"Not to be missed" -- "Kirkus Reviews" One hundred years ago a young man named Jan Welzl left his home in Europe and headed for the Far North. He rode off in a horse-drawn cart...more details Format:Paperback Pages:40
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Peter Sis
ISBN:9780374370756
"Sis casts a spell of enchantment . . . Jan Welzl never had a better friend." --" The Washington Post Book World" One hundred years ago a young man named Jan Welzl left his home in Europe and headed for the Far North. He rode off in a horse-drawn cart...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:40
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Peter Sis
ISBN:9780688179441
Do you love to dance? If so, this is the book for you Twist Stretch Reach Leap Be a swan Be a tiger Be a flame Be a ballerina...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:24
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ISBN:9780060759674
It starts in the tub, with a dinosaur bath toy.But then another dinosaur pops out of the water. And look out -- here comes another -- and another -- and ANOTHER...more details Format:CD Pages:28
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Peter Sis
ISBN:9780688170493
It starts in the tub, with a dinosaur bath toy. But then another dinosaur pops out of the water. And look out - here comes another - and another - and ANOTHER...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:24
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Peter Sis
ISBN:9780688158781
Matt loves fire trucks, and one morning when he wakes up, he is a fire truck--right down to his hoses, hooks, and ladders His wheels and sirens couldn't be handier for performing many important duties around the house...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:28
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Peter Sis
ISBN:9780679806288
Illus. in full color. The 15th century comes alive in this splendidly original picture book about Christopher Columbus. "The illustrations, executed in a variety of media...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:40
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Peter Sis
ISBN:9780688115838
"Mad about dragons, the boy who narrates this picture book is pleased when his doting parents decide to take him to Indonesia, home of the Komodo dragon.... The boy] takes the road less traveled through the jungle...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:32
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Peter Sis
ISBN:9780374347024
Madlenka--that cosmopolitan little girl whose city block is a world of its own--is back and ready to play When she dribbles her brand new soccer ball out the door and around the corner...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:40
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Peter Sis
ISBN:9780374346997
Play and fantasy make wishes come true for Madlenka, who wants a dog but whose parents won't allow it, so she takes her imaginary dog around her New York City block...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:40
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Peter Sis
ISBN:9780374399696
A trip around a city block is like a trip around the world Peeking out through a die-cut window on the jacket, Madlenka invites the reader to enter her world. And what a world it is On the surface...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:48
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Peter Sis
ISBN:9780312659127
Madlenka lives in New York City. She has lived on the same block, in the same building, in the same apartment since the day she was born. Everyone on the block knows her...more details Format:Paperback Pages:48
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Peter Sis
ISBN:9781865082936
Madlenka has lived in the same apartment, in the same building, in the same block ever since she was born. Everyone on the block is her friend: the French baker...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:48
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Peter Sis
ISBN:9780613825030
One hundred years ago a young man named Jan Welzl left his home in Europe and headed for the Far North. He rode off in a horse-drawn cart, traded the cart for a sled pulled by reindeer...more details
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Peter Sis
ISBN:9780756910945
"If they had seen what we see, they would have judged as we judge." -- Galileo Galilei In every age there are courageous people who break with tradition to explore new ideas and challenge accepted truths. Galileo Galilei was just such a man--a genius--and the first to turn the telescope to the skies to map the heavens. In doing so...more details
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Peter Sis
ISBN:9780374470272
"If they had seen what we see, they would have judged as we judge." -- Galileo Galilei In every age there are courageous people who break with tradition to explore new ideas and challenge accepted truths. Galileo Galilei was just such a man--a genius--and the first to turn the telescope to the skies to map the heavens. In doing so...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:40
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Peter Sis
ISBN:9780374371913
