This book is a short, lovely memoir of the authors childhood, based on the song/poem written by David Mallett, I Knew This Place. A place that was unique, very historic, and very loving, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, was a hustling and bustling community in the 1950s. All predictions were it would become the next Chicago. The Sounds and Smells of My Childhood is a nostalgic journey. It brings the reader back in time to that place of their own youth,...

"In this revelatory work, Ruha Benjamin calls on us to take imagination seriously as a site of struggle and a place of possibility for reshaping the future.A world without prisons? Ridiculous. Schools that foster the genius of every child? Impossible. Work that doesn't strangle the life out of people? Naive. A society where everyone has food, shelter, love? In your dreams. Exactly. Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University professor, insists that imagination...

"The knobbiest town in the world"--so Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain) described Jerusalem in The Innocents Abroad, a travelogue of his visit to the Holy Land in 1867 (Fig. 0.7). He was struck by the Old City's small size; the small white domes protruding like knobs from the flat roofs of the tightly-packed houses; the narrow, crooked, uneven stone-paved streets; the poverty and filth; and the throngs of beggars: "To see the numbers of maimed, malformed...

Leah and her family are packing everything they own, and along with their close-knit Jewish community, leaving the coast of India for their new home in Israel. Leah is torn between the two treasured places until she realizes that her heart is big enough to hold many things.

"This series (available in separate volumes or as a complete set) presents stories of tzadikim past and present that will enrapture and transport readers to faraway eras and places. In time, they will incorporate the invaluable mussar lessons as they develop their own midos. The Eternal Light Volume #11 includes stories of The Chozeh of Lublin, Reb Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev, The Shpola Zeida, Reb Tzvi Hirsch of Riminov, Reb Yisrael of Ruzhin, Reb...

"Little Melissa is a cheerful girl who sometimes has issues with making new friends. A dream takes her to a sunny jungle of friendship, where she meets new friends--tropical animals. They show Melissa funny and effective ways to making new friends with ease. Join them and find your very own way to making new friends!"--Back cover. "Would you like to raise your child as a friendly and socially active person? Would you like to teach your kid the ideas...

"A colorful and comical tour through the animal kingdom from award-winning author Mike Barfield and quirky cartoonist and illustrator Paula Bossio. Featuring key habitats, including seas, forests, deserts and grasslands, this book uncovers the little-known but amazing adaptations, bonkers behavior, and cunning natural skills of the world's most interesting animals. Each story is told from the animal's own perspective. Covering creatures from all over...

Last year, Maggie and Nora didn't exactly get the summer of their dreams. Instead, they had to survive a camp run by a covert clan of vampires. But this year, Camp Sylvania is back and under new management -- gentle, hippie-dippie Luna Lupowski. So the girls are convinced to give camp another try. All Nora wants is an unforgettable experience with her best friend. But it's hard to have fun with Maggie fixated on all things otherworldly -- and spending...

"Marcy Norton tells a new history of the European colonization of the Americas, one that places wildlife and livestock at the center of the story. She reveals that it was, above all, the encounters between European and Native American beliefs about animal life that transformed societies on both sides of the Atlantic."-- "When the men and women of the island of Guanahani first made contact with Christopher Columbus and his crew on October 12, 1492,...