Product Description: Send a laugh to someone you love! Show off your fun and quirky side with these silly designs from artist Carla Sonheim, author of How to Draw and Paint Imaginary Animals. Cute illustrations of creative animals and creatures make for wonderful keepsakes that you can fill with messages from your heart...read more

Product Description: A varied and insightful compendium of animals and the relationships between humans and animals.• Includes over 50 A–Z conversational entries• Fully illustrated with a variety of images from medieval prints to editorial cartoons and advertisements• Weaves together a cross-cultural tapestry encompassing mythology, history, art, science, philosophy, and literature while discussing the special significance of animals in human cultures• Includes relevant quotes from worldwide texts preceding each entr...read more

Product Description: Though not generally perceived as graceful, crows are remarkably so—a single curve undulates from the tip of the bird’s beak to the end of its tail. They take flight almost without effort, flapping their wings easily and ascending into the air like spirits...read more

Product Description: This book is a must for all collections in German history and animal rights. It is a deep and profound reflection on the complex and perplexing ways that animals can shape human culture and politics.—>

An encyclopedia of animals as they have appeared in myth and legend throughout history.

Product Description: With his flat tone, humdrum incidents and Angst-ridden characters, Berlin author Lutz Rathenow reproduces the effect of a political and social reality so banal and obtuse as to be beyond belief. His poetry is not poetry, but malformed prose seeking expression for the feeling of being spied upon by the moon...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

When her daredevil husband is killed, Elizabeth "Olly" Bax is left a widow at age 27 and must find the strength to sort out her feelings and prepare for the future.

Product Description: REA's MAXnotes for Thomas Mann's Death in VeniceMAXnotes offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature, presented in a lively and interesting fashion. Written by literary experts who currently teach the subject, MAXnotes will enhance your understanding and enjoyment of the work...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book represents a scholarly treatise on folkloric and literary narratives of animals. Useful select bibliographies on zoology, literature, folklore and language conclude these introductory comments which are followed by intriguing fables, legends, anecdotes and literary works concerning the animals under discussion...read more