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81) Ancient Egypt
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Greenhaven Press, Incorporated [Imprint]
Pub. Date
March 2003
Language
English
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Publisher
Burford Books
Pub. Date
©1998
Physical Desc
144 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
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"Golf" presents an eclectic pictorial stroll through the annals of the world's great game. From the first golfers in late 15-century Scotland to modern players like Tiger Woods, the people, places and great moments of the game are chronicled in 125 photos and expert commentary. This is an eclectic pictoral stroll through the annals of the world's greatest game-a book to be treasured by any golfer.
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Publisher
Pearson
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xix, 364 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This best-selling resource prepares current and prospective early childhood teachers to confidently guide young children in the social studies. Filled with a multitude of ideas, suggestions, and developmentally appropriate activities that teachers can use to engage young children in social studies, this classic yet contemporary resource is practical and a favorite of students and instructors alike. New and notable hallmarks of the Ninth Edition include:...
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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English
Description
Join our narrator and her dog on their daily walk as they greet the people in their neighborhood--from the mail carrier and bus driver to the sanitation workers and grocery clerks and more. Whether listening, asking, helping, or just saying hello and thank you, it is our patience and kindness that make a neighborhood feel like home. This story gently reminds us to slow down and be grateful for all the people, places, and things around us. Includes...
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English
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By focusing on a single year not overshadowed by an epochal event, 428 AD provides a fresh look at a civilization in the midst of enormous change--as Christianity takes hold in rural areas across the empire, as western Roman provinces fall away from those in the Byzantine east, and as power shifts from Rome to Constantinople. Retracing the kind of route a contemporary gazetteer might have taken, Giusto Traina describes the empire's people, places,...
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English
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From sharing a bathroom with 40 strangers to sharing lecture notes, this book is your behind-the-scenes look at everything you need to know about college (but never knew you needed to know). This essential, updated edition is packed with real-life advice on everything from making friends to managing stress. This book also includes stories from students on over 100 college campuses that cover the basics, and then some, including: college living; finding...
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English
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Desperate to connect with his native Galloway, Patrick Laurie plunges into work on his family farm in the hills of southwest Scotland. Investing in the oldest and most traditional breeds of Galloway cattle, the Riggit Galloway, he begins to discover how cows once shaped people, places and nature in this remote and half-hidden place. This traditional breed requires different methods of care from modern farming on an industrial, totally unnatural scale....
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English
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"Indigenous people across Turtle Island have been faced with disease, war, broken promises, and forced assimilation. Despite crushing losses and insurmountable challenges, they formed new nations from the remnants of old ones, they adopted new ideas and built on them, they fought back, they kept their cultures alive, and they survived. Key events in Indigenous history with accounts of the people, places, and events that have mattered from the 12th...
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English
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"It has been four and a half decades since Alice Waters opened the doors of Chez Panisse, the 'little French restaurant' in Berkeley, California, that has been at the leading edge of the American culinary revolution ever since. Fueled in equal parts by naïveté and a relentless pursuit of beauty and pure flavor, Alice transformed our relationship with food, fine dining, and what it means to eat well. In [this book], Alice reflects on the desultory...
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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
352 pages : maps, illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Cambridge Illustrated History of Germany provides what has not been available before: an accessible, single-volume account of German history from earliest times to today, presented both chronologically and thematically. The book succeeds in putting into perspective Germany's complex past without shirking the issues it raises. When did German history begin? Who is a German? How was it possible for such an advanced and civilized state to have been...
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Publisher
Balance
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
v, 243 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Did you know that curiosity is your superpower? Though we often think of being curious as a personality trait, it's actually the foundation of our capacity for connection, growth, and healing. And at a moment when tensions over race, religion, age, gender identity, rights, economic status, and more have fractured our lives and relationships, curiosity is our most potent antidote. In this practical manifesto, Shigeoka takes readers on a four-phase...
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English
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An intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential writers, an artist who continues to inspire fans and creatives to cultivate practices of deep attention, rigorous interrogation and beautiful style. Joan Didion was a writer's writer; not only a groundbreaking journalist, essayist, novelist and screenwriter, but a keen observer who honed her sights on life's telling details. Her insights continue to influence...
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English
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"Through memoir essays and magical practices, Grimoire Girl connects us to the enchantment that exists inside us all. Since childhood, Hilarie Burton Morgan has felt the call to record, keep, and catalogue life in all its strange wonder. It was a whimsical habit, with no clear goal. And then, when she became a mother, the importance of all that collecting snapped into focus. In an effort to patchwork together an anthology of traditions, curiosity,...
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English
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An expert ultrarunner describes how he set out to break the speed record for the Appalachian Trail, a 2,189 mile journey that took an unforeseen physical and emotional toll, but also offered him unexpected rewards.
"From the author of the bestseller Eat and Run, a thrilling new memoir about his grueling, exhilarating, and immensely inspiring 46-day run to break the speed record for the Appalachian Trail. Scott Jurek is one of the world's best-known...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"When Brian Doyle passed away at the age of sixty after a bout with brain cancer, he left behind a cult-like following of devoted readers who regard his writing as one of the best-kept secrets of the twenty-first century. Doyle writes with a delightful sense of wonder about the sanctity of everyday things, and about love and connection in all their forms: spiritual love, brotherly love, romantic love, and even the love of a nine-foot sturgeon. At...
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