Authors:Robin Olds, Christina Olds, Ed Rasimus,
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Keywords: robin, olds, ace, legendary, pilot, memoirs, fighter
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2010-04-13
List price: $26.99
ISBN-10: 0312560230
ISBN-13: 9780312560232
The widely anticipated memoir of legendary ace American fighter pilot, Robin Olds Robin Olds was a larger-than-life hero with a towering personality. A graduate of West Point and an inductee in the National College Football Hall of Fame for his All-American performance for Army, Olds was one of the toughest college football players at the time. In WWII, Olds quickly became a top fighter pilot and squadron commander by the age of 22—and an ace with 12 aerial victories. But it was in Vietnam where the man became a legend. He arrived in 1966 to find a dejected group of pilots and motivated them
Authors:Elizabeth Fagg Olds, Elizabeth Olds,
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: women, four, first, explorers, adventures, winds, america
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1999-05-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0395957842
ISBN-13: 9780395957844
Annie Smith Peck attempted seven times to climb Peru’s highest mountain; Delia Akeley hunted big game in Africa; Marguerite Harrison spied in Russia for America; Louise Arner Boyd led expeditions to perilous East Greenland. Precursors of the modern Jane Goodalls and Sally Rides, these women represent a fascinating but forgotten era in the literature of exploration.
Author: Adrienne Walto
Publisher: Brilliant Publicatio
Keywords: olds, year, activities, series, food
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 1999-09-30
List price: $10.00
ISBN-10: 1897675577
ISBN-13: 9781897675571
This manual contains 28 planned activities for teaching three-to-five year-olds about food - from making a teddy bear’s picnic and a caf? menu to investigating different types of food. The author has used her experience with preschool children to design play activities that should be both enjoyable and teach children essential skills. Each activity is structured using the following headings: "What Children Should Learn" - links the activity to the particular area of the early learning goals being covered; "What You Need" - the activities use readily available resources; "Activity" - conc
Author: Corinne Aves
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Keywords: understanding, olds, year, series, child, six, seven
Number of Pages: 79
Published: 2006-09-30
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1843104679
ISBN-13: 9781843104674
What challenges do 6-7-year-olds face as they learn new skills and face different social situations? How do their perceptions of the world change? How can we best support them in their move towards greater independence? This accessible book provides a wealth of information to help parents, educators and carers better relate to children at this exciting, yet demanding, stage of development. From the new-found sense of rivalry between siblings or classmates, to the anxieties children feel when making new friends, Corinne Aves offers guidance on encouraging children’s development and helpin
Authors:Ian Taylor, George Olds,
Publisher: L B Publishing Services
Keywords: comment
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 2003-03-15
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0969736932
ISBN-13: 9780969736936
An entertaining, enlightening and highly engaging guide to communicating your way through a controversial world. Set in the not-so-fictional future, watch and learn as 3 students meet the "Reporter From Hell" at the Institute for Serving the Public’s Information Needs, affectionately known as ’SPIN College’. Learn to avoid the traps of negative messages and negative people by playing "The Spin Doctor’s Game." Discover how you can answer ANY question - from your boss, your co-workers, the media, or even in a job interview - using the "One Minute Power Message" t
Author: Sharon Olds
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: living, dead
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1984-02-12
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0394715632
ISBN-13: 9780394715636
The 1983 Lamont poetry selection of the Academy of American Poets.
Author: Sharon Olds
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: thing, secret, one
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2008-09-30
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0375711775
ISBN-13: 9780375711770
Sharon Olds completes her cycle of family poems in a book at once intense and harmonic, playful with language, and rich with a new self-awareness and sense of irony.The opening poem, with its sequence of fearsome images of war, serves as a prelude to poems of home in which humor, anger, and compassion sing together with lyric energy—sometimes comic, sometimes filled with a kind of unblinking forgiveness. These songs of joy and danger—public and private—illuminate one another. As the book unfolds, the portrait of the mother goes through a moving revisioning, leading us to a final series o
