Inspired by Theodore Roosevelt's love for birds, a travel guide for contemporary bird watchers.As one of the country’s foremost bird lovers, Theodore Roosevelt makes an excellent guide to the best birding spots. From the icy shoreline of Maine to the tropical reefs of the Hawaiian Islands, Theodore Roosevelt watched, recorded, and championed the preservation of American birds. Never in his life were they far from his mind. Their coloration and dive...

Leave on a phenomenal journey through the captivating universe of Walt Disney World with the help of detailed maps, where each corner holds a story and each ride murmurs privileged insights known exclusively to the started. In this refreshed release of "The Hidden Magic of Walt Disney World," plunge further into the core of the most mysterious put on the planet, where the creative mind exceeds all rational limitations and dreams show some signs of life.Find the Inconspicuou...

Reading Oscar Wilde is a comprehensive interpretive guide designed for students and readers who come to Wilde’s writings for the first time, delivering a fuller understanding of the works and the background from which the canon has emerged. This ready-at-hand compendium details the scholarly perspectives of Wilde’s vast literary output. Meticulously arranged, this accessible volume includes freestanding discussions of individual works, including clarification of Wilde’s pioneering...

This book gives you a complete rundown of the world of money, making it easy to understand and fun to explore. It will help you hone the secrets of budgeting, saving, investing, and even smart risk-taking through tips catered to your age and lifestyle.Think it’s impossible to save for your first car, buy that iphone you’ve been eyeing, or avoid getting into student loan debt? All this is within your reach, so long as you have the knowledge and practical strategies ...

From Robert Browning’s The Pied Piper of Hamelin and William Makepeace Thackeray’s The Rose and the Ring to Kenneth Grahme’s The Reluctant Dragon and J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, here are seventeen classic stories and poems from the golden age of the English fairy tale. Some of them amuse, some enchant, some satirize and criticize, but each one is an expression of the joy of living.Accompanied by illustrations from the original...

“Whether you grew up in South Boston, Belfast, Brooklyn, or somewhere else entirely, you'll recognize something familiar in his search for identity, purpose, belonging, and home.”—Ken Casey of The Dropkick Murphys, from the forewordIn All Souls, Michael Patrick MacDonald chronicled a heartbreaking saga of familial loss amid Irish South Boston's culture of silence. In Easter Rising, he tells the story of how he managed to survive it.As the ...

Edwin Stratton grew up in rural Iowa, where he experienced both the love and loss of his family. When he turned eighteen, Edwin left his small hometown to experience the world. His adventures began in Omaha, Nebraska, where he saved the life of a police officer and began work translating the German language for the local police department and the local hospital. Edwin also became a part of the Chinatown community, where he learned the language and met the love of his life, Mu Waun. Edwin h...

Red beans and rice, trad jazz, and second lines are the Big Easy's calling cards, but beyond where the carriage rides take you is a city brimming with genre-defying music, transnational cuisine, and pockets of wild, artistic locals that challenge preconceived notions of what it means to be New Orleans.With a respectful nod to the traditional and a full embrace of the obscure, New Orleans: The Underground Guide is a resource for discovering the city as it really is -- as much brass b...

Science has long been the key to objective knowledge. Some of that knowledge, for instance, information about nutrition, climate change, hydrology, geology, and ecology, influences our daily decisions. Science also informs governments that seek to define risks and mitigate dangers. The popular notion is that science is a force for good and that knowledge derived from theory and experiment gives rise to technological advancement, improving everyone’s lives. This, however, is not always the ...

The “philosopher of truth” (Jill Lepore, The New Yorker) shows why truth is an essential democratic value—and how it can be strengthenedDo any of us really care about truth when it comes to politics? Should we? In a world of big lies, denialism, and conspiracy theories, democracies are experiencing two interlocked crises: a loss of confidence in democracy itself and the growing sense among many that politics is only about power—not truth. In this book, Mic...

This volume brings together scholarship that discusses late-medieval religious controversy on a pan-European scale, with particular attention to developments in England, Bohemia, and at the general councils of the fifteenth century. Controversies such as those that developed in England and Bohemia have received ample attention for decades, and recent scholarship has introduced valuable perspectives and findings to our knowledge of these aspects of European religion, literature, history, an...

Henry and Barby are neighbors, classmates, and more. Barby's family is affluent and well-to-do, while Henry's family leads a simple life on a small income. Feelings of ambivalence pervade young Henry's adolescence as he becomes involved with both Barby and her sister. Brandy, Barby's older sister, seduces Henry, and their secret sexual escapades entrap them in a love they try to ignore. As Henry struggles to endure the love of two sisters, college and careers carry them into adulthood. The...