New Releases by Virginia Lee

Maybelle was a cable car a San Francisco cable car. . . She rang her gong and sang her song from early morn till late at night. . . . By recounting the actual events in San Francisco''s effort to keep the city''s cable cars running, this classic story illustrates how the voice of the people can be heard in the true spirit of democracy. Virginia Lee Burton''s original art for Maybelle the Cable Car was retrieved from the archives of the San Francisco Public Library to re-create this edition with all the vibrant charm of the original, which was published in 1952.

Mike Mulligan está orgulloso de su hermosa y roja excavadora de vapor, Mary Anne. Ellos forman un equipo desde hace años y años, juntos han cavado grandes canales, han abierto el paso entre montañas, han aplanado las colinas y han alineado las curvas. Pero cuando las nuevas excavadoras comienzan a reemplazar a las grúas como Mary Anne, Mike se resiste a abandonar a su amiga. Los dos se van para el pequeño pueblo de Popperville, donde salen victoriosos en un gran desafío.

Innovative and classical recipes featuring rich, succulent salmon, adapted for your home kitchen.

The three scholarly articles that make up this book examine affirmative action in economic terms, measuring and discussing the economic cost of racial discrimination in employment and the economic cost of equal opportunity enacted to combat discrimination and its effects. The short article by Andrew Brimmer, an economist who was the first black governor of the Federal Reserve Board, calculates the financial cost to the nation of racial discrimination in employment, education, and training. Cecilia Conrad''s article surveys an array of experts and concludes that the direct financial costs to government and private industry of maintaining affirmative action policies is quite small; she also concludes that the popular perception of a productivity loss caused by affirmative action has little basis in demonstrable fact. Finally, Lee Badgett and Heidi Hartmann examine the many studies that have been done to assess the effectiveness of affirmative action policies in increasing employment and wage opportunities for both women and African Americans; they conclude that such policies have had measurable effects, though they have often been slight.

A retelling, in Spanish, of The Little House.

The immigrant ancestor of this family was Johannes Reuter (1806-1881), born in Staufenberg, Germany, a third child of (Johannes) Christoph Reuter and Elisabeth Gimple. He married Maria Catharina Geissler (1809-1886) in 1833. She was a daughter of Heinrich Geissler of Staufenberg and his wife, Anna Maria Hammerle. This family immi- grated to America in 1851. Johannes (John) died in Wheeling, West Virginia, Maria (Mary), his wife, is buried in Wetzel County, West Virginia. They had eight children. They used surname Reuter and Riter. Descendants live in West Virginia, Texas, Ohio, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Illinois, Missouri and elsewhere.

When ten-year-old Maryanne dies, six-year-old Mark-O and the rest of the family become a little wiser about death.