Dall'autore di "La tela di Carlotta", E. B. White, il grande ritorno di un classico senza tempo. Quando nella famiglia Little nasce il piccolo Stuart, tutti lo accolgono con affetto. Non più alto di cinque centimetri, il naso aguzzo, la coda, i baffetti: assomiglia decisamente a un topolino. Ma Stuart è anche un tipetto gentile, sincero e coraggioso. Tutto è possibile per lui. Sorprende ogni giorno i genitori con le sue abilità straordinarie, affronta i pericoli senza paura e farebbe di tutto per gli amici. Accompagnatelo per le strade di New York, mischiatevi tra la folla, girovagate a bordo della sua auto fiammante e salpate insieme a lui alla ricerca di terre inesplorate. In caso di dubbi, puntate verso nord: troverete una nuova casa, una nuova avventura, con Stuart Little sempre al vostro fianco. Età di lettura: da 7 anni.

Può un maiale fare amicizia con un ragno? Certo che si, quando il maiale è un cucciolo come Wilbur e il ragno si chiama Carlotta. Il primo, vivacissimo e curioso, è stato adottato dalla piccola Fern, la figlia del fattore, la seconda, saggia e affettuosa, ha un grande talento artistico per la tessitura delle tele. Sarà proprio Carlotta a escogitare un fantasioso piano per salvare la vita dell'amico. E alla fine anche Fern avrà capito molte cose: per esempio che gli animali sono più vicini di noi al senso della vita... Età di lettura: da 9 anni.

Nato quasi per caso nel 1949 come articolo destinato a una rivista, Questa è New York ha avuto in sorte di diventare il libro più citato sulla città più famosa. Molti dei luoghi evocati non esistono più: la ferrovia sopraelevata della Terza Avenue, il carbonaio di quartiere che vendeva anche ghiaccio e legna, i saliscendi con i libri della Public Library, la vecchia sede della Metropolitan Opera, la Queen Mary con la sua lugubre sirena e il molo da cui salpava. Ma agli occhi del lettore di oggi questa vera e propria dichiarazione d'amore alla città simbolo dell'Occidente contemporaneo non potrà che suonare profetica e dunque attualissima: perché White sembra aver saputo esattamente quali quartieri della città sarebbero fioriti, quali invece scomparsi, come sarebbe insomma cambiata, per rimanere in fondo sempre la stessa, la sua New York. Prefazione di Roger Angell.

Wilbur, un maiale vivace e curioso, abita in una fattoria. Gli altri animali lo evitano, ma lui stringe amicizia con Carlotta, un ragno intelligente e affettuoso. Sarà proprio lei a salvare la vita dell'amico, grazie alla sua abilità nel tessere la tela e a un piano fantasioso. Un inno all'amicizia e alla profonda saggezza della natura. Un capolavoro per tutte le età. Età di lettura: da 9 anni.

In 1925, Harold Ross hired Katharine Sergeant Angell as a manuscript reader for The New Yorker. Within months she became the magazine’s first fiction editor, discovering and championing the work of Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike, James Thurber, Marianne Moore, and her husband-to-be, E. B. White, among others. After years of cultivating fiction, she set her sights on a new genre: garden writing. On March 1, 1958, The New Yorker ran a column entitled “Onward and Upward in the Garden,” a critical review of garden catalogs, in which White extolled the writings of “seedmen and nurserymen,” those unsung authors who produced her “favorite reading matter.” Thirteen more columns followed, exploring the history and literature of gardens, flower arranging, herbalists, and developments in gardening. Two years after her death in 1977, E. B. White collected and published the series, with a fond introduction. The result is this sharp-eyed appreciation of the green world of growing things, of the aesthetic pleasures of gardens and garden writing, and of the dreams that gardens inspire.

This text is an unbound, binder-ready edition.

Fundamentals of Engineering Economic Analysis, 1e provides streamlined topical coverage with a modern and pedagogically-rich presentation. This text features a wealth of real-world vignettes to reinforce how students will use economics in their future careers as well as to drive student motivation and interest. An enlightening approach combined with strong digital offerings make the course manageable, equipping students with the knowledge they need as future engineers.

"Fundamentals of Engineering Economics, 1st Edition provides streamlined topical coverage with a modern and pedagogically-rich presentation. This text features a tight integration of Excel along with a wealth of real world vignettes to reinforce how students will use economics in their future careers. Fundamentals of Engineering Economics, 1st Edition provides enough content for every instructor to choose his/her favorite topics, but is streamlined enough to feel approachable to students. A pedagogically-rich approach combined with strong digital offerings make the course manageable, leaving students with the Engineering Economics knowledge needed for future careers"--

This concise book provides engineers with the tools to evaluate the cost of their work and convey the project to key decision makers. It follows an integrative approach that arms them with a seven-step Systematic Evaluation and Analysis Technique as well as a strong understanding of cash flows. The new fifth edition has also been expanded from eight to 16 chapters, covering critical topics such as time value of money, measures of worth, depreciation, inflation, and capital rationing. Practicing engineers will be able to apply these principles and techniques to make the most effective economic decisions.

In a book that draws on E. B. White's books, collected works and published and unpublished letters and papers, the literary legend's granddaughter collects his best quotes--on writing, nature, everyday life and much more.

A selection of the best of the hilarious free-verse poems by the irreverent cockroach poet Archy and his alley-cat pal Mehitabel.

Don Marquis’s famous fictional insect appeared in his newspaper columns from 1916 into the 1930s, and he has delighted generations of readers ever since. A poet in a former life, Archy was reincarnated as a bug who expresses himself by diving headfirst onto a typewriter. His sidekick Mehitabel is a streetwise feline who claims to have been Cleopatra in a previous life. As E. B. White wrote in his now-classic introduction, the Archy poems “contain cosmic reverberations along with high comedy” and have “the jewel-like perfection of poetry.”

Adorned with George Herriman’s whimsical illustrations and including White’s introduction, our Pocket Poets selection—the only hardcover Archy and Mehitabel in print—is a beautiful volume, and perfectly sized for its tiny hero.

Può un maiale fare amicizia con un ragno? Certo che si, quando il maiale è un cucciolo come Wilbur e il ragno si chiama Carlotta. Il primo, vivacissimo e curioso, è stato adottato dalla piccola Fern, la figlia del fattore, la seconda, saggia e affettuosa, ha un grande talento artistico per la tessitura delle tele. Sarà proprio Carlotta a escogitare un fantasioso piano per salvare la vita dell'amico. E alla fine anche Fern avrà capito molte cose: per esempio che gli animali sono più vicini di noi al senso della vita... Età di lettura: da 9 anni.

This four-volume set, edited by leading experts in soil science, brings together in one collection a series of papers that have been fundamental to the development of soil science as a defined discipline. Volume I contains papers that look at the soil as a natural body and speculate on how it was formed, the extent of its global coverage, and the many complex interactions with the biosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and lithosphere. It focuses its attention on the 'what' of the pedosphere and the extent of our current understanding of it.Volume II focuses on the 'how' of soils, the understanding of fundamental processes. It is concerned with the integration of physics, chemistry, biology and mineralogy to understand fundamental soil properties and processes that control transport, cycling, speciation and bioavailability of elements or molecules. These phenomena are studied at multiple scales ranging from atomic to global. Volume III contains papers on 'why' soil science is important to society. It demonstrates the application of fundamental knowledge to solve social, economic, and environmental challenges of major societal and scientific interest. It can be considered the applied segment of soil science to ensure that soils are used and managed in a sustainable manner.Volume IV contains papers that are more general and address the transfer of knowledge to segments of society where soil science is misunderstood or under-appreciated. It addresses public literacy in soil science, education, international conventions, consequences of human activities on soil ecosystems, policy issues, food security, and philosophy and history of the discipline.

