Beyond the Numbers presents a thought-provoking series of essays by leading authorities on issues of population and consumption. The essays both define the poles of debate and explore common ground beyond the polarized rhetoric.Specific chapters consider each of the broad topics addressed at the International Conference on Population and Development held in September 1994 in Cairo, Egypt. The essays are supplemented by sidebars and short articles featuring more-impassioned...

"For green grandparents everywhere and the young lives they touch." —RICHARD LOUV, AUTHOR OF LAST CHILD IN THE WOODSMake leaf rubbings, blow jumbo bubbles, bake Moon Pizzas, create a firefly lantern. More than an activity book, CAMP GRANNY is an interactivity book, filled with 130 projects that connect grandparents and grandchildren through nature—in the kitchen, the garden, and the art room.Illustrated with evocative photographs and the author’s watercolors, CAMP ...

It is bed time at Safari camp and it is time for all of the animals to brush their teeth! The animals have fun showing each other the different types of toothbrushes and toothpaste they use. Finally, everyone at camp has brushed and is ready for bed. Young readers will love the whimsical illustrations and the importance of good hygiene.

This guide will get women and girls ready to get out in the woods but do not know how or have limited experience and need assistance. I will detail everything from purchasing your tent to picking your campground. We are not men and we have different needs. We are not going to sit around the campfire and duplicate a scene from Blazing Saddles. We use Purell, eat real food and bathe! This guide will outline two basic styles of camping: car camping with the site next to the car and parking th...

Grace-Ella is nervous and excited to go to Witch Camp, with her cat Mr Whiskins, of course. She is put in a cabin with Dilys, Mati and Aisha. Grace-Ella likes them all. But when Dilys's broomstick flying goes very wrong, and Mati convinces them breaking the rules and going into the woods at night is the only way to help her, Grace-Ella finds herself on a real adventure. Will she be able to save her friends?

In the decades directly following the Holocaust, American Jewish leaders anxiously debated how to preserve and produce what they considered authentic Jewish culture, fearful that growing affluence and suburbanization threatened the future of Jewish life. Many communal educators and rabbis contended that without educational interventions, Judaism as they understood it would disappear altogether. They pinned their hopes on residential summer camps for Jewish youth: institutions that sprang u...

Nature is a playground of endless possibilities in "Camping for Kids," memories are made as fresh, fun, and timeless classic adventures unfold. Fun book for kids that enjoy camping stories.

Nature is a playground of endless possibilities in "Camping for Kids," memories are made as fresh, fun, and timeless classic adventures unfold. Fun book for kids that enjoy camping stories.

Thousands of children attended summer camps in twentieth-century Ontario. Did parents simply want a break, or were broader developments at play? The Nurture of Nature explores how competing cultural tendencies – antimodern nostalgia and modern sensibilities about the landscape, child rearing, and identity – shaped the development of summer camps and, consequently, modern social life in North America. A valuable resource for those interested in the connections between the history o...

Winner of the 2020 National Jewish Book Award in Education and Jewish IdentityEach summer, tens of thousands of American Jews attend residential camps, where they may see Hebrew signs, sing and dance to Hebrew songs, and hear a camp-specific hybrid language register called Camp Hebraized English, as in: “Let’s hear some ruach (spirit) in this chadar ochel (dining hall)!” Using historical and sociolinguistic methods, this book explains how camp dir...

Camping can be so much fun! But what if you find yourself in a tent in the middle of a field with no shower and no toilet?! Join the family adventure to see what exciting things await them at their "home away from home".

Laurel Lea is upset about having her little sister, Lottie, tag along on her camping adventure with Nana and Pops. But when Pops pulls out his book of scary stories from his bib overalls, something happens! What is it? Will it cause them to fight more, or will it draw them together?