Making Sense of History: Using High-Quality Literature ...
 Author: Myra Zarnowski Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 907.1073 EAN: 9780439667555 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0439667550 MPN: SC-0439667550 Number Of Pages: 208 Publication Date: 2006-10-01 [... more]
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Irons in the Fire
From Amazon.com: Master essayist John McPhee heard about vehicles in Nevada that resemble police cars, but the cop inside was actually a "brand inspector," a lawman charged with tracking cattle rustlers. Ever curious, McPhee left his home in [... more]
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The Class of 1846: From West Point to Appomattox: ...
Not Just Another Civil War book: I am a late comer to review John Waugh's excellent study of the West Point Class of 1846. I find it incredible that any student of military history could find it boring. Mr. waugh is a Journalist who had a story to tell. [... more]
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Vasks: Violin Concerto 'tala
From Amazon.com: This is the world premiere recording of Vasks' second symphony. It is a 40-minute, one-movement work which opens with a glorious bang, with the orchestra at its most powerful and busy. A few minutes in, Vasks offers us repose which is [... more]
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Association Football in Victorian England - A History of ...
Wide of the goal: The history of sport in general, and football in particular, is surprisingly little studied in the UK. There has, of course, been quite an upsurge in the academic study of sports history in the last 10 or 15 years, but, even so, [... more]
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Keeping Watch
At least as good as Folly: Allen Carmichael was a second-tier character in Laurie King's delightful novel Folly, the story of internationally-renowned woodworker Rae Newborn's attempt to tighten her tenuous hold on reality by building a house on an [... more]
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Riding the White Horse Home: A Western Family Album
Progress replacing simplicity: This story is simple, yet complex. It is easy to read, yet is very difficult to fully understand. On the surface, this book appears to be the typical biography of a ranch girl in rural Wyoming; telling of the lives of [... more]
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Syms 8/9
Least attractive coupling in set.: Jochum's Bruckner is all over the place, on EMI, DG, Philips, in box sets and double CDs and single reissues-- all quite appropriate, I suppose, for one of the composer's greatest interpreters. However, if you haven't [... more]
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To the Wedding
From Amazon.com: With the sensuous eye and profound sense of history that have made him one of the most acclaimed living novelists, John Berger, author of G., tells the story of a wedding that takes place in a Europe that is approaching the end of the [... more]
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The Georgia Coast: Waterways and Islands
Packed with useful information: We were loaned a copy of this book before we took off on a two week vacation exploring the barrier islands by sailboat. The expanded chart information alone was invaluable. By the middle of the trip, we had put away all [... more]
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As The World Burns
From Amazon.co.uk: In the beginning, all hip-hop came from the US East Coast: the Bronx, Queensbridge, Uptown and, a bit later, Philadelphia. When West Coast groups emerged, they sounded just like their Eastern forebears--that is, until N.W.A. came along. [... more]
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The Inner Harmony of the Japanese House
An unexpected delight: I am not an architect, nor am I Japanese, but I have lived in Japan and love Japanese-style rooms. I picked this book up merely because I was interested in the topic, and thought I'd get just a dry description and maybe some floor [... more]
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