The classic literary canon meets the comics artists, illustrators, and other artists who have remade reading in Kick's magisterial, three-volume, full-color "The Graphic Canon," including a Sherlock Holmes mystery, an H.G. Wells story, an illustrated guide to the Beat writers, a ...
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"For more than four hundred years the personal essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant of all literary forms. The Art of the Personal Essay is the first anthology to celebrate this lively, fertile genre. Distinguished from the formal essay by its friendly, conversation...
Dale Carnegie was raised on a poverty-stricken farm in back woods Missouri, twelve miles from the nearest railroad. Yet this farm boy became one of the best-known men of our time -- a success in business, teacher of millions, famous author. How did he do it? Though beset by feeli...
Explains how sneakers are designed, cut, sewn, embroidered, assembled, inspected, laced, and boxed for shipping.
Titles included: Aladdin; Cinderella; The Little Mermaid; Sleeping Beauty.
Text and photographs introduce such invertebrates as insects, spiders, crustaceans, jellyfish, sea anemones, sand dollars, squid, sponges, flatworms, and more.
Text and photographs illustrate how crayons are made at the Binney & Smith company in Easton, Pennsylvania, where an average of twelve million crayons are produced every day.
Describes the characteristics and behavior of different categories of mammals, including hoofed mammals, carnivores, insectivores, egg-laying mammals, primates, and more.
Presents information about various insects in answer to such questions as: What's the ;oudest insect: what's the insect that travels farthest in migration: and what's the insect with the deadliest poison?
Uses the daily activities of one doctor to describe the work of a pediatrician.
Presents information about various insects in answer to such questions as: What's the loudest insect; what's the insect that travels farthest in migration; and what's the insect with the deadliest poison?