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All in the Family: A Practical Guide to Successful Multigenerational Living

Many families are creating multigenerational households to consolidate resources and save money. This book covers the financial and emotional benefits of living together, proximity and privacy, designing and remodeling your home to accommodate adult children or elderly parents, overcoming cultural stigmas, financial and legal planning, and making cohabitation agreements.
Monty Python's Flying Circus, Episodes 1–26: An Utterly Complete, Thoroughly Unillustrated, Absolutely Unauthorized Guide to Possibly All the References from Arthur "Two Sheds" Jackson to Zambesi, Volume 1

This book identifies and explains the plethora of cultural, historical, and topical allusions of the landmark series. Each entry indicates what sketch it appeared in and is cross-referenced between episodes. Entries cover literary and metaphoric allusions, symbolisms, names, peoples, and places as well as the myriad social, cultural, and historical elements that populate and inform these episodes.
Judy Garland: A Biography

Edwards’s biography presents a complete picture of the late actress—and not just the boozing, drug-addicted caricature of a woman central to lesser biographies. We learn, for example, that Garland saw it as her duty to provide for her family financially, a generosity that her mother Ethel exploited with disastrous results. Above all, Judy Garland sought to please, whether it was an audience or a studio head, and therein lies her powerful and heartbreaking story.
Vivien Leigh: A Biography

This is the story of the actress who became a Hollywood legend by winning the coveted role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind. But behind the dazzling exterior lay the sinister shadow of another Vivien Leigh—a shadow which pursued her throughout her aristocratic upbringing, her frustrating first marriage, her tempestuous romance with Laurence Olivier, and her meteoric rise to stardom.
Lotions, Potions, and Deadly Elixirs: Frontier Medicine in the American West

Powder papers, booty balls, and sugar tits—Lotions, Potions, and Deadly Elixirs has a cure for whatever ails! These quaint names were given to medicines during America's frontier era. Grandmas, mommas, and even certified physicians treated the sick, lame, and unlucky with what was available. Here, a practicing pharmacist takes a light-hearted look at the popular medicines.
The Rise and Fall of North American Indians: From Prehistory through Geronimo

In this expansive one-volume account of the native peoples of North America, eminent historian William Brandon—who devoted much of his life to examining this subject—presents this revelatory history of the development and culture of the native peoples of North America, from their incipience through the late nineteenth century. Brandon brings this world to life and chronicles ten thousand years of Indian history.
Love You When...

Love You When reminds us that those we love are always with us. Each day, something sparks a thought or memory, and a loved one comes to mind. Perhaps it’s a sound, a fragrance, or something that catches our eye; when this happens we can’t help but pause for a moment and smile. So give this book to the special loved ones in your life, and they will share with you all the times they think to themselves how much they love you, when . . .
Moving Beyond Loss: Real Answers to Real Questions from Real People—Featuring the Proven Actions of The Grief Recovery Method

The authors provide grief-recovery-related content on a memorial site called Tributes.com, to which readers submit personal and unique grief-related questions. Collected in this book are a bounty of personal and moving questions and the authors’ compelling responses and tips. This book deals with grief from loss of a loved one, a divorce, a sudden downturn in health, the loss of a job, and even the loss of faith.
The Mental ABC's of Pitching: A Handbook for Performance Enhancement

A clear and insightful guide to the art of pitching.
The Mental Game of Baseball: A Guide to Peak Performance, Third Edition

In this book, authors H.A. Dorfman and Karl Kuehl present their practical and proven strategy for developing the mental skills needed to achieve peak performance at every level of the game.
One Night in the Everglades

Follow two scientists as they spend a night in the Everglades collecting water samples, photographing wildlife, and sloshing through marshes. The scientists want to know what the “river of grass” was like prior to human settlement. Along the way, they deal with razor-sharp sawgrass, alligators, turtles, and are even surprised by the sudden presence of a "frog gigger"—someone who hunts frogs for food!
You Be You

When Adri sets out to explore the ocean, he has no idea how colorful the world is. He quickly discovers that there are all kinds of fish in the deep blue sea—big and tiny, smooth and spiny, colorful and plain, different and the same. Join Adri as he travels the ever changing currents of the ocean and see if you can find your favorite rockfish among the waves!
Una Noche en los Everglades

