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Steps to Independence: Teaching Everyday Skills to Children With Special Needs 8 reviews
Bruce L. Baker, Alan J. Brightman
Brookes Publishing Company, 2003
Excellent resource!
No parent OR special education teacher should be without this book! Easy to read, and the content is excellent! Step-by-step approaches to teaching everyday skills to children with special needs, but would be just as valuable to ANY parent! After reading this book, I have found it easier to establish goals for my students and everyone is using the same approach to teaching everyday living ...
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The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of the United States (Bantam Classic) 14 reviews
Bantam Classics, 1998
Constitution of the United States, 1791 (Summary)
Every American should know the contents of the The U.S. Constitution and review it annually. The Constitution defines, empowers, and limits the U.S. government. After the 13 colonies had issued the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, they needed to write the Constitution in order to define the Government of the United States of America. The Constitution was signed by 39 delegates at ...
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Five Acres and Independence: A Handbook for Small Farm Management 29 reviews
Maurice G. Kains
Dover Publications, 1973
The Calluses of Independence
I absolutely love this book. I have to agree with a previous reviewer's "cringing" at the thought of lining a cistern with sheet lead. Reading this section brought a shocked smile across my face. I'm thankful that we've survived long enough to mend our ways! In this sense, I wouldn't recommend anyone to follow Kains' advice word-for-word.
However, this book still contains a refreshing ...
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The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America51 reviews
Cato Institute, 2000
A must have for every American
I got one for myself and then started to buy them for others. It really is a must have to remind ourselves why we have been the greatest Nation in the World for so long. Refresh your memory with this easy to read book and take it along with you. You never know when you may need to pull it out. Especiallly in this day and age where Government continues to intrude on all of our Constitutional ...
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Lives Of The Signers Of The Declaration Of Independence9 reviews
Charles A. Goodrich
Schwarz Press, 2008
A must read for caring Americans.
This is such an eye opening book to what all these men wanted for their new country. They all were such men of vision & God fearing men. They wanted more for their children and children of this counties future. They set the goals high and so sad we have not held up our end of their future goals and ideals.
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Independence Days: A Guide to Sustainable Food Storage & Preservation5 reviews
Sharon Astyk
New Society Publishers, 2009
Not just about the canning jars
Independence Days is a book about food security. Like Sharon Astyk's two previous books (Depletion and Abundance; A Nation of Farmers), this one focuses on the need to assume personal responsibility for food self-sufficiency and for shortening the supply chain from farm/garden to table. Unlike Asktyk's previous books, this one is also a how-to, as well as a why-we-should, complete with helpful ...
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The Declaration of Independence: A Global History5 reviews
David Armitage
Harvard University Press, 2008
A Fascinating View of a Familiar Document
This book offers a fresh perspective on what may be the most familiar document in American history. What David Armitage shows is that the Declaration quickly became an international document, a template for dozens, hundreds in the end, of other movements for national independence around the globe. From Vietnam to Palestine it seems the American Declaration became like a form letter nationalists ...
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The Declaration of Independence and Other Great Documents of American History 1775-1865 (Dover Thrift ...14 reviews
Dover Publications, 2000
everyone should get and read this book
I feel that everyone in this country should get and read this book so that when you want to understand why this country is important you will understand and believe.
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The Annotated U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence3 reviews
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009
Annotations help
It is important to understand fully the intent of authors of older texts, and well-researched annotations gives modern readers a better grasp of the original documents.
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Americanos: Latin America's Struggle for Independence (Pivotal Moments in World History)4 reviews
John Charles Chasteen
Oxford University Press, USA, 2009
A Brief Informative Digest
This book is perfect for you, if you, like me, recognize names of South American history but can't identify them. It's also perfect for you, if you, like me, have wondered how the US became a sea to sea country and to the south, a number countries were formed from only two monarchies.
The professor cuts away the details. He tells the stories behind the famous names. He explains the ...
