Helen Plum Library

"A brand-new edition for 2019 of the award-winning First Dictionary for children in grades K-2, with more than 2,000 age-appropriate words. This edition is completely redesigned in a two-column format and features hundreds of new words, photographs, and drawings, as well as colored note boxes to help beginning readers build vocabulary, identify synonyms and antonyms, and recognize sound-alikes"-- Provided by publisher

Presents four thousand alphabetically arranged words with several synonyms and an illustrative sentence for each

What's new about names? The new edition of 100,000+ Baby Names by Bruce Lansky features the most up-to-date lists of names, trends, advice, and fascinating facts about names, inlcuding: hundreds of newly popular names and variations ; the atest list of top 100 names for boys and girls ; the latest naming trends what's hot and what's not ; the most rapidly rising and falling top 1,000 names ; updated lists of names to consider, including names of newly...

In nearly 1500 entries, many of them illustrated, the author has documented the history and evolution of symbols from prehistory to our own day. With over 200 illustrations and informative and often ironic texts, she discusses and explains an enormous variety of symbols extending from the Arctic to Dahomey, from the Iroquois to Oceania, and coming from systems as diverse as Tao, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, Tantra, the cult of Cybele and...

Background information on the historical, literary, and theological dimensions of the Scriptures. Comprehensive Bible study system, including nearly 600 Reading Guide pages. Charts, outlines, and reading lists encouraging in-depth study. Complete Sunday and weekday lectionary readings and 36 pages of full-color maps with index

Presents a guidebook which provides identification tips, information on behavior and nesting, locator and range maps, and plumage and species classification data on over one thousand species of birds found in North America

First published in 1751, "An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals" by David Hume, the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, was the enquiry subsequent to his 1748 work "Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding" and is often referred to as "the second Enquiry". In Hume's own opinion it was the very best of all his writings. In "An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals", Hume expands upon his ideas of morality first discussed in his earlier...

The 2025 edition of The World Almanac reviews the biggest events of 2024 and will be your go-to source for questions on any topic in the upcoming year. Get thousands of facts at your fingertips with this essential resource: sports, pop culture, science and technology, U.S. history and government, world geography, business. This compendium of facts and statistics also provides a quick look at the surprising stats and curious facts that define the changing...