Product Description: Mastering real estate appraisal has never been easier. This ever-popular resource, based on the authorsÂ' combined wealth of both professional and academic experience, continues to provide a thorough outline of the most up-to-date appraisal theory and practice for students, real estate professionals and consumers...read more

Paul Bunyan, his wife, and their children do some ordinary things which result in the formation of Niagara Falls, Bryce Canyon, and other natural monuments

Cadkey Companion for Windows provides Cadkey 97 users with a tutorial-style text which leads them step-by-step through the process of learning Cadkey 97. It will be the first book on the market to cover Cadkey 97. This book has an integrated approch that treats Cadkey as a design took for engineering graphics rather than being simply a method for becoming familiar with the Cadkey 97 menu. It includes step-by-step instructions, examples, and demonstration projects which allow the user to conduct a self-paced study of Cadkey 97. In addition, this book covers both Windows icon menus and the classic Cadkey DOS menus. It can be used as a stand-alone text or as a "companion" to an engineering graphics/technical drawing text.

Having moved to Montana from Tennessee in the 1830s, fearless Angelica Longrider--also known as Swamp Angel--changes the state's landscape, tames a wild horse, and captures some desperadoes.

When her family ignores her on her sixth birthday, Clementine Sweet gets mad and starts stomping on people with her very strong legs and super tough feet, but a tangle with a Texas twister turns things around for her.

When Pecos Bill's daughter gets two pet hamsters, they soon multiply into the hundreds, so Bill decides to take them all to Chicago where lots of boys and girls want pets!

The fastest man in the West meets his match in this deliciously clever original tall tale. With his extra-long legs, Jackrabbit McCabe can outrun anything on the American frontier: horses, trains, and even twisters. So of course, everyone in the town of Windy Flats always counts on his speed when a message has to get out fast. Then something new comes to town: the telegraph, which can send Morse code messages with the speed of electricity. At first, no one believes the newfangled contraption can deliver a message quicker than Jackrabbit. . . . But in a race between man and machine, who will be left in the dust?   An author's note includes information about the invention of the telegraph, a Morse code key, and a riddle written in Morse code for kids to transcribe."A strikingly accomplished debut.... A terrific tall tale about the costs and opportunities of technology." —Publishers Weekly, Starred"Good, quick-moving fun. Kids may marvel that communication existed before the telephone and Internet." —Kirkus ReviewsFrom the Hardcover edition.

Product Description: Life on Daisy Dell Farm can be worrying, and Mama is a world-class worrywart, earning the top prize at the Pickapeck County Fair. With summer's volatile weather to watch, Mama's attention is pulled in all directions. And then there's Baby Eli, always getting into some sort of mischief...read more

Product Description: New Yorker cartoonist and bestselling author Bruce Eric Kaplan depicts the catastrophic and humorous consequences of sibling rivalry in this companion to Monsters Eat Whiny Children.Henry and Eve are two perfectly delightful children—who fight about absolutely everything...read more

Product Description: Miss Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind was a woman of wonder. She could rope a hurricane, outspin a steam mill, and blow out the moonlight in a single breath. But her finest adventure was wrestling Fireeyes, a mean-as-tarnation panther whose eyes glared fire...read more

It is Paul Bunyan and his big blue ox, Babe, to the rescue when the big bright moon lands in the river next to Farmer Klank's house and the farmer and his neighbors must come up with a way to stick it back in the sky.

When the sun doesn't rise one morning, the King of Sweden contacts Paul Bunyan and asks him to find the cause of the catastrophe.

Product Description: A trapper gets his comeuppance in this Southern tall tale!Otis Steele was a hungry old trapper near Uncertain, Texas. One night he cut the tail off a strange creature as it ran away from him, and he fried it up and ate it with gusto...read more