The Teeth of the Lion tells the story of the common dandelion, that remarkably widespread plant that is known, for better or worse, by just about everybody. Through a series of short essays, written in accessible language and a thoroughly engaging style, Anita Sanchez takes the reader on a journey through the natural history of the dandelion and its long association with humans. Joan Jobson s illustrations add important details and subtle accents that enhance this journey. Well adapted ecologically to spread into and thrive within disturbed sites -- such as the lawns, playgrounds, roadsides, and parking lots in which they are most often encountered today, and viewed as weeds -- dandelions also have had a lengthy, welcomed association with humans as medicine, food, and objects of ritual, magic, and folklore. The Teeth of the Lion will be a source of enjoyable, fascinating, memorable information of interest to all users. It will provide naturalists, wildflower enthusiasts, gardeners, interpreters, teachers, landscapers, and homeowners a better understanding of one of the most common, well-known, and perhaps underappreciated plants to be found anywhere.

The Teeth of the Lion: The Story of the Beloved and Despised Dandelion

Science & Math

Anita Sanchez

Biological Sciences

The McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company

"Wagon-Making in the United States . . ." is perhaps the best available description of the tools, materials, technology, and process of wagon-making in the US during the late pre-automotive period. The featured centerpiece of this book is a masters thesis completed in 1968 at Millersville College (now University), Millersville, Pennsylvania, by Paul A. Kube. Titled “A Study of the Gruber Wagon Works at Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania,” this thesis describes the content, structure, and functioning of the Gruber Wagon Works as that business existed in the middle part of the 20th century – a rare late-surviving representative of an industry that had, at one time, been essential to the transportation needs of the agrarian and early industrial national economy. Contributions by Clayton E. Ray and Cathy L. Wegener provide an introduction to the significance of the Kube thesis, a brief history of wagon-making in the United States, a review of the relocation and management of the Gruber Wagon Works as an interpretive center during and after the mid-1970s, a compilation of surviving production records of the Gruber Works, and a biographical sketch of Paul Kube.

Wagon-Making in the United States during the Late-19th through Mid-20th Centuries: A Study of the Gruber Wagon Works at Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania

History

Paul A. Kube

Clayton E. Ray

Cathy L. Wegener

Americas

TerraAtlas™ is a collection of atlases of high quality aerial photography that features selected venues from the American landscape. The first title in this series to be released is TerraAtlas: Central Washington, DC, an aerial photographic atlas of the administrative, historical, intellectual, and emotional heart of our nation's capital and the adjoining part of Arlington County, Virginia. Among the architectural landmarks and other special places featured in this atlas are the major buildings of the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of the federal government; the National Mall and the museums of the Smithsonian Institution; Washington's administrative, financial, and commercial districts; Rock Creek Park and the National Zoo; the Potomac and Anacostia rivers and their bordering waterfronts; Arlington National Cemetery; most embassies of other nations; historic Georgetown; and numerous residential neighborhoods scattered throughout the covered area. Vividly depicted in this atlas are the impressive patterns of content, function, color, and texture that characterize the dynamic and varied urban landscape of Washington and Arlington, an area that has been unified at one level by its more than two centuries of tenure as our national capital, and at another by the parklike veneer of vegetation that makes this one of America's greener urban areas.TerraAtlas: Central Washington, DC incorporates an area 5.68 miles north-south and 5.08 miles east-west, or some 28.84 square miles, in Washington, DC, and Arlington County, Virginia. The aerial photography reproduced in this atlas was taken in 2002 by the US Geological Survey. The atlas includes 35 pages of photographs presented at a scale of 1:7000, each titled with the name of a prominent neighborhood or landscape feature located on the page. A grid divides each of these 35 images into 72 cells; each cell measures 0.1 mile on a side and is uniquely identifiable by a letter and number located on the left and bottom side of the grid, respectively. The atlas concludes with nine pages of indexes, of which four pages are devoted to street names and five pages to selected other place names. Place names, other than streets, included in this atlas are representative of categories of places that appear on the images. Generally, the places listed include those of historical, cultural, and natural significance; international, national, state, district, and local government properties; educational institutions; and more prominent hospitals, hotels and motels, and religious sites.

