Harpercollins mai 2000 (25 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Gut. Broschur Gebrauchsspuren vorhanden, guter Ziustand ISBN: 9780006384212 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 530.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Sail AwayIt's a perfect day for sailing. Motor under the bridge, putt . . . putt . . . putt past the lighthouse, put up the sails, and whoosh! But watch out for a change in the weather. Seas will swell and waves will crash before you sail back home. Crews, Donald (illustrator).…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The first book in the beloved Poppy series by Newbery Medalwinning author Avi, with illustrations from Caldecott Medalwinning artist Brian FlocaA mouse has to do what a mouse has to do. Ragweed is determined to see the world. He leaves his family and cozy country home and sets off by train for the big city. What wonders await him: music, excitement, new friends.and cunning, carnivorous cats!Silversides is the purring president of F.E.A.R. (Felines Enraged About Rodents), a group dedicated to keeping cats on top, people in the middle, and mice on the bottom. Can Ragweed and his motley yet musical crew of city niceClutch, Dipstick, Lugnut, and Blinkerband together to fight their feline foe. Floca, Brian (illustrator).…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Newbery Medal-winning author Beverly Cleary brings her classic warm humor to this funny, sweet story of a girl with big dreams.Can imaginative Emily make her biggest dream come true Spunky Emily Bartlett lives in an old farmhouse in Pitchfork, Oregon at a time when automobiles are brand-new inventions and libraries are a luxury few small towns can afford. Her runaway imagination leads her to bleach a horse, hold a very scary sleepover, and feed the hogs an unusual treat. But can she use her lively mind to help bring a library to Pitchfork 'Written with Cleary's customary warmth and humor. The time of the story, about 1920, is delightfully brought to life.'Booklist. Dockray, Tracy (illustrator).…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this humorous, practical book, Joan Rivers shows every woman how to be the best she can be and stay youthful, healthy, and mellow at anyand everyage.Filled with entertaining anecdotes and stories,Don't Count the Candlesprovides down-to-earth, sensible advice on everything that every woman needs to be her best, from wardrobe and fitness to surgery and sex. Here is Joan Rivers's own unique take on aging:- IQ does not decrease with age. If you were a moron at twenty, you will be a moron at seventy-five.- At fifty, confine your piercing to sardine cans and keep your hair short.- Eat all you want, just don't swallow it.- A roll in the hay keeps the doctor awayunless he happens to be in the hay with you.Take it from Joan Riversyou've got a lot of living left to do.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The novel of the BkyB and Hallmark co-venture 'The 10th Kingdom' is a contemporary drama set in a fantasy world where magic and fairy tale characters come to life.This is an Alice in Wonderland for grown-ups and children alike, a witty and satirical reflection of contemporary society told as an epic tale of good versus evil.Follow the thrilling adventures of Virginia and Tony, a father and daughter from New York, who unwittingly find themselves in a parallel universe known as The Nine Kingdoms. Virginia and Tony join forces with a schizophrenic man-wolf, and Prince, a handsome golden retriever formally known as Prince Wendell, grandson of Snow White until his wicked stepmother turned him into a dog. The unlikely heroes then embark on an epic quest to save Prince from the evil Queen and restore him to the throne.This lavish $40 million 10 x 1 hour fantasy drama will be broadcast on Sky One in the UK from Sunday 16th April at 7pm and the next 9 Sunday's thereafter.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Read and find out about how starfish in this colorfully illustrated nonfiction picture book.Starfish have arms, but no legs. They have feet, but no toes. Starfish aren't fish, but they are living animals. In this Let's-Read-and-Find-Out classic, learn how starfish move, eat, and grow.This is a clear and appealing science book for early elementary age kids, both at home and in the classroom. It's a Level 1 Let's-Read-and-Find-Out, which means the book explores introductory concepts perfect for children in the primary grades. The 100+ titles in this leading nonfiction series are:- hands-on and visual- acclaimed and trusted- great for classroomsTop 10 reasons to love LRFOs:- Entertain and educate at the same time- Have appealing, child-centered topics- Developmentally appropriate for emerging readers- Focused; answering questions instead of using survey approach- Employ engaging picture book quality illustrations- Use simple charts and graphics to improve visual literacy skills- Feature hands-on activities to engage young scientists- Meet national science education standards- Written/illustrated by award-winning authors/illustrators & vetted by an expert in the field- Over 130 titles in print, meeting a wide range of kids' scientific interestsBooks in this series support the Common Core Learning Standards, Next Generation Science Standards, and the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) standards. Let's-Read-and-Find-Out is the winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science/Subaru Science Books & Films Prize for Outstanding Science Series. Brickman, Robin (illustrator).