Books - Z

• Zippo Advertising Lighters: Cars & Trucks
  With 673 illustrations, this book displays Zippo lighters emblazoned with automobile logos and images, both familiar and lesser known, of decades past. Also included are company histories and tips for lighter care and restoration. Current market values for the lighters shown are in the captions....
• Zen Meditation Balls
  Zen Meditation Balls are a welcome addition to a frazzled world! Long considered a mainstream Eastern practice, meditation has experienced an unprecedented growth in the West, with millions of us practicing meditations for its physical, mental and spiritual benefits. Our Zen Meditation Balls are a ...
• Zen Wisdom
  Illuminations are a unique new format from Running Press Miniature Editions. These beautiful keepsake light-boxes shine from the inside out to display five exquisite, interchangeable images. The transparencies are illuminated by a battery-operated light, creating a gorgeous glow for an inspirationa...
• Ziglar on Selling
  Drawing on his more than forty years of sales experience, master motivator Zig Ziglar provides a wealth of inspirational and practical information for making it in today's fast-paced selling world. Ziglar's primary aim is to help sales professionals persuade their customers more effectively, more e...
• Zoom
  Oil is the problem. Cars are the solution. Those two simple sentences by the authors of Zoom define the scope of their illuminating and important book, an examination of a transformation in business and culture that is occurring before our eyes. We are living in the midst of a Great Awakening. P...
• Zarconi's Magic Flying Fish
  Before he came to Zarconi's, Gus didn't even know he had grandparents. Now, he's caught up in their world of magicians, stilt-walkers, tattooed tent hands, elephant turds - and there's a snake-girl who might become his best friend or his worst enemy. Why is everyone so secretive about Gus's family?...
• Zombies
• Zoe Lynn Is In
  Zoe Lynn Is In is a lovely mommy and me afternoon. They play a game called, What's this? What's that? and all of Zoe's questions are answered with patience and love. This fun afternoon is a wonderful learning and bonding experience for both....
• Zen Tails: Student Workbook
  Zen Tails are classical philosophical tales adapted and illustrated for children 8-10 years....
• Zambians Talking
• Zen Macrobiotics for Americans
• Zollinger's Atlas of Surgical Operations
  The classic step-by-step guide to general surgery procedures is now updated!...
• Zoontologies
  Those nonhuman beings called animals pose philosophical and ethical questions that go to the root not just of what we think but of who we are. Their presence asks: what happens when the other can no longer safely be assumed to be human? This collection offers a set of incitements and coordinates fo...
• Zoo Babies
• Zen Brushwork
  Section one covers the basics (history, tools and posture) and presents a unique yoga-like warm-up to establish the proper mental attitude and release creative energies. Next, the power of the brushed line is diagnosed and practised. What makes a good line or a bad one, an expressive effort or an u...
• Zen for Beginners
  Zen from its foundation in China of the 6th Century AD, has always been more than a religion. It is an intriguing system of principles and practice designed to give each individual the experience of eternity in a split second, the knowledge of divinity in every living thing. To create a book about ...
• Zen Guitar
  Offering a contemplative approach to playing the guitar, this book covers all levels of experience from professional musicians and amateur guitar players to uninitiated music lovers. The author offers his own experiences with music to show how to rediscover harmony and become open to Zen awareness....
• ZEN Master Who?
  Surprisingly little has been written about how Zen came to North America. Zen Master Who? does that and much more. Author James Ishmael Ford, a renowned Zen master in two lineages, traces the tradition's history in Asia, looking at some of its most important figures -- the Buddha himself, and the h...
• Zen's Chinese Heritage
  Spanning 25 generations of enlightened teachers, this book is a broad survey of the prose and poetry of the Zen ancients, drawing on new and previously untranslated passages of core teachings....
• ZEN of Groups
  Designed to make meetings more enjoyable and effective through tapping the synergy available in groups. Contains a tool kit of 96 techniques and exercises to help any group move through the processes and stages to make group synergy a reality....
• Zend Avesta and Solar Religions: A Historical Compilation (1852)
  With notes and additions. This volume is the first of a series, designed to show the unitary origin and scientific basis of the principal religions of the world, and to furnish a criterion by which we may discover how far they have been truly develop...
