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  • Building a Better Teacher: How Teaching Works (and How to Teach It to Everyone)

    **A New York Times Notable Book"A must-read book for every American teacher and taxpayer." —Amanda Ripley, author of The Smartest Kids in the World**Launched with a hugely popular New York Times Magazine cover story, Building a Better Teacher sparked a national conversation about teacher quality and established Elizabeth Green as a leading voice in education. Green's fascinating and accessible ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • History in the Making

    An Absorbing Look at How American History Has Changed in the Telling over the Last 200 Years

    by Kyle Ward ...
    The popular, “thought-provoking study” that explores how contemporary prejudices change the way each generation looks at the nation’s past (Library Journal).Historian Kyle Ward, the acclaimed co-author of History Lessons, offers another fascinating look at the biases inherent in the way we think about, write about, and teach our own history. Juxtaposing passages from US history textbooks of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Still Failing at Fairness

    How Gender Bias Cheats Girls and Boys in School and What We Can Do About It

    Despite decades of effort to create fair classrooms and schools, gender bias is alive and well, and in some ways growing. School practices continue to send boys and girls down different life paths, too often treating them not as different genders but as different species. Teachers and parents often miss the subtle signs of sexism in classrooms. Through firsthand observations and up-to-the-minute ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Inside American Education

    by Thomas Sowell ...
    An indictment of the American educational system criticizes the fact that the system has discarded the traditional goals of transmitting knowledge and fostering cognitive skills in favor of building self-esteem and promoting social harmony. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • AP United States History Key Terms Explained

    by Ethan Koch ...
    Welcome Juniors, Seniors, and College Students who are currently in enrolled in AP United States History (APUSH) along with anyone else looking to enlighten themselves with the history of America. As most of you are currently experiencing this, APUSH is a very intensive course filled with hours of work each week and more information to be learned than you ever thought possible. I know, I have ... Read more

    Free

  • Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World

    An unusual and authoritative 'natural history of languages' that narrates the ways in which one language has superseded or outlasted another at different times in history.The story of the world in the last five thousand years is above all the story of its languages. Some shared language is what binds any community together, and makes possible both the living of a common history and the telling of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line

    Untold Stories of the Women Who Changed the Course of World War II

    by Mari Eder ...
    For fans of Radium Girls and history and WWII buffs, The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line takes you inside the lives and experiences of 15 unknown women heroes from the Greatest Generation, the women who served, fought, struggled, and made things happen during WWII—in and out of uniform—for theirs is a legacy destined to embolden generations of women to come.From daring spies to audacious pilots, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Common Core Standards and World War II

    A Literary Veteran's Day Observance

    by Pat Scales ...
    President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a five-star general and commander of the Allied Forces in Europe during World War II, established a committee in 1954 to plan a Veterans Day observance. This day honors all veterans of the United States and is held each year on November 11 with a somber ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. A wreath is placed on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and followed by a ... Read more

    Free

  • The Middle East For Dummies

    Demystifies the area's culture, politics, and religionsExplore Middle Eastern history from ancient to modern timesLooking to better understand the Middle East? This plain-English guide explains the importance of the region, especially in light of recent events. You'll meet its people and their leaders, discover the differences and similarities between Arab and Western mindsets, and examine the ... Read more

    $12.00 USD

  • Einstein For Dummies

    Genius demystified, the Dummies way!In 1905, Albert Einstein revolutionized modern physics with his theory of relativity. He went on to become a twentieth-century icon-a man whose name and face are synonymous with "genius." Now, at last, ordinary readers can explore Einstein's life and work in this new For Dummies guide. Physicist Carlos Calle chronicles Einstein's career and explains his work ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • The Royal Wardrobe: peek into the wardrobes of history's most fashionable royals

    by Rosie Harte ...
    'I loved this book!' - Alison Weir'[A] lively, gossipy forage through royal wardrobes' - Daily Mail**'**A sparkling history' - Dr Kate StrasdinPeek into the wardrobes of history's most fashionable royalsWhy did women wear such heavy and uncomfortable skirts in the Elizabethan era?What the hell happened to Charles II's pubic hair wig?<s... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Number Games

    9/11 to Coronavirus

    Number Games | 9/11 to Coronavirus was written for the purpose of educating the people of the world about the agendas that are being carried out against us, and the very clear plan that went into motion in 1968, when coronavirus was coined, World Trade Center construction in New York began, and 9-1-1 was made the United States' national emergency dialing code. As the reader will learn, these ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Teaching White Supremacy

