Author: Bonny Becker
Publisher: Candlewick
Keywords: bear, mouse, birthday
Number of Pages: 56
Published: 2009-09-08
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 0763637467
ISBN-13: 9780763637460

Can a relentlessly cheery Mouse wear down a party-pooping Bear? The unlikely pair are back in a droll, utterly charming tale that early readers will celebrate.Bear does not like birthdays. He doesn’t like parties or balloons, cards or candles. In fact, Bear does not like anything to do with birthdays at all. He would much rather spend his birthday alone cleaning his house, but Mouse, small and gray and bright-eyed, has other ideas. The author and illustrator who created the best-selling picture book A VISITOR FOR BEAR return with another comedy about the curmudgeonly Bear and his eager frien

Author: Bonny Becker
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Keywords: plum, magical
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2009-09-08
List price: $12.99
ISBN-10: 0375856374
ISBN-13: 9780375856372

Ms. Plum is the magical teacher every schoolkid wishes for!Everybody wants to be in Ms. Plum’s class. It’s not just that she teaches the usual things in unusual ways. There’s something more, something about Ms. Plum herself—and her mysterious supply closet. Whenever she asks her students to get her an eraser or a pencil or some paper clips, they come back with something . . . unusual. Who’d have thought a pinky-sized alligator, a big-mouth parrot, or a tiny wolf could teach kids a thing or two about life?Each year, Ms. Plum is certain she’s had her best class ever. And it looks lik

Authors:Bonny Becker,  Kady MacDonald Dento,
Publisher: Candlewick
Keywords: bear, mouse, visitor
Number of Pages: 56
Published: 2008-02-26
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0763628077
ISBN-13: 9780763628079

Cheery persistence wears down a curmudgeonly bear in a wry comedy of manners that ends in a most unlikely friendship.Bear is quite sure he doesn’t like visitors. He even has a sign. So when a mouse taps on his door one day, Bear tells him to leave. But when Bear goes to the cupboard to get a bowl, there is the mouse — small and gray and bright-eyed. In this slapstick tale that begs to be read aloud, all Bear wants is to eat his breakfast in peace, but the mouse — who keeps popping up in the most unexpected places — just won’t go away!

Authors:Marion Rombauer Becker, Ethan Becker, Irma S. Rombau
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: cooking, joy
Number of Pages: 1152
Published: 1997-11-05
List price: $38.00
ISBN-10: 0684818701
ISBN-13: 9780684818702

Since its original publication, Joy of Cooking has been the most authoritative cookbook in America? the one upon which millions of cooks have confidently relied for more than sixty-five years. It’s the book your grandmother and mother probably learned to cook from, the book you gave your sister when she got married. This, the first revision in more than twenty years, is better than ever. Here’s why: Every chapter has been rethought with an emphasis on freshness, convenience, and health. All the recipes have been reconceived and tested with an eye to modern taste, and the cooking

Authors:Katrin Becker, Melanie Becker, Aaron Bertram, Paul S.
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Keywords: geometry, string, lectures, snowbird
Number of Pages: 104
Published: 2006-05-01
List price: $39.00
ISBN-10: 0821836633
ISBN-13: 9780821836637

The interaction and cross-fertilization of mathematics and physics is ubiquitous in the history of both disciplines. In particular, the recent developments of string theory have led to some relatively new areas of common interest among mathematicians and physicists, some of which are explored in the papers in this volume. These papers provide a reasonably comprehensive sampling of the potential for fruitful interaction between mathematicians and physicists that exists as a result of string theory.

Authors:Katrin Becker, Melanie Becker, John H. Schwarz,
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: theory, introduction, modern, string
Number of Pages: 756
Published: 2007-01-15
List price: $91.00
ISBN-10: 0521860695
ISBN-13: 9780521860697

String theory is one of the most exciting and challenging areas of modern theoretical physics. This book guides the reader from the basics of string theory to recent developments. It introduces the basics of perturbative string theory, world-sheet supersymmetry, space-time supersymmetry, conformal field theory and the heterotic string, before describing modern developments, including D-branes, string dualities and M-theory. It then covers string geometry and flux compactifications, applications to cosmology and particle physics, black holes in string theory and M-theory, and the microscopic or

Authors:William E. Becker, Michael Watts, Suzanne R. Becker,
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub
Keywords: chalk, alternatives, economics, teaching
Number of Pages: 225
Published: 2006-12-30
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 1847200397
ISBN-13: 9781847200396

`This must sit alongside the previous volume as an essential source of teaching strategies for the thoughtful economist. Becker and Watts have succeeded again in providing a book which should push the profession forward in its thinking as well as its practice in teaching a new generation of economists.’ - Peter Davies, University of Staffordshire, UK and Co-Editor, International Review of Economics Education Acclaim for Teaching Economics to Undergraduates: `Teaching Economics to Undergraduates deserves a prominent spot on the bookshelves of all economists who are inte