A guide for every child who is curious about his or her own beginnings, or who is expecting a younger sibling, includes engaging full-color photographs, vivid illustrations, hands-on activities, and 'Did You Know' baby facts which help young readers understand the science of life inside the womb. Simultaneous. (view table of contents)

Describes how to trace one's family history by interviewing relatives, collecting family memorabilia, and using published and electronic sources, and suggests ways of recording, organizing, and presenting the data

Describes how to trace one's family history by interviewing relatives, collecting family memorabilia, and using published and electronic sources, and suggests ways of recording, organizing, and presenting the data

Draws on novels, religious pamphlets and manuals, and anti-sentimentalist writings of nineteenth-century America to show how genteel women and Protestant clergymen fostered the emergence of a consumer culture (view table of contents)

Product Description: Why do babies cry? How do you hold a baby? Why do babies suck their toes? You don't have to have a new baby at home to want to know the answers to these intriguing questions. Discover the science behind baby's first exciting year of development...read more

Featuring tips on saving time and money, a down-to-earth guide helps parents interview nannies and other guardians, evaluate child care facilities, assess their children's needs, help them move into day care, and more. Original. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Terrible Honesty is the biography of a decade, a portrait of the soul of a generation - based on the lives and work of more than a hundred men and women. In a strikingly original interpretation that brings the Jazz Age to life in a wholly new way, Ann Douglas arugues that when, after World War I, the United States began to assume the economic and political leadership of the West, New York became the heart of a daring and accomplished historical transformation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Douglas, Ann

Tell the stories of Charlotte Temple, a young English girl who is abandoned by her husband after going to America, and her orphaned daughter Lucy (view table of contents)