    America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity

    **A powerful exploration of the past and present arc of America’s white supremacy—from the country’s inception and Revolutionary years to its 19th century flashpoint of civil war; to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s and today’s Black Lives Matter.“The most profoundly original cultural history in recent memory.” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University“Stunning, timely . . . an achievement ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Trickster and the Thundergod

    Thor and Loki in Old Norse Myths

    Series Book 2 - The Poetic Edda
    Norse myths are crammed with stories of heroism, gods, giants, dwarfs, elves and strong elements of shamanism, pagan ritual, sorcery and shape-changing. This book is collection of Old Norse medieval texts concerning the gods Thor and Loki, and contains translations of six Edda poems, three Skaldic poems and all the relevant passages from Snorri Sturluson´s Prose Edda - with explanations and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Not God

    A History of Alcoholics Anonymous

    by Ernest Kurtz ...
    A fascinating account of the discovery and program of Alcoholics Anonymous, Not God contains anecdotes and excerpts from the diaries, correspondence, and occasional memoirs of AA's early figures.The most complete history of A.A. ever written, this book is a fast-moving and authoritative account of the discovery and development of the program and fellowship that we know today as Alcoholics ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Other Pasts, Different Presents, Alternative Futures

    by Jeremy Black ...
    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    “The most robust defense of historical counterfactuals to date . . . For those interested in this fascinating subject, Black’s book is indispensable.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)What if there had been no World War I or no Russian Revolution? What if Napoleon had won at Waterloo in 1815, or if Martin Luther had not nailed his complaints to the church door at Wittenberg in 1517, or if the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Japanese Abacus Use & Theory

    The Japanese Abacus & Theory book is easy to follow, and gives the reader step-by-step directions on how to use it correctly while applying it to practical use.The imperfect numerical notation and scarcity of suitable writing materials in ancient times are presumed to have given rise to need for devices of mechanical calculation. While the definite origin of the abacus is obscure, there is some ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • In Destiny's Hands

    Five Tragic Rulers, Children of Maria Theresa

    Justin Vovks In Destinys Hands is the heartbreaking story of five children of Austrias iconic empress, Maria Theresa, who watched as their royal worlds were ripped apart by tragedy and epic misfortunes. These are the stories of Joseph, whose disastrous reign forced Austria to the brink of civil war; Amalia, the brazen and scandalous duchess who married a boy-prince and died exiled and forgotten; ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Between Citizens and the State

    The Politics of American Higher Education in the 20th Century

    Series Book 104 - Politics and Society in Modern America
    This book tracks the dramatic outcomes of the federal government's growing involvement in higher education between World War I and the 1970s, and the conservative backlash against that involvement from the 1980s onward. Using cutting-edge analysis, Christopher Loss recovers higher education's central importance to the larger social and political history of the United States in the twentieth ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Story of Western Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory

    A riveting road map to the development of modern scientific thought.In the tradition of her perennial bestseller The Well-Educated Mind, Susan Wise Bauer delivers an accessible, entertaining, and illuminating springboard into the scientific education you never had. Far too often, public discussion of science is carried out by journalists, voters, and politicians who have received their science ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Yale Needs Women

    How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant

    WINNER OF THE 2020 CONNECTICUT BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION AND NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS FOR BOOK CLUBS IN 2021 BY BOOKBROWSE"Perkins makes the story of these early and unwitting feminist pioneers come alive against the backdrop of the contemporaneous civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1970s, and offers observations that remain eerily relevant on U.S. campuses today."—Edward B. Fiske, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Old Testament and New Testament Manuscript History

    Who are the Essenes? Where is the Nag Hammadi Library? Can sacred texts be found in a desert dump? What does an island in the Nile have to do with Ezra and Nehemiah? Was Miles Coverdale the Main Man of the Age of English Bible translations? Follow the history of the Bible, its translations and manuscripts, from Cuneiform Tablets to the Spanish inquisition. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Democracy's Schools

    The Rise of Public Education in America

    Series series How Things Worked
    The unknown history of American public education.At a time when Americans are debating the future of public education, Johann N. Neem tells the inspiring story of how and why Americans built a robust public school system in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War. It’s a story in which ordinary people in towns across the country worked together to form districts and build schoolhouses ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Mis-Education of the Negro

    Series series African American
    In 1933, American historian and educator Carter Woodson (1875-1950) delivered a powerful and prophetic denouncement of "Euro-centric"school curricula that still rings true. Woodson inspired black Americans to demand relevant learning opportunities that were inclusive of their own culture and heritage. In issuing this challenge, Woodson laid the foundation for more progressive and egalitarian ... Read more

    $8.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus