Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&Ne=7236&N=3+7237+7515&No=20 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=475287 A lyrical evocation of Philippe Petits 1974 tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=402553 At the heart of this work is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works. Interweaving his narrative with a brilliantly astute and concise history of the Senate, Caro shows readers how political initiatives triumph or fail and how political genius functions. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=359237 The Noonday Demon examines depression in personal, cultural, and scientific terms. Drawing on his own struggles with the illness and interviews with fellow sufferers, doctors and scientists, policymakers and politicians, drug designers and philosophers, Solomon reveals the subtle complexities and sheer agony of the disease. He confronts the challenge of defining the illness and describes the vast range of available medications, the efficacy of alternative treatments, and the impact the malady has had on various demographic populations around the world and throughout history. He also explores the thorny patch of moral and ethical questions posed by emerging biological explanations for mental illness. The depth of human experience Solomon chronicles, the range of his intelligence, and his boundless curiosity and compassion will change the readers view of the world.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=388893 Though she is fond of her people, a girl prefers to live among the wild horses where she is truly happy and free. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1047324 This book is an account of the history, ecology, and mystique of the arctic region. The author offers a thorough examination of this obscure world, its terrain, its wildlife, its history of Eskimo natives and intrepid explorers who have arrived on their icy shores. But what turns this marvelous work of natural history into a breathtaking study of profound originality is his unique meditation on how the landscape can shape our imagination, desires, and dreams. Its prose as hauntingly pure as the land it describes, and is nothing less than an indelible classic of modern literature. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=337046 Presents an assortment of facts about the qualifications and characteristics of U.S. presidents, from George Washington to Bill Clinton. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=312743 The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the nineteenth century as the Titanic disaster was in the twentieth. Nathaniel Philbrick now restores this story - which inspired the climactic scene in Herman Melvilles Moby Dick - to its rightful place in American history. In 1819, the 238-ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage for whales. Fifteen months later, the unthinkable happened: in the farthest reaches of the South Pacific, the Essex was rammed and sunk by an enraged sperm whale. Its twenty-man crew, fearing cannibals on the islands to the west, decided instead to sail their three tiny boats for the distant South American coast. They would eventually travel over 4,500 miles. The next three months tested just how far humans could go in their battle against the sea as, one by one, they succumbed to hunger, thirst, disease, and fear. Nathaniel Philbrick brings an incredible story to life, from the intricacies of Nantuckets whaling economy and the mechanics of sailing a square-rigger to the often mysterious behavior of whales. But it is his portrayal of the crew of the Essex that makes this a heartrending book. These were not romantic adventurers, but young working men, some teenagers, just trying to earn a living in the only way they knew how. They were a varied lot; the ambitious first mate, Owen Chase, whose impulsive nature failed at a crucial moment, then drew him to a more dangerous course; the cabin boy, Thomas Nickerson, whose long-lost account of the ordeal, written at age seventy-one, provides new insights into the story; and Captain George Pollard, who was forced to take the most horrifying step if any of his men were to survive.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=288585 A very old overcoat is recycled numerous times into a variety of garments. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=33550 In American Sphinx, Ellis sifts the facts shrewdly from the legends and the rumors, treading a path between vilification and hero worship in order to formulate a plausible portrait of the man who still today hover(s) over the political scene like one of those dirigibles cruising above a crowded football stadium, flashing words of inspiration to both teams. For, at the grass roots, Jefferson is no longer liberal or conservative, agrarian or industrialist, pro- or anti-slavery, privileged or populist. He is all things to all people. His own obliviousness to incompatible convictions within himself (which left him deaf to most forms of irony) has leaked out into the world at large - a world determined to idolize him despite his foibles. We watch him exhibiting both great depth and great shallowness, combining massive learning with extraordinary naivete, piercing insights with self-deception on the grandest scale. We understand why we should neither beatify him nor consign him to the rubbish heap of history, though we are by no means required to stop loving him. He is Thomas Jefferson, after all - our very own sphinx.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=117765 An illustrated bedtime prayer which gives thanks for the many aspects of a childs world. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=223839 This outstanding book treating the three most beloved composers of the Vienna School is considered basic to any study of classical-era music. Drawing on his rich experience and intimate familiarity with the works of these giants, Charles Rosen presents his keen insights in clear and persuasive language. For this expanded edition of The Classical Style, Rosen provides an entirely new, 64-page chapter on the later years of Beethoven and the musical conventions he inherited from Haydn and Mozart. Rosen has also written an extensive new preface in which he responds to other writers who have commented on his ideas. Finally, readers are treated to a compact disc, recorded by Rosen in 1996 and produced especially to accompany this new edition of the book. The CD offers complete performances of two late sonatas of Beethoven that are discussed extensively in the text: the Opus 106 in B[flat] major (the Hammerklavier) and the Opus 110 in A[flat] major.