Author: Pamela Love
Publisher: Down East Book
Keywords: explores, cub
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2004-05-25
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0892725931
ISBN-13: 9780892725939

A Cub Explores tells the story of a day in the life of a black bear cub and his mother, including the discovery of a painted turtle, an encounter with a huge bull moose, a frightening confrontation with a bobcat, and a sighting of beavers at work. Illustrated throughout with realistic and beautifully rendered colored pencil drawings.

Author: Sy Montgomery
Publisher: Down East Book
Keywords: window, wild
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2002-07-25
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0892725753
ISBN-13: 9780892725755

What could be better than watching the natural world out your window or on your television? Going out and experiencing it firsthand. In these fifty essays, acclaimed nature and science writer Sy Montgomery takes her readers on a season-by-season tour of the wilderness that is often as close as the backyard. Sy invites -- almost dares -- readers to follow her and form hands-on relationships with the plants, animals, birds, and even the insects that share space with people. These essays, most of which originally appeared in Sy’s Boston Globe column Nature Journal, are by turns enlightening

Author: Kenneth Robert
Publisher: Down East Book
Keywords: rabble
Number of Pages: 586
Published: 1996-07-25
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0892723866
ISBN-13: 9780892723867

The second of Roberts’s epic novels of the American Revolution, Rabble in Arms was hailed by one critic as the greatest historical novel written about America upon its publication in 1933. Love, treachery, ambition, and idealism motivate an unforgettable cast of characters in a magnificent novel renowned not only for the beauty and horror of its story but also for its historical accuracy.

Author: C.S. Lambert
Publisher: Down East Book
Keywords: glass, sea, passion
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2008-07-30
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0892727071
ISBN-13: 9780892727070

Some people’s passion for sea glass goes beyond collecting--they use it to create something of beauty. Carole Lambert, author of Sea Glass Chronicles, gives us entree into the studios of those who do everything from gathering and amassing sea glass mulch for landscaping to designing stained-sea-glass windows. This volume will arouse a renewed sense of wonder in those who already possess a passion for sea glass and win legions of new sea-glass devotees.

Author: Fran Hodgki
Publisher: Down East Book
Keywords: seal, orphan
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2000-03-25
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0892724714
ISBN-13: 9780892724710

Recounts the story of Howler, an abandoned harbor seal pup, from his rescue and recovery in early spring at the New England Aquarium until he is released in the fall.

Author: Liang Shih-Chiu
Publisher: The Far East Book Co.
Keywords: dictionary, english, chinese, east
Published: 1992-06
List price: $32.20
ISBN-10: 9576122309
ISBN-13: 9789576122309

Author: Neil C. Hughes
Publisher: East Gate Book
Keywords: east, gate, books, bowl, rice, economic, challenge, smashing, china
Number of Pages: 235
Published: 2002-03
List price: $77.95
ISBN-10: 0765608081
ISBN-13: 9780765608086

China’s reformers insisted over two decades ago that the iron rice bowl, symbol of the Communist Party’s compact to provide cradle-to-grave security for all, had to be broken if China was going to modernize. This book explores why China’s reforms have not gone far enough, and captures the complexity and contradictions of China’s transition from a planned to a market-oriented economy, involving state enterprises engaged in wide-open competition but still relying on government subsidies, the private sector becoming the fastest growing part of the economy, civil servants