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The Civil War in Georgia
A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in...
Life Experiences of a Fifteen-Year-Old Boyhood Soldier
True-Life Stories
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2009
It is hard to remember all the experiences I faced during the war years. After fifty-some years, I have now sat back and taken the time to recall my lost memories of the Korean War. It all started in counseling with my VA counterparts. When retelling my experiences to these men who had lived through...
by George Alecusan, John E. Alvis, Donald R. Brand
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to what the most thoughtful Americans have said about the American experience from the colonial period to the present. The book examines the political thought of the most important American statesmen, activists,...
by Brian D. O'Neill
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 1999
Incorporating a wealth of new material, here is the riveting story of the bombing raids that broke the back of Nazi Germany, praised as "a well-researched, highly readable account of a B-17 combat crew's experience ... excellent." (Roger A. Freeman, author of The Mighty Eighth)
French Renaissance and Baroque Drama
Text, Performance, Theory
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
The fifteen articles in this volume highlight the richness, diversity, and experimental nature of French and Francophone drama before the advent of what would become known as neoclassical French theater of the seventeenth century. In essays ranging from conventional stage plays (tragedies, comedies,...
by Patricia Trainor O’Malley Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2001
Italian immigrants became permanent residents of Haverhill in the 1870s. The original Genoese first drew their relatives and friends from their home area to join them. Over the next few decades, they were joined by families from the central province of Abruzzi and from the towns and villages around Naples....
by A. O. Abudu Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
We live in an era in which most of the influences that shape the character and lifestyle of your child come from outside the home. You can reduce some of the effects of these very powerful influences, but you cannot shut them off. How then do you raise your child to eventually become a truly effective,...
Historians on Hamilton
How a Blockbuster Musical Is Restaging America's Past
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
America has gone Hamilton crazy. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony-winning musical has spawned sold-out performances, a triple platinum cast album, and a score so catchy that it is being used to teach U.S. history in classrooms across the country. But just how historically accurate is Hamilton? And how...
The Taste of American Place
A Reader on Regional and Ethnic Foods
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
Tracing the intertwined roles of food, ethnicity, and regionalism in the construction of American identity, this textbook examines the central role food plays in our lives. Drawing on a range of disciplines_including sociology, anthropology, folklore, geography, history, and nutrition_the editors...
Umbilical Cord Stem Cell Therapy
The Gift of Healing from Healthy Newborns
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2006
The debate over the use of Embryonic stem cells and the questionable effectiveness of adult stem cells have led many scientists and clinicians to concentrate their energies on umbilical-cord-derived stem cells from healthy newborn babies. Amassing a very respectable track record in terms of safety...
by John D. Stuart, John O. Sawyer
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2001
California's varied landscape is characterized by a spectacular abundance of plant life, including a magnificent variety of trees and shrubs. This is the first book to combine the trees and shrubs of California in one accessible field guide. Trees and Shrubs of California identifies and describes...
The Complex Life of a Woman Doctor
Medicine and Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2006
Dr. Gloria Schrager has written a revealing memoir about her struggle to become a doctor at a time when women physicians were an anomaly. The era she has lived through has been incredibly eventful: she relates how the Great Depression, World War II, the McCarthy Unamerican Activities Committee, the...
Bernice and Her Multiple Personalities
The Human Brain Is a Wonderful Programable Computer. Reprograming the Brain Using Hypnotherapy.
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
Why you should read this book.
Learn how the mind is fractured by trauma and how to put it back together again using hypnotherapy.
Read an interesting account of answers to questions such as why Ruth thought she had killed three children.
Read Nancys account of her Awakening after many years of sleep.
The...
Breaking the Mold of Preservice and Inservice Teacher Education
Innovative and Successful Practices for the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
This unique collection of chapters takes the reader on a tour to explore innovative preservice and inservice teacher education practices from many regions of the United States, Canada and the world. Each of the chapters offers an authentic, documentary account of successful initiatives that break...