• Zoroastrian Studies: the Iranian Religion and Various Monographs (1928)
  This volume of studies represents researches spread over a period of many years. Part I: Iranian Religion: introduction periods in the development of the religion of Iran Zoroaster, prophet of ancient Iran Zoroastrianism as a faith host of heaven leg...
• Zoroastrianism and Judaism (1918)
  The author attempts to give an outline picture of Zoroastriansm, and then of Judaism when it came to be somewhat a fixed system in the post-exilic times, in order to give the leading religious, social, and moral conceptions in each faith. Contents: Zarathustra and the Zeit-Geist Judaism the idea of...
• Zoroastrians in Britain
  Zoroastrianism is the religion of ancient Iran, dating back over a thousand years before the time of Christ. It is also the religion of Britain's oldest South Asian minority, with a history going back to 1724, From the contribution to the Zoroastrian MPs Naoroji and Bhownagree in the nineteenth cen...
• Zen and the Art of Falling in Love
  As a great teacher once said, 'We never ask the meaning of life when we're in love'. But the real question is, 'why aren't we in love all the time?', ZEN AND THE ART OF FALLING IN LOVE answers that question. By combining the psychological understanding of relationships with the principles of Zen pr...
• ZEN Training
  Zen Training is a comprehensive handbook for zazen, seated meditation practice, and an authoritative presentation of the Zen path. The book marked a turning point in Zen literature in its critical reevaluation of the enlightenment experience, which the author believes has often been emphasized at t...
• Zen Living
  Explains what Zen is and how it came to America, how to practice Zen and incorporate it into daily living, and the Zen approach to the world....
• Zen Master Raven
  The use of brief, thought-provoking stories -- also known as koans -- to teach the key concepts of Zen Buddhism has a long and illustrious history. In Zen Master Raven, Robert Aitken, one of America's best-known and most-respected Zen masters, presents a brilliant introduction to Zen Buddhist te...
• ZEN Wave
  The author of Taking the Path of Zen ponders Zen, the human mind, and the haiku of Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) the greatest Japanese haiku poet....
• Zen in the Art of Archery
  Since its original publication in 1953, Zen in the Art of Archery has become one of the classic works on Eastern philosophy, the first book to delve deeply into the role of Zen in philosophy, development, and practice of Eastern martial arts. Wise, deeply personal, and frequently charming, it is th...
• Zest Running Fit
  Running is one of the fastest growing sports with more and more people taking part in marathons and charity sponsored runs. Emotionally and physically beneficial, it improves your cardiovascular system and mental performance and reverses the affects of ageing. However, running can be a daunting spo...
• Zamboni
  Until 1949, resurfacing an ice rink required a tractor-pulled shaver followed by three or four workers scooping away the shavings and then spraying and squeegeeing water. The process-including the refreezing-took more than an hour. That all changed when a tireless inventor by the name of Frank J. Z...
• Zone Mind, Zone Body
  No doubt you've experienced times in your sport when you feel 'in the moment' or 'in the Zone'. Achieving peak performance seems easy. But when we lose that state we once again find ourselves putting in a lot of effort for little gain. This book shows us how we can rediscover the elusive Zone whene...
• Zhang Xin
  On January 11th, 2005, Klaus Schwab, Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, released the names of the first 237 young leaders who have been selected and have accepted to take part in The Forum of Young Global Leaders, working in close cooperation with the World Economic Forum. Among the Yo...
• Zygmunt Bauman
  This timely book provides the definitive concise introduction to the phenomenon of Zygmunt Bauman. After introducing the man, his major influences and his special way of 'thinking sociologically', author Blackshaw traces the development of Bauman's project by identifying and explaining the major sh...
• Zodiac Lovers
  Athena Starwoman's follow-up title to her bestselling Zodiac. With her expertise and charming text, Athena takes the reader through every possible zodiac combination, giving all the astrological confidence and insight needed for the perfect zodiac lo...
• Zodiac Types
  A new edition of this perennial Gem favourite, this is a complete guide to everything you've ever wanted to know about the zodiac. From sex to work, family to living habits, Gem Zodiac Types tells you how each zodiac sign behaves and lives. Have you ever wondered what a Taurean's personality is lik...
