Bulldozer

Here's the first part of our Briar Patch Fable trilogy. Through musical fantasy, we express the reality of life's "oneness"...revealing that the basic needs of both humans and other creatures on this planet are the same: air, water, food, shelter, privacy, and the ritual of song and dance. Our interdependency is clear. As one species is threatened, so are we all.

The hometown of rabbits, frogs, woodchucks, skunks, and Wiley Fox is threatened by "bullydozers". Two children, with Rufus and Nellie Rabbit, rally the animals to stage a startling demonstration, declaring their rights to the human citizens. A suspenseful town meeting decides the fate of the Briar Patch (based on real happenings in Sandwich, Massachusetts):

Included in this program:
The Briar Patch Is ThreatenedKate & Willy Have A PlanFrom So Good To So BadTaking Less To Keep It WildA Parade To Save the "Patch"Town Meeting!
The Briar Patch Fable was first written and produced as a musical play in 1974 to celebrate the purchase by the Town of Sandwich, Massachusetts of 52 acres of catbriars for conservation...the real Briar Patch. The story is even more relevant today.

When writer Paul Stewart heads to the idyllic Italian town of Montalcino to finish his already late book, it seems like the perfect escape from stressful city life. Upon landing, however, things quickly take a turn for the worse when he discovers his hired car is nowhere to be found. With no record of any reservation and no other cars available it looks like Paul is stuck at the airport.

That is, until an enterprising stranger offers him an unexpected alternative. While there may be no cars available there is something else on offer: a bulldozer. With little choice in the matter, Paul accepts and so begins a series of laugh out loud adventures through the Italian countryside, following in the wake of Paul and his Italian Bulldozer.

A story of unexpected circumstance and lesson in making the best of what you have, My Italian Bulldozer is a warm holiday read guaranteed to put a smile on your face.

Describes and illustrates how a bulldozer is operated.

Feel the power of a bulldozer as it topples a tree. Hear the crash of the blade as the snowplow works to clear the street. Learn about these and other mighty machines and the important work they do.

There once was a very dedicated little, gray bulldozer by the name of Buddy. He lived on a ranch with his owners Andy and Eileen. Andy and Eileen loved him dearly. Buddy did a lot of chores around the ranch like making new roads and clearing the way for farm equipment. He always wanted to be the best bulldozer he could be!

But not everyone saw it like that. Some of the newer, shinier, bigger bulldozers would make fun of him. They'd say "Look at Buddy, he's too small!" However, Buddy knew there was no such thing as being too small. Plenty of small things are useful. Others would say "Look at Buddy, he's so old!" But Buddy knew that with age, people become wiser and Buddy the bulldozer was as wise as they come. He knew that being negative wouldn't do anything but make himself and others sad so he remained happy, and held his chin up high.

One day Buddy the bulldozer breaks down and nobody knows how to fix him. All the other ranchers are telling Andy and Eileen to scrap buddy and buy a newer, more modern, bigger bulldozer. The question is...can Buddy get fixed in time to help his owners do some very important work on the ranch so the farm animals will be saved, or will Buddy be replaced?

Did you know a bulldozer’s blade can be as heavy as an elephant? A bulldozer breaks apart rocks or dirt and uses its blade to clear things out of the way. Students will learn about the different parts of a bulldozer and the various places a bulldozer works.

Crush and crunch! Here comes a bulldozer. Large, colorful photographs and easy-to-read text gives young learners an up-close look at their favorite construction vehicles.

The best-selling author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series returns with an irresistible new novel about one man’s adventures in the Italian countryside.

Paul Stuart, a renowned food writer, finds himself at loose ends after his longtime girlfriend leaves him for her personal trainer. To cheer him up, Paul’s editor, Gloria, encourages him to finish his latest cookbook on-site in Tuscany, hoping that a change of scenery (plus the occasional truffled pasta and glass of red wine) will offer a cure for both heartache and writer’s block. But upon Paul’s arrival, things don’t quite go as planned. A mishap with his rental-car reservation leaves him stranded, until a newfound friend leads him to an intriguing alternative: a bulldozer.

With little choice in the matter, Paul accepts the offer, and as he journeys (well, slowly trundles) into the idyllic hillside town of Montalcino, he discovers that the bulldozer may be the least of the surprises that await him. What follows is a delightful romp through the lush sights and flavors of the Tuscan countryside, as Paul encounters a rich cast of characters, including a young American woman who awakens in him something unexpected.

