Author: Penelope Leach
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: everyone, right, getting, care, child
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2009-01-20
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1400042569
ISBN-13: 9781400042562

From the universally admired author of the best-selling classic Your Baby and Child, the first comprehensive—and objective—book on the state of child care in America and the world today. Who is caring for today’s children? How well are they succeeding? What does care cost, and who is paying for it? How do parents go about choosing care for their children, and are they satisfied with what they find? Penelope Leach answers these and other urgent questions with facts and figures gathered from the most current research, brought to life by the voices of parents, including those involved in he

Author: Penelope Mason
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Keywords: art, japanese, history
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2004-10-04
List price: $136.00
ISBN-10: 0131176013
ISBN-13: 9780131176010

Published jointly by Prentice Hall and Harry N. Abrams, Inc., this second edition of the comprehensive history of Japanese art from 10,500 B.C.E. now extends beyond 1945,  tying together more closely the development of all the media within a well-articulated historical and social context. Features a comprehensive survey of Japanese art and culture, now with 67 new color and 52 new black and white illustrations including other art forms such as calligraphy, lacquer, metalwares, ceramics, and textiles. For art enthusiasts interested in far eastern art.

Author: Penelope Fitzgerald
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: voices, human
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1999-05-05
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 039595617X
ISBN-13: 9780395956175

When British listeners tuned in to the BBC’s Nine O’Clock News in the middle of 1940, they had no idea what human dramas-and follies-were unfolding behind the scenes. Targeted by enemy bombers, the BBC had turned its concert hall into a dormitory for both sexes, and personal chaos rivaled the political. The tense relationship between two departmental directors is at the center of Human Voices, as is Annie, a sixteen-year-old assistant who falls hopelessly in love with the monstrously selfish one. Reading this intimate glimpse behind the scenes of the BBC in its heyday, "one is left

Author: Penelope Hobhouse
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Keywords: gardening, hobhouse, penelope
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 1998-08
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0711208166
ISBN-13: 9780711208162

This guide to gardening reveals the secrets behind Penelope Hobhouse’s distinctive style of gardening. Taking as her model, Tintinhull, the National Trust garden in Somerset which she has tended over the past 14 years, she sets out her principles of gardening, and explores the elements that compose a garden of excellence. Through practical examples, drawn from Tintinhull and from gardens she herself has designed all over the world, she shows gardeners how they can achieve the results they want, and shares her labour-saving tricks as well. Close-up photographs show how she takes cuttings,

Author: Penelope Aubin
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
Keywords: lucinda
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2006-10-01
List price: $11.99
ISBN-10: 1425027261
ISBN-13: 9781425027261

ReadHowYouWant publishes a wide variety of best selling books in Large and Super Large fonts in partnership with leading publishers. EasyRead books are available in 11pt and 13pt. type. EasyRead Large books are available in 16pt, 16pt Bold, and 18pt Bold type. EasyRead Super Large books are available in 20pt. Bold and 24pt. Bold Type. You choose the format that is right for you.An engrossing novel in Aubin’s signature style. It introduces us to Lucinda, her reformed rake and the ups and downs of their relationship. Aubin subtly introduces Catholic morality into a gripping plot to stress the

Author: Penelope Frohart
Publisher: BRG Publishing
Keywords: sex, personal, stuff, love, starters, fabulous, questions, conversation, book
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1998-12
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0966114469
ISBN-13: 9780966114461

This book contains more than 600 thought provoking questions on all topics, from family to career, from religion to love, from sex to friendship. Some are easy, some complicated, some admittedly controversial. These questions will spice up any conversation. They can be posed to friends, spouses, casual acquaintances, lovers, relatives, just about anyone! They’re intended, at the very least, to initiate some fun and perhaps lively conversations and they may open up conversational territories previously unknown. This book guarantees a great time!

Author: Penelope Rance
Publisher: Virgin Books
Keywords: film, virgin, arts, martial
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2006-08-08
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0753510782
ISBN-13: 9780753510780

The late 60s and 70s saw a massive surge in the release of martial arts films, spawning a cult following which is still growing. This essential guide explores up to 20 seminal films in detail, with particular focus on recurring themes, directors, and stars. Each chapter covers a different branch of the genre from Hong Kong Legends such as Once Upon a Time in China and Enter the Dragon, to Modern Asian Classics like House of the Flying Daggers to the incursion into Hollywood in films such as The Karate Kid and The Matrix. The development of the genre from 1920s China to the present is traced wi