Jump Up: Good Times Throughout the Seasons with Celebrations from Around the World

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Jump Up: Good Times Throughout the Seasons with Celebrations from Around the World

Manufacturer: Amazon Remainders Account
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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Jambalaya: The Natural Woman's Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals

ASIN: B000C4SYMU

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Many people are unaware of the connection between holidays and the earth-based seasonal traditions from which these special days evolved. Using myth, folklore, and poetry, this book reacquaints readers with well-known traditions. Organized by season, each section begins with a story followed by rituals that readers can enact to create their own celebrations. Ceremonies and traditions come from Africa, Europe, the Americas, Asia, and the South Pacific, from Christmas and Kwanzaa to the Ritual of the Cleansing Fire and the Building of the Autumn Equinox Altar.

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Ideal for toddlers.Stunning large format brings images to life.Helps to build a child's vocabulary.

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for kids older than 18 months.......2007-03-18

My 18 month old (and I) loves the square books from this series (First Words, Animals, Colors). I bought this book thinking it would provide more images that we could look at and she could read. However, this book shows images that are much more difficult to understand at her age. We'll see when/if her interest kicks in....

I can't believe I don't love this book.......2007-02-22

Eh, not our fave Priddy book. My 2 y/o likes the trucks book much better. Pretty pictures and not much else. Save your $$ and try a DK lift-the-flap book--same concept but more fun and better vocabulary.

WOW.......2004-04-17

With the great variety of pictures in the book, and all the vibrant colors - it is an interesting book for babies and toddlers as well as children in kindergarten. Lots of words to learn, and each item could later be used to teach spelling, labeling, tacting, etc.
Very fun book to spend time with your child, going through the pages and oooh-ing and aahhh-ing at the variety of pictures not otherwise readily available in most households.

My Big World Book.......2003-06-10

My daughter is 3 and has loved this book since she was given it a year ago. It has beautiful pictures that really appeal to her and she now sits and reads it on her own. Very different layout and unusually sophisticated - more interesting to look at than most of this age. I understand the company is now called Priddy Books and I like a lot of their designs.

Great Book!.......2003-04-10

My 7 month old loves this book. It's much bigger than his other board books & he has a great time turning the pages. He loves looking at the photos of things. I'm sure when he gets older he'll like finding the things the "clue" at the bottom of the page has you look for. Has very nice pictures & a good variety. And it's definetly a good deal for the price, especially compared to a lot of the other board books I've bought.

My Very Big Little World: A SugarLoaf Book (Sugarloaf Books)

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2-yr old loves this

My Very Big Little World: A SugarLoaf Book (Sugarloaf Books)

Manufacturer: Atheneum
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0689876211

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SugarLoaf is good at many things. Here's what she's best at:

Talking baby talk to her little sister

Waking her dad up in the morning

Painting portraits

Growing big-girl teeth

SugarLoaf's a very little girl with some very big ideas. Come play with her!

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2-yr old loves this.......2007-06-22

my 2-year old son loves this book. he wants to read it every night, and every night we talk about things that are big and things that are small afterward.

My Big Book of the World (My Big Book Series)

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My Big Book of the World (My Big Book Series)
Jenny Vaughan , and Ann Savage
Manufacturer: Anness Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Science, Nature & How It Works | Children's Books | Subjects | Books

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ASIN: 1860350011

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My 21 month old LOVES this Book!!!
Great pictures

3 in 1: My Big Animal,World,Dinosaur
Roger Priddy
Manufacturer: Priddy Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Board book

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ASIN: 0312495625

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My 21 month old LOVES this Book!!!.......2006-07-29

What a great book! My son looks at it everyday. He is learning to identify all the animals. It is an excellent book. I recommend this book.

Great pictures.......2006-01-23

Clear photos in laminated large (12x12) format include farm animals, pets, jungle creatures, pets, baby animals, birds, zoo critters, then a section on geographical features (mountain, desert, waterfall, forest, lake, woods, jungle,sky, town, city, sea) and then a section with more dinosaurs than you ever thought you couldn't pronounce (t-rex, and velociraptor are easy; try baryonyx, xenotarsosaurus, stenonychosaurus, Riogasaurus, wannanosaurus, yingshanosaurus, kentrosaurus, chasmosaurus, euoplocephalus among others) that will captivate preschoolers. This would be a great addition to a pediatrician's waiting room!