This concise book provides engineers with the tools to evaluate the cost of their work and convey the project to key decision makers. It follows an integrative approach that arms them with a seven-step Systematic Evaluation and Analysis Technique as well as a strong understanding of cash flows. The new fifth edition has also been expanded from eight to 16 chapters, covering critical topics such as time value of money, measures of worth, depreciation, inflation, and capital rationing. Practicing engineers will be able to apply these principles and techniques to make the most effective economic decisions.

The only style manual ever to appear on bestseller lists has explained to millions of readers the basic principles of plain English. The bookÂ's mantra—make every word tell—is still on point. Whether seventeen or seventy, this much-loved classic, now in its fourth edition, will forever be the go-to guide when in need of a hint on how to make a turn of phrase clearer, or a reminder on how to enliven prose with the active voice. KalmanÂ's exquisite illustrations give the revered work a jolt of new energy, making the learning experience more colorful and clear. The Elements of Style Illustrated will come to be known as the definitive, must-have edition.

In his classic and beloved novel, E. B. White tells the memorable story of Wilbur, a little pig who becomes famous with the help of his clever friend Charlotte and their chatty animal neighbors. As the runt of the litter, Wilbur struggles to survive from the very beginning. Fern fights her father, Mr. Arable, to raise Wilbur and nurse him to health. Fern succeeds and Wilbur moves to the Zuckerman farm, where he learns the true meaning of friendship from the wise grey spider Charlotte. When it becomes apparent that Wilbur is being well fed for a reason, Charlotte and Wilbur are determined to foil Mr. Zuckerman's plans. With the help of Charlotte and her "terrific" webs, Templeton the rat, and other colorful barnyard friends, Wilbur becomes the prizewinning pig of the County Fair and the most famous pig ever.

Lessons of friendship, loyalty, and truth bind this story together and show readers that friends come in all shapes and sizes.

Illustrations by the artist Garth Williams bring to life these lovable characters. He is also the illustrator of E. B. White's Stuart Little.

What the book is about is friendship on earth, affection and protection, adventure and miracle, life and death, trust and treachery, pleasure and pain, and the passing of time. As a piece of work it is just about perfect, and just about magical in the way it is done.

-- Eudora Welty, the New York Times Book Review

These are the words in Charlotte's web, high in the barn. Her spiderweb tells of her feelings for a little pig named Wilbur, as well as the feelings of a little girl named Fern...who loves Wilbur, too. Their love has been shared by millions of readers.

Daughters of Imani: Christian Rites of Passage for African American Young Women by Rev. Richelle White, the creator of a comprehensive mentoring program for African American girls ages 8-18 that ran for nine years at a prominent African American church. This Planning Guide will provide step-by-step guidelines for setting up a mentoring and rites of passage program for your church. The curriculum in the Planning Guide will help you bolster self-esteem; encourage peer, family, and community interactions; explore career development; and address topics that impact the survival of the 21^st century African American female. Eight multiple-session Bible lessons that focus on life concerns and feature female biblical characters are also available inDaughters of Imani Bible Study for Young Women by Rev. Richelle White and Rev. Tamara Lewis. Additionally,Daughters of Imani: Celebration of Women by Rev. Tamara Lewis lifts up the lives and contributions of eighteen historical and contemporary women. This complete package will give you everything you need to build up the faith of your church’s young women!

The first book of prose published by either James Thurber or E. B. White, Is Sex Necessary? combines the humor and genius of both authors to examine those great mysteries of life -- romance, love, and marriage. A masterpiece of drollery, this 75th Anniversary Edition stands the test of time with its sidesplitting spoof of men, women, and psychologists; more than fifty funny illustrations by Thurber; and a new foreword by John Updike.

STUART LITTLE - WHITE E.B. - Harper USA

Since its publication in 1952, Charlotte's Web has become one of America's best-loved children's books. For fifty years, this timeless story of the pig named Wilbur and the wise spider named Charloette who saved him has continued to warm the hearts of readers everywhere. Now this classic, a 1953 Newbery Honor book, comes to life in a delightful unabridged recording, read lovingly by the author himself.