A collection of Aesop's fables with an emphasis on their ability to entertain rather than moralize.

Introduces the playful manatee and discusses its future and its relationship with humans.

After spending four years with relatives in the South, a fifteen-year-old girl accepts the idea that slaves are property and is horrified to learn when she returns North that her home is a station on the underground railroad.

"What do you taste in wine? Why do you taste it? Where does it come from?"Oz Clarke says it best: ""If we have any interest in wine and in flavours, we have to be interested in the grape variety itself."" That's how more and more consumers think and learn about wine today, and Clarke, one of the world's most renowned wine writers, has created the definitive guide on for wine lovers who want to know more. In his usual accessible and appealing style,...