During the nineteenth century, the roughest but most important ocean passage in the world lay between Britain and the United States. Bridging the Atlantic Ocean by steamship was a defining, remarkable feat of the era. Over time, Atlantic steamships became the largest, most complex machines yet devised. They created a new transatlantic world of commerce and travel, reconciling former Anglo-American enemies and bringing millions of emigrants who transformed the United States.
In Transatlantic, the experience of crossing the Atlantic is re-created in stunning detail from the...
During the nineteenth century, the roughest but most important ocean passage in the world lay between Britain and the United States. Bridging the A...
John Muir and His Legacy is at once a biography of this remarkable man--the first work to make unrestricted use of all of Muir's manuscripts and personal papers--and a history of the century-old fight to save the natural environment. Stephen Fox traces the conservation movement's diverse, colorful, and tumultuous history, from the successful campaign to establish Yosemite National Park in 1890 to the movement's present day concerns of nuclear waste and acid rain. Conservation has run a cyclical course, Fox contends, from its origins in the 1890s when it was the province of amateurs, to...
John Muir and His Legacy is at once a biography of this remarkable man--the first work to make unrestricted use of all of Muir's manuscripts and perso...
Galveston contains the largest and most historically significant collection of nineteenth-century buildings of any Texas city. As a result of preservation efforts in recent years, Galveston s architecture and history have risen to national prominence. This is the first comprehensive guide to the architecture of this unusual Gulf Coast city. The "Galveston Architecture Guidebook "includes the city s imposing business blocks, institutional buildings, and houses, both large and small. Conceived in the nineteenth century, Galveston s town plan was highly sophisticated, reflecting the city s...
Galveston contains the largest and most historically significant collection of nineteenth-century buildings of any Texas city. As a result of preserva...
Im Arbeitsbuch finden sich neben den Grammatikerklärungen schriftliche Übungen zur Festigung des Lernstoffs, ein systematisches Aussprachetraining und weitere Hörverständnisübungen. Tests nach jeweils fünf Lektionen ermöglichen eine Einschätzung des Lernerfolgs. Zusätzliche Portfolio-Seiten regen zum Nachdenken über Lernstrategien an, bieten Aufgaben zur Internetrecherche und trainieren die Textproduktion. Darüber hinaus unterstützen Lerntipps die Teilnehmer bei ihrer Arbeit zu Hause.
Im Arbeitsbuch finden sich neben den Grammatikerklärungen schriftliche Übungen zur Festigung des Lernstoffs, ein systematisches Aussprachetraining u...
Das Arbeitsbuch enthält: Erläuterungen zur Grammatik sowie zum Sprachgebrauch und zur Landeskunde, Aussprachetraining, abwechslungsreiche schriftliche Übungen, Hörverständnisübungen, Lerntipps und Tests zur Überprüfung des Lernfortschritts
Das Arbeitsbuch enthält: Erläuterungen zur Grammatik sowie zum Sprachgebrauch und zur Landeskunde, Aussprachetraining, abwechslungsreiche schriftlic...