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Wow!

My Big Book of Our Amazing World

Manufacturer: Tormont
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Board book
ASIN: 2764108834

Book Description

Between the covers of this big, big book you'll discover our amazing world, from a bird's eye view of the world's continents to amazing facts and figures about faraway places, plus hundreds of pictures on detailed maps to tell you where things are.

Check out North and South America—Arctic foxes in the Far North, totem poles on Canada's Pacific coast, cowboys in the American West, and carnival dancers in Rio de Janeiro. Zoom in on Europe—find the world's fastest train in France, the Leaning Tower of Pisa and the 2,000-year-old Roman Colosseum in Italy, and also Denmark's famous Little Mermaid statue.

Drop in on Asia! Discover the world's deepest lake in Russia, Bangkok's floating market in Thailand, the dancers of Bali, Indonesia, and the world's tallest building, the Petronas Twin Towers, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

These six large-format, colorfully detailed map spreads make it easy and fun to learn about our amazing world—either by yourself or with friends and family!

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Wow!.......2005-11-30

I loved this book when I was growing up. It had helpful information that I even used in school. I'm still using in 7th grade. I really enjoyed reading it and interacting with it. It'll even have info on historical landmarks.

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My Big World Book

Manufacturer: Priddy & Bicknell
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

ASIN: 1843320835

2 Books in 1: My Big Animal and World Book

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Excellent Picture Book
great book

2 Books in 1: My Big Animal and World Book
Roger Priddy
Manufacturer: Priddy Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Board book

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ASIN: 0312492022

Book Description

For kids who really love animals and the world!

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Excellent Picture Book.......2006-07-19

I bought this for my son when he was about one year old. He loves this book. He picks this among other books because it is big. Loves the pictures (very bright and clear pictures. The right number of pictures on each page) He points to each picture and asks us to name it. Or we play the "Where is..." game. He wants to read this everyday. A great way to increase his vocabulary. He can correctly point at a lot of animals now. There are not many BIG board books with real pictures out there. Atleast I havent found many.

great book.......2004-09-11

My son's pediatrian has this book in her office and every time we go for a checkup he can not stop looking at it. All the other books in the office are nice but for some reason he seems to love this one. It might be its big size and/or all the bright colours but it works. I bought a copy few days after our last visit and since the book arrived he's been 'reading' it all the time. The itself has a lots of animals, plants, trains, cars, buses, etc. BTW, my son is 19 months right now. Great book for a toddler.

Big Bug Dug, The (level 1) (Hello Reader, My First)

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Great for a struggling reader~

Big Bug Dug, The (level 1) (Hello Reader, My First)
Mary Serfozo
Manufacturer: Cartwheel
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0439179335

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As the big bug digs his way down under ³to find a quiet place to sleep!² readers are treated to a short lesson in nature science. We meet underground insects and animals: snakes, slugs, worms, and more. We also discover such things as roots, rocks, and fossils. The book comes with eight pairs of picture-word game cards that can be punched out and used to reinforce the story and six pages of skill-building puzzle activities.

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Great for a struggling reader~.......2002-11-11

We picked this up at a book fair for our son, who is struggling to learn how to read. There don't seem to be alot of books out there for TRUE beginning readers -- even Dr. Seuss is a struggle for him. This book has given him alot of confidence that he will be able to read "grown up books" because he can read this one with very little help from us. What a great gift!

All Aout People: Unit 4 (Big Book) (Harcourt Horizons: About My World)

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All Aout People: Unit 4 (Big Book) (Harcourt Horizons: About My World)
Harcourt
Manufacturer: Harcourt INC
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Spiral-bound
ASIN: 0153402237

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This is a Spiral Hardcover(Big Book) designed for the classroom setting

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Big And Small (My World)
Al Granowsky
Manufacturer: Copper Beech
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Library Binding

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ASIN: 0761324577

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As the first four-legged vertebrates, called tetrapods, crept up along the shores of ancient primordial seas, feeding was among the most paramount of their concerns. Looking back into the mists of evolutionary time, fish-like ancestors can be seen transformed by natural selection and other evolutionary pressures into animals with feeding habitats as varied as an anteater and a whale. From frog to pheasant and salamander to snake, every lineage of tetrapods has evolved unique feeding anatomy and behavior.
Similarities in widely divergent tetrapods vividly illustrate their shared common ancestry. At the same time, numerous differences between and among tetrapods document the power and majesty that comprises organismal evolutionary history.
Feeding is a detailed survey of the varied ways that land vertebrates acquire food. The functional anatomy and the control of complex and dynamic structural components are recurrent themes of this volume. Luminaries in the discipline of feeding biology have joined forces to create a book certain to stimulate future studies of animal anatomy and behavior.

