This version of the Dewey Decimal Classification fits on your desk and in your budget. Abridged Edition 13 offers the up-to-date features of DDC 21 at a price small libraries can afford. Here's what you get in a single volume: * Major revisions of 350-354 public administration, 370 Education, 570 Life Sciences, 580 Plants, and 590 Animals * New table numbers for countries of the former Soviet Union * Updated terminology and new topics including virtual reality, Internet, rap music and in-line skating * Over 40 pages of additional index terms * Numbering compatible with DDC 21, so libraries can expand easily from the abridged to the full edition.

Elliott and co authors have captured the essence of Acoma and Laguna in their pictures and text of this highly collectible Native American pottery. As a small collector of this pottery, I have learned so much more from this wonderful book! If you are on a "hunt" for Acoma and Laguna collectibles, I recommend you take this book along with you.

These outfits for 18 inch doll really fit (I use an American girl doll). They are relatively simple and yet look terrific and are easily modified to suit your own needs and creativity. Clear directions and supply lists. And the authors have a sense of humor too!

This is a great book to teach young children mathematics using an abacus. What better way is there to learn math than through hands on experience?

I only wish it was easier to obtain. I checked out a copy through interlibrary loan for a month and I've tried to order it but I have failed to find a copy. I wish the publisher would reprint it.

Aden, Arabie is an important work of fiction that has been almost lost to the world because the author Paul Nizan broke with the Communist Party of France and he was consequently subjected to literary banishment. The book is a travelogue of sorts and is an intellectual treat as well that merges the exitentialist style of Camus with the wanderlust of Kerouac. The ending of his effort to discover himself by going to Aden find him returning to France where he is confronted with the sight of Notre Dame and Le Sante Prison -the two symbols of modern culture on opposite sides of the Seine River. It is a stark but beautiful masterpiece and a kick in the gut. A great novel.

I teach grade 11 English and was introduced to Adolescent Literature as a Complement to the Classics by a colleague. It is just what any teacher who wants to create and foster authentic engagement in her or his students needs. There are so many great ideas for pairing contemporary literature with tried-and-true classics, you won't know where to begin. The book includes many lesson plan ideas that will refresh and enliven your teaching.Buy it!

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I thoroughly enjoyed this book! It has a wonderful mix of animal tales, supernatural tales and magic!The author has a superb handle on the written word and keeps the true feel of a good storyteller. You can almost imagine yourself hearing these tales told around a campfire! Children and adults will enjoy the rich mixture of tales. Highly recommended!

This is the latest book on African Violets and it is certainly one of the most updated ones regarding techniques and products available in the market. This book shows how to propagate, cultivate/grow and show your beloved African Violets. Great ideas on type of water, soil, light, humidity to obtain great show plants. Also, it has ideas on how to prevent diseases such as cyclamen mites, crown rot, ... Great book for beginners and even for those wanting to hybridize their African Violets.

This is the second volume of Cambridge University Press's multi-volume "The Agrarian History of England and Wales" (general editor Joan Thirsk),which traces the history of agrarian/rural economics in England and Wales from prehistory to the present. This particular volume, edited by medieval historian H.E. Hallam, is devoted to the period 1042 (just before the Norman Conquest) through 1348 (the year of the Black Death.

The 1200+ pages of this mammoth study are divided into 10 chapters, although most of these aredivided further into 'sub-chapters' and articles. The ten major chapters are: "England Before the Norman Conquest", "Domeday England", "New Settlements", "Farming Techniques", "Population Movements", "Social Structure", "Prices and Wages", "The Life of the People", "Rural Building in England and Wales", and an overall summary on "Rural England and Wales, 1042-1350". Many of the chapters and articles are written by Hallam himself, but others are written by other noted social and economic historians of medieval England: Sally Harvy, Cristopher Dyer, R. Ian Jack, Edward Miller, J.G. Hurst, David Farmer, L.A.S. Butler, etc. There is a select bibliography at the end, as well as two separate indexes (one for place names, the other for all other items). Dozens-- perhaps even hundreds-- of tables and charts are included, as are several illustrations.

In terms of the substance of the book-- well, it's clear that this is going to be *the* definitive and most comprehensive study of rural economic history in England and Wales in this period for a long, long time to come. However, its' comprehensiveness comes with a certain price (and I'm not just talking about the pricetag). This is an extremely detailed book filled with all sorts of statistics, observations, comparisons, and references to individual villages, practices, etc. At times, the reader can get lost in the specifics-- missing the forest for the trees (or perhaps I should say the wheat stalks for the fields?) That's not to say that general overviews aren't provided, mind you-- it's just that they are followed by so much specific detail that one can sometimes lose track of the big picture. Another trade-off is that, while there is a chapter discussing structures and relations, the work really focuses on economics, without delving deeply into the connections between economics and social life. I don't see either of these as being a *fault* of the book per se, but rather as an inevitable consequence of it treating agrarian economic life so comprehensively.

In truth, this probably isn't a book for the person who is casually interested in medieval history or rural life. The level of detail can be overwhelming at times, and the writing is not exactly what you would call "lively". This is really a work for the scholar-- or for the amateur who's *extremely* interested in the economic life of the the medieval countryside (and who has already read several shorter studies). But for someone who wants a thorough, scholarly, and comprehensive treatment of English/Welsh agrarian life from the Conquest through the Black Death, this book is an unparalleled resource.