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"The dramatic story of Gandhi and India's long march to freedom by award-winning author Neal Bascomb.Scholastic Focus is the premier home of thoroughly researched, beautifully written, and thoughtfully designed works of narrative nonfiction aimed at middle grade and young adult readers. These books help readers learn about the world in which they live and develop their critical thinking skills so that they may become dynamic citizens who are able...
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What ever happened to our inalienable rights?
The Constitution was once the bedrock of our country, an unpretentious parchment that boldly established the God-given rights and freedoms of America. Today that parchment has been shred to ribbons, explains Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew P. Napolitano, as the federal government trounces state and individual rights and expands its reach far beyond what the Framers intended.
An important...
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"A new history of mathematics focusing on the marginalized voices who propelled the discipline, spanning the globe and thousands of years of untold stories. Mathematics shapes almost everything we do. But despite math's reputation as the study of fundamental truths, the stories we have been told about it are wrong -- warped like the sixteenth-century map that enlarged Europe at the expense of Africa, Asia, and the Americas. In The Secret Lives of...
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Highlights everything needed to learn about country music. Glossary of key words Index Reviewed Table of contents Music is the universal language! Kids will have fun learning about all kinds of music while they explore the history, instruments, rhythms, greats, production, collecting, and varied activities in this series. Each book contains cool activities that will inspire young people to appreciate the specific genre by making their own instruments,...
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"While Hanif Abdurraqib is an acclaimed author, a gifted poet, and one of our culture's most insightful music critics, he is most of all, at heart, an Ohioan. Growing up in Columbus in the '90s, Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball, one in which legends like LeBron were forged, and countless others weren't. His lifelong love of the game leads Abdurraqib into a lyrical, historical, and emotionally rich exploration of what it means to make...
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St Lucia, the Brisbane suburb famed for its university campus, emerged despite world wars, Spanish Influenza and Depression. In the 1950s, kangaroos hopped across open paddocks; snakes slithered through scrub. The sanitary cart, ice man, milkman and whistle-tooting postman traversed rutted dirt roads to service the community. And, each morning, sun-warmed milk churned the stomachs of the students at Ironside State School.
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9) El Desarrollo de Nuestra Civilización Desde Sus Albores Y El Gobierno de Un Planeta Vecino: Histo
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Es mi propósito en este libro analizar los escritos 68 a 72, pertenecientes a la Parte III de The Urantia Book, con el fin de facilitar su comprensión. La traducción de dichos textos (Los escritos de Urantia), realizada por mí del inglés, aparece tras estas palabras introductorias. Como el mismo título denota, hay que reconocer que es un tema árido, aunque no por ello menos interesante e iluminador, porque a través de su lectura nos acercamos...
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FALL, AND RISE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION
Western Civilization has been falling since 1964, with roots going back to 1948, and earlier.
Every time National Retail-Grocery Stores are forced to CLOSE, within specific locations, due to high costs of shop-lifting, vandalism, and CRIME, is the fatal result of POST-1964 legislation, demonstrates symptoms of Western Civilization's, over 60 year, falling decline.
Every time Nationwide Police Officers...
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About the Book Beautiful Faces 1971 is a photographic journey back in time to the first interracial summer overnight camp in the South. Remember of course, in those days most children played, communicated, acted silly, and had sleep-overs only within their racial divide of either black or white. So, this first overnight summer camp was special and unfamiliar, particularly for those southern communities that sponsored children to attend for a week....
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Sumérgete en los oscuros y enigmáticos rincones del Imperio Romano, donde el poder, la traición y el misterio se entrelazan en una intrincada red de conspiraciones. "Sombras de Roma" revela las historias no contadas de emperadores despiadados, gladiadores en busca de redención, y sectas secretas que operaban tras las grandiosas fachadas de templos y palacios. A través de una narrativa cautivadora, este libro destapa los secretos mejor guardados...
13) The Somme
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The definitive account of the Battle of the Somme, and who was responsible for its catastrophic outcome.
In the long history of the British Army, the Battle of the Somme was its bloodiest encounter. Between July 1 and mid-November 1916, 432,000 of its soldiers became casualties-about 3,600 for every day of battle. German casualties were far fewer despite British superiority in the air and in lethal artillery.
What went wrong for the British, and...
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First published in 1928, Herbert Asbury's "The Gangs of New York" is probably best remembered today as the source material for Martin Scorsese's 2002 film of the same name. According to the original publisher's announcement "this is a history of New York's underworld, from its beginnings in revolutionary times down to its virtual end as an organized force for evil during the first decade of the present century." "The Gangs of New York" is all of this...
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Mi libro está dirigido a personas que buscan conocer la verdad sobre la historia oculta del mundo. Sabrán más sobre Satanás y Napoleón. Sabrán cómo dividieron a las personas en sectas y cómo libraron guerras y mataron a millones. Mis lectores también sabrán cómo Satanás generó enfermedades en sus laboratorios y cómo sus agentes las propagaron. Lo más importante, sabrán cómo deshacerse de estas enfermedades fatales. Les aseguro que...
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Walter Lynwood Fleming of Alabama (1874-1932) was a prolific historian of the Reconstruction South whose work of editing and assembling primary sources remains the first resource of any scholar of the period. Here are collected, for the first time, Fleming's best shorter writings, monographs, and selected reviews.
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"Deportation and Colonization: An Attempted Solution of the Race Problem."
"'Pap' Singleton, the Moses of the Colored...
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