Product Description: Humans’ development of literacy has been a recent focus of intense research from the reading, cognitive, and neuroscience fields. But for individuals who are deaf―who rely greatly on their visual skills for language and learning―the findings don’t necessarily apply, leaving theoretical and practical gaps in approaches to their education...read more

Product Description: When Jenny finds an old letter in a shoebox, her mind is flooded with memories of a long forgotten love. She and Jonathan had secretly loved one another in high school, but never shared those feelings except for that one time in the library their senior year...read more

Product Description: Eldest with Feathers leads a group of other flightless birds on a journey to deliver news of the invasion of their secluded island home, as koretake, their ancient enemy, pursues them across the length of the Given Land. A quest in the tradition of the Lord of the Rings, The Given Land tells the story of the friendship of six birds as they attempt to save their home from the clutches of a brutal predator who wants to enslave them all...read more

Product Description: Butterfly and Dragonfly, Grasshopper and Ant, Honeybee and Firefly, and other insects teach important life lessons

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: Pig-Keeping That Pays By Thomas Allen. A practical handbook to the profitable breeding and management of the pig. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive...read more

Product Description: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience...read more

Product Description: Laura doesn't want to keep a journal, but her mother says she must. After all, writing about the day-to-day life aboard her father's ship, the Monticello, will preserve her memories of a most interesting and at times terrifying, experience...read more

Product Description: Deshaun had an unusual relationship with his father. At a tender age of twelve, his father always had doubts about him being biologically his which subsequently drove him to the streets. Hanging out and being loyal to friends nearly cost Deshaun his life...read more

SUPERANNO What do you do when you can't catch any fish from the shore, you don't have a boat, and the adults won't share their best fishing places? Cai, a young boy in China, finds an unexpected answer in a magical encounter with a water dragon. The dragon, amused by Cai but hungry, decides to help Cai and sister Jin. Find out how Cai and the dragon help each other in this original tale about perseverance and friendship.

Product Description: Lean Production transformed the way that companies think about production and manufacturing. This book provides a new challenge. It arises from the work of the Lean Aerospace Initiative at MIT and provides a new agenda and bold vision for the aerospace industry to take it out of crisis...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This autobiographical account of an opera singer's way of life, by the baritone Thomas Allen, gives insights into the singing of some of the famous roles. It also describes some of the productions in which he has performed.