TerraAtlas: Central Washington, DC

Reference

Naphtali David Rishe

Atlases & Maps

America s First Ladies become better known and their influence and accomplishments become more widely recognized, interest in and fascination with the women themselves increases. Homes of the First Ladies is a guide to places that commemorate and interpret the lives and legacies of these First Ladies. This book provides short biographical sketches of all of the First Ladies, including those wives of presidents who died before their husbands were elected to that high office, then identifies, describes, and provides access information to some fifty-eight sites where wives of presidents once lived or are otherwise commemorated. Many of the sites described in this book are those that the women shared with their husbands, but increasingly homes and other structures in which these women lived during childhood or before marrying are being preserved in recognition of their historical value and the rich legacies of the First Ladies themselves. Visits to the homes and museums described in this book will afford curious travelers the opportunity to experience some of the most intimate personal spaces, material possessions, and creativity that influenced, shaped, and gave voice to that small but very special group of women whose husbands happened to have been elected President of the United States.

Homes of the First Ladies: A Guide to Publicly Accessible Homes, Museums, and Related Sites

William G. Clotworthy

STEPS Standard Themes for Educational Progress is a series of manuals designed to help curriculum directors and teachers in PreK/K 12 schools as well as students, parents, outreach educators, grant writers and others with interests in standards-based education identify, organize, and teach state and national ( Common Core ) academic standards. A separate manual is prepared for each set of state and national standards in Mathematics, Reading and Writing, Science, and Social Studies, and all standards contained in each of these sets are included in the respective STEPS manual. Within each manual, the appropriate state- and/or national-level standards have been grouped into themes and strands, and then aligned vertically and differentiated by grade level to show change and continuity among specific teaching/learning objectives ( indicators, standards, etc.) throughout the PreK/K 12 continuum. An accompanying matrix shows, for each theme and strand, the presence and number of standards or indicators expected to be taught in all grade levels or the absence of assigned standards or indicators for any given grade level. STEPS is a tool that is helpful for planning, instruction, differentiation, assessment, and professional development and, ultimately, for improving the education of the students whose PreK/K 12 experiences are enhanced by educators using these tools. Reading & Writing across the Curriculum: STEPS for the Common Core presents vertically aligned themes, strands, and indicators, drawn from the 2010 National Common Core Grade-Level Standards for Reading & Writing. Each theme and strand is also aligned with the appropriate College and Career Readiness Standard.

Reading & Writing across the Curriculum: STEPS for the Common Core

Education & Teaching

David A. Silverberg

Schools & Teaching

Trackards for North American Mammals contains twenty-six Trackards. Twenty-five of these cards include images of one or more life-size tracks of selected North American mammals that are distributed widely over the continent. The twenty-sixth card contains a representative variety of commonly found tracks and sign of house cat, frog and birds. All images have been produced from photographs of actual tracks and scat of live, free-ranging wild animals. Additional illustrations of tracks, scat and other sign are presented in The Companion Guide to Trackards for North American Mammals (ISBN 978-1-935778-09-7) which also contains information about track morphology, the similarity of sign of one species to that of other species, and habitat preferences. No images have been copied from other sources, a practice that has perpetuated many inaccuracies in other tracking books and related resources. The Trackards identification system has been field tested and revised for over a decade, resulting in the best resource on the market for the successful identification of mammal tracks. The cards are arranged in the deck according to track size. The first card has information about the species in the deck with the largest tracks, Black Bear, while the twenty-fifth card has information about the species with the smallest tracks, Vole and Shrew. If a species has front and hind feet of different size, the larger of the two dictates its order in the deck. Terms and symbols used on the cards are defined inside the back cover of the deck. Trackards are printed on synthetic stock and are completely waterproof, ready for use in any field setting. The set includes cards for Black Bear, Beaver, Moose, Snowshoe Hare, River Otter, Fisher, White-tailed Deer, Eastern Coyote, Porcupine, Raccoon, Bobcat, Opossum, Woodchuck, Red Fox, Muskrat, Gray Fox, Mink, Cottontail Rabbit, Striped Skunk, Gray Squirrel, Weasel, Red Squirrel, Chipmunk, Mouse, Vole, and Shrew.

