Retells the Zapotec legend of Lucia Zenteno, a beautiful woman with magical powers who is exiled from a mountain village and takes its water away in punishment.

Juan has been a thief for many, many years. So many, in fact, that he can't even remember what it's like to be anything else.

When he tries to steal Doña Josefa's gold, something strange begins to happen to Juan. His skin becomes tan instead of pale, his body straight instead of bent, and his mouth smiles instead of scowls. Juan also begins to remember things. He remembers eating good, home-cooked food, being among friends, and laughing.

When the opportunity arrives for him to take Doña Josefa's gold, another strange thing happens. Juan realizes he can't. Maybe he isn't a thief anymore.

Set against a Central American background, this is a story of love and faith in the human spirit.

The day-to-day life of children in nineteenth-century North American communities is explored through stories and activities

Examines the daily routine of the one-room school and includes stories and activities

When Peter Rabbit is invited to a housewarming party by one of the Three Little Pigs, a behind-the-scenes adventure begins to unfold. This collection of previously unseen letters from the land of make-believe offers us a rare and fresh glimpse into the lives of well-loved characters. Along the way, Goldilocks makes a much happier return visit to the Bears' house, finds Peter Rabbit's lost jacket, and befriends Little Red Riding Hood. This delightful tale of interconnecting friendships, written by Alma Flor Ada and enhanced by Leslie Tryon's detailed and engaging pictures, is sure to warm the hearts of young and old alike.

Explores the words, phrases, and sayings that were used by settlers in North America and looks at their modern meanings

Explores the words, phrases, and sayings that were used by settlers in North America and looks at their modern meanings

Stories portray the experiences of women living in a harsh world of tragedy, racism, sexism, and other destructive forces, and reveals how they find the spiritual strength to achieve their own triumphs

The historic forts of North America and the lifestyles of the men, women, and children who lived there are highlighted

The day-to-day life of children in nineteenth-century North American communities is explored through stories and activities

One of the funniest and most astutely observed works on the sexes since James Thurber, How to Make Your Man Behave in 21 Days of Less Using the Secrets of Professional Dog Trainers (over 207,000 copies in print) turns the often-expressed axiom 'Men are dogs' into a howling little handbook on men for contemporary women.

Doggie Dos and Don'ts: 'Gentle strokes and playful petting techniques are positive motivational techniques for rewarding good behavior.' And Flight and Chase Behavior: 'If your dog is running away from you, the worst thing to do is chase after him . . . remain calm, act like you're having loads of fun without him, and soon he'll be trotting eagerly back.' Doggie Dogmas: 'Dogs like to eat out of your plate.' 'It's pointless to compete for the attention of a dog caught up in a ball game.' And a quick primer on personality and temperament, from The Sporting Dog (requires daily exercise, gets bored easily, needs lots of attention) to The Hound (instinctually driven to chase and catch nearly anything that moves).

With its tongue-in-cheek humor and illustrations that evoke an old Esquire magazine, How to Make Your Man Behave in 21 Days of Less assures that control will be yours forever, as behavioral problems vanish within twenty-one days. It's guaranteed.

I saggi hanno come tema i serpenti infernali di Dante, l'oscenità del Boccaccio, l'oscenità del Belli, la sessualizzazione della natura, L'amante di Lady Chatterley nelle tre versioni, l'oscenità di Henry Miller e il fallo parlante incentrato sulla narrativa di Moravia.

I 'Frammenti' lasciati da Pascal dopo la sua morte vennero pubblicati per la prima volta nel 1670, solo in parte, disposti secondo un ordine e con un titolo - 'Pensées sur la religion' - assolutamente arbitrari. Oggi sappiamo che il disordine in cui furono trovati è solo apparente, e dunque questa edizione li ripropone nell'ordine voluto dall'autore stesso, rispettando quello che almeno in parte doveva essere il piano del libro al quale Pascal stava lavorando e che non fu mai compiuto. Una volta completata, l'opera avrebbe dovuto costituire una sorta di difesa della cristianità, ma Pascal non era un teologo, bensì un uomo di scienza, un moralista capace di penetrare il pensiero umano, un grande letterato. Quel libro si sarebbe dunque potuto definire la sua autobiografia spirituale. Questa edizione è corredata di un ricco apparato filologico che sottolinea le numerose varianti del testo pascaliano, mentre il testo francese a fronte permette al lettore di comprendere lo sforzo compiuto per rispettare, nel tradurre, il ritmo e la struttura vorticosa della lingua di Pascal.

E' un racconto lungo che appartiene alla prima produzione di Lawrence. E' ambientato in un villaggio di minatori nelle Midlands e mostra i difficili rapporti tra quelli che lavorano in miniera e la classe piccolo borghese. Le figlie del vicario seguono due strade divergenti: la prima, Mary, difende la propria spiritualità e razionalità rispondendo al richiamo della sua cultura e della sua educazione e scegliendo la via della mente; la seconda, Louisa, attende pazientemente il momento in cui verrà richiamata 'verso il centro pulsante della sua femminilità', nella classica formulazione dell'autore. Louisa sarà quindi costretta dalla sua natura e dalla sua volontà ad attraversare la barriera fra due classi e a sposare, lei figlia di un vicario, un minatore.

This highly acclaimed study draws on information from spy reports and contemporary literature to look at English popular radicalism during the period between the anti-Jacobin government 'Terror' of the 1790s and the beginnings of Chartism. The book traces for the first time the history of the underground revolutionary-republican grouping founded by the agrarian reformer, Thomas Spence. Challenging conventional distinctions between 'high' and 'low' culture, McCalman illuminates the darker, more populist sides of Romanticism. Radical Underworld broadens the conventional boundaries of popular politics and culture by exploring a political underworld connected with poverty, crime, prophetic religion, and literary culture.

Third grader Maria Isabel, born in Puerto Rico and now living in the United States, wants badly to fit in at school, and the teacher's writing assignment 'My Greatest Wish' gives her that opportunity

Zillij: The Art of Moroccan Ceramics represents an outstanding photographic record of Moroccan ceramics and cut tiles, with written contributions from leading art historians and architects specialising in these fields.
Photographer John Hedgecoe and the editor Salma Samar Damluji were given unprecedented access to Morocco's finest buildings, including Royal Palaces, and to private and state museum collections. Through the auspices of the Ministry of Culture in Morocco, a unique book on one of the world's great forms of art has been created.
It was through the art of zillij, intricate cut-tile patterns, that Moroccan craftsmen achieved their most sophisticated expression of precision, spatial geometry and aesthetics. This book is a careful study of the achievements of those craftsmen in the art of zillij. It is also, as importantly, an investigation into the relationship of zillij designs to ceramics, which present the designs or a new scale and with a new function.
Zillij: The Art of Moroccan Ceramics is essential to the library of all those interested, either professionally or otherwise, in architecture, design ceramics, Islamic and decorative arts.

Ordered to defend one planetary nation from invasion by another, the Iralyans who make up the White Regiment find themselves up against a hired regiment from Tyss, the people who trained them in the first place. Original.