Levels of Incompetence: And Academic Life
ISBN: 9780991107438 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Levels of Incompetence is a rollicking reminiscence through eight decades of a life well-spent. Bob Davis is a skilled raconteur whose tales are spiced by the remembered pleasures of academic life, peripatetic travels, and endearing family profiles, and his wit and lively style are on full display.
Levels of Incompetence is a rollicking reminiscence through eight decades of a life well-spent. Bob Davis is a skilled raconteur whose tales are spice...
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85,26 zł |
Vital Witnesses: Using Primary Sources in History and Social Studies
ISBN: 9781475810530 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The use of primary sources as texts in the classroom is growing. Teachers realize these vital witnesses provide opportunities to motivate students and improve learning. They bring students closer to the people, places, and events being studied and help students improve content knowledge while building skills. Recent trends in standards, such as Common Core, and the increasing use of the Document-Based Questions also promote primary source use. The strong push to use primary sources in teaching history and social studies creates a need among teachers for more information on what they are and...
The use of primary sources as texts in the classroom is growing. Teachers realize these vital witnesses provide opportunities to motivate students and...
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132,83 zł |
Deep Maps and Spatial Narratives
ISBN: 9780253015556 / Angielski / Twarda / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Deep maps are finely detailed, multimedia depictions of a place and the people, buildings, objects, flora, and fauna that exist within it and which are inseparable from the activities of everyday life. These depictions may encompass the beliefs, desires, hopes, and fears of residents and help show what ties one place to another. A deep map is a way to engage evidence within its spatio-temporal context and to provide a platform for a spatially-embedded argument. The essays in this book investigate deep mapping and the spatial narratives that stem from it. The authors come from a variety of... Deep maps are finely detailed, multimedia depictions of a place and the people, buildings, objects, flora, and fauna that exist within it and which... |
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383,60 zł |
Deep Maps and Spatial Narratives
ISBN: 9780253015600 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Deep maps are finely detailed, multimedia depictions of a place and the people, buildings, objects, flora, and fauna that exist within it and which are inseparable from the activities of everyday life. These depictions may encompass the beliefs, desires, hopes, and fears of residents and help show what ties one place to another. A deep map is a way to engage evidence within its spatio-temporal context and to provide a platform for a spatially-embedded argument. The essays in this book investigate deep mapping and the spatial narratives that stem from it. The authors come from a variety of... Deep maps are finely detailed, multimedia depictions of a place and the people, buildings, objects, flora, and fauna that exist within it and which... |
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131,18 zł |
God's Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War
ISBN: 9781469621821 / Angielski / Miękka / 586 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Throughout the Civil War, soldiers and civilians on both sides of the conflict saw the hand of God in the terrible events of the day, but the standard narratives of the period pay scant attention to religion. Now, in God's Almost Chosen Peoples, Lincoln Prize-winning historian George C. Rable offers a groundbreaking account of how Americans of all political and religious persuasions used faith to interpret the course of the war.
Examining a wide range of published and unpublished documents--including sermons, official statements from various churches, denominational papers and... Throughout the Civil War, soldiers and civilians on both sides of the conflict saw the hand of God in the terrible events of the day, but the standard...
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236,65 zł |
Researching Local History: The Human Journey
ISBN: 9781138836280 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This practical but inspiring book considers what local history is, why researching it is valuable and rewarding, and how we should go about it. Issues addressed include: getting oral and documentary evidence; keeping records; the nature of data, information and knowledge; and their use to create the different products of local history research. Michael Williams is both a professional scientist and a local historian of long standing, and he uses both sides of his experience in a text that is at once rigorous about the historical process, and also a fascinating - and often moving - account of...
This practical but inspiring book considers what local history is, why researching it is valuable and rewarding, and how we should go about it. Issues...
