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My First Nursery Stories is the perfect companion to Three Little Kittens and Other Favourite Nursery Rhymes, also illustrated by Tony Ross. A perfect first introduction to the best read aloud nursery stories, to share with young children. This is a must-have selection of timeless classics, brought ... More

Paperback edition. Published originally in 1912, this charming collection of bird poems and full-color illustrations captures the child in each of the 84 birds included in the book. From Rooster to Lyre, the birds are each depicted as part child and part bird. This classic children's book, along wit... More

Published originally in 1910, this charming collection of flower poems and full-color illustrations animates the 82 flowers included in the book. From Crocus to Holly, the flowers are ordered in the book as each would appear throughout the year in a garden. Each illustration is half child and half f... More

This is the first book ever published to explain how and why solid planets and satellites develop crusts. Written by two leading authorities on the subject, it presents a geochemical and geological survey of the crusts of the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, the asteroid Vesta, and several satelli... More

The book provides a non measure theoretic introduction to stochastic processes, probabilistic intuition and insight in thinking about problems. This revised edition contains additional material on compound Poisson random variables including an identity which can be used to efficiently compute moment... More