…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - People at work, doing things that are so essential to us all, are lyrically depicted in Gary Paulsen's spare and elegant verse and Ruth Wright Paulsen's richly textured oil paintings. This talented pair celebrates the work ethic with sensitivity and dignity--and reminds us of the quiet grace inherent in everyday lives. "The soft colors, spare text, and overall design of the book provide a song of praise to the unsung heroes in every child's world and to the simple satisfaction of a job well done."--School Library Journal.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Cult bestseller The Invitation is more than just a poem. It is a profound invitation to a life that is more fulfilling and passionate, with greater integrity. This book is a word-of-mouth sensation, whose truths have resonated with people all over the world, and is now reissued with a beautiful new cover design. When workshop leader and author Oriah Mountain Dreamer wrote her heartfelt 'Invitation', she did not expect the small prose poem to reach the level of popularity that it has. It has spread far and wide by word of mouth and the internet and has been read aloud at weddings, funerals and spiritual gatherings. In this inspirational book, the author explains and expands upon the ideas contained in her poem, creating a guidebook for living a life full of integrity, commitment and passion and inviting readers on a journey to find and accept their true selves. In this accessible book, Oriah Mountain Dreamer provides a line-by-line exploration of the poem, showing us how we can meet the challenge that it gives us.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The alternative way towards better team-building, this is the bestselling management tool from the author of The One Minute Manager. Most managers spend over half their time working with a team, and the One Minute Manager's practical advice shows how any team can work better and more effectively. The One Minute Manager Builds High Performing Teams explains the four stages on the way to building a high performing team: Orientation, Dissatisfaction, Resolution and Production and reveals how to tap the creativity and potential of people at all levels in order to become an effective group leader.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Isn't it nice to know that there's someone who always lets you go at your own speed Everybody is in such a hurrymothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, even cars and buses. But when Grandfather's around, nobody needs to hurry. There's always time to stop.and look.just as long as you like.This gentle story about the warm, happy relationship between the oldest and youngest ones in the family is now freshly illustrated by the internationally acclaimed Jan Ormerod,'The special bond between grandparent and grandchild comes shining through.' (Booklist). Ormerod, Jan (illustrator).…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Newbery Medal Winner \* Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children \* ALA Notable Children's BookBeverly Cleary's timeless Newbery Medal-winning book explores difficult topics like divorce, insecurity, and bullying through the thoughts and emotions of a sixth-grade boy as he writes to his favorite author, Boyd Henshaw. After his parents separate, Leigh Botts moves to a new town with his mother. Struggling to make friends and deal with his anger toward his absent father, Leigh loses himself in a class assignment in which he must write to his favorite author. When Mr. Henshaw responds, the two form an unexpected friendship that will change Leigh's life forever. From the beloved author of the Henry Huggins, Ramona Quimby, and Ralph S. Mouse series comes an epistolary novel about how to navigate and heal from life's growing pains. Zelinsky, Paul O. (illustrator).…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Long ago and far away, in a rambling garden beside a clear blue lake, two flocks of birds began to fear each other because of their differences. The fear grew, and soon the birds became enemies, hoarding great quantities of weapons to protect themselves--until panic struck and the chance for peace seemed lost forever.