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Mr. Grumpy Pants is a story about a change of heart--literally and figuratively! A champion cake baker has some pretty bad habits of behavior when unexpected heart problems arise. His experiences inspire him to make some big changes!
Have you ever had a pet you loved? Some of our pets were kind of wild. There was Mr. Brown and Mr. White, the rats. There was Chicka the chicken who thought she was a human. There was Birdie, the cockatiel and Hazel the squirrel. Which one would run up your leg, and you’d have to take off your pants to get her out? Which one sleeps in the hammock all day and runs around at night? Which one got lost in a drawer? Find out the answers to these and other questions in these funny, true stories about one family’s adventures with their pets.
The first edition of Lorbiecki's biography on Aldo Leopold has remained the only biography for the general public on Leopold --short, readable, with historic photographs, and context on the whole history of American conservation. This new edition offers the same thorough dedication to subject, as well as a commentary on twenty-first century conservation efforts.
In the Third Reich, political dissidents were not the only ones liable to be punished for their crimes. Their parents, siblings and relatives also risked reprisals. This concept - known as Sippenhaft – was based in ideas of blood and purity. This definitive study surveys the threats, fears and infliction of this part of the Nazi system of terror.
How Black poets have charted the direction of American poetics for the past two centuries Before Modernism examines how Black poetics, in antagonism with White poetics in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, produced the conditions for the invention of modern American poetry. Through inspired readings of the poetry of Phillis Wheatley Peters, George Moses Horton, Ann Plato, James Monroe Whitfield, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper—as well as the poetry of neglected but once popular White poets William Cullen Bryant and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—Virginia Jackson demonstrates how Black poets inspired the direction that American poetics has taken for the past two centuries. A...
The decade since the World War has been in many ways the most extraordinary period in American agriculture. For the first time in the Nation's history, the census of 1925 showed a decrease (since 1920) in crop acreage, in farm animals, in number of farms, and in farm population. Nevertheless, agricultural production increased more rapidly from 1922 to 1926, inclusive, than in any period since 1900, and probably since 1890, when the agricultural occupation of the prairies approached completion.