New Releases by Heather Brown

Chomp! Zoo puts kids in the driver’s seat as they pull a tab to activate a working mouth, making their favorite zoo animals munch, bark, and chomp! With a pull tab-activated working mouth, Chomp! Zoo is one board book that''s anything but ordinary. Each die-cut page reveals a favorite zoo animal that kids can make munch, bark, and of course chomp with the pull of a single tab. Putting little readers in control of the jaws will make this a book they''ll come back to again and again. A bold color palette and beautifully detailed illustrations round out a package we think is a roaring good time.

This, the first book-length study devoted exclusively to Marx’s perspectives on gender and the family, offers a fresh look at this topic in light of twenty-first century concerns. Although Marx’s writings sometimes exhibit sexism, especially through the naturalization of certain female social functions, his work often transcends these. Brown studies those writings on gender, as well as his 1879-1882 notebooks on precapitalist societies and gender, some of them still unpublished in any language. The author argues that although Marx never fully developed these ideas, he gave important indications toward a theory of gender and society. This study attempts to fill a significant gap in the literature on Marx and offer some general insights into the intersectionality of gender and class.

Athena, the newest member of the Newport Ladies'' Book Club, juggles the demands of attending to an ailing parent and running her business. When she stumbles across an old shoebox in her mother''s closet, she''s stunned by its contents, which hold unexpected truths about her parents'' relationship.

Venice has just graduated from high school and ponders her own purpose as her mother becomes ultra-busy with work, her brother moves away from home, and her best friend continues on to university. Events from her past stifle Venice''s brewing wish to become a world-famous photographer.Raizel, a young woman from some other place, has just emerged from yet another failed summer relationship. Family secrets allow Raizel to fall under her parents'' radar. Raizel wants nothing more than to skip town, attend hair school, and fall in love.Two young woman from two different places--one dream for the future. Will a chance encounter revive their co-desire to become something better than suggested by the lives lain out before them?

Lead is often relegated to a footnote or sidebar in the study of ancient metals. However, the hundreds of lead ingots discovered in underwater sites over the past half-century have attested to the widespread production and trade of this utilitarian metal. Shipwreck sites allow independent dating evidence not available for many land find. They also provide information about shipment size as well as accompanying cargo which can offer clues about trade patterns and markets for lead in the ancient world. While lead was not particularly rare nor valuable, it represents small- to moderate-scale trade that bridges the gap between luxury trade and the circulation of staple agricultural products. It thus can be viewed as a proxy for the many other perishable materials that supported daily life, such as timber, cloth, cordage, leather and pigments. Due to the abundance of lead ingot finds, published in many different languages with great variation in the details provided, it is difficult to compare all of this material. This thesis, therefore, compiles and presents data on all published lead ingots from Mediterranean and Atlantic shipwrecks through the fourth century C.E., in order to provide a framework to analyze the ancient seaborne lead trade. Sixty-eight sites containing lead ingots, lead ore or lead minerals are included in the analysis, divided into six time periods: Bronze Age, Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman Republic and Roman Empire. A typology of ingots has been developed to allow for comparison of ingots between wrecks. The uses of lead are reviewed, organized by type of use: domestic, professional, military and infrastructural. This allows insight into both the consumers in need of lead and the volume and regularity of consumption required for each use. An overview of lead production and its economic limitations further informs the discussion of the lead trade. The final analysis considers all of these factors in creating a picture of lead trade for each of the six periods, focusing on the regions of supply, the types of demand, and the dominant forces that drove the mining and production of lead.

A robot is made of many parts but what is on the inside?

The story of Alma the Younger who fought to destroy the Church of God, the Church his father served. But in an encounter with an angel, Alma the Younger is transformed by the Savior''s amazing grace.

Alma the Elder, who begins his life in debauchery, becomes the respected adviser to a king and the leader of his church, only to face the almost herculean challenges of leading a colony of believers to safety.

Four great new How To guides that are ideal for beginners, and packed with information to help improve even the trickiest moves. Find out more about your sporting heroes, and how to be as great as them.

When King Noah demands that Raquel, a daughter of one of his priests, join his harem, she flees the only life she has ever known and marries her secret love, Abinadi. They live happily together in their community of believers, enjoying their firstborn son, until the Lord calls Abinadi as His prophet with a mission that will test the couple''s faith--even unto death.

Ted Egan and his relationship with Aborigines.