Sigue a dos científicos que pasan una noche en los Everglades recogiendo muestras de agua, fotografiando la vida silvestre y chapoteando a través de pantanos en un intento por comprender este ecosistema misterioso. Los científicos son sometidos a la nítida hierba de serrucho, a caimanes y tortugas y aún son sorprendidos por la repentina presencia de lo que se denomina en los Everglades un "gigger de rana."
Unsolved Mysteries of the Old West, Second Edition

This book explores and examines twenty-one of the Old West's most baffling mysteries. Many relate to the death or disappearance of some of the best-known lawmen and outlaws in history, such as Billy the Kid, Buckskin Frank Leslie, John Wilkes Booth, The Catalina Kid, and Butch Cassidy. Others involve mysterious tales and legends of lost mines and buried treasures that have not been recovered—yet.
The U.S. Women's Soccer Team: An American Success Story, Second Edition

Updated through the 2012 Olympics. In the second edition of The U.S. Women's Soccer Team, Clemente A. Lisi looks at how women's soccer has gained popularity over the last couple of decades, detailing the program's infancy and how it steadily became a model for women's teams around the globe. Beginning with the start of the U.S. program in 1985, Lisi recounts the development of the women's team, highlighted by their two first place finishes in the Women's World Cup (1991 and 1999) and four Olympic women's gold medals (1996, 2004, 2008, and 2012). In addition to chronicling the history of the team as a whole, this book offers miniprofiles and photographs of some of the best players over the years, including Julie Foudy, Amy Rodriguez, Hope Solo, and Mia Hamm.
And the Tide Comes In...: Exploring a Georgia Salt Marsh

In this book, a young girl shows her visiting cousin a Georgia coastal salt marsh. They make their way through tall marsh grass, slip and slide on marsh mud, discover clusters of ribbed mussels at the base of the grass, and watch as fiddler crabs skitter around the edge of a creek. The Georgia coastal salt marsh is typically shared by both land and marine mammals, presenting a unique ecosystem at the water's edge.
You Be You

When Adri sets out to explore the ocean, he has no idea how colorful the world is. He quickly discovers that there are all kinds of fish in the deep blue sea—big and tiny, smooth and spiny, colorful and plain, different and the same. Join Adri as he travels the ever changing currents of the ocean and see if you can find your favorite rockfish among the waves!
Stalin's Barber: A Novel

Avraham Bahar leaves Albania to seek a better life in, ironically, Stalinist Russia. A professional barber, he curries favor with the Communist regime, ultimately being invited to become Stalin’s personal barber. In the intrigue that follows Avraham, he is not only barber to Stalin but also to the many Stalin look-alikes that the paranoid dictator circulates to thwart possible assassination attempts.
Do Super Heroes Have Teddy Bears?

Follow along as two ragtag, everyday super heroes don capes to play in the mud, save their stuffed animals from certain peril, conquer the vegetables at dinner, and overcome darkness at night. Are super heroes always brave and daring? We’re brave and bold and kind and caring. Every little boy and girl has a super hero somewhere inside waiting to come out. Tie on your cape (blankies recommended) and join the adventure. Check out the trailer on YouTube here.
Boozy Brunch: The Quintessential Guide to Daytime Drinking

Have your pick of more than 100 eye-opening drink recipes and 25 food pairings, with entertaining drink histories and liquor-laden quotes from the famous and infamous. Boozy Brunch offers brunchy alternatives and revved-up variations to the classic set of champagne-, coffee-, and fruit or vegetable juice-based cocktails. Plus, you’ll find a set of hangover cures for those still recovering from the night before.
The Only Astrology Book You'll Ever Need, Twenty-First-Century Edition

Everyone’s favorite astrology book now includes a link that will enable you to download software to create your own chart! This edition of The Only Astrology Book You’ll Ever Need still includes detailed information about how to cast your own chart the old-fashioned way and how to interpret it once you’re finished. The new downloadable software allows you to cast your chart in just minutes by inputting the date, time, and place of birth resulting in a personalized astrological chart. Upon completion of the chart, use the book to read more about your moon signs, sun signs, and much more.
The Big Dance: The Story of the NCAA Basketball Tournament

Covered by four networks, allowing every game to be televised, “March Madness” has become an American phenomenon. This is the story of the tournament, from its beginnings seventy-three years ago as an eight-team "bracket" to today's sixty-eight-team format—from "Cinderella" teams, to perennial powerhouses, to buzzer-beaters, upsets, and dynasties.
Butch Cassidy: Beyond the Grave

