A new series of books about girl aviators and their marvelous accomplishments in the air. Roberta Langwell is a heroine of modern times. She wins a plane by means of her remarkable air feats, and keeps the reader tense with excitement from cover to cover. The series concentrates on the efforts of the girls and women who, like their male ......
This book contains the inspiring stories of U.S. health care volunteers who traveled abroad to provide humanitarian aid to patients in Third World and war-torn countries.
Over 20 million Americans now work out of home offices, and Steve Brewer is one of them. A novelist, columnist, and the father of two sons, Brewer has turned his Albuquerque Tribune column on house husbandry into a book that reveals the reason working at home has become so popular: telecommuting gives Baby Boomers a way to wear sweatpants all day. ......
This is a journal tool for women who have chosen to participate in group counselling after receiving a breast cancer diagnosis. Conveying respect for and knowledge of the varieties of experience a breast cancer diagnosis can bring, it challenges the reader to delve into her individual experience.
Dust Mites to Meteorites, Tsunamis to Ticks, Killer Clouds to Jellyfish, Solar Flares to Salmonella
Talks about the hidden (and sometimes not-so-hidden) dangers of our world, from what's lurking at your next picnic or on a kitchen sponge to bad bullfrogs and the dangers of burning backyard barrels. A concluding chapter is devoted to resources on the Web that offers what is known about each hazard.
Many of us know what it is like to live on the edge. Sometimes we feel stuck there, in limbo and in fear of tumbling over. Or, we make desperate decisions that all too often turn out to make things worse. Yet, as Elizabeth Wilde McCormick shows, our fear of the edge and our personal darkness can be transformed into a positive and creative drive for greater inner strength.
For nearly two centuries, the creation myth for the United States imagined European settlers arriving on the shores of a vast, uncharted wilderness. Over the last two decades, however, a contrary vision has emerged, one which sees the country's roots not in a state of ""pristine"" nature but rather in a ""human-modified landscape"" over which ......
Recommended by The Nature Conservancy magazine.Ranching West of the 100th Meridian offers a literary and thought-provoking look at ranching and its role in the changing West. The book's lyrical and deeply felt narratives, combined with fresh information and analysis, offer a poignant and enlightening consideration of ranchers' ecological ......
Helping others to make occupational choices requires a combination of skill and a deep understanding of the world of work as it is today and as it will be in the future. Unlike texts which focus only on skill, Careers Guidance in Context is designed to develop understanding of the social, economic and political factors which shape both the labour ......
