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For all those interested in the history of the English language, this is the first serious dictionary focusing on contemporary American English and directed toward the average reader.

Do you want to live more simply, self-sufficiently, and sustainably? Discover the time-tested survival techniques of the Amish-practical skills that help you thrive in any situation.Inside this guide, you'll find:

✅ Amish self-reliance secrets-learn food preservation, natural remedies, and off-grid skills
✅ Essential homesteading knowledge-gardening, livestock care, and sustainable living
✅ Survival wisdom for everyday challenges, including emergency preparedness
✅ Handcrafted solutions for building, repairing, and living off the land
✅ Simple living principles-how to cultivate resilience, peace, and independence

Whether you're preparing for an off-grid lifestyle, homesteading, or just want to simplify your life, this book provides practical, real-world knowledge that anyone can use.

Start your journey toward self-sufficiency today!

The Romance of A Shop was fist published in 1888. Praised by Oscar Wilde who thought it 'admirably done ... clever and full of quick observation, ' her little novel seemed to herald a brilliant career. The book is ostensibly the story of four young ladies who, after the death of their father, decide to open a photographic studio in the heart of London's bohemia (to the dismay of their more priggish relatives). Like much of Levy's work, the novel is concerned with the contradictions besetting the 'new' Victorian woman and her quest for independence despite being constrained by anachronistic social mores and conflicting values. Written just two years before her tragic suicide, a few months short of her 28th birthday, The Romance of A Shop, has a resonance that goes beyond its apparent innocence, echoing an undertone of despair and hunger for a liberation that, to Levy's misfortune, came only some years afterwards.

See how a skyscraper is built from the ground up in this new and updated edition of a classic from Gail Gibbons, now available in Spanish!

From the architectural drawings to the foundation to ironworkers laboring 30 stories up, constructing a skyscraper from foundation to spire requires years of planning and lots of hard work! In this new Spanish edition of a beloved Gail Gibbons classic, readers will learn how skyscrapers are built step-by-step. The translation was derived from the newly revised English edition, which includes up-to-date building techniques and has been vetted by an expert.

On its initial publication in 1986, Up Goes the Skyscraper was commended by School Library Journal, which noted that the book "does a magnificent job of explaining a complex subject." This new Spanish addition will bring Gail's insights on building a high-rise to a whole new set of budding engineers and architects.

Frankie is so excited when his mother teaches him to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. After some trial and error, Frankie, with the support of his best friend Crunch, finally makes his sandwich. Frankie only gets a few bites when the unexpected happens. Thinking that nothing will be right again Frankie learns that everyone makes mistakes.

Frankie and the Peanut Butter and Jelly Fiasco is the first book in a series of educational books with a focus on cooking for children aged 4-8.

'This book is the brilliant light and the compass we need, not just to save the planet but to make the world anew' Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams

'From Kerala to Mondragón, these stories of solidarity, commons, and planetary care show that another post-capitalist future is not just possible, it's happening' Kohei Saito, author of Marx in the Anthropocene

Capitalism's crisis is planetary. It is a system upending nature and society, causing many to live and work in despair. So far, the orthodox left has been incapable of inspiring an effective challenge to it. In Worker Cooperatives and Deep Democracy, Vishwas Satgar and Michelle Williams map a new transformative politics arising from inspiring examples of collectively owned and managed solidarity economy cooperative systems that advance planetary care from below and which have the potential to erode, tame and exit capitalism. Based on over a decade of research across 15 countries, the authors examine case studies that explore transformative approaches to social reproduction, public power, nature and territorial expansion in opposition to power structures.

They also uncover the power of the commons and solidarities engendering emancipatory, utopian imaginaries in the global north and south. They show how, against all the odds, people are experimenting with deep democracy and building systems of care to engender a future beyond our era of crisis.

Vishwas Satgar is Professor of International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He is the author of A Love Letter to the Many - Arguments for Transformative Left Politics in South Africa.

Michelle Williams is Professor of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She is the co-author (with Thomas Isaac) of Building Alternatives, and the co-editor (with Vishwas Satgar) of Destroying Democracy.

See the cute side of nature with this delightful coloring book!

• Features 31 bold and easy coloring pages, including natural scenes filled with toadstool cottages, mushrooms, frogs, hedgehogs, and more!
• This relaxing, stress-free coloring activity is great for all ages (3 and up).
• Perforated, one-sided pages are easy to tear out or frame.
• Spiral binding allows pages to lay flat while coloring.

(Essential Elements for Strings with EE Interactive). The world's leading strings method just got an update! Essential Elements for Strings offers beginning students sound pedagogy and engaging music, all carefully paced to successfully start young players on their musical journey. EE features both familiar songs and specially designed exercises, created and arranged for the classroom in a unison-learning environment, as well as instrument-specific exercises to focus each student on the unique characteristics of their own instrument. EE provides both teachers and students with a wealth of materials to develop total musicianship, even at the beginning stages. Essential Elements includes free access Essential Elements Interactive (EEi), the ultimate online music education resource. EEi introduces the first-ever, easy set of technology tools for online teaching, learning, assessment, and communication... ideal for teaching today's beginning band and string students, both in the classroom and at home. These new editions include 150+ professionally recorded videos online featuring Essential Elements educators, 50 new copyrighted pop songs available online across all levels, three new song replacements, new color photography, and much more. Best of all, new editions still work side-by-side with previous copies of Essential Elements.

What is life like in a coral reef? What do corals eat? Why are corals more colorful at nighttime? Learn about some of the most beautiful locations in the natural world in this new Spanish edition of a Gail Gibbons classic!

