Presenting stories of life on the road with a young Elvis, this comprehensive guide to Elvis' band gives an insider's view of how the band worked with him onstage, in the studio, and in movies. Based on interviews with Moore, Fontana, and the family of the late Bill Black, it provides insights and photographs.

Presents experiments based on real magnetic physics such as using a common refrigerator magnet to create a three-dimensional image or floating a magnet and carbon sheet in midair. This book is outlined with step-by-step instructions and diagrams that illustrate the key concepts of magnetism.

Tells the stories of enslavement, brutality, and dreams of freedom of ten slaves - all under the age of 19. This collection, culled from full-length autobiographies, presents accounts selected to help teenagers relate to the horrific experiences of slaves their own age - suffering from starvation, being whipped and tortured, and more.

Explains how to act and what to say in the presence of police to minimize the chances of being arrested and to avoid add-on charges - which can often lead to permanent disqualification from jobs, financing, and education. This book teaches citizens how to avoid arrest and alerts to basic tricks cops use to get people to incriminate themselves.

Aimed at children of ages 3 to 9 years, this book includes ideas on how to get children outdoors and instill in them a love for nature. It includes more than 75 creative crafts, games, and activities using objects that kids can collect from nature. It offers information on recycling, reducing waste, and inspiring others to protect nature.

The Grit, located in the quintessential boho town of Athens, Georgia, is known far and wide as the touring musicians' restaurant of choice. This book features 150 of The Grit's most requested recipes, showing how this vegetarian eatery combines soul-food sensibility with meatless cuisine, and maintains the down-home, soul-food feeling.

From the sites of famous sit-ins, marches, and strikes to the locales of events that led to landmark Supreme Court decisions, this travel guide journeys to over 400 of the places in the United States that are important to progressive politics.

Answering a myriad of questions unique to blended families, this resource offers suggestions on how to determine who hosts milestone birthday parties, bar and bat mitzvahs, and Quinceaneras; co-ordinate who attends sporting events and concerts; and how to respectfully attend a former relative's funeral.

Chronicling the author's 10,000-mile Great Lakes Circle Tour, this travel memoir seeks to answer a burning question: Is there a Great Lakes culture, and if so, what is it?

Detailing tinseltown's fascination with the comic icon, this book encompasses the behind-the-scenes machinations that helped shape Superman into a screen legend - and the derailed projects that have vilified those involved.

The result of a collaboration between gardener and teacher, Pamela Wolfe, and award-winning photographer, Gary Irving, this is a guide on how to create fantastic gardens in the Midwest.

The flowers described here will thrive and winter over in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, and Wisconsin.

Cowboys and cowgirls explore the West with more than 80 rip roarin' activities such as sewing a sunbonnet, panning for gold, and singing cowboy songs. Crafts, recipes, songs, and games teamed with an engaging text will have young readers convinced that they're just having fun .-- School Library Journal .

A guide for dreamers, ages 12 to 16, into the mysterious world of the subconscious, this book explores everything from how dreams have shaped history to interpreting dreams (without giving pat answers) to lucid dreaming and dream telepathy to organizing a dream group among friends. 5 line drawings.

Includes: No-fail perennials, wildflowers, and handy bulbs; Kitchen gardens from vegetables and herbs to currants, raspberries, and other small fruits; Shade trees, conifers, and beautiful small trees and shrubs for every site; Lawns, ground covers, native prairies, and romantic meadows; and, more.