Your kingdom awaits! But what to wear? Which animal should you choose as your royal companion - will it be a feisty pug, like Josephine of France, a monkey like Catherine of Aragon, or a chameleon like Queen Elizabeth II? Where should you live - a palace? A castle? A cave? Every time you open the book, you can create a whole new kingdom.Peppered with facts about real royals from around the world and throughout history, Royal for a Day will help young readers step into new ...

Space is calling - you'd better answer! Which rocket will you blast off in? Will Buzz Aldrin or Valentina Tereshkova be your astronaut partner? Are you going to discover a whole new universe out there? Which exciting mission will you choose?Peppered with facts about real astronauts and space missions from around the world and throughout history, Astronaut for a Day will help young readers step into new shoes for the day as they choose to take charge of their own destiny.

This volume brings together a selection of essential articles from the journal Revista Internacional de Educación Musical (RIEM), a Spanish-language journal published by the International Society for Music Education, making this work available to an English-speaking audience for the first time. With chapters representing a wide range of countries in the Ibero-American world, including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Portugal, and Spain, the book aims to develop interna...

The pomegranate, Punica granatum L., is one of the oldest known edible fruits and is associated with the ancient civilizations of the Middle East. This is the first comprehensive book covering the botany, production, processing, health and industrial uses of the pomegranate. The cultivation of this fruit for fresh consumption, juice production and medicinal purposes has expanded more than tenfold over the past 20 years. Presenting a review of pomegranate growing, from a scientific and hort...

Interest in the postharvest behavior of fruits and vegetables has a history as long as mankind's. Once we moved past mere survival, the goal of postharvest preservation research became learning how to balance consumer satisfaction with quantity and quality while also preserving nutritional quality. A comprehensive overview of new postharvest techno