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The Economic History of Latin America since Independence (Cambridge Latin American Studies) 3 reviews
Victor Bulmer-Thomas
Cambridge University Press, 2003
The Economic History of Latin America Since Independence
Not a single Latin American republic has achieved the status of developed nation after nearly two hundred years from colonial rule. The vast abundance of land, labor and natural resources has not delivered the long-awaited fruits of economic growth and economic development. Victor Bulmer-Thomas provides in this book an excepcionally detailled and balanced account of the factors that affect ...
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Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence9 reviews
Carol Berkin
Vintage, 2006
Every woman should read this
Carol Berkin has written a book so interesting that I can cite the women's names and tell their stories to my friends. An outstanding author who has the ability to bring real women of the past into the present by describing the lives and the actions of these women. I've since ordered Berkin's other books. I've recommended this book to all my friends. The creativity and persistence of women to ...
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Independence Day128 reviews
Richard Ford
Vintage, 1996
Good but Not for Everyone
I read Independence Day after having read The Sportswriter, the first Frank Bascombe novel, a couple of years ago. I liked a lot about the book: the poetic writing, the description (Ford's top talent, in my opinion) and the journey into Frank's head. Sometimes, however, Frank's detached narration (characteristic of his striving for normalcy in the "Existence Period," I suppose) is off-putting ...
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American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence23 reviews
Pauline Maier
Vintage, 1998
We have it in our power to begin the world over again
This was a required reading for a graduate humanities class. Pauline Maier expertly researched the events leading up to the birth of the Declaration. The First Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia in May of 1775, and included delegates from all of the thirteen colonies. Not all of the delegates to the Congress were in favor of separating from Great Britain, even though several of the ...
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Jinnah India- Partition Independence4 reviews
Jaswant Singh
Rupa & Co., 2009
Finally, someone has the balls to speak the truth
Mohammed Ali Jinnah is painted as the villain of India's partition in 1947, the man who stabbed the Indians in the back and walked away with a fifth of the ancient country's landmass. He's reviled as the traitor who created Pakistan, which has ever since been a festering wound in India's nationhood. But Jaswant Singh, an aristocratic former Indian foreign minister, shows there were several ...
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Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial ...259 reviews
Vicki Robin, Joe Dominguez, ...
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2008
Recommended
This updated take on the classic 1992 book is a fabulous, enriching way to pass the time during the monotonous morning/afternoon commute. Robin's clear, conversational tone makes it very easy to tune in to her message of financial independence and more-sensible consumption. She shares numerous anecdotes, featuring personal experiences and insights as well as those of original co-author Joe ...
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Five Acres and Independence3 reviews
Maurice Kains
BN Publishing, 2009
An oldie but goodie
A homesteading manual from the turn of the century, this book is a wealth of information regarding the tips and tricks of running a productice small scale farm.
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Winning Our Energy Independence: An Energy Insider Shows How15 reviews
S. David Freeman
Gibbs Smith, 2007
Speaking Truth to Power
"The United States has a lot to learn from the rest of the world."
Bold and true. No one convinced Freeman it is polite to lie in order for America appear good. No one convinced Freeman it is for Americans to drive SUVs everywhere just because they need to express freedom. One can express freedom by farting out loud in a cafeteria, but I wouldn't be proud if I did it. I would be ...
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Defining a Nation: India on the Eve of Independence 1945: Reacting to the Past
Ainslie Embree, Mark C. Carnes
Longman, 2005
In the struggle to reconcile religious identity with nation building, Defining a Nation: India on the Eve of Independence, 1945 recreates one of the most intractable and important issues of the modern world. Part of the ?Reacting to the Past? series, this text consists of a game in which students are assigned roles, informed by classic texts, set in a particular moment of intellectual and social ferment. The game is set at Simla, ...
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Declaration Of Independence8 reviews
Sam Fink
Scholastic Nonfiction, 2007
Jefferson Smiles!
Large, phrase-by-phrase drawings in clever, political cartoon style, Fink's illustrations do justice to document itself. Fun for kids, but advanced enough to entertain any audience. Book also includes a glossary of Jefferson's beautiful words, a Revolution chronology, and index.
I recommend it for all ages.
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