"If they had seen what we see, they would have judged as we judge." -- Galileo Galilei In every age there are courageous people who break with tradition to explore new ideas and challenge accepted truths. Galileo Galilei was just such a man--a genius--and the first to turn the telescope to the skies to map the heavens. In doing so...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:40
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Peter Sis
ISBN:9781594203060
Celebrated children's book author and illustrator Peter Sis creates his first book for adults, a beautiful and uplifting adaptation of the classic twelfth-century Sufi epic poem...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:160
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Peter Sis
ISBN:9780374375256
World-renowned artist brings the magic of Prague and its legends to life In this allegorical tale, a man in a hot-air ballon is thrown off course in a violent storm...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:64
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Peter Sis
ISBN:9780060578404
Peter Sis is an internationally acclaimed author, artist, and filmmaker. He was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and graduated from the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague. He also studied at the Royal College of Art in London. His picture books for children include "Play...more details Format:Paperback Pages:64
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Peter Sis
ISBN:9780060578398
The train of states is rolling by -- rush to the window and watch it go The very first car? The very first state: Delaware, of course, followed by Pennsylvania...more details Format:Library Binding Pages:64
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Peter Sis
ISBN:9781606860403
Peter Sis is an internationally acclaimed author, artist, and filmmaker. He was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and graduated from the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague. He also studied at the Royal College of Art in London. His picture books for children include "Play...more details Format:Hardcover
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Peter Sis
ISBN:9780744598704
Drawing on the rich body of work that Darwin left, Peter Sis creates a fascinating picture of this remarkable man's life, from schoolboy to medical student and the world voyage which created Charles Darwin the naturalist....more details Format:Hardback
In this brilliant presentation of a revolutionary thinker's life, the picture book becomes an art form "As far as I can judge, I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men . . . " Charles Darwin was...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:44
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Peter Sis
ISBN:9780374375522
A father's diary, an artist's memoir. By the author of the best-selling Three Golden Keys. While my father was in China and Tibet, he kept a diary...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:64
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Peter Sis
ISBN:9781865081571
When Peter Sis unlocked the red laquered box that sat on his father's desk for decades, he found the diary his father kept when he was sent to Tibet in the 1950s to instruct the Chinese in documentary filmmaking. Amongst the experiences Vladimir Sis recorded included becoming lost after a landslide...more details Format:Hardback Pages:64
Peter Sis is an internationally acclaimed author, artist, and filmmaker. He was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and graduated from the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague. He also studied at the Royal College of Art in London. His picture books for children include "Play...more details
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Peter Sis
ISBN:9780688162764
Plowing Digging Hauling Scooping Is there anything that Matt and his battalion of big rigs can't do? Of course not Caldecott Honor-winning Peter Sis throws things into high gear in this irresistible follow-up book to his popular " Fire Truck." Young viewers will be enchanted by nine brightly colored earth-shaking machines...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:26
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Peter Sis
ISBN:9780374347017
"I was born at the beginning of it all, on the Red side--the Communist side--of the Iron Curtain." Through annotated illustrations, journals...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:56
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Jack Prelutsky;Peter Sis
ISBN:9780613099448
Dragons fierce and dragons friendly; dragons lurking outside castles and dragons bought at the mall; dragons' lairs and dragons' eggs; even a menacing dragon that lives inside a computer -- all spring to life in these enchanting poems and paintings....more details
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J R R Tolkien;Peter Sis
ISBN:9780613881654
From J.R.R. Tolkien"s own description for the original edition: "If you care for journeys there and back, out of the comfortable Western world...more details Pages:320
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George Shannon;Peter Sis
ISBN:9780380732616
How did they do it?
