The armouries were among the most significant visual and symbolic manifestations of the nobility’s elevated social position, alongside palaces, chapels, cabinet rooms, and libraries. The study of Aristocratic Culture necessitates a focus on arms, reflecting the nobility’s traditional military function. Beyond the topic of arms and letters, understanding this distinct culture requires examining armouries as a critical interpretative key to social order and status. These served as demonstrat...

This picture book will delight children of all ages, but will be especially appealing for any child between the ages of 7 to 9. It features a clever little mouse that shows kids how simple learning the 9X table can be. The colourful illustrations and playful cartooning will allow kids to see math from a new perspective - it can be fun! Children will quickly learn the 9X table once they see which patterns unfold. 9X Fun will help kids enjoy math as never before and encourage them to explore...

This picture book will delight children of all ages, but will be especially appealing for any child between the ages of 7 to 9. It features a clever little mouse that shows kids how simple learning the 9X table can be. The colourful illustrations and playful cartooning will allow kids to see math from a new perspective - it can be fun! Children will quickly learn the 9X table once they see which patterns unfold. 9X Fun will help kids enjoy math as never before and encourage them to explore...

This book teaches children about various scenarios in which they should always Tell Mommy or Daddy or Somebody. The message is to empower children to use their voice to help them from becoming victims of circumstances that could otherwise be prevented or stopped. The various scenarios in the book help to open up dialogue with your child, it may spur conversations about secrets, bullying, feeling uncomfortable, etc.This is a must read for all children 2 - 10 yrs of age to instill th...

This picture book will delight children between the ages of 5 to 9. It is told in a unique story format from the perspective of Hummy, a honeybee. Children will learn some fascinating facts and behaviors of the honeybee as the story unfolds. Hummy, is a honeybee who has finally grown big enough to take on the important duties of a forager. She doesn't want to let the other bees down so she worries about many things. Will she be able to find pollen and nectar to bring back to the colony? Wh...

This picture book will delight children between the ages of 5 to 9. It is told in a unique story format from the perspective of Hummy, a honeybee. Children will learn some fascinating facts and behaviors of the honeybee as the story unfolds. Hummy, is a honeybee who has finally grown big enough to take on the important duties of a forager. She doesn't want to let the other bees down so she worries about many things. Will she be able to find pollen and nectar to bring back to the colony? Wh...

The Millennial Generation, those born between the early 1980s and the late 1990s, is the most educated, digitally connected, and globalized in the history of the world. Around the globe, this generation encompasses 1.8 billion people--a quarter of the world's population--and will soon produce a majority of the world's political, economic, and social leaders. Millennials grew up experiencing the terrorist attacks of September 11, the perpetual "war on terror", the global proliferation of th...

Dear Prince Barthello is a fun story about a Princess named Beatrice, who receives gifts from a Prince named Barthello. The Prince sends a different gift each day to her Castle, for 12 days before Christmas. The Prince never sends any messages about his intensions and Princess Beatrice becomes frustrated with his lack of communication and unusual and large gifts. The Princess politely writes the Prince a thank-you letter each day after reaching his new gift. However, all of his gifts have ...

Northeast Philadelphia, 2004. A clandestine agent recruits a band of disparaged prospects to accomplish a mission. He can heal the stricken, manipulate the forces of nature. He constructs sophisticated engines. Once his recruits turn him onto psychedelics and The Grateful Dead he devises a new plan. Unbeknownst to him there are dark forces plotting against the Messenger. The tragic death of troubled friend enables this messenger to communicate with Jerry Garcia's spirit. Jerry agrees to he...

Edith Grossman, celebrated for her brilliant translation of Don Quixote, offers a dazzling new version of another Cervantes classic, on the 400th anniversary of his death   The twelve novellas gathered together in Exemplary Novels reveal the extraordinary breadth of Cervantes’s imagination: his nearly limitless ability to create characters, invent plots, and entertain readers across continents and centuries. Edith Grossman’s eagerly awaited translation bring...

From the first amateur leagues of the 1860s to the exploits of Livan and Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez, here is the definitive history of baseball in Cuba. Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria expertly traces the arc of the game, intertwining its heroes and their stories with the politics, music, dance, and literature of the Cuban people. What emerges is more than a story of balls and strikes, but a richly detailed history of Cuba told from the unique cultural perch of the baseball diamond. Filling ...

By one of the most original and learned critical voices in Hispanic studies— a timely and ambitious study of authority as theme and authority as authorial strategy in modern Latin American literature.An ideology is implicit in modern Latin American literature, argues Roberto González Echevarría, through which both the literature itself and criticism of it define what Latin American literature is and how it ought to be read. In the works themselves this ideology is constantly subjec...