Feeding: Form, Function, and Evolution in Tetrapod Vertebrates

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Feeding: Form, Function, and Evolution in Tetrapod Vertebrates
Kurt Schwenk
Manufacturer: Academic Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OHBI14

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An interval is a natural way of specifying a number that is specified only within certain tolerances. Interval analysis consists of the tools and methods needed to solve linear and nonlinear systems of equations in the presence of data uncertainties. Applications include the sensitivity analysis of solutions of equations depending on parameters, the solution of global nonlinear problems, and the verification of results obtained by finite-precision arithmetic. In this book emphasis is laid on those aspects of the theory which are useful in actual computations. On the other hand, the theory is developed with full mathematical rigour. In order to keep the book self-contained, various results from linear algebra (Perron-Frobenius theory, M- and H- matrices) and analysis (existence of solutions to nonlinear systems) are proved, often from a novel and more general viewpoint. An extensive bibliography is included.

Method of Averaging for Differential Equations on an Infinite Interval: Theory and Applications (Lecture Notes in Pure and Applied Mathematics)

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Method of Averaging for Differential Equations on an Infinite Interval: Theory and Applications (Lecture Notes in Pure and Applied Mathematics)
Vladimir Burd
Manufacturer: Chapman & Hall/CRC
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1584888741

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In recent years, mathematicians have detailed simpler proofs of known theorems, have identified new applications of the method of averaging, and have obtained many new results of these applications. Encompassing these novel aspects, Method of Averaging of the Infinite Interval: Theory and Applications rigorously explains the modern theory of the method of averaging and provides a solid understanding of the results obtained when applying this theory. The book starts with the less complicated theory of averaging linear differential equations (LDEs), focusing on almost periodic functions. It describes stability theory and Shtokalo's method, and examines various applications, including parametric resonance and the construction of asymptotics. After establishing this foundation, the author goes on to explore nonlinear equations. He studies standard form systems in which the right-hand side of a system is proportional to a small parameter and proves theorems similar to Banfi's theorem. The final chapters are devoted to systems with a rapidly rotating phase. Covering an important asymptotic method of differential equations, this book provides a thorough understanding of the method of averaging theory and its resulting applications.

Interval Methods for Systems of Equations

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Interval Methods for Systems of Equations
Arnold Neumaier
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000VKXYFC

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Edgar Allan Poe's works, with their gothic and often obsessive themes, have had a significant influence on American literature. In this Norton Critical Edition, G. R. Thompson has fully introduced, annotated, and edited each text.

"Backgrounds and Contexts" includes fifty-seven carefully chosen documents that illuminate Poe's prolific but short career, among them reviews, prefaces, and correspondence by Poe as well as thematic pieces dealing with Transcendentalism and alternative romanticism, sciences of the mind, sensation fiction, and the South and slavery.

Fourteen judiciously selected critical essays address Poe's poetry, fiction, politics, and psychology. Contributors include Floyd Stovall, Robert C. McLean, Richard Wilbur, James W. Gargano, Joseph J. Moldenhauer, Paul John Eakin, Grace Farrell, Liahna Klenman Babener, Barton Levi St. Armand, Joseph N. Riddel, J. Gerald Kennedy, John Carlos Rowe, Terence Whalen, and John T. Irwin.

A Selected Bibliography is also included.

About the series: No other series of classic texts equals the caliber of the Norton Critical Editions. Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with the comprehensive pedagogical apparatus necessary to appreciate the work fully. Careful editing, first-rate translation, and thorough explanatory annotations allow each text to meet the highest literary standards while remaining accessible to students. Each edition is printed on acid-free paper and every text in the series remains in print. Norton Critical Editions are the choice for excellence in scholarship for students at more than 2,000 universities worldwide.