How did a single firefly win a fight against onw hundred apes? How did the priest catch a thief with a rooster? How did a student outwit the king? How did a frog escape fron the picher of cream? These and eleven more tantalizing...more details Format:Paperback Pages:64
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Peter Sisco
ISBN:9780809224296
Bodybuilders, strength trainers, and athletes have found that Power Factor Training -- a scientifically proven program of heavy overloading with long rest periods between workouts is a powerfully effective training system that results in astonishing gains in size and strength. Now...more details Format:Paperback
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Peter Sisco
ISBN:9780809230716
Bodybuilding experts Peter Sisco and John Little present a revolutionary new system for building maximum muscle in a minimum amount of time. "Power Factor Training" emphasizes very heavy overloading of the musculature and long rest periods between workouts...more details Format:Paperback Pages:256
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Peter Sisco;John R Little
ISBN:9780809229079
Introduces a new approach to bodybuilding that uses a series of brief weight training exercises, and offers advice on nutrition and workout schedules....more details Format:paperback Pages:224
The third book in the addictive puzzle-book series presents fourteen tales, each of which poses a riddle that needs a solution. And if you don't get the answer...more details Format:Prebound
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George Shannon;Peter Sis
ISBN:9780613529976
How can a thirsty crow drink from an almost-empty pitcher? How does arresting a stone help a judge find a boy's stolen money? This artfully illustrated book presents fourteen intriguing mysteries from world folklore. Each brainteasing tale is followed by a simple explanation of the solution...more details Pages:55
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Sid Fleischman;Peter Sis
ISBN:9780688142162
There's a mile-long word for the fear (and magic) of the number thirteen-"triskaidekaphobia." In this comic fireworks of a novel, newly orphaned Buddy Stebbins stumbles onto the 13th floor of a shabby old building and finds himself transported aboard a leaking pirate ship in a howling storm--300 years in the past Cast adrift...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:144
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Sid Fleischman;Peter Sis
ISBN:9780061345036
When Buddy Stebbins stumbles onto the thirteenth floor of a shabby old building, he finds himself suddenly transported aboard a leaking pirate ship in a howling storm--three hundred years in the past Cast adrift with Captain John Crack-stone...more details Format:Paperback Pages:228
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Jack Prelutsky;Peter Sis
ISBN:9780688161620
An "excellent collection....Prelutsky and Sis...bring to life so many sorts of dragons: the large, the small, the ferocious, the technological...more details Format:Paperback Pages:40
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Jack Prelutsky;Peter Sis
ISBN:9780688096434
Nobody but Jack Prelutsky and Peter Sis could thrice dip into a bubbling cauldron of spooky fun and produce "The Dragons Are Singing Tonight...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:40
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Sid Fleischman;Peter Sis
ISBN:9780061345029
So begin the adventures of young Oliver Finch, born at the stroke of midnight. Believing that Oliver can spy out ghosts, Captain Scratch kidnaps him...more details Format:Paperback Pages:245
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J R R Tolkien;Peter Sis
ISBN:9780618150823
From J.R.R. Tolkien's own description for the original edition: "If you care for journeys there and back, out of the comfortable Western world...more details Format:Paperback Pages:352
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Sid Fleischman;Peter Sis
ISBN:9780060722166
On a coach bound for Cricklewood, the orphan boy Touch caught his first glimpse of the haunt named The Great Chaffalo. According to rumor...more details Format:Paperback Pages:96
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Sid Fleischman;Peter Sis
ISBN:9780688131050
Lonesome John lives on a farm in the country, so deep in the country that the "crows pack a lunch before setting out." When he places a scarecrow in one of his fields...more details Format:Paperback Pages:32
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Sid Fleischman;Peter Sis
ISBN:9780060521226
A Prince and a Pauper
Jemmy, once a poor boy living on the streets, now lives in a castle. As the whipping boy, he bears the punishment when Prince Brat misbehaves...more details Format:Paperback Pages:96
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Sid Fleischman;Peter Sis
ISBN:9780688062163
A shout comes echoing up the stairway "Fetch the whipping boy "
A young orphan named Jemmy rouses from his sleep. "Ain't I already been whipped twice today? Gaw What's the prince done now? It was forbidden to spank...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:96
Kestrel Hath's schoolroom rebellion against the stifling caste system of Aramanth leads to explosive consequences for her and her family: they are relegated to the city's lowest caste and are ostracized. With nothing left to lose...more details Format:Paperback Pages:486
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Mary Chase;Peter Sis
ISBN:9781417713011