A feast for the senses and a poignant meditation on the complexity of human relationships, My Italian Bulldozer is a charming and intensely satisfying love story for anyone who has ever dreamed of a fresh start.

Although the decades following World War II stand out as an era of rapid growth and construction in the United States, those years were equally significant for large-scale destruction. In order to clear space for new suburban tract housing, an ambitious system of interstate highways, and extensive urban renewal development, wrecking companies demolished buildings while earthmoving contractors leveled land at an unprecedented pace and scale. In this pioneering history, Francesca Russello Ammon explores how postwar America came to equate this destruction with progress.

The bulldozer functioned as both the means and the metaphor for this work. As the machine transformed from a wartime weapon into an instrument of postwar planning, it helped realize a landscape-altering “culture of clearance.” In the hands of the military, planners, politicians, engineers, construction workers, and even children’s book authors, the bulldozer became an American icon. Yet social and environmental injustices emerged as clearance projects continued unabated. This awareness spurred environmental, preservationist, and citizen participation efforts that have helped to slow, though not entirely stop, the momentum of the postwar bulldozer.

Time for the construction site to SHAPE UP! Little construction fans will love learning their shapes by watching Bulldozer CIRCLE around, clearing away TRIANGLES of dirt until the perfect building spot has been SQUARED away. It's all in a day's work for the trucks of the bestselling Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site!

Big trucks and a birthday surprise make this construction site treat an irresistible read-aloud, illustrated by a Caldecott Medalist!

It’s Bulldozer’s big day—his birthday! But around the construction site, it seems like everyone is too busy to remember. Bulldozer wheels around asking his truck friends if they know what day it is, but they each only say it’s a work day. They go on scooping, sifting, stirring, filling, and lifting, and little Bulldozer grows more and more glum. But when the whistle blows at the end of the busy day, Bulldozer discovers a construction site surprise, especially for him!

A successful health care entrepreneur and global philanthropist, recounts the lessons he learned along the way and shows that adversity can lead to success in life and business. He shows anyone bulldozed by life how to pull themselves out of the rubble, dust themselves off and find meaning and purpose.

Truck-loving preschoolers will love this charming, busy bulldozer hero!
 
“Push” McCallahan is a hardworking bulldozer who’s on the construction site before the other big work machines have had their first cup of morning diesel. After he’s finished moving dirt and rock, it’s off to build a road, help fight fires, and pull up some tree stumps at the farm! It’s all in a day’s work for this tough-but-lovable earthmover, brought to life by popular Little Golden Book illustrator Bob Staake.

A Cozy Construction Story for Bedtime featuring a Bulldozer and for fans of Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site and Where Do Diggers Sleep at Night?

After a long day of clearing dirt, rocks, and trees, a bulldozer is tired and ready for bed. He lifts up his blade, his spotlights flash on, he rolls through the gate, and lets out a yawn. He heads to the Wiggle and Shake for a bath, then to the Sip and Slurp for some supper, then chooses a bedtime story . . . and soon the bulldozer will be dreaming sweet dreams of finishing his important work!

Construction vehicle fans young and old will delight in this imaginative book of how a bulldozer prepares for bed. Sharon Chriscoe's irresistibly clever and gentle rhyming verse and John Joven's charming illustrations are sure to soothe even the busiest of kids at bedtime.

Get ready for some rough and tumble trucks! In this Discover Series title, 28 tractors, excavators, forklifts and more are featured in big, colorful photographs on white backgrounds.

Bulldozers is now available with audio read-along in an iPad-friendly format. Children can now listen and follow highlighted text from page to page as they learn about the different parts of a bulldozer and the various places a bulldozer works. While students get literacy instruction in school, these new Blastoff! Readers eBooks are designed to help students continue that education at home through considerate text and carefully-paced narration. Blastoff! Readers was designed by literacy experts to help children move from emergent readers to fluency. The leveled approach of Blastoff! Readers' books allows students to climb the scaffold to fluency while also expanding their knowledge of popular nonfiction topics.

Features:
Read Along functionality
Text highlighting
Carefully leveled text
Pop-up glossary term definitions
Linked table of contents, glossary, bibliography, index
Full-color photographs

What happens when a single mother is forced to live with a grumpy, ailing football star? The smolder turns red hot of course.

Amanda Shaw has pulled it together. 

It’s taken a couple of years, a boatload of hard work, and a ton of self-discipline, but she finally has her problems in a headlock. 

Her yoga studio in the city has become so successful she’s opening one near the beach, and her relationship with her ten year old son is improving every day. 