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656,16 zł |
A Finger in Lincoln's Brain: What Modern Science Reveals about Lincoln, His Assassination, and Its Aftermath
ISBN: 9781440831188 / Angielski / Twarda / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, E. Lawrence Abel sheds much-needed light on the fascinating details surrounding the death of Abraham Lincoln, including John Wilkes Booth's illness that turned him into an assassin, the medical treatment the president is alleged to have received after he was shot, and the significance of his funeral for the American public. The author provides an in-depth analysis of the science behind the assassination, a discussion of the medical care Lincoln received at the time he was shot and the treatment he would have received if he were shot today, and the impact of his death on his... In this book, E. Lawrence Abel sheds much-needed light on the fascinating details surrounding the death of Abraham Lincoln, including John Wilkes B... |
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395,19 zł |
Colors of Veracity: A Quest for Truth in China and Beyond
ISBN: 9780824838737 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Colors of Veracity, Vera Schwarcz condenses four decades of teaching and scholarship about China to raise fundamental questions about the nature of truth and history. In clear and vivid prose, she addresses contemporary moral dilemmas with a highly personal sense of ethics and aesthetics. Drawing on classical sources in Hebrew and Chinese (as well as several Greek and Japanese texts), Schwarcz brings deep and varied cultural references to bear on the question of truth and falsehood in human consciousness. An attentiveness to connotations and nuance is apparent throughout her... In Colors of Veracity, Vera Schwarcz condenses four decades of teaching and scholarship about China to raise fundamental questions about the nature... |
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255,77 zł |
Writing History in the Global Era
ISBN: 9780393351170 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Globalization is emerging as a major economic, cultural, and political force. In Writing History in the Global Era, historian Lynn Hunt examines whether globalization can reinvigorate the telling of history. She looks toward scholars from the East and West collaborating in new ways as they share their ideas. She proposes a sweeping reevaluation of individuals' active role and their place in society as the keys to understanding the way people and ideas interact. Hunt also reveals how surprising new perspectives on society and the self offer promising new ways of thinking about the... Globalization is emerging as a major economic, cultural, and political force. In Writing History in the Global Era, historian Lynn Hunt ex... |
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69,02 zł |
Beyond the Classroom: Studies on Pupils and Informal Schooling Processes in Modern Europe
ISBN: 9783631653609 / Angielski / Twarda / 235 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The research on educational history has traditionally focused on its institutional, political and pedagogical aspects, more or less habitually analyzing schooling as a top-down, adult-controlled phenomenon. Even if change has been visible during the last decades, there still remain important topics that are rarely discussed in the field. These topics include practices related to day-to-day school life that are not part of the formal curriculum or classroom routine, but which nevertheless allow pupils to become actively involved in their own schooling. This book provides historical case...
The research on educational history has traditionally focused on its institutional, political and pedagogical aspects, more or less habitually analyzi...
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334,72 zł |
Nationalism and History Education: Curricula and Textbooks in the United States and France
ISBN: 9781138801578 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. History education, by nature, transmits an official version of national identity. National identity is not a fixed entity, and controversy over history teaching is an essential part of the process of redefining and regenerating the nation. France and the United States have in particular experienced demographic and cultural shifts since the 1960s that have resulted in intense debates over national identity. This volume examines how each country s national history is represented in primary schools social studies textbooks and curricula, and how they handle contemporary issues of ethnicity,... History education, by nature, transmits an official version of national identity. National identity is not a fixed entity, and controversy over his... |
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706,63 zł |
Tell Me about the Presidents: Lessons for Today's Kids from America's Leaders
ISBN: 9781475817034 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tell Me about the Presidents is for young people in the elementary grades. The author includes an interesting story about each president. The material is usually not in textbooks or taught in classes. At the conclusion of each story are three questions for the reader to answer. This book is a great learning tool that can used by parents and teachers to teach American history in a fun way.
Tell Me about the Presidents is for young people in the elementary grades. The author includes an interesting story about each president. The material...
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249,71 zł |
Tell Me about the Presidents: Lessons for Today's Kids from America's Leaders
ISBN: 9781475817041 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tell Me about the Presidents is for young people in the elementary grades. The author includes an interesting story about each president. The material is usually not in textbooks or taught in classes. At the conclusion of each story are three questions for the reader to answer. This book is a great learning tool that can be used by parents and teachers to teach American history in a fun way.
Tell Me about the Presidents is for young people in the elementary grades. The author includes an interesting story about each president. The material...
