If you want to help save Mother Earth but feel overwhelmed and don't know where to begin, The Kitchen Handbook shows you how to focus on one specific area of your life - the kitchen - and begin to make simple but extremely significant changes. It also provides simple, comprehensible overviews of the complex ecological issues related to what and how we eat.

To kids, dinosaurs are serious business, and woe betide the parent who can't tell an Apatosaurus from a Hadrosaur and is blissfully unaware that the Brontosaurus is a beast from the past in more ways than one. Full of humor, this is a book that finally answers the questions kids really ask about dinosaurs. (Winner of American Dinosaur Society's science award for accuracy in writing about dinosaurs.)

This practical, positive look at kids and discipline was one of Teri's first books. Inspired by the work she did with emotionally disturbed children after obtaining her MA in the field, it details the affirmative parenting and teaching techniques she observed in the gifted teachers, insightful psychologists, and highly effective parents she encountered.

If the expression "Not enough room to swing a cat" conjures up images of animal cruelty, you can discover its real meaning in this humorous but highly informative look at the unexpected origins of everyday expressions that come to us from the world of animals.
(Illustrations by Tina Holdcroft)

The romance of the sea and the colorful language of those who sailed her have given us countless expressions whose salty beginnings have been long forgotten. Discover why "three sheets to the wind" has nothing to do with laundry and "freezing the brass balls off a monkey" has even less to do with masculine anatomy. (Illustrations by Tina Holdcroft)