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Voices from the Reconstruction Years, 1865-1877
Glenn M. Linden

Wadsworth Publishing, 1998

VOICES FROM THE RECONSTRUCTION YEARS, 1865-1877 is a collection of twenty-seven first-hand accounts from those who lived through this turbulent period in American history. Newspaper articles, personal letters, and diary entries bring the reader into direct contact with some of the Americans who were deeply affected by the Reconstruction era. Chronologically arranged and framed with invaluable commentary and biographical sketches, this text ...

Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now

117 reviews
Barry Miles

Holt Paperbacks, 1998

How the Music Evolved
Barry Miles' biography of Paul McCartney (Many Years from Now) is distinctive from other Beatles's biographies for its detailed look at how all that iconic music came together. As one example, McCartney gives an insider's view of where he was and what he was doing when he composed "Here, There, and Everywhere," as well as the off hand remark that playing one particular chord led to "Fool on the ...

Life on the Tenure Track: Lessons from the First Year

9 reviews
James M. Lang

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005

Novel ideas for novel teachers
"Life on the Tenure Track" is a refreshingly funny look at the life of a new teacher. Being a new teacher myself, I could easily relate to Lang's story and I think I have been in a lot of the same situations he has faced. While reading this book, I looked back at my own classroom experiences, laughed, and realized, as Lang does in the book, that life goes on. "Life on the Tenure Track" may be ...

New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2008 (New Stories from the South)
ZZ Packer

Algonquin Books, 2008

This year, acclaimed short-story writer ZZ Packer chooses twenty distinctive stories representing the great number of voices and narratives coming out of the South. Some of the youngest and freshest talents on the literary horizon—Bret Anthony Johnston, Kevin Brockmeier, Holly Goddard Jones—accompany well-known Southern stalwarts, including Pinckney Benedict, Clyde Edgerton, and Ron Rash. Their stories tell of life as it is now, a ...

The Way We Will Be 50 Years from Today: 60 Of The World's Greatest Minds Share Their Visions of the Next ...

8 reviews

Thomas Nelson, 2008

The Reader Will Make the Predictions Here!
This fascinating book offers the forecasts of 60 leaders about what our lives will be like in 2050. The ideas of people of science, conservation, computers, medicine, technology, and more will give you much to think about. If you're looking for a book to tell you the answers or create a science fiction visualization, this book is not the one you want. If you're looking for a book that will ...

On the Edge: Images from 100 Years of VOGUE

1 review
Vogue Editors

Random House, 1992

Vogue RULES
On The edge offers plenty of evidence as to why Vogue has ruled the high fashion press.Carefully edited content that have been visually realized by the best stylists, photographers, models, hair and makeup artists working as a team.Sometimes classic,often original,occasionally startling,yet always making an exciting statement about the current state of women's lives, looks and desires. Each ...

The Year of the Dog: Tales from the Chinese Zodiac

3 reviews
Oliver Chin

Immedium, 2006

A whimsical tale of confusion and adventure
The Year Of The Dog: Tales From The Chinese Zodiac is a picturebook about a puppy born on New Years' Day, who explores his surroundings with the companionship of Lin, the little girl next door. A whimsical tale of confusion and adventure, as Lin and the puppy meet the other animals of the Chinese zodiac, some in their imagination, and some in real life - and the Tiger in particular is a very ...

A Well-Kept Secret From the Glory Years of the Detroit Tigers

1 review
Clayton Klein

Wilderness Adventure Books, 2007

A heart Warming Story
This book is so interesting because it tells of so many baseball stars and you seem to know them on a personal basis. This lady was such a talented story teller and artist. Her sketches were absolutely marvelous. It's amazing that this secret was kept for so many years. I was fascinated from the beginning to the end of the book. How nice it was to learn what a gentleman Hank Greenberg was and ...

Caribbean Tsunamis: A 500-Year History from 1498-1998 (Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research)
K.F. O'Loughlin, James F. Lander

Springer, 2003

Caribbean Tsunamis - A 500-Year History from 1498-1998 broadly characterizes the nature of tsunamis in the Caribbean Sea, while bearing in mind both scientific aspects as well as potential interest by the many governments and populations likely to be affected by the hazard. Comprehension of the nature of tsunamis and past effects is crucial for the awareness and education of populations at risk. Audience: This book provides a thorough, yet ...

Metabolic Man: Ten Thousand Years from Eden (The Long Search for a Personal Nutrition From our Forest Origins ...

