In the tradition of Poetry Speaks, the anthology named a Best Book of 2002 by School Library Journal, and praised by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer as 'a volume to delight longtime lovers of poetry and to spark new love for poetry, especially among the young,' Sourcebooks MediaFusion is proud to introduce the joy of the written and spoken word in Poetry Speaks to Children.

Parents, educators, librarians, and poetry enthusiasts have wondered for years how to get children really interested in poetry. Until now, there hasn't been a collection of poems and poets that spoke directly to that elusive audience. Poetry Speaks to Children cracks through that barrier by packaging the best poems by the best authors along with a CD-making the engrossing and often mischievous verses come alive in the voices of many of the creators.

Poetry Speaks to Children reaches into the world of poetry and pulls out the elements children love: rhyme, rhythm, fun and, every once in a while, a little mischief.

More than 90 poems, for children ages six and up, celebrate the written word and feature a star-studded lineup of beloved poets, including: Roald Dahl; J. R. R. Tolkien; Robert Frost; Gwendolyn Brooks; Ogden Nash; John Ciardi; Langston Hughes; Sonia Sanchez; Seamus Heaney; Canada's best-loved children's poet, Dennis Lee; Rita Dove; Billy Collins; Nikki Giovanni and X. J. Kennedy.

On the accompanying CD, 50 of the poems are brought to life--most read by the poets themselves--allow the reader to hear the words as the poets intended.

Hear Gwendolyn Brooks growl her rhyming verse poem 'The Tiger Who Wore White Gloves, or, What You Are You Are' with verve and inflection-relaying the story of the striped cat who 'rushed to the jungle fair for something fine to wear,' much to the hoots of his jungle peers. Amid jeers, sneers and sighs, the tiger eventually learns to be comfortable in his own striped skin (or fur as it were!).

Follow Ogden Nash as he tells of the brave little Isabel, who 'didn't worry, didn't scream or scurry' when confronted with a ravenous bear, a one-eyed giant or a troublesome doctor. Her clever solutions to problems ('She turned the witch into milk and drank her') will keep even the most reluctant readers interested.

Listen to James Berry, who quells a little girl's anxieties about her color by celebrating the marriage of 'night and light,' emphasizing how all colors are necessary in nature, in 'Okay, Brown Girl, Okay.'

Turn the page and tune in . . . kids won't be the only ones hooked!

A richly illustrated overview of the extraordinary lamps created by Louis Comfort Tiffany details the artistic quality, craftsmanship, and magnificent detail of these masterpieces of decorative art, accompanied by essays on the history of the lamps, their stylistic themes, and the design, development, and manufacture of each work, from freehand sketch to finished form.

Marcucci (surgery, East Tennessee State U.) et al. list 186 common surgical errors made in the operating and emergency rooms or intensive care unit and provide a guide to rectifying problems. Advice on preventable and frequent errors, and changes in practice is given concerning medication, lines, drains, tubes, wounds, bleeding, the gastrointestinal tract, on wards, and in the laboratory. Each problem contains signs and symptoms, what to do or not to do, and what to look out for. Contributors are surgeons and anesthesiologists from the US. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

This is a reprint of a 1998 text published by Pearson Education. Chen (communication, U. of Rhode Island) and Starosta (communication and culture, Howard U., Washington, D.C.) offer a reference text for academics, administrators, nurses, engineers, and business practitioners which is also suitable for use in undergraduate and basic-level graduate intercultural communication courses. The text provides an overview of intercultural communication incorporating social-science and historical-interpretive perspectives, an international and domestic outlook, and research- and experience-based orientations, and uses a thematic approach to cover subjects ranging from the history of the field and traditional topics to multiculturalism, training, listening across cultures, and ethical issues. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Many patrons of the arts in nineteenth-century America built collections of paintings and sculpture imported primarily from England or Italy. Collectors in Baltimore—William Walters, George Lucas, the famous Cone sisters, among others—stand out in this milieu for having developed a strikingly different aesthetic for their homes and newly founded public institutions. These collectors looked to France for models of culture and, acting upon a remarkable understanding of the educational needs and working methods of artists, assembled extensive collections of drawings by French masters, from David to Daumier, Degas, and Cézanne.

