About Japanese style flower arranging, or ikebana.

Text and illustrations introduce the world of birds from eggs to flight, from songs to nests. Texto e ilustraciones introducen el mundo de los pájaros de los huevos de vuelo, de las canciones a los nidos.

"En uno de los cuentos reunidos en este volumen, la protagonista explica su encuentro con un albatros, ese pájaro solitario y de vuelo majestuoso al que Baudelaire dedicó un poema. Ella y su padre se topan con lo que llaman "albatros perdidos" o "albatros divagantes", aves que, debido al sobreesfuerzo por la falta de viento, enloquecen, se desorientan y acaban llegando a lugares muy alejados de su hábitat natural. Los protagonistas de estos ocho...

"Everything Must Go is an illustrated collection of poems in the spirit of a graphic novel, a collaboration between poet Kevin Coval and illustrator Langston Allston. The book celebrates Chicago's Wicker Park in the late 1990's, Coval's home as a young artist, the ancestral neighborhood of his forebears, and a vibrant enclave populated by colorful characters. Allston's illustrations honor the neighborhood as it once was, before gentrification remade...

If you have ever felt that you were not enough as a wife or mom, or if you're someone who struggles to do it all, Getting Past Perfect offers a realistic and reassuring portrait of Catholic womanhood, placing motherhood in the context of every woman's primary role as a child of God. Kate Wicker -- journalist, popular speaker, and author -- shares how she shook off doubt and negative self-perception, finding self-acceptance as a mom, and the desire...

New York City radio host Erica Bain is working and living a wonderful life. One night she and her fiancé David are brutally attacked. David is killed and Erica is almost beaten to death. Traumatized and unable to cope with the tragic event, Erica becomes someone else. She buys a gun and begins to roam the streets at night looking to take her revenge on the men who were responsible for the attack. Late one night, she is in the back of a convenience...

"Follow an epic animal race, a quest for a disembodied hand, and an emu egg hunt in constellation stories from diverse cultures. We can see love, betrayal, and friendship in the heavens, if we know where to look. A world expert on cultural understandings of cosmology, Anthony Aveni provides an unconventional atlas of the night sky, introducing readers to tales beloved for generations. The constellations included are not your typical Greek and Roman...

This volume features 92 songs from all 14 Gilbert & Sullivan operettas, reproduced here in the original key, in Sullivan's original piano arrangements. Included are songs from such well known works as HMS Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado, as well as lesser known productions.