The last thing she needs is a monkey wrench thrown into her smoothly running life.

Grant Hendricks is one big monkey wrench. 

The four time Defensive Player of the Year, three time NFL sack leader, and all around football god has officially hit rock bottom. 

A devastating back injury means he may have to retire and that scares him more than doctors telling him the next hit could leave him paralyzed. 

All he needs is a quiet place to think and his teammate’s beach house sounds like just the place. Problem is, the woman already living there.

A very little bulldozer learns that taking care of kittens is a very big job in this darling follow-up to Bulldozer’s Big Day from award-winning author Candace Fleming and Caldecott Medalist Eric Rohmann.

The construction site bustled.
Cement Truck was stirring…stirring…stirring.
Digger Truck was scooping…scooping…scooping.
Crane Truck was lifting…lifting…lifting.
And Bulldozer was—watching…watching…watching.

Little Bulldozer wants to help, but all the bigger trucks say he is too small. So when Crane Truck says he can clear a bit of debris out of the way, Little Bulldozer is eager for the job. He can do it, yes he can. What he doesn’t expect is to find a family of newborn kittens living in the pile of debris! Can he take care of babies? Now that’s a tough job. A job that happens to be just the right size for Little Bulldozer.

Out on the edge of the desert, things get a bit feral.

This book contains ten paddling adventure stories that take place in locations across the US and Canada. In each location, the author is surrounded by nature offering whatever conditions the natural world presents. Sometimes they are beautiful, offering deep transcendent moments, but at other times the author is cold, wet, frightened, or driven mad by swarms of bugs. These trials are the dues paid to experience a glorious sunrise over a salt marsh, or to watch manatees playing in the shallows, or to hear the muttering of a group of Ibis foraging along the shore of a beautiful river. The stories show one man’s attempt to regain a deep connection with the natural world through wilderness experiences that challenge, frighten, confound, and glorify, in the hope that his adventures may inspire others to experience the same.

Dopo circa quaranta anni di lavoro in diversi Paesi in via di sviluppo, Adalberto Invernizzi, piemontese, laureato in ingegneria, ricorda e rivive alcune tra le sue esperienze più significative di vita e di lavoro, in particolare una nel sud del Sudan.
La sua è una "cronaca" appassionante e coinvolgente che non si limita allo spaccato della vita in un cantiere africano negli anni Ottanta ma narra di molto altro ed offre così un suo ritratto del mondo in cui si è ritrovato, in un Paese che sta seguendo un faticoso processo verso l’indipendenza.
Se siete lettori curiosi queste pagine vi offriranno una esperienza narrativa a suo modo nuova ed originale davvero lontana dal provincialismo imperante in troppe narrazioni Made in Italy. 
Ma che cosa spinge un ingegnere ad andare a lavorare in giro per il mondo, tanto lontano da casa? 
Soltanto carriera e denaro? 

There once was a dedicated little, gray bulldozer by the name of Buddy. He lived on a ranch with his owners Andy and Eileen. Buddy did a lot of chores around the ranch like making new roads and clearing the way for farm equipment. He always wanted to be the best bulldozer he could be!

But not everyone saw it like that. Some of the newer, shinier, bigger bulldozers would make fun of him and how small he was. However, Buddy knew there was no such thing as being too small. Plenty of small things are useful. He knew that being negative wouldn’t do anything but make himself and others sad so he remained happy, and held his chin up high.

One day, Buddy the Bulldozer breaks down and nobody knows how to fix him. All the other ranchers are telling Andy and Eileen to scrap buddy and buy a newer, more modern, bigger bulldozer. The question is, can Buddy get fixed in time to help his owners do some very important work on the ranch so the farm animals will be saved, or will Buddy be replaced?

Feel the power of a bulldozer as it topples a tree. Hear the crash of the blade as the snowplow works to clear the street. Learn about these and other mighty machines and the important work they do.

Little Bulldozer struggles to fall asleep in Bedtime for Little Bulldozer, a sweet and clever bedtime picture book by New York Times bestselling author Elise Broach with illustrations by Barry E. Jackson.

Falling asleep isn’t always easy, especially for a loud and rumbling little bulldozer. Once he finally gets into bed, he can’t fall asleep no matter what he tries to do: has another drink of oil, gathers his favorite stuffies, and even reads his favorite book. Still, something’s not right, and only his sisters—a steamroller and a crane—can make it better. This reassuring and clever bedtime story is for young ones who need a bit of help “bull-dozing” off to sleep.

