Da Capo Press imprint: 567 books
The Arts & Crafts Busy Book
365 Art and Craft Activities to Keep Toddlers and Preschoolers Busy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
The Arts & Crafts Busy Book is packed with 365 fun arts and crafts activities for toddlers and preschoolers, including drawing, simple sewing, paper-mâché, and painting projects. This book also includes basic craft recipes for paint, play dough, clay, and more, using ingredients found around...
The Preschooler's Busy Book
365 Fun, Creative, Screen-Free Learning Games and Activities to Stimulate Your 3- to 6-Year-Old Every Day of the Year
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
The Preschooler's Busy Book contains 365 activities (one for each day of the year) for three- to six-year-olds using things found around the home. It shows parents, baby-sitters, and daycare providers how to:
Save money by making your own paints, play dough, craft clays, glue, paste and other...
The Children's Busy Book
365 Creative Learning Games and Activities to Keep Your 6- to 10-Year-Old Busy
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
365 fun, creative activities to stimulate your child every day of the year. The Children's Busy Book is from the line of all-time #1 selling line of Busy Books.
365 fun, creative activities to stimulate your child every day of the year This book contains 365 activities (one for each day of...
by Trish Kuffner
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
The Busy Book Bundle is packed with over 1400 fun, engaging activities, crafts, and games to keep toddlers and preschoolers busy and learning! A must-read for anyone raising or teaching young children.
Includes four books: The Toddler’s Busy Book, The Preschooler’s Busy Book, The Arts &...
Song Without Words
Discovering My Deafness Halfway through Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Much has been written about the profoundly deaf, but the lives of the nearly 30 million partially deaf people in the United States today remain hidden. Song without Words tells the astonishing story of a man who, at the age of thirty-four, discovered that he had been deaf since childhood, yet somehow...
Island of the Blue Foxes
Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
The story of the world's largest, longest, and best financed scientific expedition of all time, triumphantly successful, gruesomely tragic, and never before fully told
The immense 18th-century scientific journey, variously known as the Second Kamchatka Expedition or the Great Northern Expedition,...
The First Idea
How Symbols, Language, and Intelligence Evolved from Our Primate Ancestors to Modern Humans
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
In the childhood of every human being and at the dawn of human history there is an amazing and, until now, unexplained leap from simple genetically programmed behavior to language, symbolic thinking, and culture. In The First Idea, Stanley Greenspan and Stuart Shanker explore this missing link and...
The Boston Driver's Handbook
The Almost Post Big Dig Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
A commuter's survival guide and a visitor's crash course on the sometimes hilarious, sometimes harrowing reality of Boston driving, The Boston Driver's Handbook: The Almost Post Big Dig Edition offers expert advice and witty encouragement for conquering the streets. This newly revised edition has...
Beach
Stories by the Sand and Sea
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
J. D. Salinger's "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," John Cheever's "Goodbye, My Brother," Doris Lessing's "Through the Tunnel": These and dozens of other beloved stories share the beach as their setting. In fact, it is remarkable how many of the finest writers have set stories...
by Alber A. Nofi
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
In one of very few balanced accounts of Texas's epic struggle for independence from Mexico, Albert Nofi provides a splendid chronicle of the events and personalities of the war. He includes readable and accessible maps of military movements and a strategic and tactical analysis of each battle, addressing...
The Cocaine Kids
The Inside Story Of A Teenage Drug Ring
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 1990
Since 1982, sociologist Terry Williams has spent days, weeks, and months hanging out” with a teenage cocaine ring in cocaine bars, after-hours clubs, on street corners, in crack houses and in their homes. The picture he creates in The Cocaine Kids is the story behind the headlines. The lives of...
A Great Feast of Light
Growing Up Irish in the Television Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2009
Celebrated TV critic John Doyle has penned an Irish memoir that gives a portrait of a boy and his country transformed by television. Funny, insightful, and engaging, A Great Feast of Light begins in the small town of Nenagh, where young John's father purchased the family's first television in 1962,...
by Sloan Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Universally acclaimed when first published in 1955, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit captured the mood of a generation. Its title - like Catch-22 and Fahrenheit 451 - has become a part of America's cultural vocabulary. Tom Rath doesn't want anything extraordinary out of life: just a decent home, enough...
Mama Makes Up Her Mind
And Other Dangers of Southern Living
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2009
Welcome to the unique world of Bailey White. Her aunt Belle may take you to see her bellowing pet alligator. Her uncle Jimbuddy may appall you with his knack for losing pieces of himself. Most of all, you may succumb utterly to the charms of Bailey's mama, who will take you to a juke joint so raunchy...