The Essence of Line offers the first comprehensive discussion of the formation of these collections and their significance for the history of French art. The book begins with essays by Jay M. Fisher, William R. Johnston, and Cheryl K. Snay that trace the history of collecting in Baltimore and afford new insights into the acquisition, display, and interpretation of drawings. In her essay, conservator Kimberly Schenck bridges the worlds of the collector and of the artist by examining the production and the use of drawing materials in an epoch of radical changes as much in technique as style. This book also provides a fully illustrated, scholarly catalogue for one hundred of the most important of the nineteenth-century French drawings now held by The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Walters Art Museum, and the Peabody Art Collection.

Published on the occasion of an exhibition jointly organized by The Baltimore Museum of Art and The Walters Art Museum, this book presents a brilliant panorama of sketches, watercolors, and presentation drawings, many of them little known outside a small circle of experts. It is correlated with an online archive of the entire corpus of nineteenth-century French drawings in the holdings of these Baltimore museums.

This volume has been published in conjunction with the exhibition The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas, organized by The Baltimore Museum of Art and the Walter Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, and held at:

The Baltimore Museum of Art, 19 June–11 September 2005

The Walters Art Museum 19 June–4 September 2005

Birmingham Museum of Art, 19 February–14 May 2006

Tacoma Art Museum, 9 June–17 September 2006.

This rich, elegant picture book plunges into the heart of Africa via its stunning interiors, bringing together a wide selection of inspirational dwellings.

The author of such classics as East of Eden, Of Mice and Men, The Red Pony, and more, John Steinbeck won a Pulitzer Prize in 1940 for The Grapes of Wrath. He was awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in literature 'for his realistic as well as imaginative writings, distinguished by a sympathetic humour and a keen social perception.'

Critical Companion to John Steinbeck celebrates this preeminent American writer who in his works confronted and explored the social fabric of the United States in the early 20th century. More than 500 entries include synopses of his novels, short stories, and nonfiction; descriptions of his characters, from the Joad family in The Grapes of Wrath to Lennie Small in Of Mice and Men; details about family, friends, and associates; information about film and television adaptations of Steinbeck's works; and discussions of places that influenced Steinbeck from Salinas, California to Paris, France.

Coverage includes:

• A concise but comprehensive biography of Steinbeck
• Detailed synopses of, and critical commentary on, Steinbeck's works, including his novels, short stories, dramatic works, and nonfiction
• Discussions of the main characters of major works
• Descriptions of major film and television adaptations
• Entries on family, friends, and places important to Steinbeck
• and more.

Praise for the first edition:

'... in the great tradition of Orwell and Solzhenitsyn; its true subject is the survival—and sometimes the defeat—of the human spirit in its lonely quest for integrity.' —Time

'The almost childlike directness of Chen's tales... is captured in the very lightly revised translations of this new edition... Highly recommended.' —Choice

A classic of modern world literature, this collection of stories provides a vivid and poignant eyewitness view of everyday life in China during the Cultural Revolution. For this edition, Howard Goldblatt has thoroughly revised the text and updated it to Pinyin romanization. In a new introduction, Perry Link reflects on the book's significance in the post-Tiananmen era. Twenty-five years after its first publication, The Execution of Mayor Yin has lost none of its power to move the reader, and remains unmatched as a document of the period.

