Young Almanzo Wilder and his family attend a county fair in upstate New York

A young pioneer girl and her family attend a wintertime party at her grandparents' house

In journal format, tells the story of Hattie McNair's experiences and adventures in a South Carolina retirement home

A young pioneer girl and her family prepare to leave the big woods of Wisconsin and travel west in their covered wagon

After Almanzo helps with the chores on his family's farm in the New York countryside, he joins his parents, brother, and sisters for dinner and a winter evening at home.

After a long and somber Sunday, a little pioneer girl celebrates her fifth birthday in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.

A little pioneer girl and her family, living in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, make their first trip into town to visit the general store.

A little girl and her pioneer family travel westward to find a new home on the prairie

A family travels to a new home on the prairie, where they build a house and meet a friendly neighbor.

A selection of letters by Laura Ingalls Wilder to her husband in which she describes the highlights of her visit to the West Coast in 1915.

Laura is delighted when a soft, thick snow falls in late spring in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. A late snow helps the trees make more sap for maple syrup, and maple syrup means sweet sugar cakes and sticky fingers for Laura! Doris Ettlinger's enchanting full-color illustrations, inspired by Garth Williams's artwork, perfectly capture Laura and her family in this My First Little House Book, adapted from Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House in the Big Woods.

A cold snap late in winter allows a pioneer girl and her family to enjoy the rich sugar candy made from maple tree sap.

Wilde's bitter and eloquent reproach to his erstwhile lover, Lord Alfred 'Bowsie' Douglas, plus witty works written while in prison.

Long, long ago, a little girl named Laura Ingalls headed west toward the prairie with her Pa, her Ma, her sisters, Mary and Carrie, and their good old bulldog, Jack. They traveled far each day in their covered wagon, driving through tall grass until they found just the right spot for their new home. With the help of their kind neighbor, Mr. Edwards, Pa built a snug little house for the family in the middle of the wide-open prairie.

Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books have been cherished by generations of readers. Now for the first time, the youngest readers can share her adventure in these very special picture books adapted from Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved story-books. Renee Graef's warm paintings, inspired by Garth Williams' classic Little House illustrations, bring Laura and her family lovingly to life.

Renée Graef recieved her bachelor's degree in art from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She is the illustrator of teh paper dolls and the Kirsten books in the American Girls Collection. She is also an avid hat collector, with over 150 hats at last count. She lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with her huisband, Tim, and thier children, Maggie and Maxfeild.Join the Ingalls family as they pick a special spot on the prairie and build their snug log cabin home. Their new neighbor, Mr. Edwards, comes by to help, and after the hard work is through, everyone sings and dances to the joyful music of Pa's fiddle. Renee Graef's enchanting full-color illustrations, inspired by Garth William's classic artwork, bring Laura and her family lovingly to life in this eleventh title in the My First Little House Books series, adapted from Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved storybooks.

Sunset Boulevard (1950) is one of the most famous films in the history of Hollywood, and perhaps no film better represents Hollywood's vision of itself. Billy Wilder collaborated on the screenplay with the very able Charles Brackett, and with D. M. Marshman Jr., who later joined the team. Together they created a film both allusive and literate, with Hollywood's worst excesses and neuroses laid out for all to see. After viewing Sunset Boulevard Louis B. Mayer exclaimed: 'We should throw this Wilder out of town!' The New York Times, however, gave the movie a rave review, praising 'that rare blend of pungent writing, expert acting, masterly direction, and unobtrusively artistic photography.' The film was nominated for Best Picture, and Wilder won an Academy Award for Best Story and Best Screenplay.
This facsimile edition of Sunset Boulevard makes it possible to get as much pleasure from reading the highly intelligent screenplay as from seeing the film. Jeffrey Meyers's introduction provides an intriguing array of background details about Wilder, the film's casting and production, and the lives of those connected to what has become a classic.

'Lilyan Wilder has trained more broadcasters, politicians, and business executives than anybody.' - Charles Osgood, Anchor, CBS News Sunday Morning.