• Zodiac Wisdom: Aquarius
  My stars! Learn revealing traits about your sign in these splendid Zodiac mini pop-ups. Are you passionate about ideas and emotions? You must be a Scorpio! Stubborn? You're a Taurus! Read quotes from personalities who share your sign: Oprah Winfrey (Aquarius), John Wayne (Gemini), Sigmund Freud (Ta...
• Zodiac Wisdom: Aries
  My stars! Learn revealing traits about your sign in these splendid Zodiac mini pop-ups. Are you passionate about ideas and emotions? You must be a Scorpio! Stubborn? You're a Taurus! Read quotes from personalities who share your sign: Oprah Winfrey (Aquarius), John Wayne (Gemini), Sigmund Freud (Ta...
• Zodiac Wisdom: Capricorn
  My stars! Learn revealing traits about your sign in these splendid Zodiac mini pop-ups. Are you passionate about ideas and emotions? You must be a Scorpio! Stubborn? You're a Taurus! Read quotes from personalities who share your sign: Oprah Winfrey (Aquarius), John Wayne (Gemini), Sigmund Freud (Ta...
• Zodiac Wisdom: Gemini
  My stars! Learn revealing traits about your sign in these splendid Zodiac mini pop-ups. Are you passionate about ideas and emotions? You must be a Scorpio! Stubborn? You're a Taurus! Read quotes from personalities who share your sign: Oprah Winfrey (Aquarius), John Wayne (Gemini), Sigmund Freud (Ta...
• Zodiac Wisdom: Scorpio
  My stars! Learn revealing traits about your sign in these splendid Zodiac mini pop-ups. Are you passionate about ideas and emotions? You must be a Scorpio! Stubborn? You're a Taurus! Read quotes from personalities who share your sign: Oprah Winfrey (Aquarius), John Wayne (Gemini), Sigmund Freud (Ta...
• Zodiac Wisdom: Taurus
  My stars! Learn revealing traits about your sign in these splendid Zodiac mini pop-ups. Are you passionate about ideas and emotions? You must be a Scorpio! Stubborn? You're a Taurus! Read quotes from personalities who share your sign: Oprah Winfrey (Aquarius), John Wayne (Gemini), Sigmund Freud (Ta...
• Zodiac Wisdom: Sagittarius
  My stars! Learn revealing traits about your sign in these splendid Zodiac mini pop-ups. Are you passionate about ideas and emotions? You must be a Scorpio! Stubborn? You're a Taurus! Read quotes from personalities who share your sign: Oprah Winfrey (...
• Zen Cards
• Zion's Lost Souls
  Do you believe in ghosts? How do you react when told a true ghost story? They seem anachronistic in our scientific society, and yet they endure. In one of the most unlikely of U.S. cultures, read the supernatural belief tales that persist: *A spirit, cursed by Brigham Young, who watches over the yo...
• Zenith Radio, the Glory Years, 1936-1946
• Zero to One Million
  '[Allis] has made a million-dollar dream come true and he shares how he did it in this roller-coaster-of-a-read book' - Jay Conrad Levinson, author, Guerrilla Marketing series. By age 22, self-made millionaire Ryan Allis found the secret to entrepreneurial success. In Zero to One Million, he explai...
• Zero to Zillionaire
  Zero to Zillionaire is a scale. We are all on that scale somewhere-some of us are drowning near Zero and some of us are riding the crest of the Zillionaire wave. Why is that? Why do some people sink to the bottom of the ocean, some people float to the peak at the top, and the majority tread water i...
• Z for Zachariah
  Nuclear war has devastated America, except for the valley where Ann Burden has been living alone - until Loomis, a scientist in a radiation-proof suit, arrives. She hopes they will be companions but his behaviour towards her becomes threatening as he attacks her and then cuts off her food supply an...
• Zack's Alligator
  When Bridget the alligator arrives in the mail, she's only the size of a key chain! But after Zack soaks her in water, she grows into a real live alligator. Bridget wrestles the garden hose and swings from the monkey bars. And what other alligator can do cartwheels?...