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One of today's most imaginative and lyrical writers, Lisa St. Aubin de Teran weaves together passion, idealism, and adventures in this mesmerizing fable set against the ornate backdrop of nineteenth-century Italy. The palace is the vision of Gabriele del Campo, a young, idealistic stonemason's apprentice imprisoned for supporting Garibaldi's revolutionary unification of Italy. A poor peasant, he has falen in love at first sight with the rich and beautiful noblewoman Donna Donatella. He yearns to be pulled out of poverty, and dreams of winning Donatellaa's heart and building a palaceworthy of his love.As del Campo languishes in prison, he takes the first steps toward his dream. His cellmate Colonel Giovanni Vitelli, a nobleman, educates him in the customs of the gentry; meanwhile, in his mind elaborate plans for the palace's construction are already taking shape. Twice escaping execution, del Campo emerges from prison to find wealth as a fearless gambler in the corrupt underworld of Venice. Winning a large estate in Castello at a sinister high-stakes gambling house, Gabriele begins to build the palace of his dreams. At last he might win Donna Donatella's love.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - RevengeWhen Eugenides, the Thief of Eddis, stole Hamiathes's Gift, the Queen of Attolia lost more than a mythical relic. She lost face. Everyone knew that Eudenides had outwitted and escaped her. To restore her reputation and reassert her power, the Queen of Attolia will go to any length and accept any help that is offered.she will risk her country to execute the perfect revenge. .but Eugenides can steal anything. And he taunts the Queen of Attolia, moving through her strongholds seemingly at will. So Attolia waits, secure in the knowledge that the Thief will slip, that he will haunt her palace one too many times. .at what price When Eugenides finds his small mountain country at war with Attolia, he must steal a man, he must steal a queen, he must steal peace. But his greatest triumph--and his greatest loss--comes in capturing something that the Queen of Attolia thought she had sacrificed long ago.Books for the Teen Age 2001 (NYPL) and Bulletin Blue Ribbon Best of 2000 Award.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The first in John Dos Passos's acclaimed USA trilogya 'linguistically adventurous national portrait for a precarious agehis, and ours' (The New Yorker). John Dos Passos's USA trilogy (comprising The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money), named one of the best books of the twentieth century by the Modern Library, is a grand, kaleidoscopic portrait of a nation, buzzing with history and life on every page. Told in stories and 'newsreels' consisting of front-page headlines and article fragments from the Chicago Tribune, the lives and fortunes of five characters unfold. Mac, Janey, Eleanor, Ward, and Charley are caught on the storm track of this parallel and blown New Yorkward. As their lives cross and double back again, the likes of Eugene Debs, Thomas Edison, and Andrew Carnegie make appearances. While Fitzgerald and Hemingway were cultivating what Edmund Wilson once called their 'own little corners,' John Dos Passos was taking on the world.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Big Money completes John Dos Passos's three-volume 'fable of America's materialistic success and moral decline' (American Heritage) and marks the end of 'one of the most ambitious projects that an American novelist has ever undertaken' (Time). Here we come back to America after the war and find a nation on the upswing. Industrialism booms. The stock market surges. Lindbergh takes his solo flight. Henry Ford makes automobiles. From New York to Hollywood, love affairs to business deals, it is a country taking the turns too fast, speeding toward the crash of 1929.Ultimately, whether the novels are read together or separately, they paint a sweeping portrait of collective America and showcase the brilliance and bravery of one of its most enduring and admired writers. 'It is not simply that [Dos Passos] has a keen eye for people, but that he has a keen eye for so many different kinds of people.' New York Times.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is the bestselling story of Eric, a boy with leukemia who refused to give up living--as told by the person who was with him through it all, his mother. Eric was seventeen when he heard the doctor's verdict about the disease that wanted his life. At first he and his family could not believe it. Eric was the picture of everything a youth should be--a champion athlete, a splendid human being, vibrant with energy and loved by all who knew him.The doctors could promise little. They would do as much as was medically possible. Eric had to do as much as was humanly possible. But if the odds were not good, they were good enough for Eric. Given the choice between life and death, Eric chose to live.