Swinging, electrifying and inspiring! The Majesty of Gospel presents 16 of the most popular and best-known gospel songs. Melodies in groovy new arrangements to touch your soul! Solo parts with additional written-out variations of the theme and chord symbols for your own improvisation. The accompanying CD recorded by top studio musicians contains all the pieces in two versions: as a complete version with melodic parts, and as a band backing-track for playing along to. Let yourself be accompanied by a real gospel band! In addition, all the music for the piano accompaniment (with the solo part printed above) is included as PDF files on the CD so that it can be printed out to professional standards. All the fascination of gospel songs at last available for solo instrumentalists to experience! Contents: Amen * Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child * Roll Jordan, Roll * Joshua Fit The Battle Of Jericho * Kum Ba Yah, My Lord * Glory Halleluia * Deep River * Michael, Row The Boat Ashore * Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen * Oh, Happy Day * Over In The Gloryland * Oh, When The Saints Go Marching In * Rock My Soul * He's Got The Whole World In His Hands * Swing Low, Sweet Chariot * Go, Tell It On The Mountains.

The Prix Goncourt winner brings Dante to today's Paris. Max Delmarc, age 50, is a famous concert pianist with two problems: the first is a paralyzing stage fright for which the second, alcohol, is the only treatment. In this unparalleled comedy from the Prix Concourt-winning French novelist Jean Echenoz, we journey with Max, from the trials of his everyday life, through his untimely death, and on into the afterlife. After a brief stay in purgatorypart luxury hotel, part minimum security prison, under the supervision of deceased celebritiesMax is cast into an alarmingly familiar partition of hell, 'the urban zone,' a dark and cloudy city much like his native Paris on an eternally bad day. Unable to play his beloved piano or stomach his needed drink, Max engages in a hapless struggle to piece his former life back together while searching in vain for the woman he once loved. An acclaimed bestseller with 50,000 copies sold in France, Piano is a sly, sardonic evocation of Dante and Sartre for the present day, the playful, daring masterpiece of a novelist at the top of his form.

È la biografia di Pio XII divisa in due parti: il Diplomatico e il Pastore. Il volume di Chenaux si colloca in un orientamento storiografico abbastanza recente e nuovo, che fa emergere come Pio XII - stimato da sempre come fine diplomatico - in realtà sia stato soprattutto un uomo di Chiesa. Ne emerge la figura di un Papa la cui intelligente azione seppe accompagnare, dopo la seconda guerra mondiale, la ricostruzione di un'Europa unita e democratica su fondamento cristiano. È un'opera ben documentata; una pietra miliare nella ricostruzione di una delle personalità più controverse del secolo scorso.

Intended for clinical practice as well as research purposes, the tables presented here will help to eliminate complicated comparisons between the two manuals. They include all updates contained in DSM-IV-TR and list the main differences between the two classifications under the heading 'cross-walk'. Mere differences in phrasing or a specific choice of words are not taken into account as they would have necessitated a parallel printing which would have markedly reduced the practical usefulness of this manual.
Intended for: psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, psychotherapists, neurologists, health professionals in general.

A girl describes the hideaway in her closet where she goes when she wants to spend time by herself.

The monograph is devoted to the study of functional equations with the transformed argument on the real line and on the unit circle. Such equations systematically arise in dynamical systems, differential equations, probabilities, singularities of smooth mappings, and other areas. The purpose of the book is to present modern methods and new results in the subject, with an emphasis on a connection between local and global solvability. The general concepts developed in the book are applicable to multidimensional functional equations. Some of the methods are presented for the first time in the monograph literature.
The book is addressed to graduates and researchers interested in dynamical systems, differential equations, operator theory, or the theory of functions and their applications.

This book brings together contributions from internationally renowned experts in the biochip field. The authors present not only their latest research work, but also discuss current trends in biochip technology. Specific topics range from microarray technology and its applications to lab-on-a-chip technology.

Mosses from an Old Manse is Nathaniel Hawthorne's second story collection, first published in 1846 in two volumes and featuring sketches and tales written over a span of more than twenty years, including such classics as “Young Goodman Brown,” “The Birthmark,” and “Rappaccini's Daughter.” Herman Melville deemed Hawthorne the American Shakespeare, and Henry James wrote that his early tales possess “the element of simple genius, the quality of imagination. That is the real charm of Hawthorne's writing—this purity and spontaneity and naturalness of fancy.”

Introduces concepts related to our solar system and Earth's place in it through various activities and projects.