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The Calculus Affair by Herge
Description not available.When unscrupulous Bordurians kidnap Professor Calculus and imprison him in the remote fortress of Bakhine, Tintin, Snowy, and Captain Haddock set out to rescue the professor and his latest fantastic invention

AUTHOR: Herge
PUBLISHER: Little, Brown & Company
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction

A Taste for Comfort & Status by David Griffith
A cultural portrait of the Mid-Atlantic coastal ecosystem A coastal region`s oldest inhabitants, particularly families of watermen and commercial fishers, often possess the deepest knowledge about a region and its ecological problems. Because of this, assaults on watermen lifeways and commercial fishing families -- whether from organized recreational interests, real estate developers, or public policy makers -- reduce the cultural and biological diversity of the coast and often upset the delicate environmental balance. Through the lens of the Mid-Atlantic Coast, especially the Chesapeake Bay and the Albermarle and Pamlico Sounds of North Carolina, David Griffith develops the theme that environmental degradation follows the loss of the most intimate understandings of coastal ecosystems. In The Estuary`s Gift, Griffith traces the development of Mid-Atlantic cultures from the Algonquins and the earliest European families who hunted whales and netted herring, to present-day commercial fishing families who work the complex estuarine systems of the coast. In the process, he chronicles a series of developments that erode communities across American landscapes: the wearing away of local and regional history that results when national retail and restaurant chains convert local merchants into clerks and busboys, or the loss of biological diversity that follows the reconfiguration of countrysides to support monocrop agriculture, industrial chicken production, hog farming, forestry, and mining. Griffith insists that we heed the ways we treat one another in light of the ways we treat nature, measuring both by the standards we invoke when we give and receive gifts. Stories of conflict amongfishers, of Mexican immigrant women brought to seafood houses to pick the meat from cooked, cooled crab -- displacing and replacing African-American women -- and of the slow yet steady attempts to criminalize family fishing practices that reach back thirteen generations show the ways in which t

AUTHOR: David Griffith
PUBLISHER: Pennsylvania State University Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction

Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML & XHTML in 21 Days by Laura Lemay, Rafe Colburn
Description not available.Introduces HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0 and provides twenty-one tutorials on using these markup languages to design Web pages.

AUTHOR: Laura Lemay, Rafe Colburn
PUBLISHER: Sams
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction

What Your Second Grader Learns by Ed Hirsch
E. D. Hirsch's Core Knowledge curriculum emphasizes information over skills. This is a one-volume reference to fundamental knowledge in math, science, art, history, language arts, geography and technology.

AUTHOR: Ed Hirsch
PUBLISHER: Broadway Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction

My Name Is Not Dummy by Elizabeth Crary, Marina Megale
Using a story about two friends, Jenny and Eduardo, explores the various ways Jenny might react when Eduardo calls her a dummy, and the consequences of her possible reactions.

AUTHOR: Elizabeth Crary, Marina Megale
PUBLISHER: Parenting Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction

Ultimate Car Spotters Guide, 1946-1969 by Tad Burness
Every American car built between 1946 and 1969 is accurately identified in this easy-to-use guide to car-spotting fun. Several thousand revealing photographs and original promotional illustrations will grab the attention of car buffs.

AUTHOR: Tad Burness
PUBLISHER: Krause Publications
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction