The must-have guidebook for young sports fans is back for its 10th year, with the latest news and features on the top athletes and sports moments from the past year.A thrilling look at the past year for sports fans of all ages!Scholastic\'s annual Year in Sports celebrates its 10th edition with a brand new 2019 release. The exciting coverage of this year\'s sporting events features colorful photographs

This book explores the history behind how woman\'s clothing were manufactured and worn between the French Revolution and World War I. Including full-color photography of various outfits, including accessories and undergarments, the author puts the costumes into historical context, featuring information on those who created or wore them--a dress worn by a devout Quaker, a nursing dress worn by a farmer\'s

The ideal text for a one-semester course in radio astronomyEssential Radio Astronomy is the only textbook on the subject specifically designed for a one-semester introductory course for advanced undergraduates or graduate students in astronomy and astrophysics. It starts from first principles in order to fill gaps in students\' backgrounds, make teaching easier for professors who are not expert radio

A biography of the provocative nineteenth-century English naturalist. Brilliant, hard-working, and immensely productive, the naturalist Richard Owen was a great ambassador for science and played an outsized role in shaping London\'s Natural History Museum. Still, Owen was a provocative bully, accused of plagiarism, and the only man Charles Darwin claimed to hate since Owen staunchly opposed his ideas

Drawing on his experiences cooking around the world, a celebrated chef revisits his Southern cooking roots by reimagining iconic dishes of the American South with bold international flavors. Learn to cook favorite traditional Southern dishes, adding variety and spice through the use of different techniques and ingredients. Each of ten chapters offers an iconic Southern dish and then international variations,

The countries in the Western Balkans have been severely affected by the wars and conflicts that led to the breakup of former Yugoslavia, by political instability and the effort of creating new states, weak economies and high levels of unemployment, poverty and social exclusion, and inequality. As revealed by recent surveys, such as EBRD\'s Life in Transition Survey and Eurofound\'s European Quality

The riveting story of the history-making mission to reach the bottom of all five of the world\'s oceans - the ultimate frontier of our planet. A feat that is new addition to the Guinness Book of World Records Humankind has explored every continent on earth, climbed its tallest mountains, and gone into space. But the largest areas of our planet remain a mystery: the deep oceans. At over 36,000 feet

Boy, girl, artist, advocate. Courtney is more than the sum of her parts. Meet Shane Jenek. Raised in the suburbs of Brisbane, Australia, by loving parents, Shane realises from a young age that he\'s not like all the other boys. At a performing arts agency he discovers his passion for song, dance and performance, and makes a promise to himself: to find a bigger stage. Meet Courtney Act. Born around

A critical look at female queerness through the lens of first-generation culture. In Tanto Tanto, a queer daughter of immigrants highlights the struggles she faces in romantic relationships amidst a culture of oppressive, culturally sanctioned heteronormativity. Exploring the consequences of queer love in both contemporary American and Luso-American societies, Tanto Tanto unsettles ideas about the

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn

Written by a yoga student and teacher, Plant-Based Yoga Food is a visually rich exploration of how the inner awareness we develop on our yoga mats fuels our bodies, minds, and overall states of well-being, which subsequently impacts our lifestyles and food experiences. This book is comprised of one hundred \"YogiBites\"--a collection of time-tested yoga teachings--paired with one hundred original,

Far more than an architecture book, Coastal Defences of the British Empire, 1775-1815 is a sweeping reinterpretation of the Martello towers, Grand Redoubts, Royal Military Canal and other new defence infrastructure of the Napoleonic War. Lavishly illustrated with period maps, views, portraits, cartoons and newly commissioned color photographs, it includes not only these structures\' forerunners, and

JUNE, 1905. Helena and her parrot, Orbit, are swept off to Cambridge when her father is appointed clock-winder to one of the wealthiest men in England. There is only one rule: the clocks must never stop. But Helena discovers the house of one hundred clocks holds many mysteries... Can she work out its secrets before time runs

In Storms of Silence Joe Simpson recalls the severe snowstorm which put an end to an attempt with four others on Gangchempo and the infection which forced him to abandon the climb on Cho Oyu in tibet. He becomes obsessed with stories of Chinese brutality in the old world Tibet they overran by force 40 years

No one burned hotter than Eve Babitz. Possessing skin that radiated \"its own kind of moral laws,\" spectacular teeth, and a figure that was the stuff of legend, she seduced seemingly everyone who was anyone in Los Angeles for a long stretch of the 1960s and \'70s. One man proved elusive, however, and so Babitz did what she did best, she wrote him a book. Slow Days, Fast Company is a full-fledged and

Offering a breadth unmatched by any other study to date, this book deals with the intense Jewish engagement with Martin Heidegger\'s philosophy. It demonstrates that while his anti-Semitism made his Jewish reception inevitably fraught, no other philosopher has impacted and fomented twentieth century Jewish European thought more than

Culture and Customs of the Philippines provides the best general overview to the Asian archipelago and to a people with close ties to the United States and a long history of emigration and contributions to this country. The volume emphasizes how the strong indigenous Philippine culture meshes with constant influences from the West. Rodell, a specialist in Philippine history and society, superbly evokes

Sycamore Hill Boarding School, Donegal1963Clare is excited to start her first term at Sycamore Hill. New sports, new subjects, and new friends - chatty, confident Rose and quiet, nature-loving Molly.But something strange is going on. The girls see a face at the tower window and hear the sound of crying - could the school be haunted? And does it have anything to do with the mysterious death of a pupil