Trackards for North American Mammals

David. Brown

Trackards for North American Mammals (ISBN 978-1-935778-08-0) contains twenty-six Trackards. Twenty-five of these cards include images of one or more life-size tracks and other signs of selected North American mammals that are distributed widely over the continent. The twenty-sixth card contains a representative variety of commonly found tracks and sign of house cat, frog and birds. All images have been produced from photographs of actual tracks and scat of live, free-ranging wild animals. The Companion Guide to Trackards for North American Mammals provides detailed information in book form to assist users of Trackards or other tracking aids to accurately identify the tracks of mammals that they have found. Information is provided for front- and hind-foot track characteristics of each featured mammal, trail patterns, ways to differentiate each featured mammal s tracks from others with which they might be confused, scat characteristics, and peripheral evidence such as preferred habitats, damage to vegetation, feeding residue, and other evidence that can enhance the likelihood of accurate identification of tracks. The book also contains additional illustrations showing variations on track and scat morphology, habitat preferences, and other types of visual information that can facilitate track identification. The Companion Guide is sized to fit in the same jacket pocket as the cards so that it can be carried easily in the field and be available when you need it.
 The Trackards identification system really works. It has been field tested and revised for over a decade, resulting in the best system on the market for successfully identifying mammal tracks under real-life field conditions.

The Companion Guide to Trackards for North American Mammals

Fresh water is one of the essential natural resources on Earth, and groundwater constitutes 98% of the liquid fresh water on the planet. Yet, throughout the world, groundwater resources are being depleted, allocated, squandered, contaminated but rarely is their fundamental value to humankind thought about or understood!
 Groundwater for the 21st Century is an effort to increase the groundwater literacy from local to global scales, among laymen, students, and professionals of citizens of planet Earth. Groundwater for the 21st Century provides two very important perspectives on the resource (a) a thorough yet accessible introduction to basic groundwater science and (b) a current, concise but comprehensive overview of groundwater resources and their importance, uses, status, management, and prospects in today s world. The book is well organized, substantive, clearly written in accessible language, and richly endowed with numerous illustrations and tables. An overview of the book is provided at the publishers website -- and we especially invite readers to review the Author s (a) Detailed Table of Contents and (b) Expanded Description, both of which are available at the link provided.
 Why is this Book Important? Groundwater for the 21st Century is the most comprehensive overview available combining groundwater science and groundwater use by humans, and it has been organized and written specifically for use by a wide range of readers of all ages, places, interests, and nationalities who might wish or need to be informed and literate about freshwater issues. The health, food, financial security, and habitability of homes and communities the lives of billions of human beings depends upon the availability of sufficient amounts of fresh water. This book provides much material with which to inform readers about the nature of water, its distribution, and its uses and abuses by humans. From this, readers will be better prepared to evaluate their own actions and those of their neighbors, communities, and the hierarchy of decision makers that lead, guide, influence, and otherwise shape the present and future world.
 Who is this book intended for? Groundwater for the 21st Century is intended for the working bookshelves of a very broad audience of readers. After all, groundwater is of often unrecognized but unquestionably absolute value to all of humankind. That broad audience includes (a) individual readers of diverse ages and backgrounds who will seek out this volume on their own to proactively inform themselves of freshwater resources and their importance; (b) those who teach, lead, and direct others with respect to informed natural resource management; and (c) those with more advanced knowledge of the subject who might wish to acquaint themselves with some of the broader aspects or relationships of their specialty.

