Some Boone Descendants and Kindred of the St. Charles District

Some Boone Descendants and Kindred of the St. Charles District
Author: Lilian Hays Oliver
Publisher:
Total Pages: 494
Release: 1984
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN:

George Boone III (1666-1844) married Mary Milton Maugridge about 1689 and, as Quakers, in 1717 the family immigrated from England to Berks County, Pennsylvania. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsyl- vania, North Carolina, Kentucky, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, California, Washington and elsewhere.

The Buddhist Conquest of China

The Buddhist Conquest of China
Author: Erik Zürcher
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 511
Release: 2007
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004156046

At the repeated request of many scholars and students here is a new edition of E. Zürcher's groundbreaking The Buddhist Conquest of China. In his extensive introduction Stephen F. Teiser (D.T. Suzuki Professor in Buddhist Studies, Princeton University) explains why the book is still the standard in the field of early Chinese Buddhism.

The Naked Children

The Naked Children
Author: Daniel N. Fader
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Total Pages: 246
Release: 1996
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Wentworth, who reads Born Free aloud to his friends, but pretends in school that he can't read--and succeeds so well that his teachers consider him hopelessly illiterate . . . Cleo, the "bad girl" leader of a gang, who develops a rehabilitation program for a fourteen-year old alcoholic pool hustler . . . Snapper, bright and alert enough to rescue a student suffering an epileptic seizure, but who has difficulty responding to the simplest classroom questions. These are the naked children.

Writing to be Read

Writing to be Read
Author: Ken Macrorie
Publisher: Boynton/Cook
Total Pages: 287
Release: 1984
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780867091335

Writing to Be Read is the high school version of Telling Writing. This third edition reaffirms Ken Macrorie's continuing commitment to young writers, as well as the perennial popularity of Writing to Be Read. Like all fine teachers, Macrorie has remained a student of his subject, and this book is informed by fresh classroom discoveries. The book embodies a carefully articulated writing course that gives students the freedom to find their voices and let their subjects find them.

The Mahavagga

The Mahavagga
Author: Thomas William Rhys Davids
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Total Pages: 627
Release: 2012
Genre:
ISBN: 3849622444

This is the extended and annotated edition including * an extensive annotation of more than 10.000 words about the history and basics of Buddhism, written by Thomas William Rhys Davids * an interactive table-of-contents * perfect formatting for electronic reading devices The Mahavagga includes accounts of the Buddha's and his great disciples' awakenings, as well as rules for uposatha days and monastic ordination.

Notes Toward a New Rhetoric

Notes Toward a New Rhetoric
Author: Francis Christensen
Publisher: Booklocker.com
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007-11
Genre: English language
ISBN: 9781601453815

Francis Christensen revolutionized the teaching of writing. These essays document his research, explain his unique numbering system for sentences and paragraphs, and offer immediately usable classroom strategies. Every writing teacher must know the Christensen Method.