This biography of the life—and controversial death—of Robert LeRoy Parker, a.k.a. Butch Cassidy, is a journey across the late nineteenth-century American West as we follow the exploits of this surprisingly affable outlaw. More important, this book answers the question of whether Butch Cassidy survived his alleged death at the hands of Bolivian soldiers in 1908 and returned to friends and family in the US.
The Disney Song Encyclopedia, Updated Edition

This book describes and discusses over 900 songs from Disney films, television, Broadway, and theme parks from the 1930s to the present. This volume contains songwriters and original singers, the source of the song and other venues in which it has been used, a glossary of song terms, a songwriter’s directory, a guide to recordings and DVDs of Disney productions, and a listing of Academy Award nominees and winners.
The Mental ABC's of Pitching: A Handbook for Performance Enhancement

A clear and insightful guide to the art of pitching.
Twitch Upon a Star: The Bewitched Life and Career of Elizabeth Montgomery

Based on exclusive interviews, this book includes never-before published material from those associated with Elizabeth Montgomery's remarkable life before, during, and after Bewitched. It also explores her political activism: her advocacy for AIDS research, the peace movement, and her controversial participation as narrator of the feature film documentary, Cover Up (Iran/Contra scandal).
The Essential Guide to Hysterectomy: Advice from a Gynecologist on Your Choices Before, During, and After Surgery, Second Edition

This updated version of the groundbreaking book reveals what a survey of post-hysterectomy patients have said; what men have to say about their fears, perceptions, and misconceptions about their sexual relationships with their partner after hysterectomy; and what choices 1,000 board certified female gynecologists would make for themselves if they were facing hysterectomy.

The Taylor Trade Publishing program consists of an award-winning list of books on gardening, health, history, family issues, sports, entertainment, nature, field guides, house and home, and children's titles. While many of our titles are of general interest, Taylor books also have a strong regional presence from the Mississippi west to California, and from Texas north to the Canada border. Alongside our general gardening books, for example, can be found more specific guides that address the particular needs of your region. Republic of Texas Press books celebrate the history, folklore, and popular culture of the Lone Star State. Have a favorite team? Taylor's sports books take you behind the scenes and into the lore of the teams we love to love, from the Packers to the Mets.

Imprints of Taylor Trade include M. Evans, The Derrydale Press, Cooper Square Press, Roberts Rinehart Publishers, Moonlight Publishing, Madison Books, Architectural Book Publishing Company, Addax Publishing, Diamond Communications, Gulf Publishing, Vestal Publishing, Bridge Works Publishing, and Republic of Texas Press.

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All in the Family: A Practical Guide to Successful Multigenerational Living

Monty Python's Flying Circus, Episodes 1–26: An Utterly Complete, Thoroughly Unillustrated, Absolutely Unauthorized Guide to Possibly All the References from Arthur "Two Sheds" Jackson to Zambesi, Volume 1

Judy Garland: A Biography

Vivien Leigh: A Biography

Lotions, Potions, and Deadly Elixirs: Frontier Medicine in the American West

The Rise and Fall of North American Indians: From Prehistory through Geronimo

Love You When...

Moving Beyond Loss: Real Answers to Real Questions from Real People—Featuring the Proven Actions of The Grief Recovery Method

The Mental ABC's of Pitching: A Handbook for Performance Enhancement

The Mental Game of Baseball: A Guide to Peak Performance, Third Edition

One Night in the Everglades

You Be You

Una Noche en los Everglades

Unsolved Mysteries of the Old West, Second Edition

The U.S. Women's Soccer Team: An American Success Story, Second Edition

And the Tide Comes In...: Exploring a Georgia Salt Marsh

You Be You

Stalin's Barber: A Novel

Do Super Heroes Have Teddy Bears?

Boozy Brunch: The Quintessential Guide to Daytime Drinking

The Only Astrology Book You'll Ever Need, Twenty-First-Century Edition

The Big Dance: The Story of the NCAA Basketball Tournament

Butch Cassidy: Beyond the Grave

The Disney Song Encyclopedia, Updated Edition

The Mental ABC's of Pitching: A Handbook for Performance Enhancement

Twitch Upon a Star: The Bewitched Life and Career of Elizabeth Montgomery

The Essential Guide to Hysterectomy: Advice from a Gynecologist on Your Choices Before, During, and After Surgery, Second Edition