Explains the principles of simple machines and how these devices form the basics of more complex machines. Includes experiments.

Adapts the festive traditions of the Victorian era to the lifestyles of today. Describes two dozen parties in detail. Includes modern-day photographs and period illustrations. Explores traditional Victorian Christmas, Fourth of July, and Thanksgiving celebrations.

"The award-winning Seizures and Epilepsy in Childhood has already become the standard resource for parents in need of comprehensive medical information about their child with epilepsy. Now this highly praised book has been thoroughly revised and updated by the original authors - experts from the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions and board members of the Epilepsy Foundation of America - to reflect the latest approaches to the diagnosis and treatment...

"Examines how Colorado agriculturists, from the Ancestral Puebloans to twenty-first-century ranchers and farmers, have adapted to and sought to overcome the natural limits of land and water. Documents the state's farming history and provides context for significant methodological and ideological transformations, including the organic, local foods movement."--

Since our inception, humanity has looked to dreams for guidance. But what are they? How can we understand them? And how can we use them to shape our lives? There is perhaps no one more equipped to answer these questions than the legendary psychologist Carl G. Jung. It is in his lifes work that the unconscious mind comes to be understood as an expansive, rich world that is just as vital and true as the conscious mind, and it is in our dreamsthose...

MUSIC Freeman, associate editor of Opera News and author of the first volume of The Metropolitan Opera Stories of the Great Operas (LJ 11/15/84), presents this second volume of stories from 125 more operas, this time covering less familiar works, such as early pieces (Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in partria, 1640) and contemporary ones (John Adams's Nixon in China, 1987). The entries are arranged by composer, with a brief introduction providing...

Climb aboard for a magical carpet ride with nonstop laughs, action-packed adventure and Academy Award(R)-winning music that will make your heart soar (1992: Best Music, Original Song, "A Whole New World," Original Score). Now for the first time ever, a whole new world of Disney's ALADDIN is revealed in a whole new way on Blu-ray and Digital HD -- with never-before-seen bonus! With the help of a hysterically funny, shape-shifting, 10,000-year-old Genie,...