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|  | The Story of Colors (La Historia de los Colores) by Anne B. Din, Domitilia Dominguez, Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos Staff
Description not available. Beautiful bilingual retelling for children of a folktale from Chiapas that explains how colors were created, why people differ in color and ways of thinking, and why the macau sports all the colors. Excellent translation; stunning illustrations. A remarkable book --Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/Recounts in English and Spanish a Maya legend about how the colors escaped from the box in which the gods stored them to bring color to a world where everything was black, white, or gray AUTHOR: Anne B. Din, Domitilia Dominguez, Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos Staff
PUBLISHER: Cinco Puntos Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction 
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 | The Valley of the Kings by Allessandro Bongioanni, Araldo DeLuca, Kent R. Weeks
Description not available.Describes and interprets the burials from the ancient Egyptian New Kingdom on the west bank of the Nile opposite Luxor, including the Valleys of the Kings and of the Queens, royal mortuary temples, and the tombs of nobles. AUTHOR: Allessandro Bongioanni, Araldo DeLuca, Kent R. Weeks
PUBLISHER: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Suspect Identities by Simon A. Cole
Before fingerprinting, identifying criminals was often an impossible task. As the industrial revolution produced teeming urban centers, police often despaired of catching their men (or women). When fingerprinting did come along, it took years to win acceptance, and was often not useful because of the lack of a central fingerprint database. As fingerprinting did win acceptance as a forensic technique, there were those--such as J. Edgar Hoover--who wanted to use it for their own sinister ends. In this colorful in-depth history, Ph.D. Simon Cole examines the legal, cultural, and scientific significance of fingerprinting. AUTHOR: Simon A. Cole
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | The ABA Guide to Workplace Law
The law affects just about every aspect of work, from hiring to firing to retiring. Now, as they've done with wills and estates, home ownership, family law, and consumer law, the American Bar Association has written this clear and compact guide to all the law that one needs to know, whether employee or employer. As in all ABA books, the advice is dependable and in plain English--not legalese. Online promo.
PUBLISHER: Crown Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | By the Great Horn Spoon! by Eric Von Schmidt, Sid Fleischman
Description not available.Jack and the butler stow away on a side-wheeler bound for California where they join the Gold Rush of 1849 AUTHOR: Eric Von Schmidt, Sid Fleischman
PUBLISHER: Little, Brown & Company
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | The River by Gary Paulsen, Peter Coyote
In this sequel to Hatchet , Brian Robeson is asked by the Canadian government to show them how he survived on his own in the Canadian wilderness for 54 days with nothing but a small hatchet. This time, Brian will be tracked by a psychologist who will take note of all that he does in order to help train astronauts and the military. Brian agrees, but when the project goes wrong and the psychologist is hurt, he must fight to save not only himself, but also the wounded psychologist. AUTHOR: Gary Paulsen, Peter Coyote
PUBLISHER: Dell Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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