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=22347 A saintly rabbi miraculously brings to life a clay giant who helps him watch over the Jews of sixteenth-century Prague. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=22792 Briefly describes the value of a tree. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=511399 Text and illustrations present the life of the boy born on the Kentucky frontier who became the sixteenth president of the United States. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=218141 Already a classic, Monettes critically acclaimed coming of age/coming out story traces the first quarter-century of a remarkable life. One of the most most complex, moral, personal, and political books to have been written about gay life.--LA Weekly. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=203004 A Japanese American man recounts his grandfathers journey to America which he later also undertakes, and the feelings of being torn by a love for two different countries. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=296151 Illustrates the well-known American folk song about the courtship and marriage of the frog and the mouse. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=174998 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=11190 Though many try, only the court jester is able to fulfill Princess Lenores wish for the moon. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=233933 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=177749 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=172495 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=16847 When it begins to look, feel, and smell like snow, everyone prepares for a winter blizzard. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=240452 Ceci anxiously awaits her first posada, the special Mexican Christmas party, and the opportunity to select a pi~nata for it. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=138453 A biography of the man whose fascination with flying machines produced the Bleriot XI, which in 1909 became the first heavier-than-air machine to fly the English Channel. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=137305 Follows the activities of two children spending their summer vacation on an island off the coast of Maine. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=198844 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=234526 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=41863 Here the lore of African stories and storytellers that inspired Cendrars is conveyed by strong use of pure color, by eerie wisps of superimposed images, and by strong silhouettes, all in handsome double-page spreads that are remarkable in their composition.--Bulletin, Center for Childrens Books. Caldecott Medal; ALA Notable Childrens Book. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=209669 Left on their own for an afternoon, two bored and restless children find more excitement than they bargained for in a mysterious and mystical jungle adventure board game. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=194660 Sylvester the donkey finds a magic pebble and unthinkingly wishes himself a rock when frightened by a lion. Although safe from the lion, Sylvester cannot hold the pebble to wish himself into a donkey again. Caldecott Medal winner. Full-color illustrations. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=235495 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=229236 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=280554 Retells in pictures how a pair of every manner of creature climbed on board Noahs ark and thereby survived the Flood. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=246244 Winter comes to the woodland as the busy animals make their preparations. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=223632 Explains some traditions and customs of 26 African tribes beginning with letters from A to Z. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=9611 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=130541 The spinning and knitting the devil agrees to do for her win Duffy the Squires name and a carefree life until it comes time for her to guess the devils name. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=192061 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=95907 When the Czar proclaims that he will marry his daughter to the man who brings him a flying ship, the Fool of the World sets out to try his luck and meets some unusual companions on the way. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1354476 An introduction for children to some of the most beautiful and appealing Bible stories, this picture book of thirty superb black-and-white drawings by Dorothy Lathrop presents the most memorable animals of the Old and New Testaments. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1358 The adventures of a little boy in the city on a very snowy day. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=220881 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=163338 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=336681 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=41006 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=268349 Johnny goes hunting for a bearskin to hang on his familys barn and returns with a small bundle of trouble. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=17009 Depicts the changes that occur on a small island as the seasons come and go, as day changes to night, and as a storm approaches. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=59015 A collection of traditional American nursery rhymes, finger games, skipping rhymes, jingles, and counting-out rhymes. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=27516 Relates the story of the authors grandparents and parents, who, though not famous, helped build the United States. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=147185 Sad when the swallows leave for the winter, young Juan prepares to welcome them back to the old California Mission at Capistrano on St. Josephs Day the next spring.