• Zack's Alligator Goes to School
  It's just a dumb key chain! Buster says when Zack brings his alligator to school for show-and-tell. But Bridget is no ordinary key chain. When she falls into the aquarium, she grows to full size! Whirling, dancing, and singing, the zany girl 'gator turns the classroom upside down. Show-and-tell wil...
• Zed
  Zed is a 9 soft dinosaur hand puppet with floating eyes. Now, Zed, he's a character unlike any other. An exciting, adventuresome, cool teenage brother. He might be a rock star, but then, he may not. If it's fast and exciting he'll give it a shot....
• Ziggy and the Plugfish
  A terrible thing happened to Ziggy Plunkett. His parents were swallowed alive by a giant blue jellyfish. Ziggy runs for help, but even Shayla's dad with his hotted-up ute and his explosives can't get them out. Nor can Admiral Crushmore with his breakdancing mini-submarine. In fact, no one can get t...
• Zelda and Ivy - the Runaways
  Laura McGee Kvasnosky's newest trio of stories is an entertaining and genuine look at the ups and downs of sisterhood. You go, girls! . . . Three satisfying stories of two sisters create one rewarding read. -- THE HORN BOOK (starred review) The fabulous fox sisters return in three fresh, funny ...
• Zoo
  Kids won't be able to resist the animals in this GIANT fold-out flap book. Five different animals -- rhino, crocodile, giraffe, zebra, and lion -- are described in fun riddle-fashion. When they know the answer, readers fold out the extra-large flaps to reveal the animal in its habitat. Objects and ...
• Zoo Parade
  How many different ways of walking can you name? Join a parade of animals on their way to the zoo to find out! Can you prance like a lion? Dance like a gazelle? Can you saunter like a giraffe? Kangaroo jump? March like a camel with a bumpity hump? Simms Taback's big, bright, and bold illustrat...
• Zolo A-B-Z
  For the first time, Zolo, the construction toy, is now a book! Zolo A-B-Z: An Alphabet Book is a fun and wacky way to learn one's A-B-Cs. Bright and colorful, silly and whimsical, the Zolo shapes create many fun, slightly abstract characters, from birds and fish to dogs and people. Houses, trees, a...
• Zoopa
  Turn the pages of this lively book to discover a bowl of alphabet soup unlike any other! From the quiet ant on the front endpapers to the exuberant zebra in the final spread Children will delight in this wild menagerie that comes to the table Filled with imaginative detail that makes this a delecta...
• Zan-Gah
  The hero, Zan-Gah seeks his lost twin in a savage prehistoric world, encountering suffering, captivity, conflict, love, and triumph. In three years, Zan-Gah passes from an uncertain boyhood to a tried and proven manhood and a position of leadership among his people. Themes: survival, cultures, gend...
• Zayda Was a Cowboy
  The year was 1980. Fifty-two Americans were being held hostage in Iran and President Carter's efforts to rescue them were not successful...Ronald Reagan got elected president, John Lennon of the Beatles was shot dead, I drove everyone nuts singing the Doobie Brothers hit What a Fool Believes night ...
• Zombie Monkey Monster Jamboree
  The camping trip in Arizona's White Mountains is Skeeter McGill's first as patrol leader, and with the big Jamboree coming up, he has a lot riding on his success. So when things start to go wrong -- the scout leaders bringing the food get lost, rain douses the campers' spirits and fires -- Skeeter'...
• Zoe Pope
  The international Astronomical Union says Pluto isn't a planet anymore. Zoe Pope says, better get yourselves a lawyer! After a field trip to the planetarium, 9 year-old Zoe Pope learns that Pluto has been demoted to non-planet status. Pluto not a planet? That's like saying grass isn't green. Zoe's ...
• Zelinsky Paul O : Wheels on the Bus
  When The Wheels on the Bus, by Caldecott Medalist Paul O. Zelinsky, broke onto the scene twelve years ago, it created a sensation with its clever characters, sly subplots, luscious colors, and the incomparable flair of its moving parts. Almost a million young readers have enjoyed the wheels that go...
• Zoey 101 PCA Guide to Life
  Being a PCA Stingray can be tough. Seriously! But have no fear, The PCA Survival Guide to Life is here! Need help squeezing some money out of your parents, weasling out of gym class, or just need some fresh homework excuses? Look no further! Zoey and the gang offer words of wisdom-and wackiness-to ...
