Provides instructions for constructing a variety of play spaces including pirate ships, castles, Indian tipis, and secret hideouts using inexpensive and free materials.

Secret Spaces, Imaginary Places: Creating Your Own Worlds for Play

Children's Books

McCoy, Elin

Literature & Fiction

Atheneum

The first book to chronicle the rise of Robert M. Parker, Jr., the world's most influential and controversial wine critic, who, over the last twenty–five years, has dominated the international wine world and embodied the triumph of American taste.
This is the story of how an American lawyer raised on Coca–Cola caused a revolution in the way wines around the globe are made, sold, and talked about.
To his legions of fans, Parker is a cross between Julia Child and Ralph Nader –– part enthusiastic sensualist and part consumer crusader. To his many enemies, he is a self–appointed wine judge bent on reducing the meaning of wine to a two–digit number. The man who now rules the world of wine has been the focus of both adulation and death threats. He rose to his pinnacle of power by means of the traditional American virtues of hard work, determination, and integrity –– coupled with an unshakeable ego and a maniacal obsession with a beverage that aspires to a seductive art form: fine wine.
Parker's influential bimonthly newsletter, The Wine Advocate, with more than 45,000 subscribers across the United States and in more than thirty–seven countries, exerts the single most significant influence on consumers' wine–buying habits and trends in America, Europe, and the Far East, and impacts the way wine is being made in every wine–producing country in the world, from France to Australia. Parker has been profiled in countless magazines and newspapers around the world and most of his dozen books have been best sellers in the United States and abroad. Yet, despite the world's attention and unending acclaim, Robert Parker stands at the center of a heated controversy. Is he a passionate lover of wine who, more than anyone else, is responsible for its vastly improved quality, or is he, as others claim, waging a war against centuries of tradition and in the process killing the soul of wine?
The Emperor of Wine tackles the myriad questions that swirl about Parker and reveals how he became both worshipped and despised, revered as an infallible palate by some and blamed by others for remaking the world's wine industry into a single global market, causing prices to skyrocket, and single–handedly reshaping the taste of wine to his own preference.
Elin McCoy met Robert Parker in 1981 when she was his first magazine editor, and she has followed his extraordinary rise ever since. In telling Parker's story, McCoy gives readers an unmatched, authoritative insider's view of the eccentric personalities, bitter feuds, controversies, passions, payoffs, and secrets of the wine world, explaining how wine reputations are made, how and why wine critics agree and disagree, and tracking the startling ways wines are judged, promoted, made, and sold today. This fascinating portrait of a modern–day cultural colossus shows how a world that once was the province of gentlemen's clubs and the pastime of stuffed shirts turned into a sensual hobby for the middle class, creating a luxury industry bent on making money on a worldwide scale –– and how one man has revolutionized the way the world thinks about wine.

The Emperor of Wine: The Rise of Robert M. Parker, Jr. and the Reign of American Taste

Business & Money

Ecco

This is the story of how an American lawyer raised on Coca-Cola caused a revolution in the way wines around the globe are made, sold, and talked about. 
The world's most influential wine critic, Robert M. Parker, Jr., has dominated the international wine community for the last quarter century, embodying the triumph of American taste. Using Parker's story as a springboard, author Elin McCoy offers an authoritative and unparalleled insider's view of the eccentric personalities, bitter feuds, controversies, and secrets of the wine world. She explains how reputations are made and how and why critics agree and disagree, and she tracks the startling ways wines are judged, promoted, made, and sold -- while painting a fascinating portrait of a modern-day cultural colossus who revolutionized the way the world thinks about wine.

The Emperor of Wine: The Rise of Robert M. Parker, Jr., and the Reign of American Taste

The Incredible Year-Round Playbook

Presents games, projects, magic tricks, facts and figures, recipes, experiments, crafts, and activities for use indoors and out during all seasons and involving sun, sand, water, wind, and snow.

The incredible year-round playbook

Random House]

Presents games, projects, magic tricks, facts and figures, recipes, experiments, crafts, and activities for use indoors and out during all seasons and involving sun, sand, water, wind, and snow.

Random House Childrens Books

Essays discuss wine regions around the world, wine rankings, matching wines with foods, wine investing, and wine making trends

Thinking About Wine

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Walker, John F.

Beverages & Wine

Simon&Schuster

STRAIGHT TALK BY A PARENT FOR PARENTS This cheerful book helps you pick the right destinations for your next family getaway. Loaded with general planning tips, the book profiles big cities, beach towns, and mountain resorts. It also looks in-depth at places of interest by subject. • Historic Structures and Famous Sites: Forts, Lighthouses, Castles, and Skyscrapers • Museums, Planetariums, and Halls of Fame: Dinosaurs, Mummies, Witches, and Robots • Animals and Marine Life: Zoos, Aquariums, Game Farms, and Wildlife Sanctuaries • Parks Seashores, and Nature Centers: Green Spaces, Wilderness, Big Rocks, and Bogs • Outdoor Action in the Sun: Treks, Trail Rides, Canoe Trips, and More • Outdoor Action in the Snow: Skiing, Skating, Bobsled Rides, and More • Big-Time Sports for Spectators: Hoops, Hits, Hat Tricks, and Touchdowns • Family Farms, Resorts, and Ranches: Saddle Up, Tee Off, and Lie Around • Music, Dance, Theater, and the Circus: Brass Bands, Puppets, and the Nutcracker Family-friendly hotels and restaurants are reviewed and rated with an eye to their appeal to children and their parents. And throughout the guide, symbols highlight each attraction's interest to kids in various age groups. It's a wonderful planner that will help you zero in on the perfect getaway for you and your youngsters for years to come. About the Author Elin McCoy's 17-year-old son has traveled all over the Northeast in the course of his parents' research on food and wine, travel, and parenting. McCoy has written three books for children and contributed to the New York Times, Parents Magazine, Reader's Digest, and other publications.

Fodor's Where Should We Take the Kids: Northeast, 3rd Edition: Fresh, Most-Fun-for-the-Money, Anything-But-Boring Getaways for You and Your Chi ldren, ... SHOULD WE TAKE THE KIDS? THE NORTHEAST)

Travel

Specialty Travel

Fodor's

From New York City and Boston to the Hudson Valley, the Berkshires, and New England beach resorts, a practical guide to family-oriented travel throughout the northeastern U.S. offers information on attractions, accomodations, fun activities, and more.

Where Should We Take the Kids?: Northeast: Fresh, Most-Fun-for-the-Money, Anything But Boring Getaways for You and Your Chi ldren, Complete with Family-Friendly Pla

Asia

· A cheerful, fact-packed book that gives families just the help they need to pick the right destination for their next trip, whether that's a weekend getaway or a weeklong vacation. · Detailed chapters on major cities and family-friendly resort areas, including Boston, New York, and ocean and mountain towns. · Top family activities and destinations by category (with categories ranging from big-time sports, skiing, and other outdoor activities to family farms and ranches, children's museums, and historic sites. · Loaded with suggestions for family-friendly places to stay and eat. · Written by Elin McCoy, who has traveled all over the Northeast for years in the company of her teenage son.

Where Should We Take the Kids?: The Northeast: Fresh, Most-Fun-for-the-Money, Anything-But-Boring Getaways for You and Your Chi ldren, Complete with Family-Friendly Places

From teaching children how to deflect teasing with humor to how and when to involve school officials, a helpful parenting guide offers comprehensive, solid advice to help youngsters deal with teasing, name-calling, and other trials of growing up. Original.

Reader's digest parenting guide: what to do when kids are mean to your c (What to Do Parenting Guides)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Readers' Digest

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