Maureen Swanson is the scourge of the neighborhood. At age nine, she already has a reputation as a hard slapper, a loud laugher, a liar, and a stay-after-schooler. The other kids call her Stinky. So sometimes when Maureen passes the crumbling (and haunted?) Messerman mansion...more details
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Sislyn Peters
ISBN:9781434331106
In A Little Souvenir in Poetry, Sislyn Peters selects classic and contemporary favorites from her compilation of poems. This is an intelligently written work...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:228
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Sislyn Peters
ISBN:9781434331090
In A Little Souvenir in Poetry, Sislyn Peters selects classic and contemporary favorites from her compilation of poems. This is an intelligently written work...more details Format:Paperback Pages:228
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Sislyn Peters
ISBN:9781425907839
A Souvenir of Antigua in Poetry reflects the author's fond memories of life on the island. On its own, the book persuades the reader to pause...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:144
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Sislyn Peters
ISBN:9781425907822
A Souvenir of Antigua in Poetry reflects the author's fond memories of life on the island. On its own, the book persuades the reader to pause...more details Format:Paperback Pages:144
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Peter Van Oosterom;Friso Zlatanova SisiPenninga
ISBN:9783540721345
This unique book focuses on comparing several types of 3D models. Due to the rapid developments in sensor techniques a vast amount of 3D data is available...more details Format:Hardback Pages:441
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe;Randall Sis PeterJarrell
ISBN:9780374527860
Goethe's classic, enlivened by Randall Jarrell's fine translation and Peter Sis's dark, dreamy illustrations Randall Jarrell's translation of "Faust "is one of his most important achievements...more details Format:Paperback Pages:320
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V Spike Peterson;Anne Sisson Runyan
ISBN:9780813368528
When we look at world politics through a different set of lenses--ones that reveal how the power of gender blinds us to the presence of women in international affairs--we begin to see what lies below the surface of the interstate power exchanges called international relations...more details Format:Paperback Pages:336
"Global Gender Issues in the New Millennium" connects the inequalities between and among women and men with the world politics of global governance...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:300
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L E Sissman;Peter Hirsch EdwardDavison
ISBN:9780395925706
Selected by Peter Davison with an introduction by Edward Hirsch. Sissman was a true phenomenon in American poetry. He published his first book...more details Format:Paperback Pages:160
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Sislyn Peters
ISBN:9781438992709
Shades of a Colonial Coloured An Autobiography chronicles the young author's memory milestones, such as asking her mother to pick her up, at age one-and-a-half; Queen Elizabeth's Coronation celebration...more details Format:Paperback Pages:272
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Sislyn Peters
ISBN:9781438992716
Shades of a Colonial Coloured An Autobiography chronicles the young author's memory milestones, such as asking her mother to pick her up, at age one-and-a-half; Queen Elizabeth's Coronation celebration...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:272
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William Nicholson;Donna Sis PeterBray
ISBN:9780613749725
Praise for Slaves of the Mastery: - An ALA Notable Book - "A masterful sequel to The Wind Singer...Political intrigue, magical power, and quiet humor will keep the pages turning as readers follow the adventures of heroic twins...more details Format:Prebound
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Jorge Luis Borges;Andrew Sis PeterHurley
ISBN:9780143039938
In a perfect pairing of talent, this volume blends twenty illustrations by Peter SA-s with Jorge Luis Borgesas 1957 compilation of 116 astrange creatures conceived through time and space by the human imagination...more details Format:Paperback Pages:236
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Max Bolliger;Nina Sis PeterIgnatowicz
ISBN:9780805069822
"Trolls from far and wide came to hear Gus sing. " "His singing made them happy." The tale of a troll who learns the hard way that riches don't bring happiness In exchange for Gus's songs...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:32
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Carlos Maria Dominguez;Nick Sis PeterCaistor
ISBN:9780151011476
Bluma Lennon, distinguished professor of Latin American literature at Cambridge, is hit by a car while crossing the street, immersed in a volume of Emily Dickinson's poems. Several months after her untimely demise...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:103
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Peter E Siska
ISBN:9780805393491
Award-winning educator Peter Siska brings years of research and teaching experience to "University Chemistry," a new, distinctive honors general chemistry textbook that offers a logical framework of core ideas to give readers a solid understanding of chemistry...more details Format:Paperback
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Peters Sisters
ISBN:9781140641445
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process...more details Format:Paperback Pages:94