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132,83 zł |
Cruise Through History: Rome to Venice
ISBN: 9781942153030 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Almost a thousand years before the birth of Christ, Greeks rowed west on the Adriatic Sea, landed near what is now Brindisi, and ran form the heel of the boot of Italy to the place where Rome stands today. Hundreds of years later, Romans paved the road from Rome ot Brindisi. They did this to support military and commercial needs. In the current era, roads connected the three capital of the Christian world: Rome Ravenna, and Constantinople. Later Roman paving stones become the material for early Christian churches such as in the Square of Miracles in Pisa. (excerpt) This itinerary discusses... Almost a thousand years before the birth of Christ, Greeks rowed west on the Adriatic Sea, landed near what is now Brindisi, and ran form the heel ... |
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Eighth Witness: The Biography of John Whitmer
ISBN: 9781934901281 / Angielski / Twarda / 722 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Whitmer one of the most familiar names in early Mormonism. As one of Joseph Smith's earliest supporters and associates, John was a member of one of the founding families of Smith's Restoration movement. He was also one of the eight witnesses to the authenticity of the Book of Mormon, Mormonism's founding document. His name is reproduced in each of the millions of copies of that work that exist in dozens of different editions. Many know no more than his name, but the better informed likewise know that he also became wary of Joseph Smith and Mormonism, turned his back on what had been a...
John Whitmer one of the most familiar names in early Mormonism. As one of Joseph Smith's earliest supporters and associates, John was a member of one ...
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239,07 zł |
Twelve Essentials For a Successful Marriage Successful Marriage
ISBN: 9781498425377 / Angielski / Miękka / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The content of this book, intended to reach the needs of people who are in a relationship and ready to say "I DO," and couples who are currently struggling in their marriages and are seeking workable solutions. Also couples who are on the verge of divorce. It is also a definitive guideline for decision makers before getting into a life time relationship. It is an holistic and unprecedented approach for pre-marital and post marital couples all around the world. Thanks to my professor, Dr. Ronald Smith, for his embrace and his cheerleader role, which he displayed in his encouragement to me. To...
The content of this book, intended to reach the needs of people who are in a relationship and ready to say "I DO," and couples who are currently strug...
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55,00 zł |
Twelve Essentials For a Successful Marriage Successful Marriage
ISBN: 9781498425384 / Angielski / Twarda / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The content of this book, intended to reach the needs of people who are in a relationship and ready to say "I DO," and couples who are currently struggling in their marriages and are seeking workable solutions. Also couples who are on the verge of divorce. It is also a definitive guideline for decision makers before getting into a life time relationship. It is an holistic and unprecedented approach for pre-marital and post marital couples all around the world. Thanks to my professor, Dr. Ronald Smith, for his embrace and his cheerleader role, which he displayed in his encouragement to me. To...
The content of this book, intended to reach the needs of people who are in a relationship and ready to say "I DO," and couples who are currently strug...
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114,83 zł |
History and Causality
ISBN: 9781137539946 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume investigates the different attitudes of historians and other social scientists to questions of causality. It argues that historical theorists after the linguistic turn have paid surprisingly little attention to causes in spite of the centrality of causation in many contemporary works of history.
This volume investigates the different attitudes of historians and other social scientists to questions of causality. It argues that historical theori...
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213,50 zł |
Using Film as a Source
ISBN: 9780719090301 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a hands-on study skills guide which explores how film and moving image can be used as sources. It is aimed at those who want to use film material as the basis for research and offers advice on research methods, theory and methodology, archival work and film-based analysis including a detailed section on film aesthetics. It draws on the disciplines of film and history to offer advice for students and researchers in these fields.
The skills acquired in the fields of history, politics, English literature, sociology, cultural and media studies can all help to use film as... This book is a hands-on study skills guide which explores how film and moving image can be used as sources. It is aimed at those who want to use film ...
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69,02 zł |
Say We Are Nations: Documents of Politics and Protest in Indigenous America since 1887
ISBN: 9781469624808 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this wide-ranging and carefully curated anthology, Daniel M. Cobb presents the words of Indigenous people who have shaped Native American rights movements from the late nineteenth century through the present day. Presenting essays, letters, interviews, speeches, government documents, and other testimony, Cobb shows how tribal leaders, intellectuals, and activists deployed a variety of protest methods over more than a century to demand Indigenous sovereignty. As these documents show, Native peoples have adopted a wide range of strategies in this struggle, invoking "American" and global...
In this wide-ranging and carefully curated anthology, Daniel M. Cobb presents the words of Indigenous people who have shaped Native American rights mo...
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201,93 zł |