Gilbert Leonard: 6 books

Are you looking to save money, help the environment, or just live a simpler life?  Look no further! This guide will introduce you to the ten steps you should take when considering living a life off the grid.  An off the grid lifestyle consists of cutting ties to your community infrastructure. ...

Technology is all around us in almost everything that we own and use on a daily basis.  We have technology in our homes, schools, work and even our modes of transportation.  We use technology to communicate with one another and conduct business on a day to day fashion. Now when we talk about...

Six months after the Selma to Montgomery marches and just weeks after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a group from Martin Luther King Jr.'s staff arrived in Chicago, eager to apply his nonviolent approach to social change in a northern city. Once there, King's Southern Christian Leadership...

This book, originally published in 1977, is a survey of European historiography from its origins in the historians of Greece and Rome, through the annalists and chroniclers of the middle ages, to the historians of the late eighteenth century. The author concentrates on those writers whose works fit...

The only available historical dictionary devoted exclusively to the 1940s, this book offers readers a ready-reference portrait of one of the twentieth century's most tumultuous decades. In nearly 600 concise entries, the volume quickly defines a historical figure, institution, or event, and then points...

How are curriculum policies translated into opportunities to learn in the classroom? According to the Book presents findings from the largest cross-national study of textbooks carried out to date - the curriculum analysis of the 1995 Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)....