Da Capo Press imprint: 567 books
by Jerry Wyckoff, Barbara C. Unell
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
You Can Manage Your Child’s Behavior Problems with Love & Limits
Discipline with Love & Limits provides calm, practical solutions to the 43 most common childhood misbehaviors, like: Whining, Temper Tantrums, Mealtime Meltdown, Too Much Screen Time, Bullying and Biting, Disobeying,...
Fifty Shames of Earl Grey
A Parody
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Young, arrogant tycoon Earl Grey seduces the naïve coed Anna Steal with his overpowering good looks and staggering amounts of money, but will she be able to get past his fifty shames, including shopping at Walmart on Saturdays, bondage with handcuffs, and his love of BDSM (Bards, Dragons, Sorcery, and Magick)? Or will his dark secrets and constant smirking drive her over the edge?
The Black Death
A Personal History
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
In this fresh approach to the history of the Black Death, John Hatcher, a world-renowned scholar of the Middle Ages, recreates everyday life in a mid-fourteenth century rural English village. By focusing on the experiences of ordinary villagers as they lived-and died-during the Black Death (134550...
The Turk Who Loved Apples
And Other Tales of Losing My Way Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
While writing his celebrated Frugal Traveler column for the New York Times, Matt Gross began to feel hemmed in by its focus on what he thought of as traveling on the cheap at all costs.” When his editor offered him the opportunity to do something less structured, the Getting Lost series was born,...
Last to Die
A Defeated Empire, a Forgotten Mission, and the Last American Killed in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
On August 18, 1945, US Army sergeant Anthony J. Marchione bled to death in the clear, bright sky above Tokyo. Marchione, a gunner in the US Air Forces, died like so many before him in World War II—quietly, cradled in the arms of a buddy. Though tragic, Marchione's death would have been no more notable...
Fatal Crossroads
The Untold Story of the Malmedy Massacre at the Battle of the Bulge
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
On December 17, 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge, more than eighty unarmed United States soldiers were shot down after having surrendered to an SS unit near the small crossroads town of Malmédy, Belgium. Although more than thirty men lived to tell of the massacre, exactly what took place that...
Operation Broken Reed
Truman's Secret North Korean Spy Mission That Averted World War III
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2009
At the height of the Korean War, President Truman launched one of the most important intelligence - gathering operations in history. So valuable were the mission's findings about the North Korean-Soviet-Chinese alliance that it is no stretch to say they prevented World War III. Only one man - sworn...
The Circumference of Home
One Man's Yearlong Quest for a Radically Local Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
This much is clear to me. If I can’t change my own life in response to the greatest challenge now facing our human family, who can? And if I won’t make the effort to try, why should anyone else? So I’ve decided to start at home, and begin with myself. The question is no longer whether I must...
Baby Play And Learn
160 Games and Learning Activities for the First Three Years
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
Baby Play & Learn was created by child-development expert Penny Warner who offers 160 ideas for games and activities that provide hours of developmental learning opportunities. It includes bulleted lists of skills babies learn through play, step-by-step instructions for each game and activity,...
by Trish Kuffner
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
The Fitness Fun Busy Book (previously titled The Wiggle & Giggle Busy Book) contains 365 creative, lively games and activities to keep toddlers and preschoolers busy and active. It provides great alternatives to watching television, playing video games, or doing other sedentary activities. This...
by Writers of College Humor
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
The first (and maybe last, depending on sales) anthology of the hugely popular website CollegeHumor.com!
Since 1999, CollegeHumor.com has been home to some of the best comedy online. From its humble, dorm room origins, CollegeHumor has grown to attract over ten million monthly visitors, making...
Genius of Place
The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
The full and definitive biography of Frederick Law Olmsted, influential abolitionist, ardent social reformer and conservationist, and the visionary designer of Central Park
Frederick Law Olmsted is arguably the most important historical figure that the average American knows the least about....
The Way of Herodotus
Travels with the Man Who Invented History
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
Intrepid travel historian Justin Marozzi retraces the footsteps of Herodotus through the Mediterranean and Middle East, examining Herodotus's 2,500-year-old observations about the cultures and places he visited and finding echoes of his legacy reverberating to this day. The Way of Herodotus is a lively...
I'll Be Your Mirror
The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
The Question-and-Answer interview was one of Andy Warhol's favorite communication vehicles, so much so that he named his own magazine after the form. Yet, never before has anyone published a collection of interviews that Warhol himself gave. I'll Be Your Mirror contains more then thirty conversations...