Product Description: Exploring Ecosystems examines the relationship between living things and their environment. Young readers will learn about the different plants, animals, and climates that make up our planet. This visually stimulating series will also help readers understand why it is important to protect the worlds ecosystems...read more

Product Description: Discover the amazing lifecycles of Americas backyard animals in Little Backyard Animals. Told from the perspective of a child, each title follows a featured animals development from infancy to adulthood. Young readers will learn how animals grow through factual text told from a relatable perspective...read more

Product Description: Some say that Western Canada began with the railway. In fact, it began with a gold rush.Relive the tumultuous days of gold?s discovery in British Columbia?s Fraser Canyon. Travel back to 1858 and meet some of the tens of thousands of fortune-seeking prospectors who dreamed of astonishing finds ? like the huge Turnagain Nugget...read more

Product Description: Near the homes of photographers John Willis and Tom Young is a paper mill that sits in the otherwise pristine and picturesque climes of western Massachusetts. For Willis and Young, this site is one of both aesthetic and philosophical contradictions: despite its verdant locale, the mill―with its smokestacks and countless bales of discarded paper―brings to mind the dreariness of industrialization and the impermanence of life itself...read more

The Best of Leigh Brackett

Product Description: More Than Words features the work of more than twenty scholars from Canada and abroad on topics related to postal communication. Drawing on recent trends in social and cultural history, the authors address the history and importance of the post from such perspectives as infrastructure, technology, nation-building, and interpersonal communications...read more

Scenes from the plays and portraits of leading actors accompany a statistical record of the current season

Covers American and foreign films released in the United States each year, with listings of credits and profiles of screen personalities and award winners

Product Description: (Theatre World). Celebrating its 60th year, this Theatre World remains the authoritative and pictorial record of the Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off Broadway seasons and touring companies. Volume 60 features the winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for 2004 and the Tony Award-winning Best Play, Douglas Wright's I Am My Own Wife , which also earned star Jefferson Mays the Best Leading Actor in a Play Tony Award...read more

(Screen World). Movie fans eagerly await each year's new edition of Screen World , the definitive record of the cinema since 1949. Volume 55 provides an illustrated listing of every American and foreign film released in the United States in 2003, all documented with more than 1,000 photographs. The 2004 edition of Screen World features such notable films as Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King , which won all 11 Academy Awards it was nominated for, including Best Picture, tying a record; Clint Eastwood's Mystic River , which won Academy Awards for Best Actor Sean Penn and Best Supporting Actor Tim Robbins; Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation , Academy Award-winner for Best Original Screenplay; and Peter Weir's Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World . Also featured are Patty Jenkins' Monster , featuring Academy Award-winner for Best Actress Charlize Theron, and independent successes such as Gurinder Chadha's Bend It like Beckham and Tom McCarthy's The Station Agent . As always, Screen World 's outstanding features include: photographic stills and shots of the four Academy Award-winning actors as well as all acting nominees; a look at the year's most promising new screen personalities; complete filmographies cast and characters, credits, production company, date released, rating and running time; and biographical entries a priceless reference for over 2,400 living stars, including real name, school, and date and place of birth. Now featuring 16 pages of color photos!