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Author
Publisher
Clarkson Potter
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Jettison the old rule books about home décor and "undecorate" your space. As the founder and creative director of DwellStudio which is famous for its brightly colored, graphic textile designs for home furnishings, designer Christiane Lemieux challenges tradition in a quintessentially American way, championing a fresh, unconventional approach to creating a beautiful and comfortable home. Lemieux emboldens readers to push aside stuffy, professionally-designed...
Author
Language
English
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Description
After thirty years spent scratching together a middle-class life out of a dirt-poor childhood, Joe Bageant moved back to his hometown of Winchester, Virginia, where he realized that his family and neighbors were the very people who carried George W. Bush to victory. That was ironic, because Winchester, like countless American small towns, is fast becoming the bedrock of a permanent underclass. Two in five of the people in his old neighborhood do not...
Author
Publisher
Ravensburger Buchverl
Pub. Date
2013
Language
Deutsch
Description
Dan lebt in den USA. Seine Eltern haben keine Arbeit und können sich eine eigene Wohnung nicht mehr leisten. Zunächst zieht die Familie bei einem Onkel ein, doch das Zusammenleben ist schwierig. Der einzige Ausweg heiß Dignityville. Eine Zeltstadt. Nie im Leben hätte Dan damit gerechnet, dass auch er und seine Eltern einmal hier landen würden: in Dignityville. Dignityville ist eine Zeltstadt, ein Zufluchtsort für Leute, die erst ihre Arbeit,...
7) First ladies
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
This well-informed, intimate look at 29 women whose lives were intertwined with those who lead and have led this country presents forthright interviews with Lady Bird Johnson, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Reagan, and others, while warmly recalling Pat Nixon and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Ms. Truman's legendary frankness is present but so, too, is a generosity of spirit. Photos throughout.--Publisher description.
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Series
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
©1985
Language
English
Description
In this pathbreaking history Countryman synthesizes recent scholarship on the popular dimensions of the American Revolution and emphasizes that the Revolution was not a united movement but was made up of coalitions as the revolutionaries faced the issues of their time. He explores the participation in and the effects of the Revolution on ordinary people -- a Boston shoemaker, a New England farmwife, a worried merchant, a South Carolina slave -- and...
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Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2000, ©1998
Language
English
Description
A compilation of five books presenting a geological history of North America, the first four were previously published as Basin and Range (1981), In Suspect Terrain (1983), Rising from the Plains (1986), and Assembling California (1993), plus a final book, Crossing the Craton.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
This collection redefines the great canon of American poetry from its origins in the 17th century right up to the present. It features the work of more than 200 poets, almost three times as many as the 1976 edition. The book includes not only writers born since the previous edition, but also many fine poets overlooked in earlier editions or little known in the past but highly deserving of attention. Many more women and African-American poets are represented,...
Author
Publisher
American Library Association
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Provides a generous sampling of art and craft ideas, songs, and action rhymes, designed to help veteran librarians refresh and enliven ongoing programs, while providing novice storytime planners what they need to get started.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Bryson share his experiences hiking the Appalachian Trail with a childhood friend. The two encounter eccentric characters, a blizzard, getting lost, and rude yuppies along the way.
Following his return to America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The "AT" offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests...
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Publisher
Mapletree Pub. Co
Pub. Date
©2004.
Language
English
Description
You don't have to be a professional teacher, a genius, or a structured person to homeschool well. Many people believe they can't homeschool because they are lacking some magical quality or skill successful homeschoolers have. The truth is that homeschooling can be done, and done well, by most ordinary people. [This] book will take you by the hand and show you how. [The author] breaks the job down into doable chunks and carefully explains each part,...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
[This book] address[es] the specific financial reality that young people face today, and it offers a set of real, not impossible, solutions to the problems at hand and the problems ahead. Concisely, pragmatically, and without a whiff of condescension, [the author] tells [the] readers precisely what actions to take and why. Throughout these pages, icons direct readers to a special YF & B domain on [the author's] website that offers more specialized...
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