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Author | : Lucille Colandro |
Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0545337593 |
Get ready to fall over laughing in this autumnal-themed story featuring everyone's favorite old lady! That lovely old lady is ready for her fall comeback! What can you make from leaves, clothes, a pumpkin, and rope? Only this old lady knows the secret!With rhyming text and funny illustrations, this lively version of the classic song will appeal to young readers with every turn of the page--a fun story to get ready for the fall season.
Author | : Joseph W. Esherick |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2011-02-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520947622 |
Ancestral Leaves follows one family through six hundred years of Chinese history and brings to life the epic narrative of the nation, from the fourteenth century through the Cultural Revolution. The lives of the Ye family—"Ye" means "leaf" in Chinese—reveal the human side of the large-scale events that shaped modern China: the vast and destructive rebellions of the nineteenth century, the economic growth and social transformation of the republican era, the Japanese invasion during World War II, and the Cultural Revolution under the Chinese Communists. Joseph W. Esherick draws from rare manuscripts and archival and oral history sources to provide an uncommonly personal and intimate glimpse into Chinese family history, illuminating the changing patterns of everyday life during rebellion, war, and revolution.
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Total Pages | : 330 |
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Genre | : Somerville (Mass.) |
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Author | : William Henry WILLS (Miscellaneous Writer.) |
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Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1860 |
Genre | : English fiction |
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Author | : William Henry Wills |
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Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 1860 |
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Author | : Monica Muñoz Martinez |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2018-09-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674989384 |
Winner of the Caughey Western History Prize Winner of the Robert G. Athearn Award Winner of the Lawrence W. Levine Award Winner of the TCU Texas Book Award Winner of the NACCS Tejas Foco Nonfiction Book Award Winner of the María Elena Martínez Prize Frederick Jackson Turner Award Finalist “A page-turner...Haunting...Bravely and convincingly urges us to think differently about Texas’s past.” —Texas Monthly Between 1910 and 1920, self-appointed protectors of the Texas–Mexico border—including members of the famed Texas Rangers—murdered hundreds of ethnic Mexicans living in Texas, many of whom were American citizens. Operating in remote rural areas, officers and vigilantes knew they could hang, shoot, burn, and beat victims to death without scrutiny. A culture of impunity prevailed. The abuses were so pervasive that in 1919 the Texas legislature investigated the charges and uncovered a clear pattern of state crime. Records of the proceedings were soon filed away as the Ranger myth flourished. A groundbreaking work of historical reconstruction, The Injustice Never Leaves You has upended Texas’s sense of its own history. A timely reminder of the dark side of American justice, it is a riveting story of race, power, and prejudice on the border. “It’s an apt moment for this book’s hard lessons...to go mainstream.” —Texas Observer “A reminder that government brutality on the border is nothing new.” —Los Angeles Review of Books
Author | : Allen J. Coombes |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 2007 |
Release | : 2014-12-10 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 022617686X |
Of all our childhood memories, few are quite as thrilling, or as tactile, as those of climbing trees. Scampering up the rough trunk, spying on the world from the cool green shelter of the canopy, lying on a limb and looking up through the leaves at the summer sun almost made it seem as if we were made for trees, and trees for us.Even in adulthood, trees retain their power, from the refreshing way their waves of green break the monotony of a cityscape to the way their autumn transformations take our breath away. In this lavishly illustrated volume, the trees that have enriched our lives finally get their full due, through a focus on the humble leaves that serve, in a sense, as their public face. The Book of Leaves offers a visually stunning and scientifically engaging guide to six hundred of the most impressive and beautiful leaves from around the world. Each leaf is reproduced here at its actual size, in full color, and is accompanied by an explanation of the range, distribution, abundance, and habitat of the tree on which it’s found. Brief scientific and historical accounts of each tree and related species include fun-filled facts and anecdotes that broaden its portrait. The Henry’s Maple, for instance, found in China and named for an Irish doctor who collected leaves there, bears little initial resemblance to the statuesque maples of North America, from its diminutive stature to its unusual trifoliolate leaves. Or the Mediterranean Olive, which has been known to live for more than 1,500 years and whose short, narrow leaves only fall after two or three years, pushed out in stages by the emergence of younger leaves. From the familiar friends of our backyards to the giants of deep woods, The Book of Leaves brings the forest to life—and to our living rooms—as never before.
Author | : Henry Steel Olcott |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2011-05-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108072917 |
This volume covers the period 1883-1887 (during which Madame Blavatsky resigns) in the history of the Theosophical Society.
Author | : Henry Steel Olcott |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 2011-05-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108072909 |
Olcott chronicles his and Madame Blavatsky's stay in India from 1878 to 1883 on behalf of the Theosophical Society.
Author | : Henry Steel Olcott |
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Total Pages | : 708 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Theosophy |
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