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Commander in Chief Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War
Par Albert Marrin. 1997
Judging the Civil War to be the definitive event in the history of the United States, Marrin contends that Lincoln…
was our greatest president. Provides biographical information relevant to understanding why this tragedy was also known as "Mr. Lincoln's war." For grades 6-9Collection of essays on a period of time from the end of the Middle Ages (around 1500) to the beginning…
of the nineteenth century. These chronologically arranged articles by American and British historians discuss the cultural, religious, and political trendsThe William Saroyan reader
Par William Saroyan. 1994
A representative selection of Saroyan's writings from the 1930s and 1940s. Contains thirty short stories, two complete plays, a memoir,…
essays, a long poem, the complete text of Tracy's Tiger, and portions of four other novels. Introduction by the author and a preface by his son, AramJust what the doctor ordered: the history of American medicine
Par Brandon Miller. 1997
Illustrates the changes in medical practices in the United States since Europeans first settled here. Recalls the first medical school…
opening in 1765 and the fact that George Washington, suffering from a sore throat, died from prescribed bleeding in 1799. Attributes improvements in medicine to better education, upgraded sanitation practices, and the discovery of vaccines. For grades 5-8The genius of China: 3,000 years of science, discovery, and invention
Par Robert Temple. 1986
Reveals the Chinese origins of such "modern" inventions as paper and printing, gunpowder, and the magnetic compass. Temple's eleven topics--including…
astronomy, engineering, medicine, and warfare--provide historical context and show that more than half of the basic discoveries considered "Western" were developed earlier in ChinaAbout this life: journeys on the threshold of memory
Par Barry Lopez. 1998
Autobiographical essays reflecting on the travels, adventures, and memories lodged in Lopez's mind that contributed to his becoming a writer.…
He explores faraway lands, islands, and seas; makes trips within the United States; and ponders the connections to his interior worldLes éboulements: trois siècles de relations avec le fleuve
Par Michel Desgagnés. 2020
Pas moins de 140 bateaux de bois, dont une majorité de goélettes, ont été lancés des grèves des Éboulements (Saint-Joseph-de-la-Rive)…
entre 1782 et 1952. Leur construction et leur opération ont constitué pour ce village des activités importantes sur le plan économique. Cet ouvrage permet de voir comment les villageois ont appris le métier de marin et nous fait connaître quelques-unes des routes fluviales qu'ils ont empruntées avec leurs bateaux, car ils ne se contentaient pas de se rendre à Québec; avec les difficultés que l'éloignement entraînait. Par ailleurs, dès l'arrivée des premiers censitaires dans la seigneurie, et cela jusqu'au milieu du XIXe siècle et même plus tard, le fleuve s'est révélé une ressource importante pour cette population qui en a exploité les prairies de grève pour nourrir son bétail et qui a pratiqué la pêche au moins sur une petite échelle. Comme d'autres villages riverains du Saint-Laurent, celui des Éboulements doit maintenant faire face à l'érosion de ses berges. Ses plages, qui ont longtemps attiré le tourisme, sont aujourd'hui disparues. Né à Saint-Joseph-de-la-Rive dans une famille de marins et détenteur d'une maîtrise en histoire, Michel Desgagnés s'est toujours intéressé à l'histoire maritime du Québec, en particulier aux bateaux traditionnels. Il a réalisé, déjà, des travaux sur les goélettes de Charlevoix, les barges de pêche et les canots d'hiverLe paradis à la fin de vos jours: pièce en un acte (Théâtre)
Par Michel Tremblay. 2008
"Une fois arrivée au Paradis, Nana ne perd rien de sa verve ni de sa mauvaise foi, de son sens…
du théâtre ni de ses réparties assassines! Sans doute à droite d'un Dieu - qu'elle appelle le Noyau Central faute de mieux! - dont elle n'a jamais vu le bout du nez, elle a la surprise de se retrouver entre sa belle-mère, toujours aussi critiqueuse, et sa propre mère, Maria Desrosiers... "Qui c'est qui a envie de passer le reste de son éternité entre sa mère pis sa belle-mère?" La Grosse Femme côtoie maintenant une famille "reconstituée", dans un au-delà surréaliste et poétique où Michel Tremblay conjugue avec un plaisir coupable humour et gravité, dérision et auto-dérision". -- 4e de couvMarco Polo and the discovery of the world
Par John Larner. 1999
A history professor examines the authenticity of Polo's book about his travels to the East and assesses its impact on…
European culture. He reviews known facts about Marco Polo (1254-1323?) and the Venetian merchants, discusses how the book came to be written, and describes its reception in succeeding years. 1999Meditations from a movable chair: essays
Par Andre Dubus. 1988
Twenty-five essays, many describing the author's feelings about being physically dependent on other people or mechanical devices since a car…
