Spier: 25 books

What happens when a young Wall Street investment banker spends a small fortune to have lunch with Warren Buffett? He becomes a real value investor. In this fascinating inside story, Guy Spier details his career from Harvard MBA to hedge fund manager. But the path was not so straightforward. Spier...

This Caldecott Honor book from beloved illustrator Peter Spier is a spirited take on a classic American folk song. "[Spier's] finely detailed, action-packed New England autumn vistas are almost startlingly beautiful."—The New York Times Over fifty years after he won a Caldecott Honor...

Come join the circus as Caldecott Medal-winner Peter Spier takes you for a look under the big top! Full of thrilling and unbelievable sights, this book gives young readers a front row seat to see how a circus runs - from setting up the tent to performing center ring. Go soaring through the...

The U.S. Constitution brought to life for young readers! In this visual celebration of the U.S. Constitution and America's founding fathers, Caldecott Medalist Peter Spier tells the stirring American tale of how this most important document came to symbolize freedom, justice, equality, and...

A book for every patriotic American kid! Never before has the riveting American saga of "The Star-Spangled Banner" been so beautifully and thoroughly presented. This info-packed story of our national anthem includes: ★ Illustrated lyrics ★ The fascinating history of the War of 1812...

**★ Caldecott Medal Winner ★ "the book is a triumph, the definitive Noah's Ark."—Publishers Weekly** Winner of the Caldecott Medal, an ALA Notable Children's Book, and a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year, Peter Spier's Noah's Ark has been the iconic edition of this...

The inspiring stories of courageous non-Jews who risked their own lives to save Jews from the Holocaust Thanks to Thomas Keneally’s book Schindler’s Ark, and the film based on it, Schindler’s List, people have become more aware of the fact that, in the midst of Hitler’s extermination of the...

Two-time Caldecott illustrator Peter Spier’s visual retelling of a favorite Bible story is back in print! In a tale full of action, adventure, and strife, Jonah is asked by God to tell the people of Nineveh to mend their wicked ways. Fleeing from this enormous task, Jonah sets sail and is thrown...

Science and Technology Ethics re-examines the ethics by which we live and asks the question: do we have in place the ethical guidelines through which we can incorporate these developments with the minimum of disruption and disaffection? It assesses the ethical systems in place and proposes new approaches...

In this encyclopedic picture book, Spier celebrates humankind in all its diversity-how we are similar and how we are differnt; in what we wear, eat, play, and how we worship. Small vignettes fill each page, illustrating the wonderful variety that exists among peoples of different cultures and races.

The #1 bestselling science fiction novel. When two men break into Leonard Samson’s house, beat him unconscious and murder his six-year-old son, the police arrive to a gruesome scene. But they are shocked to find the mutilated bodies of the two intruders in the front room of Leonard’s home,...

It starts with one man unleashing a chemical weapon in a crowded underground train station. The man is a terrorist. A lonely man with a desire to kill. He unleashes his weapon and it infects everyone around him. Turning his victims into crazed maniacs, full of anger and infection. An infection that infects whoever the victim comes into contact with.

WARNING: This is the second book in the Kinesis series and the following synopsis contains spoilers for book one.Seven years after her father was shot by police officers, Holly Samson studies at a college in Lakebridge when a killing spree forces her to face the fact that she, like her father,...

WARNING: This is the third book in the Kinesis series and the following synopsis contains spoilers for book one and two.The Ability,The Artefact,The Corona,Three phenomena linked in this dramatic conclusion to the Kinesis Trilogy.As a mysterious group focus their efforts to capture...