
Two essays representing a search for the balance between the rights of the individual and the power of the state discuss such issues as equality, authority, happiness, justice, and virtue. Reprint.
