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|  | Rick Steves' Spanish & Portuguese Phrase Book & Dictionary by Rick Steves
This useful, funny guide will not only help travelers order meals in the restaurants of Barcelona, but it also shows how to ask their waiter Que le parece si lavo los platos? ( What if I wash the dishes? ) From transportation talk and hotel chat to social issues and music, Rick Steves' phrase dictionary is a winner. AUTHOR: Rick Steves
PUBLISHER: Avalon Travel Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Reference 
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 | Harpercollins Italian College Dictionary by Harpercollins
Description not available.More than 390,000 entries and translations are listed in this comprehensive Italian language resource, which also includes information on practical applications in business and social situations. AUTHOR: Harpercollins
PUBLISHER: HarperInformation
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Reference
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 | Nobel Prize Winners by Carlotta Hacker
Mother Teresa, Toni Morrison, Barbara McClintock, Marie Curie, and Aung San Suu Kyi are among the women profiled. Full-color photos and illustrations. AUTHOR: Carlotta Hacker
PUBLISHER: Crabtree Publishing Company
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Reference
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 | Writing & Illustrating Children's Books for Publication by Berthe Amoss, Eric Suben
Learn about writing and publishing children's books from two professionals ... who are on opposite sides of the desk. An acclaimed author/illustrator shares creative tips and insights, to help you with ideas - recognize them when you see them; format - package your book for the right reader; theme - express what your story is really about; and illustration - make pictures tell the tale. A distinguished editor shows you the publisher's decision-making process from the inside out. Learn about submission - make your product irresistible to editors; revision - polish your story until it shines; acceptance - your life after publication ; and rejection - persevere until publication. Presented in a lively, usable format, this book combines supportive advice with engaging true stories of publishing hits and misses, exercises, checklists, reading lists, and more. These tools comprise a method that can help you write a publishable children's book manuscript in a short time. As a special bonus, the authors bring you words of wisdom from Caldecott Medalist Emily Arnold McCully, The New York Times Children's Book Editor Eden Ross Lipson, Founder and Director of New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts Auseklis Ozols, and many other top authors and children's book professionals. AUTHOR: Berthe Amoss, Eric Suben
PUBLISHER: F & W Publications, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Reference
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 | A Pocket Guide to Correct English by Michael Temple
This general guide offers rules of sentence construction, spelling, and punctuation, and points out correct usage of often-confused words. There is also advice on structuring and writing essays and formal letters, taking useful classroom notes, and understanding the fundamentals of grammar. AUTHOR: Michael Temple
PUBLISHER: Barron's Educational Series, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Reference
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 | Venona by Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes
Only in 1995 did the United States government officially reveal the existence of the super-secret Venona Project. For nearly fifty years American intelligence agents had been decoding thousands of Soviet messages, uncovering an enormous range of espionage activities carried out against the United States during World War II by its own allies. So sensitive was the project in its early years that even President Truman was not informed of its existence. This extraordinary book is the first to examine the Venona messages--documents of unparalleled importance for our understanding of the history and politics of the Stalin era and the early Cold War years. Hidden away in a former girls school in the late 1940s, Venona Project cryptanalysts, linguists, and mathematicians attempted to decode more than twenty-five thousand intercepted Soviet intelligence telegrams. When they cracked the unbreakable Soviet code, a breakthrough leading eventually to the decryption of nearly three thousand of the messages, analysts uncovered information of powerful significance: the first indication of Julius Rosenberg s espionage efforts; references to the espionage activities of Alger Hiss; startling proof of Soviet infiltration of the Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb; evidence that spies had reached the highest levels of the U.S. State and Treasury Departments; indications that more than three hundred Americans had assisted in the Soviet theft of American industrial, scientific, military, and diplomatic secrets; and confirmation that the Communist party of the United States was consciously and willingly involved in Soviet espionage against America. Drawing not only on the Venona papers but also on newly opened Russian and U. S. archives, John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr provide in this book the clearest, most rigorously documented analysis ever written on Soviet espionage and the Americans who abetted it in the early Cold War years. AUTHOR: Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Reference
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