Jack climbs the great beanstalk that grows from the bean he bought and confronts a giant at the top.

NPR was created in 1970, three years after Congress passed the Public Broadcasting Act and established the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Signing the act into law, President Lyndon B. Johnson said, We in America have an appetite for excellence . . . we want most of all to enrich man's spirit. Today NPR produces and distributes programming that reaches more than 26 million listeners weekly. More than 900 stations nationwide broadcast NPR programming....

Bob Christopher is Los Angeles' Channel Three television-news action reporter. His beat is the little people-the ones who get pushed around, find themselves in god-awful messes, and produce "human interest" for the insatiable maw of television. But this story was different from the first, when a tiny old lady told Christopher about the bulldozers that had leveled her home without reason or warning. That was ugly enough. What happened to the old lady...

A book and DVD combination to help share the joy and wonder of God's Word with the children in your life. These bite-size vignettes in book and DVD presentations are perfect for the attention span of little ones, and give parents maximum flexibility to fit any time frame. This volume contains more than 100 beloved Bible stories, including time-honored favorites like Creation, Adam and Eve, Noah and the flood, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Samson, Ruth and...

The silence of the night is broken with an explosion of light. A young man riding an ebony Unicorn is being pursued by a grotesque giant Draguana. And so the journey begins. Jarith and Nexus, the Ebony Unicorn strive to get the Ancient Scrolls to the Halls of the Magi before Zeeka, the giant winged Draguana can obtain them. In so doing they experience many unexpected happenings and face many dangers. After meeting Leadoria, Shape-shifter they visit...

An account of the life of George Brown who gave his name to Edinburgh's George Square. He was an important, though little-known, player in the practical application of contemporary theories of social improvement to Scottish life in the eighteenth century. His genial, hospitable character and his career offer further insights into a period of remarkable transformation which has much relevance to our struggles for social cohesion and identity today....

This book is a monument, not to Joanna Bradshaw who is the subject of Jody, but to America. Jody's is truly an American story. With the gift of extraordinary talent, the will to make the most of herself, and the willingness to pay her dues, she rose to the very top of her profession against staggering odds. She fulfilled Abraham Lincoln's broad vision of America as a land where anyone could rise as far as talent and hard work would take them.Jody...