Groundwater for the 21st Century: A Primer for Citizens of Planet Earth

John A. Conners

Earth Sciences

Sport is one of the great institutions of civilization, and the rise of women s sport during the past half century has been one of the most dramatic and visible recent a personal reflection on the coaching career of Donna J. Newberry, coach, teacher, and administrator in the Athletics Department of Muskingum University, New Concord, Ohio, whose passionate commitment to both excellence and gender equality in sport helped to make possible and epitomizes the significant expansion of women s collegiate athletics in the United States since the 1970s. 
Fresh out of graduate school, twenty-two-year-old Donna Newberry accepted a teaching and coaching position at Muskingum in 1974. Once on board, her eyes opened quickly to the limitations she faced inadequate institutional funding, overwhelming teaching and coaching responsibilities, poor facilities for women s athletics, and a legendary men s sports program that controlled the entire athletics budget. 
From the outset, Newberry set about to create an equitable environment within which to develop a quality women s athletics program. In 1978, she took the lead responsibility at her institution to effect the full implementation of Title IX provisions that guaranteed equal opportunity, in sport and elsewhere, for both men and women. Following a tragic traffic accident in 1989 that claimed the lives and ended the careers of several of her athletes, she led efforts to assure the safer transportation of teams attending off-campus matches. Throughout, she insisted that her athletes were, first and foremost, also students and that they were attending college to receive an education, to nurture their social and spiritual lives, and to prepare themselves for a lifetime of personal responsibility and citizenship. Applying her coaching and teaching responsibilities to herself, Newberry spent her summers in pursuit of what she termed experiential learning inserting herself into unfamiliar physical, cultural, or social environments, often pushing herself to the edge, as she explored new ways of learning about and understanding the world as well as to remind herself of the commitment and sacrifices she was expecting from her athletes. 
As the years passed, the long-term consequences of Newberry s passion, commitment, perseverance, and high standards unfolded. She remained at Muskingum, the women s athletics program and facilities expanded dramatically, women s teams were admitted to the Ohio Athletic Conference and the NCAA, and the sports programs at Muskingum which Donna coached for decades women s basketball and softball assumed legendary stature of state, regional, and national significance. Newberry s teams made numerous post-season appearances in NCAA tournaments, including eleven at national Division III collegiate finals, and won the National Championship in softball in 2001. She was named the WNBC/Converse Coach of the Year in women s basketball in 1991 and the Muskingum softball coaching staff was named the NFCA Coaching Staff of the Year in 2001. Nineteen of Newberry s players were named All-Americans, and in 2008, Newberry was inducted into the National Fastpitch Coaches Association Hall of Fame. 
Another facet of Newberry s life is that, by early in 2009, she was a two-time survivor of breast cancer, but a recurrence of the disease later that year led to her death in November, 2010. She dedicated the last few months of her life to writing this book in the hopes that her own perspectives on coaching might be made available, and be of value, to younger coaches, to those who might want to go into coaching, and to those interested in the transformation of women s athletics since the early 1970s. Those perspectives are presented here, in her own words, the way she wanted them to be passed on.

You Must Play to Win! A Coach's Journey from the Pit to the Pinnacle

Biographies & Memoirs

Donna J. Newberry

Jane Varley

Dorothy Dot Richardson

Community & Culture

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The Teeth of the Lion: The Story of the Beloved and Despised Dandelion

Wagon-Making in the United States during the Late-19th through Mid-20th Centuries: A Study of the Gruber Wagon Works at Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania

TerraAtlas: Central Washington, DC

Homes of the First Ladies: A Guide to Publicly Accessible Homes, Museums, and Related Sites

Reading & Writing across the Curriculum: STEPS for the Common Core

Trackards for North American Mammals

The Companion Guide to Trackards for North American Mammals

Groundwater for the 21st Century: A Primer for Citizens of Planet Earth

Groundwater for the 21st Century: A Primer for Citizens of Planet Earth

You Must Play to Win! A Coach's Journey from the Pit to the Pinnacle