• Zinnia's Flower Garden
  Zinnia grows many kinds of flowers in her garden. Sunflowers, sweet peas, and (of course) zinnias bloom in the sunshine. Customers come to pick their own bunches of flowers. Bouquet-bright artwork shows all Zinnia's tasks, from planting the seeds to cutting the beautiful blooms. The perfect tie-in ...
• Zachary's Ball
  When Zachary's father catches a foul ball at Fenway Park and gives it to him, something really amazing happens -- Zachary finds himself on the pitcher's mound, wearing a Red Sox uniform and playing against New York! As long as Zachary has the ball, all his baseball fantasies seem to come true. But ...
• Zack's Potty
  Potty Training is simple with Zack's Potty. These folded books are portable and laminated. Open the Zack package and you'll find a 3-dimensional doll that can actually sit on a potty just like a child. Inside is a charming story that gently teaches children to use the potty while acknowledging that...
• Zoe's Potty
  Potty Training is simple with Zoe's Potty. These folded books are portable and laminated. Open the Zoe package and you'll find a 3-dimensional doll that can actually sit on a potty just like a child. Inside is a charming story that gently teaches children to use the potty while acknowledging that a...
• Zoe and the Incredible Dr. Tillie
  It is a known fact that many children are apprehensive about their visit to the doctor's office. This book tells the story about Zoe's encounter with the doctor with the hope of helping other school-age children have a better view of what School and Sports physical is all about as well as help Heat...
• Zoom City
  For active toddlers exploring their world, this energetic book bursts with the noisy sounds children love to imitate.Honk! Honk! Beep! Beep! Zoom City zooms with cars--and dogs!-- on the go. Active toddlers, busy exploring their world, will love this energetic book that's filled with the noisy soun...
• Zibby Payne & the Party Problem
  (ages 8 - 11) Everyone's favorite Total Tomboy is back, with more over-the-top plans to save the day! Zibby can't believe her sometimes-friends Amber and Savannah are turning their birthday bashes into exclusive events by handing out special party privileges to a select few. Always one to express h...
• Zooming in on Taronga
  Join animal-loving Jordan on a photographic adventure through the world famous Taronga Zoo. Share his excitement as he tries to zoom in on some of the 'magical fantastical' animals that live in this spectacular harbour-side zoo. Ages 4+....
• Z Is for Zookeeper
  Illustrated by Henry Cole The polar bear are splashing in their pool. The monkeys are having the time of their lives in the trees. The lion peacefully observes his surroundings. The zoo is a great place to see animals from all over the world in one place. But who takes care of them and their hom...
• Zany Zoo
  Welcome to the Zany Zoo! An unusual bunch in here, It's true, But if fun and silliness are What you seek, Turn the pages, take a peek . . . Author William Wise and illustrator Lynn Munsinger have teamed up to bring an exotic menagerie to life. The rollicking, rhyming poems feature a wild variety...
• Zoos and Animal Welfare
• Zac Attack
  Also available as second-hand book from $9.00...
• Zap
  Aimed at a generation of short attention spans and a taste for razor-sharp comedy, the rapid-fire ZAP is a smart, farcical new play for high-school students that's ready to bring the house down. When they're not dusting off the old classics -- over and over -- high-school drama departments are co...
• Zachary's New Home
  Children in foster care and adopted children often suffer painful separations from their families for reasons that they may not understand. They are often very confused, angry, and sad. This comforting story describes what happens to Zachary the kitten who is taken from his home when his mother is ...
• Zora Hurston and the Chinaberry Tree
  Based on the autobiographical writings of acclaimed novelist Zora Neale Hurston, this book tells the poignant saga of how one of our most signigficant storytellers learned to dream (Essence). Watercolor illustrations throughout. A Reading Rainbow selection....
• Zany Tongue-twisters
  Tie your tongue into knots - and have lots of fun doing it, with these wacky words and silly sentences! How many times can you say this in ten seconds? Matt's mismatched mittens. Can you say these three times fast? Does a double bubble gum double bub...
• Zac Efron
  ZAC EFRON: ME AND YOU includes everything you need to know about the HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL star. Read about Zac's pets and hobbies or take the quiz and find out whether you could be Zac's perfect date. Compare lists of your favourite things with THE most dreamy of dream boyfriends and enjoy the gorge...
