Make learning to read exciting for children with this decodable fiction book about Pat and Pat’s pets! This book provides a built-in phonics review for beginning readers. Today, students need help learning how to read more than ever before. This illustrated book will engage young readers while they gain fun, meaningful practice with two high-frequency words: and, I. Each book includes family engagement activities to extend phonics learning and has a specific phonics focus. Book 4 covers sh...

Nobody had heard of Arsène Wenger when he took charge of Arsenal in October 1996. 'Arsène Who?' was the headline. Yet within less than two full seasons, he transformed an underperforming side into league and FA Cup winners, in the process playing with breath-taking style, sparking an epoch-defining rivalry with Alex Ferguson and Manchester United and modernising football in England with his ground-breaking methods.Built around over 150 exclusive interviews with key players, coaches...

Make learning to read exciting for children with this decodable fiction book about Pat and Pat’s pets! This book provides a built-in phonics review for beginning readers. Today, students need help learning how to read more than ever before. This illustrated book will engage young readers while they gain fun, meaningful practice with two high-frequency words: and, I. Each book includes family engagement activities to extend phonics learning and has a specific phonics focus. Book 4 covers sh...

Nobody had heard of Arsène Wenger when he took charge of Arsenal in October 1996. 'Arsène Who?' was the headline. Yet within less than two full seasons, he transformed an underperforming side into league and FA Cup winners, in the process playing with breath-taking style, sparking an epoch-defining rivalry with Alex Ferguson and Manchester United and modernising football in England with his ground-breaking methods.Built around over 150 exclusive interviews with key players, coaches...

First published in 1988, this book explores the socio-economic and political impacts of Chinese socialist movements, peasant initiatives, rural industrialization and economic reforms in China in the mid-twentieth century.

A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A. Heinlein and and Jack Vance, from E.E. "Doc" Smith and Clifford D. Simak to Ted Chiang and Charles Stross-- and everyone in between. More than one million words of classic fiction and essays!

**A James Beard Award–winning journalist reveals the surprising forces that shape our eating habits“Sax is great company, a writer of real and lasting charm.” —New York Times Book Review**In this eye-opening, witty work of reportage, David Sax uncovers the world of food trends: where they come from, how they grow, and where they end up. Traveling from the South Carolina rice plot of America’s premier grain guru to Chicago’s gluttonous Baconfest, Sax reveals a world...

A highly diverting retrospective of the ‘queen of the tea towel’, Pat Albeck, whose prolific textile designs shaped the homes of post-war Britain. This fascinating visual history explores the creative process behind 80 iconic illustrations, retro and contemporary.Pat Albeck, who died in September 2017, was a prolific and well-known textile and homewear designer, affectionately known as 'the Queen of the Tea Towel'. Her obituary appeared in The Times and the Guardian

Roxanne Redman’s husband hasn’t fathered a child, but he’s suddenly arrested for fifty-thousand dollars’ worth of delinquent child support—and their nightmare is just beginning.Roxanne’s husband, Parker Redman, is shocked when he’s arrested for delinquent child support … especially since the devoted husband hasn’t fathered any children. The Parkers’ best friends, James and Serena, are in the final stages of a bitter divorce.When the divorce is final, James believes his night...

“If there’s one thing we learned coming up on Daufuskie,” remembers Sallie Ann Robinson, “it’s the importance of good, home-cooked food.” In this enchanting book, Robinson presents the delicious, robust dishes of her native Sea Islands and offers readers a taste of the unique, West African–influenced Gullah culture still found there.Living on a South Carolina island accessible only by boat, Daufuskie folk have traditionally relied on the bounty of fresh ingredients found on the lan...