2 reviews
Charles Heizer Wharton

Winmark Pub., 2002

Practical for modern readers and amazing for everyone
Ten Thousand Years From Eden: The Long Search For A Personal Nutrition From Our Forest Origins To The Supermarkets Of Today by nutrition expert and retired academician Charles Heizer Wharton is a detailed, college-level study of human nutrition from the perspective of an ecologist. From the origin of human beings with a hunter/gatherer system of food gathering and consumption practices, to ...

Light from Heaven (The Mitford Years, Book 9)

106 reviews
Jan Karon

Amazon Remainders Account, 2005

These books are not required reading!
As have many of the reviewers here, I've read all of Jan Karon's books. I find them to be comforting, soothing, safe cozy books to read. Sometimes, when life is truly stressful and anxious, that is exactly what I want. I draw a hot bath and read about a kind gentle world where nothing bad ever happens without a solution. People die when they're old, people give up their addictions, people ...

A View from the Year 3000

8 reviews
Michael H. Hart, Arturo Kukeni

Poseidon Pr, 1999

Brilliantly imaginative....
Michael Hart's brilliant imagination takes the reader on a tour de force of history from the great religious, political and scientific leaders of the past to the imagined ones of the future. See how Jesus, Moses, and Mohammed compare with Hitler, Stalin and those yet to come in influence (whether good or bad, history is the judge). Or Newton, Darwin, and Einstein, with the biotechnologists of ...

A Year from Monday: New Lectures and Writings

2 reviews
John Cage

Wesleyan, 1967

or: today(?)
Yes. The second collection of John Cage's writings to appear (after Silence), A year From Monday is indispensable to anyone wishing to have more than a passing understanding of Cage's work and thought. In usual Cage fashion, the lectures, essays, "diaries," anecdotes, and assorted miscellanea jump off the page - utilizing an increasingly diverse array of typefaces and sizes, the writings ...

Voices from the Dark Years: The Truth About Occupied France 1940-1945
Douglas Boyd

The History Press, 2007

What was life really like in German-occupied France during the Second World War? Douglas Boyd paints the clearest picture yet, using hitherto unpublished first-person accounts of ordinary men and women who lived through this extraordinary and dangerous time, when a few made fortunes, but most went cold and hungry. Less than 1 per cent of the French was pro-German. Is it pure coincidence that the same percentage actively resisted the Germans ...

Three Years From "Thirty": A Play

1 review
Mike O'Malley

Samuel French, Inc, 1996

Three Years From Thirty
This 2 act comic/drama is for 3 women and 4 men. The conflicting ambitions of a long time couple come to a head one evening,(his marriage proposal and her plan to move to New York to further her acting carreer), and reverberate among the couples friends.

Second Year Calculus: From Celestial Mechanics to Special Relativity (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics / ...

3 reviews
David M. Bressoud

Springer, 2001

Calculus For Physics Students
Ok, for all those of you out there who always wanted to learn the math that you need to know to be able to do some really fun physics, THIS IS IT! Most introductions to "higher mathematics" tend to be rather impractical and largely useless and uninteresting topics (to the physical scientist) such as set theory or abelian group theory, but this book really delivers. The emphasis is on working ...

The Launching Years: Strategies for Parenting from Senior Year to College Life

7 reviews
Laura Kastner, Jennifer Wyatt

Three Rivers Press, 2002

The most helpful book for a high school launching parent
This was an extremely helpful book. Two other launching moms and I had a support group where we read and discussed the incidents in our senior daughters lives and the material in the book. It made me feel less like a failure and more like a great mom. Very uplifting, humorous and helpful. I am giving a copy to our college counselor at the high school to recommend for parents. Great read.

From Belly Fat to Belly Flat: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waist and Subtracting Years from ...

27 reviews
C.W. Randolph M.D., Genie James

HCI, 2007

Worth reading
This book is a quick read and easy to understand. The Doctor gives you a way to help yourself via blood tests and non-pharmaceutical remedies. I recommend this book.

Around the World in a Hundred Years: From Henry the Navigator to Magellan

15 reviews
Jean Fritz

Topeka Bindery, 1999

A very good resource for courses on the European exploration and exploitation of the Western Hemisphere
The European exploration of the rest of the world did not begin in 1492, although that is the impression given to grade school children. In a time when there were few ways to preserve food, Europeans had an almost insatiable demand for spices. Not only did the spices preserve the food; they made it possible to eat it when it was spoiled. When the Turks conquered the Arabian Peninsula, they cut ...

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