Marine biologists believe coral reefs existed 400 million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the earth. Today this active environment is home to about 20,000 kinds of brilliantly colored corals, plants, and animals--more sea creatures than are found anywhere else in the world. The Great Barrier Reef in Australia is so large that astronauts can see it from outer space!

Young Spanish speakers and Spanish language learners will enjoy this new translation of Gibbon's informative text, derived from the newly updated English edition, which was vetted by a scientist working at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The simple Spanish vocabulary is reinforced by clear and detailed illustrations that guide readers on their journey into the unique lives of coral reefs.

A panoramic history of the Muslim world from the age of the Prophet Muḥammad to the birth of the modern era

This book describes and explains the major events, personalities, conflicts, and convergences that have shaped the history of the Muslim world. The body of the book takes readers from the origins of Islam to the eve of the nineteenth century, and an epilogue continues the story to the present day. Michael Cook thus provides a broad history of a civilization remarkable for both its unity and diversity.

After setting the scene in the Middle East of late antiquity, the book depicts the rise of Islam as one of the great black swan events of history. It continues with the spectacular rise of the Caliphate, an empire that by the time it broke up had nurtured the formation of a new civilization. It then goes on to cover the diverse histories of all the major regions of the Muslim world, providing a wide-ranging account of the key military, political, and cultural developments that accompanied the eastward and westward spread of Islam from the Middle East to the shores of the Atlantic and the Pacific.

At the same time, A History of the Muslim World contains numerous primary-source quotations that expose the reader to a variety of acutely insightful voices from the Muslim past.

Twenty years ago Valerie Flournoy and Jerry Pinkney created a warmhearted intergenerational story that became an award-winning perennial. Since then children from all sorts of family situations and configurations continue to be drawn to its portrait of those bonds that create the fabric of family life.

A surrealistic journey into the wild west--and readers' imaginations--from two-time Caldecott winner Chris Van Allsburg, creator of Jumanji and The Polar Express. Now available in a special paperback edition.

Riverbend was a quiet little town, the kind of place where one day was just like all the rest and nothing ever happened. Occasionally the stagecoach rolled through, but it never stopped, because no one ever came to Riverbend and no one ever left.

The day the shiny, greasy slime appeared, making marks of many colors throughout the town, Sheriff Ned Hardy knew something was terribly wrong. Something had to be done, and Sheriff Hardy aimed to do it.

This suspenseful story full of mystery, wonder, and bravery encourages readers to ask questions and ponder the realities of the world within books--and the world at their fingertips.

An elegant consideration of the Surrealist movement as a global phenomenon and why it continues to resonate

"Mr. Polizzotti carefully balances the movement's aspirations and attainments against its flaws and contradictions, hoping to recuperate Surrealism's 'critical and imaginative essence' for the present. . . . The best concise account of the movement available."--Michael Saler, Wall Street Journal

Selected by Art in America as an "Essential Book About Surrealism"

Why does Surrealism continue to fascinate us a century after André Breton's Manifesto of Surrealism? How do we encounter Surrealism today? Mark Polizzotti vibrantly reframes the Surrealist movement in contemporary terms and offers insight into why it continues to inspire makers and consumers of art, literature, and culture.

Polizzotti shows how many forms of popular media can thank Surrealism for their existence, including Monty Python, Theatre of the Absurd, and trends in fashion, film, and literature. While discussing the movement's iconic figures--including André Breton, Leonora Carrington, Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Man Ray, and Dorothea Tanning--he also broadens the traditionally French and male-focused narrative, constructing a more diverse and global representation. And he addresses how the Surrealists grappled with ideas that mirror current concerns, including racial and economic injustice, sexual politics, issues of identity, labor unrest, and political activism. Why Surrealism Matters provides a concise, engaging exploration of how, a century later, the "Surrealist revolution" remains as dynamic as ever.

Award-winning stories about growing up and finding resiliency amid uncertainty.

In 1970s and '80s Detroit, the city wrestles with an unending economic downturn, increasing violence, and white exodus to the suburbs. Amid all of this is twentysomething Mary who is just trying to grapple with her identity in a world filled with uncertainty.

In this collection of linked stories, we follow Mary as she seeks to cope with and withstand hardship and confront her fears of exploitation, abuse, and death. Along the way, she delves into the complex yet nurturing relationships with her family and friends who teach her to love better, live fuller, and question power. The Patron Saint of Lost Girls presents an unflinching tale of life in the late twentieth-century postindustrial Midwest.

The prose poems in Patrick Swaney's debut collection, Hand Over Hand Over the Edge of the World, are suspended between a world we think we know and a world where anything can happen. Manatees take over a bathtub, an egg becomes a kite, a man finds a warning in an empty lot and brings it home to raise with his wife. The absurdity at the heart of this collection is rooted in an impulse to examine the rituals of living. Using language that is disarmingly direct, these compact narratives consistently surprise and clarify. In their search for meaning, the poems find truths in the unexpected that remind us what we have in common.

"Patrick Swaney's warm, strange, precise poems are causing me to rethink my relationship with the line."

-Kyle Minor, author of Praying Drunk

"In the tradition of Russell Edson, whose work this book brings to mind, these prose poems never fail to disorient, surprise and delight. Sly and disarming, they are intellectual queries couched as fabulist vignettes, which, at their best, reveal our ordinary world as the strange, absurd, mysterious experience it truly is."

-Mark Cox, author of Knowing