Usborne First Encyclopedia of Science (Internet-Linked)

Usborne First Encyclopedia of Science (Internet-Linked)
Rachel Firth (Author), Felicity Brooks (Editor), Anna Claybourne (Editor), David Hancock (Illustrator)

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Civil War A to Z: A Young Person's Guide to Over 100 People, Places, and Points of Importance

Civil War A to Z: A Young Person's Guide to Over 100 People, Places, and Points of Importance
Norman Bolotin (Author)
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Containing more than 130 entries of the most important people, places, and events of the Civil War, this handy reference book is great for browsing and is also a compact introduction to the Civil War and to mid-nineteenth-century America. Designed especially for children in upper-elementary and early junior-high grades, each cogent entry is self-contained and full of vivid lore. Organized alphabetically, the entries cover many facets of the war-including slavery, Abraham Lincoln's role as president, nursing, generals, battles, and the home front. Chock-full of historical photographs, drawings, and maps, this entertaining guide is an invaluable companion to any study of the Civil War.

• Rank: #16598 in Books
• Published on: 2002-08-05
• Released on: 2002-08-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .61" h x 7.34" w x 9.24" l, 1.30 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 160 pages

Usborne Internet-Linked Encyclopedia of Planet Earth

Usborne Internet-Linked Encyclopedia of Planet Earth
Anna Claybourne (Author)
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Providing a comprehensive introduction to physical geography, this encyclopedia explores our world's most dramatic features. Clear photographs and graphic illustrations help children to explore the structure of the earth.

• Rank: #235340 in Books
• Published on: 2003-05-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 160 pages

The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had

The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had
Susan Wise Bauer (Author)
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An engaging, accessible guide to educating yourself in the classical tradition.

Have you lost the art of reading for pleasure? Are there books you know you should read but haven't because they seem too daunting? In The Well-Educated Mind, Susan Wise Bauer provides a welcome and encouraging antidote to the distractions of our age, electronic and otherwise. In her previous book, The Well-Trained Mind, the author provided a road map of classical education for parents wishing to home-school their children, and that book is now the premier resource for home-schoolers. In this new book, Bauer takes the same elements and techniques and adapts them to the use of adult readers who want both enjoyment and self-improvement from the time they spend reading.

The Well-Educated Mind offers brief, entertaining histories of five literary genres—fiction, autobiography, history, drama, and poetry—accompanied by detailed instructions on how to read each type. The annotated lists at the end of each chapter—ranging from Cervantes to A. S. Byatt, Herodotus to Laurel Thatcher Ulrich—preview recommended reading and encourage readers to make vital connections between ancient traditions and contemporary writing.

The Well-Educated Mind reassures those readers who worry that they read too slowly or with below-average comprehension. If you can understand a daily newspaper, there's no reason you can't read and enjoy Shakespeare's Sonnets or Jane Eyre. But no one should attempt to read the "Great Books" without a guide and a plan. Susan Wise Bauer will show you how to allocate time to your reading on a regular basis; how to master a difficult argument; how to make personal and literary judgments about what you read; how to appreciate the resonant links among texts within a genre—what does Anna Karenina owe to Madame Bovary?—and also between genres. Followed carefully, the advice in The Well-Educated Mind will restore and expand the pleasure of the written word.

• Rank: #17868 in Books
• Brand: W. W. Norton
• Published on: 2003-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.57" h x 1.50" w x 6.57" l, 1.62 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 432 pages