A story of New Zealand and its people, from 1200 through to 2000. A short, very accessible snapshot of New Zealand's history written with tourists and anyone new to the country in mind.
Dimple Pennington knows of her half siblings, but she doesn't really KNOW them.
In this encyclopedic picture book, Spier celebrates humankind in all its diversity-how we are similar and how we are differnt; in what we wear, eat, play, and how we worship.
-- Thomas F. Schwartz, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Lincoln Herald
You can bring out the best in people! In Be a People Person, America's leadership expert John Maxwell helps you Discover and develop the qualities of an effective "people person." Improve your relationships in every area of life.
This delightful volume of quotations compiles some of Julia's most memorable lines on eating—"The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook"—on drinking, on life—"I think every woman should have a ...
Contextualized by a detailed historical introduction and timeline charting 150 years of Palestinian and Jewish resistance to Zionism, this collection will stir emotions, provoke fresh thinking, and point to a more hopeful, loving future-one ...
Originally published by UNC Press in 1984, the book was the first investigation of colonial military life to give equal attention to official records and to the diaries and other writings of the common soldier.
One of the great bestseller of our time: the novel that inspired Robert Redford’s Oscar-winning film starring Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore In Ordinary People, Judith Guest’s remarkable first novel, the Jarrets are a typical ...
Bill Miller and Peter Lynch acquired stellar reputations with sustained outperformance of market indexes through successful stockpicking. But both have retired (and Buffett himself is now over eighty).
... published in 1690 just after the Revolution, is a milestone in the development of the doctrine of popular sovereignty. Just what Locke was up to remains a source of dispute among scholars (cf. Ashcraft 1986; Wootton 1993; Marshall ...