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Author and award-winning journalist Jim Marrs investigates extraterrestrial presence among us in his fascinating new book, Alien Agenda.Marrs uncovers compelling new evidence regarding extraterrestrialsthat alien life forms have not only visited our planet in the past, but are among us right now. Drawing on numerous eyewitness accounts, highly classified CIA reports, and his own meticulous research, Marrs marshals an impressive array of facts to confirm the reality of UFOsas well as the depth of the government campaign to keep America in the dark. Here is information unavailable in any other single source, including:- Intriguing insights into the 1947 Roswell crash and the U.S. military's efforts to suppress all public inquiries- Detailed accounts of UFO landing sites in South America and of abductions in the U.S.- Vivid descriptions of UFOs by Apollo astronauts, in their own words- Tantalizing clues to the alien timetable for revealing their plans here- And much more.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Vegetarian Cooking Without' by nutritional therapist Barbara Cousins was written following requests for a vegetarian version of 'Cooking Without'. So many vegetarian books rely heavily on the use of cheese, milk, cream and wheat and appetizing dishes without these ingredients are harder to find.'Vegetarian Cooking Without' contains recipes that are well balanced and delicious but without the use of ingredients such as gluten, dairy produce, sugar, yeast and saturated fats. These foods can cause individuals to have a variety of health problems. The recipes are not only for vegetarians but for anyone wishing to include more, healthy, enjoyable vegetarian meals in their diet whilst avoiding certain problem foods.All Barbara's books contain a written section about health and in the front of this book Barbara covers topics such as 'blood sugar balance', 'mental and emotional detoxification', 'the menopause' and 'weight control'.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the author of the Darkangel Trilogy comes an epic romance, in the tradition of The Clan of the Cave Bear, about a young woman's love for a coldhearted shape-shifter.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A brilliant new portrait of the Spanish Civil War from our greatest historian of Spain. 'Anyone interested in Spain will want this book.' Alan Massie, Daily TelegraphA bravura new interpretation of the course, causes and characters of the Spanish Civil War, still the twentieth century's bloodiest internal conflict. Analysis of the Civil War has always focused on victors and vanquished, but what of those who eschewed the struggle, those who stood apart from the carnage and chaos Was there a Third Way Starting at the extreme right of the political spectrum and moving across it to the extreme left, using the emblematic lives of ten key individuals, Preston builds up an astonishingly vivid picture of how the War came to pass, and how those who started, suffered and stopped it were coloured by the experience. Here are brilliant psychological profiles of the communist firebrand La Pasionaria, of the canny falangist Primo de Rivera, of the aloof intellectual non-participant Salvador Madariaga, and of the enigma himself, Generalissimo Franco.'Comrades presents us with fascinating portraits, case studies that illustrate variously nobility, arrogance, self-delusion and evil. It remains difficult to comprhend the passions that lead to civil war; but this book helps us to understand.' Michael Portillo, Sunday Telegraph.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Patrick McLanahan returns to dramatic flying action as conflict between North and South Korea sparks an international crisis - in the latest high-tech, high-action thriller from ex-pilot Dale Brown, the bestselling author of Flight of the Old Dog and The Tin Man. Filled with explosive adventure, unforgettable characters and cutting-edge technology, Dale Brown's New York Times bestselling novels have established him as the undisputed master of the aerial technothriller. Now he returns to the air in a spectacular novel about a new generation of brash young heroes. Aerial combat expert Patrick McLanahan's latest challenge is to turn a group of young, maverick pilots into America's premier tactical strike force. This already difficult task takes on unexpected urgency when the fragile peace in Asia is shattered as South Korean fighter-bombers attack North Korea in support of a massive people's revolt. To the world's surprise, North Korea surrenders, the borders are thrown open and the defiant new United Republic of Korea is born - ready to use its reserve of nuclear warheads to take on the USA and even the might of China in order to preserve its sovereignty. Enter McLanahan's raw, audacious team, sent into the fray both to protect United Korea and to stop it. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 3 BOWLS presents the outstanding vegetarian specialties that draw thousands of visitors each year to Dai Bosatsu Zendo, a traditional Zen monastery in New York's Catskill Mountains. From Sesame Crepes with Portobello Mushrooms in Port Cream Sauce and Spaghetti with Chipotle and Garlic to Coconut-Pecan Carrot Cake with Orange Cream-Cheese Frosting, these recipes are deftly creative, yet all are simple to prepare.…