• Zero Configuration Networking
  It used to be that two laptops, sitting side by side, couldn't communicate with each other they may as well have been a thousand miles apart. But that was then, before the advent of Zero Configuration Networking technology. This amazing cross-platform open source technology automatically connects e...
• Zen Macrobiotic Cooking
• ZonePerfect Cooking Made Easy
  From the cooking expert at ZonePerfect Nutrition, this book offers daily and weekly menus that make it easy for you to stay in the Zone. Offering a proven formula for permanent fat loss, optimal health and all-round peak performance, the Zone diet has an estimated over two million followers worldwi...
• Zen Flowers
  To design in Zen is to design with beauty, simplicity and harmony in mind and to honor the true nature of every material. When applied to flower arranging, the Zen approach allows us to discover each flower's underlying qualities, and to use those qualities to enliven rooms, uplift spirits and nurt...
• Zarlah the Martian
• Zeh Lo Nora
• Zoshchenko Stories 1920s
  Mikhail Zoshchenko (1895-1958) was born in St. Petersburg and served in the Russian Army in the First World War. Invalided out, he traveled throughout Russia after the Revolution and saw a spell of service in the Red Army. He came back to St. Petersburg in 1921 and started to publish humorous satir...
• Zone Therapy or Relieving Pain and Sickness by Nerve Pressure (1928)
  Contents: birth of a new natural method relieving pain by pressure headache & its cure curing goiter by natural means helping the eyes through the fingers for the patient who is hard of hearing making childbirth painless what zone therapy offers wome...
• Zimbabwe in Pictures
• Zulu Victory
  The Battle of Isandlwhana - a great Zulu victory - was one of the worst defeats ever to befall the British Army. At noon on 22 January 1879, a British camp, garrisoned by over 1,700 troops, was attacked and overwhelmed by 20,000 Zulu warriors. The defeat of the British, armed with the most modern w...
• Zulu
  Fought on the night of 22/23 January 1879 and immortalised in the film epic Zulu, Rorke's Drift represented one of the most glorious, if subsequently controversial episodes in British military history. For twelve desperate hours, outnumbered by over 25-1, barely 140 British soldiers, based at the r...
• Zelda in a Box
  Zelda, a seven-year-old bulldog, is the most unlikely of supermodels, who happens to star in the Zelda Wisdom greeting card line and other licensed products. This kit includes a 32-page booklet from her book, Zelda Wisdom, and a canine cut-out that stands up and can be dressed in three ravishing cl...
• Zack the Lazy Zebra
  Zack to wake up? Find out is this zippy tale that teaches the letter Z. AlphaTales are humorous stories designed to help young children recognize letters and the sounds they make. Lay the foundation for reading success with these kid-pleasing books--one for each letter of the alphabet. For use with...
• Zayde
  Standing at the critical juncture between traditional romance and early novelistic realism, "Zayde" is both the swan song of a literary tradition nearly two thousand years old and a harbinger of the modern psychological novel. "Zayde" unfolds during the long medieval struggle between Christians and...
• Zeropsis I
  Book Description: Zeropsis, as a word is a new term, it means, the study and analysis of the number zero. This book is called Zeropsis I, being the first part of three volumes. It discusses the history of the number zero, and attacks the known problems of how we presently understand the number and ...
• ZOOLEXICON (zo-oh-lek'-si-kon) N.
  ZOOLEXICON is a one-volume source for terms referring to mammals, birds, fishes, reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrates. It has two major divisions: . A dictionary of 13,000 non-technical entry words used by English-speaking people around the world. It is extensively cross-referenced between prefe...
• Zoologica
  Zoologica is unlike some zoo books. Instead of a few photographs and large sections of text, it is packed with over 1400 photos on 200 plus pages. There are fifteen zoos covered, all from the Midwest. Some are commonly known, such as the Cincinnati a...
• Zoos in the 21st Century
  Modern zoos and aquaria are playing an increasingly active and important role in protecting and managing global biodiversity. Many zoos include wildlife conservation in their mission and have started changing the focus of their institutions in order to increase even further the benefits of their ac...