"Bookbinding for Beginners" by Florence O. Bean and John C. Brodhead serves as an essential guide for those looking to explore the art of bookbinding. This comprehensive manual covers various techniques, tools, and materials needed to create beautiful, handcrafted books. The authors provide step-by-step instructions, making it accessible for novices while also offering insights that can benefit more experienced binders. With clear illustrations and practical tips, readers can easily follow...

Phantly Roy Bean, Jr. (1825-1903), self-styled "Law West of the Pecos," was an eccentric American saloon-keeper and Justice of the Peace in Val Verde County, Texas. According to legend, he held court in his saloon along the Rio Grande on a desolate stretch of the Chihuahuan Desert of southwest Texas.Southwestern historian and folklorist, C. L. Sonnichsen, lived near Judge Bean's house for several years and decided to pen this biography, first published in 1943, owing to his belief t...

Use your course's big ideas to accelerate students’ growth as writers and critical thinkersThe newly revised third edition of Engaging Ideas delivers a step-by-step guide for designing writing assignments and critical thinking activities that engage students with important subject-matter questions. This new edition of the celebrated book (now written by the co-author team of Bean and Melzer) uses leading and current research and theory to help you link act...

"These letters are in no sense a history-except that they contain the truth. They were written at the time and within close range of the events they describe. Half of the fighting, including the brave attack before Fromelles, is left untouched on, for these pages do not attempt to narrate the full story of the Australian Imperial Force in France. They were written to depict the surroundings in which, and the spirit with which, that history has been made; first in the quiet green Flemish lo...

Florida Book Awards, Gold Medal for Florida NonfictionInside the filmmaking industry in Jacksonville before the rise of HollywoodJacksonville, Florida, was the center of the infant film industry. Devastated by fire in 1901, rebuilt in a wide variety of architectural styles, sharing the same geographic and meteorological DNA as southern California, the city was an ideal location for northern film production companies looking to relocate....

In this seventh entry in the New York Times–bestselling series, two unlikely best friends get creative as they prepare for the Science Fair.It's the Science Fair, and the second grade is all over it! Some kids are making man-eating robots. Some kids are holding their breath for a very, very long time. Some kids are doing interesting things with vacuum cleaners. The theme, obviously, is global warming. But what should Ivy and Bean do? Something involving exp...

Now with ALL NEW ILLUSTRATIONS! All the other Jelly Beans in Jelly Bean Town were happy, until NELLIE GREEN the JELLY BEAN came along.With its colorful artwork and sweet poetic pace, kids will love the story of "Nellie Green the Jelly Bean," and parents will appreciate the lesson of accepting those that may be just a little bit different.BOOK #1 in the NELLIE GREEN the JELLY BEAN series written & illustrated by EF Clark.Designed to help kids creatively manage the pers...

Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean (1879-1968), historian and journalist, was born on 18 November 1879 at Bathurst, New South Wales. In 1916-18 Bean was in France to observe every engagement of the A.I.F. Some dispatches were published as Letters from France (London, 1917). The historian's task grew larger in his mind. At first he thought of one volume, but in France he conceived a grander work which would be literally a monument to the men of the A.I.F.—'the only memorial which could be worthy of...

JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. HOMESTYLE JUSTICE WITH A SIDE OF SLAUGHTER.In this explosive new series, Western legend Luke Jensen teams up with chuckwagon cook Dewey “Mac” McKenzie to dish out a steaming plate of hot-blooded justice. But in a corrupt town like Hangman’s Hill, revenge is a dish best served cold . . .BEANS, BOURBON, AND BLOOD: A RECIPE FOR DISASTERThe sight of a rotting corpse hanging from a noose is enough to s...

According to Wikipedia: "Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the mainland of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous other islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.N4 Neighbouring countries include Indonesia, East Timor, and Papua New Guinea to the north, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia to the north-east, and New Zealand to the south-east. For around 40,000 years before Eu...

Nellie Green the Jelly Bean Book #6Yellow Belly Jelly Bean . . . he's afraid of everything!Jelly Bean Bill is so scared, he's even scared of his own shadow, and the other Jelly Beans call him names like "Yellow Belly Jelly Bean" and "Scare D Cat".If he hears a bump in the night, or the lightning flashes and thunder crashes, Jelly Bean Bill runs and hides under his bed. But then he thinks there's a monster under there and he gets a double scare.See how Nellie G...

In the sixth entry in the New York Times–bestselling series, two best friends learn about ballet, promises, and how to be a squid.Finally! After months of begging their parents for ballet lessons, Ivy and Bean finally get what they want . . . well, not exactly. Much to their surprise, it turns out ballet lessons do not cover karate chops and roundhouse kicks. The girls have no interest in learning how to dance gracefully, but they promised their parents the...