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For a new generation of seekers, this guide provides clear instructions on how to read a ball, interpret its symbols, and apply its messages to such practical matters as healing, relaxation, and setting goals for the future.For a new generation of seekers, a guide to illuminating the present with sp... More

Math Hooks is written especially for parents who want to get their kids "hooked on math!" More than 60 activities (in each volume) present math opportunities in fun, realistic, and casual ways. They might involve a ride in the car, a trip through the junk drawer, a change in a recipe, or games to be... More

In the spring of 1844, a fiery political conflict erupted over the admission of Texas into the Union. This hard-fought and bitter controversy profoundly changed the course of American history. Indeed, as Joel Silbey argues in Storm Over Texas, it marked the crucial moment when partisan differences w... More

Math Hooks is written especially for parents who want to get their kids "hooked on math!" More than 60 activities (in each volume) present math opportunities in fun, realistic, and casual ways. They might involve a ride in the car, a trip through the junk drawer, a change in a recipe, or games to be... More

Millions of men volunteered to leave home, hearth and family to go to a foreign land to fight in 1914, the start of the biggest war in British history. It was a war fought by soldier-citizens, millions strong, most of whom had volunteered willingly to go. They made up the army that first held, and t... More

The nineteenth century was the heyday of furious contention between American political parties, and Joel Silbey has recaptured the drama and substance of those battles in a representative sampling of party pamphlets. Political parties mapped the landscape of electoral and ideological warfare, constr... More

The nineteenth century was the heyday of furious contention between American political parties, and Joel Silbey has recaptured the drama and substance of those battles in a representative sampling of party pamphlets. Political parties mapped the landscape of electoral and ideological warfare, constr... More