Picture BookA young, persuasive son leads his father to that all-important, first cup of coffee of the morning. What's in it for the son, you might wonder? Read on!This full-color picture book makes for great father-son reading time, and it is the perfect addition to a coffee mug or gift card present for Dad.

The Arbitrator: Quantum Force is the second book in The Arbitrator series. Both books are adventure stories, but what they really are is allegories teasing with philosophy, religion, and politics. The author uses these allegories to expose the reader to new ideas about God, life, and reality. Both books also encompass many different genres in literature.

“The Horn of the Hare” was written during the 80’s and describes the fascination awakened by the sound of the bow string. From a manuscript that lay dormant for twenty years behind the iron curtain emerges a profound little book about two men and their common interest in archery. The the ashes of a war torn Europe the men search for freedom, both within themselves and from an oppressive world under the iron fist of a communist regime. Through the ancient sport of archery an enduring bond i...

"James Bach and Robert Werner’s How to Secure Your H-1B Visa is written for both employers and the workers they hire." Andrew Hacker, "The Frenzy about High-Tech Talent", The New York Review of Books, July 9, 2015The H-1B visa is the gateway for the world’s best and brightest to live and work in the United States as IT professionals, engineers, scientists, professors, doctors, nurses, and researchers. How to Secure Your H‑1B Visa guides employees and employers ali...

The Arbitrator is the story of a man's search for truth, and he finds it in a world beyond imagination.

Can you shoot at something that you can’t see, something that you merely know is there? Rolf thinks that he hears Erhard’s voice saying: “You must learn to see the invisible clearly!” In this sequel of the archery novel "The horn of the hare" the story about the two friends continues. 15 years later: Germany is no longer divided and everything has changed, also Bärgers life and his shooting with the bow and arrow.

The United States demography is changing rapidly. How are we capturing these shifts? Do the racial categories that exist accurately represent the individuals who fall into them? Have long-standing categories hindered our understanding of racial inequality? These questions are particularly significant in education, where a precise view of students—who achieves and who requires greater resources—is critical. This volume brings together the expertise of scholars from a range of disciplines to...

Five beloved classical masterpieces in carefully simplified piano arrangements – perfect for anyone who wants to experience beautiful music quickly without extensive practice. Each piece fits on just 1–2 pages and has been reduced to its melodic essence. This collection includes: Offenbach's spirited Can-Can, Mozart's elegant Allegro from Little Night Music, Bach's comforting Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, Schumann's cheerful Happy Farmer, and Beethoven's moving Ode to Joy. Complex runs have...

2008 Orion Book AwardThe New York Times bestseller: a true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw—and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Zabinskis' villa, emerging after dark for dinner, socializing, and, during rare mo...

'One of the most prominent non-fiction writers of her generation' GUARDIANAnnie Dillard has spent a lifetime examining the world around her with eyes wide open, drinking in all things intensely and relentlessly. Whether observing a sublime lunar eclipse or a moth consumed in a candle flame, the trembling of lily pads on a pond or hundreds of red-winged blackbirds taking flight, Dillard's awe at the fragility of the natural world rejuvenates and inspires pl...

The poems in Robert Hass's new collection—his first to appear in a decade—are grounded in the beauty and energy of the physical world, and in the bafflement of the present moment in American culture. This work is breathtakingly immediate, stylistically varied, redemptive, and wise.His familiar landscapes are here—San Francisco, the Northern California coast, the Sierra high country—in addition to some of his oft-explored themes: art; the natural world; the nature of desire; the vio...

Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Oliver's American Primitive, which won her the Pulitzer Prize for the finest book of poetry published in 1983 by an American poet. The depth and diversity of perceptual awareness—so steadfast and radiant in *American Primitive—*continue in Dream Work. She has turned her attention in these poems to the solitary and difficult labors of the spirit—to accepting the ...