L Nichols: 43 books
Warrior Nations
The United States and Indian Peoples
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
During the century following George Washington’s presidency, the United States fought at least forty wars with various Indian tribes, averaging one conflict every two and a half years. Warrior Nations is Roger L. Nichols’s response to the question, “Why did so much fighting take place?” Examining...
The Farmers' Manual and Complete Cotton Book
New methods of penmanship and business laws. A complete treatise on insects injurious to vegetation;
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2017
James Lawrence Nichols was a North-Western (now North Central) College professor, publisher, businessman and benefactor to the Nichols Library and North Central College. Naperville, Illinois
George Washington Carver (1860s – January 5, 1943), was an American botanistand inventor. The exact...
by Roger L. Nichols
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
This one-volume narrative history of American Indians in the United States traces the experiences of indigenous peoples from early colonial times to the present day, demonstrating how Indian existence has varied and changed throughout our nation’s history. Although popular opinion and standard histories...
The Working Guide to Traditional Small-Boat Sails
A How-To Handbooks for Owners and Builders
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Make your modern sailboat look (and work) like a salty classic. The Golden Age of Sail is long past, sadly, and much of its lore is nearly extinct. Sailboats now almost uniformly use the Bermudan sloop rig—a triangular jib and a triangular mainsail. But that rig evolved mainly to meet esoteric...
Tombstone, Deadwood, and Dodge City
Re-creating the Frontier West
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
“Shootin’—Lynchin’—Hangin’,” announces the advertisement for Tombstone’s Helldorado Days festival. Dodge City’s Boot Hill Cemetery sports an “authentic hangman’s tree.” Not to be outdone, Deadwood’s Days of ’76 celebration promises “miners, cowboys, Indians, cavalry,...
Indians in the United States and Canada
A Comparative History, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Drawing on a vast array of primary and secondary sources, Roger L. Nichols traces the changing relationships between Native peoples and whites in the United States and Canada from colonial times to the present. Dividing this history into five stages, beginning with Native supremacy over European...
Collateral Damage
How High-Stakes Testing Corrupts America's Schools
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
Drawing on their extensive research, Nichols and Berliner document and categorize the ways that high-stakes testing threatens the purposes and ideals of the American education system.
For more than a decade, the debate over high-stakes testing has dominated the field of education. This passionate...
by Charles Morris, Oliver H. G. Leigh, Harriet Martineau
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
This book contains multiple stories about travelling from the world's greatest travellers: New Dependencies of the United States (OLIVER H. G. LEIGH) Winter and Summer in New England (HARRIET MARTINEAU) Niagara Falls and the Thousand Islands (CHARLES MORRIS) From New York to Washington in 1866 (HENRY...
America's Teenagers--Myths and Realities
Media Images, Schooling, and the Social Costs of Careless Indifference
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2004
The media's presentation suggests that American teenage culture today is the most violent, sexual, and amoral youth culture in history. In this book, Nichols and Good deconstruct the negative images held by large numbers of adults. Recognizing that many teenagers are left by adults to socialize themselves...
by B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Searchlights on Health by B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols.
Urbanism in the Preindustrial World
Cross-Cultural Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2009
A baseline study of the growth of preindustrial cities worldwide.
This work employs a subset of preindustrial cities on many continents to answer questions archaeologists grapple with concerning the populating and growth of cities before industrialization. It further explores how scholars differently...
by S. Brady, L. Cohen, M. Sonnenfeld
Language: German
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Language: German
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Achtung: Hier erwartet Sie eine geballte Ladung Sex auf über 1.200 Seiten! 111 weitere unserer schmutzigsten Storys, die oft bis ans Limit gehen. Hemmungslose Lust-Nummern und gigantische Orgasmen sowie sexuelle Grenzerfahrungen und grenzenloses Verlangen dieses Buch lässt keine Wünsche offen!...
The One Minute Leader
52 Weeks to Success
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2009
The reason for The One Minute Leader is There is a difference between a leader and a manager. I found there is plenty of managerial training But on Leadership Too much is said Too little is read And leadership is almost dead Thats why it is important for this book to be read Thus the birth of the...
by Pat Hauldren, Russ Linton, Becky Burkheart
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Speculative fiction is a thing unto itself, full of wonder and wisdom, creativity and imagination, Here is the first anthology of the North Texas Speculative Fiction Workshop. In these pages, you'll find a mix of fantasy, science fiction, and horror with stories like growing up in the space age, a...