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Freedom Song
Young Voices and the Struggle for Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Blending memorable music with a historical context, this exploration provides a fresh perspective on the civil rights movement by showing how certain songs served as its voice. From the Chicago Children’s Choir to the SNCC Freedom Singers, this resource examines the churches and groups that worked...
Gentlemen Bootleggers
The True Story of Templeton Rye, Prohibition, and a Small Town in Cahoots
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
During Prohibition, while Al Capone was rising to worldwide prominence as Public Enemy Number One, the townspeople of rural Templeton, Iowa—population just 418—were busy with a bootlegging empire of their own. Led by Joe Irlbeck, the whip-smart and gregarious son of a Bavarian immigrant, the outfit...
White House for Kids
A History of a Home, Office, and National Symbol, with 21 Activities
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
An intriguing, in-depth look at the most famous home in the United States, this kid-friendly activity book educates young readers on the White House. Blending facts from numerous primary sources with engaging anecdotes—from learning that George Washington never actually slept in the White House...
Ancient Israelites and Their Neighbors
An Activity Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
Children can try their hand at re-creating ancient Israelite culture-along with the cultures of their neighbors, the Philistines and Phoenicians-in a way that will provide perspective on current events. The book covers a key period from the Israelites’ settlement in Canaan in 1200 B.C.E. to their...
by The Princeton Review
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
The inside word on medical school admissions.
Gaining admission to a top medical school requires more than "just" a stellar MCAT score and an excellent GPA. You'll also need to nail your personal statement. In this book, you’ll find the help you need to do just that:
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Reason for Leaving
Job Stories
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
On a job application, there's that tricky question: reason for leaving? John Manderino's answers are collected here in this hilarious novel tracing the history of a guy trying to grow up job by job. Delivery boy, altar boy, busboy, teacher, cotton picker, umpire, Zen monk—Manderino's protagonist tries on one hat after another.
The God Market
How Globalization is Making India More Hindu
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Conventional wisdom says that integration into the global marketplacetends to weaken the power of traditional faith in developingcountries. But, as Meera Nanda argues in this path-breaking book,this is hardly the case in todays India. Against expectations ofgrowing secularism, India has instead seen...
The American War in Vietnam
Crime or Commemoration?
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
On May 25, 2012, President Obama announced that the United States would spend the next thirteen years – through November 11, 2025 – commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War, and the American soldiers, “more than 58,000 patriots,” who died in Vietnam. The fact that at least 2.1...
I Didn't Work This Hard Just to Get Married
Successful Single Black Women Speak Out
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Through lively and revealing interviews with women from various walks of life, this account speaks directly to the single black woman's experience, addressing unique challenges such as income discrepancies between genders, the high rate of male incarceration, and the "Baby Mama Syndrome."...
Out Came the Sun
One Family's Triumph over a Rare Genetic Syndrome
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Six years into their marriage, Judith Scott and her husband Greg decided to take the next step in becoming a family: having a child. At first unsuccessful, they are blessed with the birth of a beautiful girl, Emily. The joy of having their first child is short lived, however; after just a few months,...
by J. Scott Brownlee
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Set in the drought-plagued landscape of Central Texas, Ascension is a collection of lyric poems that chronicles life in and around Llano, Texas (population 3,033). Brownlee’s poems meditate on the inescapability of place.
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Leading Quietly
An Unorthodox Guide to Doing the Right Thing
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2002
Most of us think of leaders as courageous risk takers, orchestrators of major events. In a word: heroes. Although such figures are inspiring, Joseph Badaracco argues that their larger-than-life accomplishments are not what makes the world work. What does, he says, is the sum of millions of small yet...
Outsider Baseball
The Weird World of Hardball on the Fringe, 18761950
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
With new research and revelations that will surprise even the most ardent baseball history buffs, this engaging account tells the story of the mostly forgotten world of the mercenaries, scalawags, and outcasts who made up the independent professional ball clubs. Combining meticulous research with...
Silent Witnesses
The Often Gruesome but Always Fascinating History of Forensic Science
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
A crime scene. A murder. A mystery. The most important person on the scene? The forensic scientist. And yet the intricate details of criminal forensics work remain a mystery to most of us. In a book that is by turns fascinating and chilling, Nigel McCrery leads readers around the world and through...