"Playing the Farmer" reinvigorates our understanding of Vergil's "Georgics", a vibrant work written by Rome's premier epic poet shortly before he began the "Aeneid". Setting the "Georgics" in the social context of its day, Philip Thibodeau for the first time connects the poem's idyllic, and idealize[...]

Suitable for graduates, students, and those seeking to help bend the arc of history toward justice, this title challenges readers to counter failures of imagination that keep billions of people without access to health care, safe drinking water, decent schools, and other basic human rights.[...]

A revised edition of the classic cookbook features 325 new recipes, including popular new ethnic dishes, as well as new sections on microwave, outdoor, vegetarian, and low-fat cookery. Reprint.[...]

This amusing tale by the author of The Hobbit is set in the Thames valley of England in a distant and marvellous past, when giants and dragons still lived. Its hero, Farmer Giles, is actually quite unheroic, but through good luck and the help of his dog Garm, his grey mare, and the magic sword Caudi[...]

In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patrn, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States. A Newbery Honor book. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.[...]

Marcia enjoys being her mother's helper, so she's hurt when Mother hires Fannie Farmer to prepare the meals. But Fannie's charm wins Marcia over in this delightful story based on the real turn-of-the-20th-century Boston cook who invented recipes with precise measurements. Full color.[...]

The Deniliquin Ute Muster had always been on Rebecca's wish list, but with the farm and babies, she'd never managed to make it. Tonight, she decided to reclaim herself. After ten years being married to larrikin Charlie Lewis and living on her beloved property, Waters Meeting, Rebecca is confronted [...]

The winner of the Smarties Book Prize and the Children's Illustrated Book of the Year, this story is about a duck who lived with a lazy old farmer. The duck did all the work while the farmer stayed in bed all day. Then the other animals decided to take action![...]

Christmas was the be-all, end-all celebration on the farm. Pages and pages on the topic appeared in The Farmer's Wife, and these pages weren't just about food--although recipes for all the various components of parties and holiday gift baskets certainly abounded.The magazine's experts expounded on t[...]

"The Southern Italian Farmer's Table" is a sumptuously illustrated cookbook featuring authentic recipes from over thirty "agriturismi "(working family farms that provide room & board to travelers) in central and southern Italy, where the cuisine served epitomizes the farm-fresh movement underway in [...]

Martin Waddell's uplifting modern fable and Helen Oxenbury's humor and pathos make this a very special collaboration. Farmer Duck isn't your average duck. This duck cooks and cleans, tends the fields, and cares for the other animals on the farm--all because the owner of the farm is too lazy to do th[...]