accident in 1986 put him in a wheelchair. In "Liv Ullmann in Spring," Dubus recounts his difficulties in attending an authors' dinner but says meeting Ullmann was worth all the effort. Some strong languageKids at work: Lewis Hine and the crusade against child labor
Par Russell Freedman. 1994
Documents the abuse of child laborers in factories, fields, mills, mines, and streets of the United States in the early…
1900s by tracing the career of professional photographer Lewis Hine. Hine's work raised public awareness and helped change the nation's laws to protect young people under age sixteen. For grades 5-8The rebuilding of Bosnia
Par James Reger. 1997
An account of the Bosnian civil war between Roman Catholics, Muslims, and Orthodox Serbs. Chronicles the history of strife in…
the Balkans, including the destruction of Sarajevo and "ethnic cleansing." Summarizes the Dayton Peace Accords and the reconstruction up to 1996. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 1997Athens: a portrait of the city in its Golden Age
Par Christian Meier. 1998
Examines classical Athens from its victory over the Persians at Marathon in 490 B.C. through the death of Socrates four…
generations later. Describes the metropolis, at the height of its political and military power, as the source of the development of Western democracy, philosophy, natural science, and literary and fine artsThe myth of continents: a critique of metageography
Par Martin Lewis. 1997
An examination of how traditional geographical divisions of the world into continents, nation-states, and the supracontinental blocks of East and…
West reflect parochial attitudes such as Eurocentrism. Proposes that an increasingly integrated world needs a new geographical depictionRandom harvest
Par James Flexner. 1998
Collection of short stories and essays on America's history and art, written by the recipient of a special Pulitzer Prize…
and a National Book Award. Includes his 1929 commencement address at Harvard, portrayals of noted American personalities, articles first published in the New York Herald Tribune, and personal memoirsNorth of now: a celebration of country and the soon to be gone
Par W. D Wetherell. 1998
The author laments the passing of the quiet country lifestyle. Wetherell lives in rural New Hampshire and reminisces about pleasures…
in the simple things in life--trout fishing, stargazing, reading, and walking. Describes "baby boomers" as links between the world as it has been for centuries and the new millenniumPandexicon: How the Language of the Pandemic Defined Our New Cultural Reality
Par Wayne Grady. 2023
Did you keep a list of the words coined by Covid? Wayne Grady did! They're deftly woven into a journal/timeline,…
taking us through two years of surrealism and limbo.—Margaret AtwoodThis exploration of the many new terms of the Covid-19 pandemic provides insight into the ways an ever-evolving vocabulary helped us cope with our anxiety and adapt to a new reality When the pandemic struck in early 2020, Wayne Grady started collecting the words and phrases that arose from our shared global experience. Some, such as "uptick" and "pivot," had existed before but now took on new meaning, and others, such as "covidivorce," "quarantini," "covexit," and "shecession," appeared for the first time, their meaning instantly clear. Through this new vocabulary, we became more able to adapt to change, to domesticate it in a sense, and to reduce our fears. Moving from the very beginning of the pandemic (the "Before Times") and our early response to it through the peaks and troughs of the various waves in countries throughout the world, and ending with a contemplation of what the "After Times" might look like, this book takes us on a journey through the pandemic and illuminates both how this new language has unfolded and how it has changed the way we think about ourselves and each other.The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Par Robert Browning. 1993
Folktale in verse. The town of Hamelin employs a mysterious piper to save them from a plague of rats. When…
the townspeople refuse to pay him for his work, the piper takes magical revenge. For grades 3-6Remember laughter: a life of James Thurber
Par Neil Grauer. 1994
Biography of the twentieth-century American humorist best known for his stories and cartoons featured in the New Yorker in the…
1930s and 1940s. Thurber, who published most of his writing after the onset of blindness in the early 1940s, was renowned for such works as My Life and Hard Times (RC 21038) and Thurber Carnival (RC 18374). Some strong languageThe night trilogy
Par Elie Wiesel. 1985
"Night" is the story of a Jewish boy who is deported with his family and community from Hungary to the…
horrors of the infamous Auschwitz. In "Dawn," Elisha, the sole survivor of his family, becomes a Jewish terrorist in Palestine and is ordered to execute an Englishman. In "The Accident," a concentration camp survivor tries to rebuild his life in New York City. Some violence and some descriptions of sex