Product Description: Tall City, Wide Country invites young readers to pack their bags for a journey from a rural environment to an urban landscape. Enjoy panoramic illustrations of broad cows, expansive sunshine, and seemingly endless horizons . then turn the book sideways and do some big-city sightseeing, taking in vertical parades, towering skyscrapers, and highrising elevators...read more

This hands-on manual contains 55 lab exercises which guide students through human anatomy. Exercises include: labeling of anatomy, dissection of anatomic models and fresh or preserved specimens, physiological experiments, computerized experiments, and practical applications. A full-color Laboratory Reference features 90 labeled examples of common histology and dissection specimens for easily identifying parts of the anatomy. Important safety tips and a comprehensive laboratory preparation guide round out this well-done manual. A perfect supplement to Anatomy & Physiology.* The modular organization of laboratory exercises makes it easy to use them in any order. * A user-friendly spiral binding allows for hands-free viewing in the lab. * Complete lists of materials for each exercise give students and instructors a handy reference for organized, efficient setup of lab. * Boxed hints provide students with special tips on handling specimens, using equipment, and managing laboratory activities, including special safety tips highlighted in boxes that remind students of potential hazards, such as fire, chemical spills, cuts, or biological contamination. * Special reference supplements, such as "The Anatomical Atlas of the Rat," help students examine laboratory specimens. * Easy-to-evaluate Lab Report formats allow instructors to check student work and easily assign grades. * Nearly three-fourths of the book is illustrated, ensuring a visual description of laboratory activities. * Content and concept review questions throughout encourage students to reinforce and apply their knowledge of human structure and function. * Practical applications to exercise and athletics, clinical situations, and everyday experiences increase student motivation. * Learning objectives at the beginning of each exercise offer a framework for learning. * Features MERLIN (Mosby's Electronic Resource Links and Information NOW!), an interactive website that includes content updates, student resources and links to sites with related content. A special access code is included with each textbook. (view table of contents)

Relates Sally Jane's experience of changing times in rural America, as she lives through the drowning of the Swift River towns in Massachusetts to form the Quabbin Reservoir

Product Description: James Hogg is one of the acknowledged masters of the short story. Some of his best stories appeared in The Shepherd's Calendar, a work of the 1820s in which he sets out to re-create on paper the manner and the content of the traditional oral storytelling of Ettrick Forest, the remote and mountainous sheep-farming district in which he grew up...read more

Product Description: The inspiration for a popular television series that aired on PBS in 2009, Lark Rise to Candleford is Flora Thompson's classic evocation of a vanished world of agricultural customs and rural culture. The trilogy of Lark Rise, Over to Candleford, and Candleford Green tells the story of Thompson's childhood and youth during the 1880s in Lark Rise--in reality Juniper Hill, the hamlet in Oxfordshire where she was born...read more

Providing perspectives from five Western capitals, this multinational study examines the political and structural conditions for effective collaboration between NATO and the United Nations in performing peacemaking and peacekeeping missions.

Sarah Hall's first novel is set in 1936 in a remote dale in the old county of Westmoreland, and tells of the flooding of the dale to make way for a reservoir, against the wishes of many of the local hill farmers. It is a story of love, obsession and the destruction of a community.

Product Description: The newly updated and streamlined third edition of Paroles encourages readers to work with intellectual, personal, and cultural content in all five skills through the first year of language study. By instituting diverse learning strategies for the four basic skills and utilizing a process approach to foreign language education, readers are able to work with authentic linguistic and cultural materials from all over the Francophone world...read more

Multimedia illustrations and simple text reveal the lifestyle of the country baby. By the creators of Urban Babies Wear Black.

Product Description: In Perfecting Amiable, Marilyn Arnold shows she hasn't lost her touch for creating delightful, sometimes loveable, sometimes hilarious characters around a mystery. Perfecting Amiable tells the story of a rural Utah town that witnesses the power of love and newfound humility to change human hearts one at a time...read more

Product Description: A charming and amusing account of life on a Suffolk estateContinuing his memoirs of his time on Sir Charles Buckley's estate, James Aden deals with obstacles from the discovery of Roman treasure to the tramp living in the attic of Frampton Hall; he finds his day varied, especially with the arrival of Sir Charles's heir, Sebastian who provides him with insights into the life of the traditional landed estates as they slowly come to terms with the twenty-first century...read more

Product Description: PROMISE, TEXAS, is a good place to live with the person you love. When rancher Cal Patterson and his wife, Jane—better known as Dr. Texas—face a threat to their marriage, she leaves Promise, the town that's become her home as much as his...read more

Brings together three collections of inspirational fiction including 'The Wild Birds,' 'Fidelity,' and 'Watch With Me,' as well as four new pieces that chronicle the life and times of the inhabitants of Port William.

Product Description: I'm miserable and sixteen. In that order.Sixteen can be a tough time. And it's almost unmanageable for a wisecracking boy whose temper is white-hot. As a consequence he is sentenced to a time-out with his reclusive grandfather in a primitive shack in the forest...read more

A globetrotting detective story, filled with the culinary delights and entertaining characters that have made Peter Mayle our most treasured chronicler of French life.   The Vintage Caper begins high above Los Angeles with a world-class heist at the impressive wine cellar of lawyer Danny Roth. Enter Sam Levitt, former lawyer and wine connoisseur, who follows leads to Bordeaux and Provence. The unraveling of the ingenious crime is threaded through with Mayle’s seductive renderings of France’s sensory delights—from a fine Lynch-Bages to the bouillabaisse of Marseille—guaranteed to charm and inform even the most sophisticated palates.

Product Description: Books for All Kinds of Readers. ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Our 7 different sizes of EasyRead are optimized by increasing the font size and spacing between the words and the letters...read more

Product Description: It’s a cold December night and Fancy, the Stegner family’s cow, is about to give birth. Out pops Little Joe, a huge bull calf, and with him comes nine-year-old Eli’s first chance to raise an animal to show at next fall’s county fair...read more

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Penny Ryder is happy to spend a summer in the country with her grandparents, but she is not sure about Pepper the pony or the neighbor twins until Pepper disappears and the twins, Tina and Tom, help find him.