A young Dakota woman, disregarding the lessons of her grandmothers to never take without offering something in return, takes all the beans she finds for a stew and then dreams of a scolding spirit. Reprint.

In this collection of 'lies' from many nations, the challenge is to find the slippery truth. By reading with care and not jumping to conclusions, readers will delight in discovering how these characters lie while at the same time they tell the truth.

Shares intriguing, humorous, and surprisingly accurate conversations with horses, dogs, cats, iguanas, snakes, and birds

Grounded in social research, Rural Ministry evaluates the diminishing establishment of the church in rural America, which is linked to the fifty-year-old crisis in rural ministry. It names the primary issues for leaders of Protestant and Catholic churches to ponder: the graying of the population; the closing of schools, hospitals, and factories; and the corporate buyout of farms during the 1980s. In addition to retelling the history of this crisis, Shannon Jung and the other contributors to this volume offer a set of Christian principles that respond to social problems in rural life. The situation is so intense that the book offers examples from around the heartland of cooperative or collaborative parishes that blend denominational and theological differences across the Protestant and Catholic spectrum.

Key Benefits: Offers a vision of nationwide renewal in rural America; Advocates true ecumenical solutions to issues confronting the rural church in America; Sidebars feature examples and illustrations; Informs new rural ministers of the culture and issues about to confront them, allowing them to better handle the challenges and opportunities of the rural environment; Motivates congregations to activate ministries in new and provocative ways, insuring the spread of the gospel; Can help troubled churches survive.

Follows the plight of Camilla Cream, who dreams of being popular but who breaks out in 'stripes' and is teased by the other kids, until an odd woman feeds her lima beans to cure her malady.

In this provocative look at how social, political, and economic contexts inform the literacy education field, the author shows how competing representations of poverty underlie our assumptions about IQ testing, textbook content, national standards, standardized achievement tests, volunteerism, school/business partnerships, and other contemporary issues in education. Laying out careful critiques of initiatives like America Reads and popular texts like The Bell Curve , he offers a new theory of poverty which seeks to blur traditional class lines in America. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

This book/CD pack teaches the techniques and fundamentals of this influential instrumentalist of 'Yakety Sax' fame. Includes six solo transcriptions, an interview with Boots, photos, performances and play-alongs.

The classic bestseller on estimating the value of small businesses and professional practices is fully updated and enhanced. While continuing to take readers step-by-step through the valuation process, it now features timely new or significantly revised chapters on valuation for estate plans, employee stock ownership plans, and corporate partnership dissolutions/buyouts. Along with case studies, it also offers greatly expanded coverage of data sources and their availability to small businesses.

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

In this companion to the Alaska ABC Book, children learn to count as colorful critters leap through the pages. Ages 3 and up.

Explore part of North America's rainforest--tongass! The huge temperate forest is the ancestral home of the Northwest Coast people, and it is the setting for this story about Lily, a Tlingit Indian girl who searches with her aunt for a shaykee, a special spruce tree. This beautiful book includes natural history information on ancient forest life as well as a cultural introduction to the Northwest Coast people. Ages 6 and up.

A is for seed, B is for eggs, C is for milk -- what's going on here? The seed is tomorrows Apple, the eggs are tomorrows Birds, the milk is tomorrows Cheese! Explore a wonderful world of possibility with an imaginative alphabet puzzle that encouraged young readers to look beyond the obvious.

Along with a new story by William Faulkner, the authors of the 1996 edition include Robert Olen Butler, Moira Crone, Janice Daugharty, J. D. Dolan, Ellen Douglas, Kathy Flann, Tim Gautreaux, David Gilbert, Marica Guthridge, Jill McCorkle, Robert Morgan, Tom Paine, Susan Perabo, Annette Sanford, and Lee Smith.

Shannon McSheffrey studies the communities of the late medieval English heretics, the Lollards, and presents unexpected conclusions about the precise ways in which gender shaped participation within the movement. While much recent scholarship has contended that heresies offered medieval women opportunities for religious and social expression that they could not find in orthodoxy, Gender and Heresy demonstrates that the Lollard movement provided no such outlet. Within Lollardy, challenges to orthodoxy did not lead to questioning of dominant medieval gender categories.

Recounts the lifetime journey of Swimmer, an Alaskan salmon, and how her life touches that of a native Alaskan girl named Katya, and offers facts about salmon and life in Alaska

Libby Riddles was the first woman to win the Iditarod. This is the whimsical story of her cat, Danger, the coolest lead cat in Iditarod history. Ages 5 and up.

As the first comprehensive encyclopedic survey of Western architectural theory from Vitruvius to the present, this book is an essential resource for architects, students, teachers, historians, and theorists. Using only original sources, Kruft has undertaken the monumental task of researching, organizing, and analyzing the significant statements put forth by architectural theorists over the last two thousand years. The result is a text that is authoritative and complete, easy to read without being reductive.