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Author
Publisher
Cico Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
144 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
This book shows how to create and blend your very own signature scent. It introduces us to the psychology of smell and explains how fragrance can influence our moods and behaviour, and gives a brief overview of perfume through the ages. A key chapter teaches you how to train your nose to recognise the five different fragrance families (floral, oriental, citrus, chypre, fougere), and how to identify the top, middle and base notes of a perfume. Once...
Author
Series
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
31 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A picture book biography of Tad Lincoln and his father President Abraham Lincoln and a story about a father's love for his son and the wisdom of a child. Tad Lincoln was forever getting into trouble. He bounced around the White House making mischief and annoying the staff. Only President Lincoln was never annoyed--he delighted in his son's antics. Tad was his father's joy and comfort in the midst of a brutal war, a family tragedy, and the toll of...
Author
Publisher
Kingswell, an imprint of Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
ABC News chief meteorologist Ginger Zee pulls back the curtain on her life in Natural Disaster. Ginger grew up in small-town Michigan where she developed an obsession with weather as a young girl. Ginger opens up about her lifelong battle with crippling depression, her romances that range from misguided to dangerous, and her tumultuous professional path. This cyclone of stories may sound familiar to some-it's just that Ginger's personal tempests happened...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 408 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Draws on centuries of traditional Chinese, Ayurvedic, and biblical medicine to identify specific dietary choices, medicinal herbs, and mind-body practices for more than seventy common conditions, from hypothyroidism to autoimmune diseases. In Ancient Remedies, Dr. Axe explores the foundational concepts of ancient healing--eating right for your type and living in sync with your circadian clock. Readers will learn how traditional practitioners identified...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After achieving her dream of becoming a teacher in her small farm town of Concord, Wisconsin, in 1857, seventeen-year-old Caroline Quiner, who will become the mother of Laura Ingalls Wilder, begins a courtship with Charles Ingalls, a bachelor farmer who aspires to move west. Just after Caroline Quiner starts teaching at the Concord School, she runs into her fiddle-playing neighbor Charles Ingalls, who's full of plans to head out west. As their friendship...
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
320 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Companion book to the PBS series of the same name, Craft in America highlights the work of America's craft artists, past and present. Illustrated with more than 200 images and signature objects from furniture, wood, ceramics, and glass, to fiber, quilts, jewelry, metal, and basketry, this work shows how crafts, long admired for their marriage of functionality and creativity, also reflect our nation's history and the remarkable people who passed on...
Publisher
The School of Life Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Lexile measure
970L
Physical Desc
147 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Children are, in many ways, born philosophers. Without prompting, they ask some of the largest questions about time, mortality, happiness and the meaning of it all. Yet too often this inborn curiosity is not developed and, with age, the questions fall away. This is a book designed to harness children's spontaneous philosophical instinct and to develop it through introductions to some of the most vibrant and essential philosophical ideas of history....
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"At the turn of the twentieth century, in a time of great change, two women--separated by societal status and culture but bound by their expected roles as the daughters of famed statesmen--forged a lifelong friendship. Portia Washington's father Booker T. Washington was formerly enslaved and spent his life championing the empowerment of Black Americans through his school, known popularly as Tuskegee Institute, as well as his political connections....
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
368 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
The experiences of ordinary Minnesotans from the 18th century through the Second World War are collected in stories taken from diary and journal entries, from published accounts and business records. Together with drawings and photographs, the narratives capture ways of life at particular moments in time, telling the history of the state in the words of its people. --
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xx, 228 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In many ways, today is the best time in history to be a girl: opportunities for a girl's success are as unlimited as her dreams. Yet societal expectations, cultural trends, and conflicting messages are creating what psychologist Stephen Hinshaw calls "the Triple Bind." Girls are now expected to excel at "girl skills," achieve "boy goals," and be models of female perfection, 100 percent of the time--putting more and more girls at risk for aggression,...
Author
Publisher
Ulysses Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xiii, 193 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The deadly danger of disasters doesn't end when the waters recede or the earth stops shaking; it has just begun. The Prepper's Long Term Survival Guide goes beyond the basics of surviving in the immediate aftermath of catastrophe and teaches readers how to cope with the problems and challenges that can continue for weeks, months, and even years. Including everything from pre disaster prepping tips to post catastrophe instructions for making life easier...
2073) The Mood guide to fabric and fashion: the essential guide from the world's most famous fabric store
Publisher
STC Craft
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
184 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"More than 10 years ago, Tim Gunn and Project Runway introduced millions of viewers to New York's ultimate fabric mecca, Mood Fabrics. Now, the experts behind this fabric power- house bring their fabric and fashion know-how--plus their behind-the-scenes stories--to the sewing public. The Mood Guide to Fabric and Fashion is the ultimate guide for home-sewers, fashion students, aspiring designers, and Project Runway fans who want to learn everything...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 325 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Internationally acclaimed, best-selling author Haruki Murakami sits down with his friend Seiji Ozawa, the former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, for a series of conversations on their shared passion: music. Over the course of two years, Murakami and Ozawa discuss everything from Brahms to Beethoven, from Leonard Bernstein to Glenn Gould, from Bartok to Mahler, and from popup orchestras to opera. They listen to and dissect recordings of...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 287 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : black and white illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"On December 16, 1842, the US brig-of-war Somers dropped anchor in Brooklyn Harbor at the end of a cruise intended to teach a group of adolescents the rudiments of naval life. But this seemingly harmless exercise ended in catastrophe. Commander Alexander Slidell Mackenzie came ashore saying he had narrowly prevented a mutiny that would have left him and his officers dead. Some of the thwarted mutineers were being held under guard, but three had been...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Go
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 370 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A life-changing, lifesaving book for anyone and everyone. Anti-transgender legislation has been introduced all across the United States in record-breaking numbers. Trans people are under attack in sports, healthcare, entertainment, school and education, bathrooms, and nearly everywhere else. He/She/They clearly and compassionately addresses fundamental topics, from how being transgender is not a choice and why pronouns are important, to more complex...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
243 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A language barrier is no match for love. Lauren Collins discovered this firsthand when, in her early thirties, she moved to London and fell for a Frenchman named Olivier-- a surprising turn of events for someone who didn't have a passport until she was in college. But what does it mean to love someone in a second language? Collins wonders, as her relationship with Olivier continues to grow entirely in English. Are there things she doesn't understand...
2079) Isaiah's legacy
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
584 pages (large print) : map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"At eight years old, Shulle has known only life in a small village with her loving but peculiar father. When Uncle Shebna offers shelter in Jerusalem in exchange for Shulle's help tutoring King Manasseh, Judah's five-year-old co-regent who displays the same peculiarities as her father, she's eager to experience the royal court. But Shulle soon realizes the limits of her father's strict adherence to Yahweh's Law when Uncle Shebna teaches her of the...
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xiii, 127 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
There's nothing quite like a relationship with an aged pet-a dog or cat who has been at our side for years, forming an ineffable bond. Pampered pets, however, are a rarity among animals who have been domesticated. Farm animals, for example, are usually slaughtered before their first birthday. We never stop to think about it, but the typical images we see of cows, chickens, pigs, and the like are of young animals. What would we see if they were allowed...
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