Christy Ottaviano Books

A GENERATION AGO, A STATE-OF-THE-FIELD FORUM ON SOUTHERN history would have included an entry on cities rather than suburbs. Ever since the World War II era, southern historians have followed the lead of V. O. Key Jr., who in 1949 predicted, "The growth of cities contains the seeds of political change for the South." Key and other contemporaries assumed that urban development would not only modernize but also liberalize southern politics, especially by shifting the balance of power away from "the black-belt whites [who had] succeeded in imposing their will on their states and thereby presented a solid regional front in national politics on the race issue." (1) Before long, however, analysts recognized that "the first fruits of increasing industrialism," as Samuel Lubell wrote in the 1956 edition of The Future of American Politics, had not liberalized the South by empowering the labor movement but were instead fostering "a rising urban middle class, which is virtually Republican in political sympathies." (2) Two decades later, James C. Cobb argued that urbanization represented the driving force behind the weakening of regional distinctiveness and suggested that "[t]he South's cities seem to be the logical place to begin further analyses of southern Republicanism." (3) Earl Black and Merle Black concurred in Politics and Society in the South (1987), which traced the transformations brought by industrial development and metropolitan expansion and concluded that "[t]he main winners in the new southern politics have been the growing middle classes, particularly in the urban areas." (4) Until quite recently, the suburbs had not played a central or often even an explicit role in the historical analysis of southern politics and society since World War II. (5) While an urban-suburban dichotomy took hold in community studies of the postwar North and Midwest, scholars narrated the geographic divisions and political conflicts within the modern South primarily through two pairs of categories: rural versus urban (or sometimes metropolitan) and Deep South versus outer or peripheral South. (6) The Sun Belt framework that flourished in the 1970s and 1980s paid more attention to suburban-style development, especially seen in the pioneering work of Carl Abbott, who traced the growing schisms between central cities and politically autonomous suburbs in fragmenting metropolitan regions. (7) But the "suburban cities" concept that pervaded most of the early Sun Belt literature drew a regional contrast between the sprawling metropolitan centers in the South and West (such as Houston, Dallas, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Miami, and Atlanta) and the Chicago school of urban ecology that has dominated the sensibilities of urban historians. (8) Political trends and behavioral patterns that scholars specifically attributed to suburbanization in other parts of the country--the rise of white-collar corporate culture, an idealized middleclass domesticity, the upwardly mobile base of the postwar Republican Party, a grassroots outlook driven by quality-of-life concerns such as property taxes and public schools, a defensive localism that maintained social homogeneity through exclusionary zoning--seemed sufficiently captured through a city-centered model for the metropolitan South. (9)

"This book, by one of America's most intelligent and decent political writers, tells liberals how the conservative movement rose and fell, and how they could emulate its successes while avoiding its failures."--George Packer, author of Blood of the Liberals and The Assassins' Gate
"No one is better than Todd Gitlin at describing the crucial dynamic through which movements gain or lose political power. Justly celebrated for his seminal work on such dynamics during the 1960s, Gitlin now explains everything that's happened since, with passion and wisdom--and happily, because of Bushism's collapse, legitimate optimism about the future."--Michael Tomasky, Editor, Guardian America
"An impassioned yet realistic plea for Democrats and liberals to become more serious about politics. They would do well to follow his advice."--Alan Wolfe, Director, Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life, Boston College
"A brilliant and indispensable book. Gitlin convincingly urges liberals to take seriously the greater difficulty the Democrats have forging cohesion among identity-based groups over the Republicans persuading the less diverse Republican base to bury disagreements in the drive for victory. Gitlin argues that Democrats will have to bite the bullet and unite under a big tent. It's a hard lesson for ardent newcomers to the movement to swallow. Gitlin is dead right."--Thomas B. Edsall, Special Correspondent, The New Republic
"This is an indispensable book by one of our most gifted public intellectuals. Todd Gitlin explains--with splendid scholarship, reporting, and wit--how the Bush machine debased our political life and how progressives, in all their variety, are struggling to build a new majority. It is the best guide we have to America's recent past and its possible future."--Michael Kazin, author of A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan and Professor of History, Georgetown University

There are so many changes happening in Wordsworth’s life – his best friend Emily has moved away, a new girl from Japan named Akiko is sitting in Emily’s chair at school and, worst of all, a bulldozer has invaded Wordsworth’s special koa grove where he thinks up new poems. What should Wordsworth do?