Creating with Polymer Clay: Designs, Techniques, Projects

Reflecting Nature: Garden Designs for Wild Landscapes

This intriguing series takes at our universe and the planets, stars, etc. that are part of it.

After discussing the formation of our solar system, author Capaccio compares Earth and Mars, the planet most like our own. Often called the "Red Planet," Mars was associated by ancient peoples with war and violence, and named for the Roman god of war. By the 1500s, Tycho Brahe had collected extensive data about Mars, from which Kepler noted its elliptical orbit. In the eighteenth century, William Herschel used telescopes to calculate Mars's tilted axis and to chart the planet's features.

Act by act, scene by scene, each Shakespeare Explained guide creates a total immersion experience in the plot development, characters, and language of the specific play.

Of all of Shakespeare's plays, The Tempest is perhaps the most symbolic. This is admirably explained in this entry in the "Shakespeare Explained" series by Susan Krueger.

Like the other entries in this series, the book begins with lengthy introductory material including a brief biography of Shakespeare, a discussion of the theater during Shakespeare's life, a glossary of literary terms,...

New York in Black and White illustrated