Product Description: Time nearly erased many astounding tales and unexpected anecdotes from Ridgefields history. Its colorful characters include a widow who built a landmark Manhattan hotel, her neighbor who invented one of the first helicopters and a CIA operative who helped one thousand Americans flee Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War...read more

Product Description: Purchased from the Ramapoo Indians in 1708, Ridgefield welcomed immigrants to its bustling community from the start. The peaceful Connecticut town later served as a retreat for wealthy New Yorkers. With its long history and cast of local characters, Ridgefield has many fascinating stories to tell...read more

Product Description: The Secret of Wildflowers is a colorful tribute filled with odd, little-known facts and wonderful superstitions about some of North America's most beautiful and common plants. This book includes natural history, folklore, habitats, horticulture, uses for plants, and origins of names...read more

Product Description: new unread but some fading and shelf wear

Product Description: This money-saving package includes the 2nd edition of Medical-Surgical Nursing Textbook, Study Guide, and Virtual Clinical Excursions 3.0 for Medical-Surgical Nursing.

Product Description: Book by deWit MSN RN CNS PHN, Susan C.

Product Description: In the 19th century, scientists working with chemistry and magnetism began discovering a rich variety of electrical phenomena. These were to be applied later in inventions including motors, alternating current, radio, batteries, the telephone, and much more...read more

Product Description: Ridgefield has long been a destination-for tourists seeking a picturesque country village, for city dwellers looking for a weekend and summer retreat, and for immigrants in search of a new life. In the first half of the twentieth century, a period that corresponded to the heyday of the picture postcard, hundreds of views were published, depicting the beautiful Main Street, the many inns and resorts, the mansions, estates, village shops, churches, and scenic hills and lakes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A directory to more than a thousand Internet sites devoted to birds and bird watching (view table of contents)

Product Description: A one-of-a-kind directory to the best of the Net for outdoor family fun: a comprehensive selection of more than 2,000 of the best websites, forums, and newsgroups covering outdoor activities the whole family can enjoy. Includes everything from archery and astronomy to windsurfing and zoos...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In 1918, while Henry Louis Mencken was editing The Smart Set in New York and working on The American Language in his native Baltimore, his best friend, Philip Goodman, a New York advertising man, bon vivant, and fledgling publisher, wrote a letter "reminiscing" about their old German-American neighborhood in the 1880s and 1890s...read more