When people say they'd rather die than address an audience, they're not kidding. Fear of public speaking has even topped death in some surveys. But now top communications consultant Lilyan Wilder offers some sound advice on how to overcome the crippling inhibition of public speaking. Her clients have included media icons Oprah Winfrey and Charlie Rose, former President George Bush, John Sculley, and Katharine Graham. 7 Steps to Fearless Speaking will teach you how to cope with the panic, avoidance, and trauma of speaking as you give the gift of your conviction and experience your voice for the first time.

'Lilyan Wilder is the industry's undisputed grand dame of broadcast coaching.' -The New York Times.

'Lilyan Wilder understands how to make the essential connection between a speaker and an audience. In this book, she tells you how to do it as she has told so well to so many famous communicators.' -Charlie Rose.

'7 Steps to Fearless Speaking has helped me to speak with persuasion and conviction....Follow Wilder's sage counsel, and you'll find your public speaking much improved and more rewarding.' -Ivan Seidenberg, Chairman and CEO, Bell Atlantic.

'Lilyan Wilder is simply the best. I continue to use many of her exercises on a daily basis. They're wonderful.' -Dr. Bob Arnot, Chief Medical Correspondent, NBC News.

'Lilyan Wilder is simply awesome, personally and professionally.' -Maria Shriver, Correspondent, NBC News.

`The truth is rarely pure, and never simple.' `. . .in married life three is company and two is none.' Is this play a `unique work of art' as Oscar Wilde believed? Or, as a first-night reviewer claimed in 1895, it `represents nothing, means nothing, is nothing'? This is for you to decide. . . Cambridge Literature is a series of study texts which presents writing in the English-speaking world from the 16th century up to the present day. The series includes novels, drama, short stories, poetry, essays and other types of non-fiction. Each edition has the complete text with an appropriate glossary. The student will find in each volume a helpful introduction and a full section of resource notes encouraging active and imaginative study methods.

Even the youngest child can enjoy a special adaptation of a classic Little House tale, as Laura and Mary listen to Pa talk about meeting a mother deer and her baby fawn deep in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.

A pioneer father tells his two small daughters why he was unable to shoot a deer for their dinner

This 8 x 8 format book follows Blue, the clue-finding dog, as she entertains her friend Magenta, playing hide-and-seek, dress-up, puzzles, and a round of Blue's Clues. Original. TV tie-in.

Nine human rights professionals, scholars, and writers trace human rights prior to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the articles of the seminal document; the modern human rights movement that it launched; and some of today's most pressing issues: from AIDS to rape as a military tactic just recently recognized as a human rights violation. Provides information on governmental and nongovernmental organizations from The Africa Fund to the World Organization Against Torture, and biographies of 39 activists (some pictured). Appends a timeline and eight UN documents, including the Declaration. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

'Emerso da una specie d'eternità della fama a una specie d'eternità dell'infamia', la via d'uscita di Oscar Wilde, la sua 'Vita Nuova', non gli evitò l'esilio dopo il carcere, l'invecchiamento precoce, la morte a quarantasei anni, ma gli permise ancora una pacata ironia, il distacco autocritico, la capacità di perdono e di amicizia, il non cedimento all'odio e alla malinconia. Ne sono testimonianza i due ultimi testi della sua vasta produzione letteraria: il primo è il 'De Profundis', titolo dato dal suo amico e curatore testamentario Robert Ross a una lunga 'lettera dal carcere' indirizzata e mai spedita al principale responsabile della sua catastrofe giudiziaria, il giovane Bosie (Lord Alfred Douglas). Il secondo è la 'Ballata del carcere di Reading', suo capolavoro in versi, costituito di 109 sestine, e sua estrema difesa nella rappresentazione dell'amore stesso per cui fu incarcerato e infamato, nella discolpa di un condannato a morte che aveva ucciso 'la cosa che amava', di fronte a tutti coloro che 'La cosa che si ama uccidono [...] Con un bacio lo fa il baro, Di spada il prepotente!', e infine nell'appello e rifugio in Cristo 'finché i morti chiamerà'. (Dallo scritto di Sandro Boato)