A facsimile reprint of McGuffey's famous third eclectic reader which was originally published in Cincinnati by Van Antwerp, Bragg & Company in 1879.

Visual history of National Geographic photography from the beginning to 1981.

When attention must be paid to her little sister Chloe's birthday, Giselle, who lives with her family in France, makes inappropriate gift suggestions and almost spoils the big day.

"Annie Bell can't escape the dust. It's in her hair, covering the windowsills, coating the animals in the barn, in the corners of her children's dry, cracked lips. It's 1934 and the Bell farm in Mulehead, Oklahoma is struggling as the earliest storms of The Dust Bowl descend. All around them the wheat harvests are drying out and people are packing up their belongings as storms lay waste to the Great Plains. As the Bells wait for the rains to come,...

In The War on Slums in the Southwest, Robert Fairbanks provides compelling and probing case studies of economic problems and public housing plights in Albuquerque, Dallas, Houston, Phoenix and San Antonio. He provides brief histories of each city--all of which expanded dynamically between 1935 and 1965--and how they responded to slums under the Housing Acts of 1937, 1949, and 1954. Despite being a region where conservative politics has ruled, these...

Tips and techniques for woodworkers, metal workers, and auto mechanics.

Over 1000 photographs and diagrams describe how to make paper projects and origami for gifts and decorations.

"Alexander Cockburn was one of the most influential journalists of his generation. As the Atlantic noted, he was a towering figure who 'would say all the outrageous things his bland counterparts lacked the wit, courage, erudition, or epater-spirit to utter on their own.' In A Colossal Wreck, written prior to his death in July 2012, Cockburn reveals his great literary spirit, incisive reading of the situation, and campaigning vim into a single volume...

The Roly Polies, a family of unattractive bugs living under a variety theater and performing as dancers, actors, singers, and magicians, show off their talents when a talent scout flea comes to town looking for new stars.