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A generous selection of Poe's works and a full picture of his interests and achievments? For 16 bucks? Oh, man! .......2006-03-10

If you're looking for a "complete" Poe, you have two sensible choices, the first being Thomas Ollive Mabbott's 3 volume edition (richly annotated, and each of the works introduced with an account covering composition, publication, aesthetic aims and critical consensus), and the second the delightful and portable Library of America volume. I put "complete" in quotes because even these miss Poe's "Eureka" and some of his own reviews and sketches. The market offers countless other "complete" Poes, often available in the remaindered section of book stores, but these two options serve him (and you) best--if you want all his poems and tales.

But if you want a selection, this Norton Critical Edition is your single best choice. It's far from complete--30 poems, 35 stories, a novel and then a collection of letters and articles. But all your favorites are here, and they are also well annotated, which is not just scholarly fluff but a way of filling you in on all of Poe's now obscure knowledge of pseudo-science, his views about slavery (an issue in The Narrative of Gordon Pym), theories of the mind, 18th century gothic precepts, etc etc. These things really preoccupied Poe and they inform his stories, and knowing about them honors his intentions while only increasing our appreciation for the tales and poems. People in a huff about footnotes can just skip them, and people who wish to know what Poe was drawing on--what often inspired the tales--can read them, and if you know about it already, more power to you. Anyway, these notes are really useful and pretty thorough, often including info about publication, alternate versions Poe later wrote, motives for writing it, plus of course all that now lost cultural context that Poe was so much a part of.

This volume opens with one of my favorite features in any Norton Critical Edition I know, and that is a 37-page overview biography of Poe. It's incisive, analytical, and knowing, and it's broken down further into headings that cover particular segements of his life. It's also written in a lucid, engaging way, and it covers the American history and politics relevant to Poe's own life. It serves as a nice median between an ecyclopedia or anthology bio and a full-scale bio, and I've really enjoyed it.

So you get 65 works by Poe, a novel and other letters and articles, that awesome biography of him, but then you get a great selection of writing ABOUT Poe from the years when he was publishing, reviews and mentions by Whitman, Hawthorne, Baudelaire, Longfellow, Lowell, and many many others. How illuminating to hear the other great figures from the American Renaissance (and from Europe) discussing the man's works as they come out. This volume then offers more in-depth articles, both from the time and from later scholars, concering those "sciences" and brain theories and other issues that Poe filled his writing with, so you can read the sources from his day and voices from our day talking about what fascinated Poe as a writer. If you already just like sitting down and enjoying the stories and poems, this would be a great next step for you. I would liken it to listening to your favorite band's influences, or your favorite director's favorite movies--you read what Poe himself found so compelling, and it lets you "get" him more completely.

Finally, the volume concludes with a great number of more recent discussions of Poe, some of the articles covering a particular story or poem, and some discussing some aspect of Poe more generally. In short, this book offers a total experience of Edgar Allan Poe. While it offers a smaller selection of his writings than a complete Poe does, you still get 75 pages of his poetry and over 500 pages of his prose, and then all the other material! And that other material presents a full picture of Poe's interests, how his contemporaries thought of him, and some views from today. The book itself is handsome, with fine typesets and a generous but portable pagecut that stays open readily (especially when it's laying in your hands) due to a good, flexible binding. All this for 16 bucks? Why wait?

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'Edgar Allan Poe Selected Writings

Manufacturer: Penguin Books
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000CSYU6A

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Edgar Allan Poe Selected Writings
Edgar Allan Poe
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
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Binding: Paperback

Poe, The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan: Poems, Tales, Essays and Reviews (English Library)

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Poe, The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan: Poems, Tales, Essays and Reviews (English Library)
Edgar Allan Poe
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
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Binding: Paperback

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Selected Writing of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
Manufacturer: The Riverside Press
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Binding: Paperback

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SELECTED WRITINGS
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Manufacturer: PENGUIN
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Binding: Paperback

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Selected Writings (English Library)
Edgar Allan; Galloway, David (editor) Poe
Manufacturer: Viking Penguin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000P0ZVIQ

Selected Writings Edited by Edward H Davidson

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Selected Writings Edited by Edward H Davidson
Edgar Allan Poe
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Co. c1956
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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SELECTED WRITINGS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE
DAVID GALLOWAY
Manufacturer: PENGUIN BOOKS
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000RXWN28

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Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe
Edward H. Davidson
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000JQX2UK

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