Engelhardt: 77 books

Witches have stories too. So do mermaids, millers' daughters, princes (charming or otherwise), even big bad wolves. They may be a bit darker--fewer enchanted ball gowns, more iron shoes. Happily-ever-after? Depends on who you ask. In Wolves and Witches, sisters Amanda C. Davis and Megan Engelhardt...

Carroll Engelhardt’s parents grew up in homes without electricity on farms without tractors and began farming in the same way. As a farm boy in northeastern Iowa, he thought that history happened only to important people in earlier times and more exotic places. After decades of teaching, he at last...

A whisper in the dark...how peculiar! A hunting expedition gone wrong...astonishing! A mysterious woman sealed in an ancient tomb...by Jove! A pair of shoes at a crossroads...have you ever seen such a thing? These preposterous journeys take the reader from the sands of Egypt to a small Southern...

Roboter sind längst Teil unseres täglichen Lebens, als Rasenmäher, Staubsauger oder auch in der Industrie. Für Maker sind Roboter ein optimales Betätigungsfeld: Handwerk, Elektronik und Informatik verbinden sich zur perfekten Symbiose. Der Raspberry Pi ist als vollwertiger Minicomputer das perfekte...

A flock of shiny stories! Associated with life and death, disease and luck, corvids have long captured mankind’s attention, showing up in mythology as the companions or manifestations of deities, and starring in stories from Aesop to Poe and beyond. In Corvidae birds are born of blood and...

From its founding, the United States has been a nation made by wars. Through incisive analysis and characteristic wit, Engelhardt ponders whether in this century, its citizenry and government will be unmade by them.

The challenging exercises and critical vocabulary you need to advance your English skills Created by ESL instructor Diane Engelhardt, Practice Makes Perfect: Advanced English Reading and Comprehension features lengthy, complex passages to help you develop essential English reading and critical thinking...

“Anyone who believes that faeries are wee, golden-haired creatures with dragon-fly wings and sweet intentions has never met a real faerie.” –Suzanne J. Willis, “A Silver Thread Between Worlds” Retellings of familiar favourites from new perspectives, and brand new tales share the pages...

Learning to do the right thing is a lifelong task. Because children are newcomers on the path of social, moral, and spiritual development, they need caring guides to help them along the way. In Making Good Choices: A Book about Right and Wrong . . . Just for Me!, author Lisa O. Engelhardt helps...

It's no overstatement to say that the state of Texas is a republic of barbecue. Whether it's brisket, sausage, ribs, or chicken, barbecue feeds friends while they catch up, soothes tensions at political events, fuels community festivals, sustains workers of all classes, celebrates brides and grooms,...

This book addresses a conundrum for the international development community: The law of development cooperation poses major constraints on delivering aid where it is needed most. The existence of a state with an effective government is a basic condition for the transfer of aid, making development...

A sudden accident and the destinies of three strangers—a young athlete, an immigrant mechanic and a doctor—are profoundly changed. Unaware of one another’s suffering, they struggle for years until their pain reaches a zenith. Then their independent lives are thrust inescapably together once...

Education Reform proposes and defends an alternate paradigm of public education. It challenges “secular education” as a failed educational model and proposes an alternate model with farreaching potential. It reveals how secular schools have insufficient resources to support the public’s educational...

With thirty-Five years of clinical experience as a Canadian family physician and a master’s degree in bioethics, Barry explores the practice of medicine like a scientist studying a new-found species: Homo sapiens.Using countless anonymized clinical stories, he leads the reader through an...