Includes fabulous, expanded new sections based on feedback from readers.

Join everyone's favorite farm girl on a strange odyssey down the Yellow Brick Road. Signet Classics edition.

Presents the history of the United States from the point of view of those who were exploited in the name of American progress.

Presents the history of the United States from the point of view of those who were exploited in the name of American progress.

Teach Like a Champion offers effective teaching techniques to help teachers, especially those in their first few years, become champions in the classroom. Training activities at the end of each chapter help the reader further their understanding through reflection and application of the ideas to their own practice.

One of the world's most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey, into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.

The Rise of the West, winner of the National Book Award for history in 1964, is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In it, McNeill challenges the Spengler-Toynbee view that a number of separate civilizations pursued essentially independent careers, and argues instead that human cultures interacted at every stage of their history. The author suggests that from the Neolithic beginnings of grain agriculture to the present major social changes in all parts of the world were triggered by new or newly important foreign stimuli, and he presents a persuasive narrative of world history to support this claim. In a retrospective essay titled "The Rise of the West after Twenty-five Years," McNeill shows how his book was shaped by the time and place in which it was written (1954-63). He discusses how historiography subsequently developed and suggests how his portrait of the world's past in The Rise of the West should be revised to reflect these changes. "This is not only the most learned and the most intelligent, it is also the most stimulating and fascinating book that has ever set out to recount and explain the whole history of mankind. . . . To read it is a great experience. It leaves echoes to reverberate, and seeds to germinate in the mind."—H. R. Trevor-Roper, New York Times Book Review

The Everything Kids' Science Experiments Book

Guns, Germs, And Steel: The Fates Of Human Societies

Dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors he feels are responsible for history's broadest patterns.

Stolley, Richard B. (EDT)/ Sklansky, Amy E. (EDT)

A Queer History Of The United States For Young People

Queer history didn't start with Stonewall. This book explores how LGBTQ people have always been a part of our national identity, contributing to the country and culture for over 400 years. It is crucial for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer youth to know their history. But this history is not easy to find since it's rarely taught in schools or commemorated in other ways. A Queer History of the United States for Young People corrects this and demonstrates that LGBTQ people have long been vital to shaping our understanding of what America is today. Through engrossing narratives, letters, drawings, poems, and more, the book encourages young readers, of all identities, to feel pride at the accomplishments of the LGBTQ people who came before them and to use history as a guide to the future.The stories he shares include those of * Thomas Morton, who celebrated same-sex love in Boston's Puritan community in the 1620s. * Albert D. J. Cashier, an Irish immigrant and Civil War hero, who was born in the body of a woman but lived as a man for over a half century. * Gladys Bentley, an African American blues singer who challenged cross-dressing laws in 1920s Harlem. * Bayard Rustin, Martin Luther King Jr.'s close friend, civil rights organizer, and an openly gay man. * Sylvia Rivera, who along with Marsha P. Johnson, founded the first transgender political group in the United States in 1970. * Harvey Milk, a community organizer and the first openly gay politician to win an election in California. * Jamie Nabozny, a teen who brought national attention to the issue of LGBTQ bullying by bringing his case to the Supreme Court in the 1990s. With over 60 illustrations and photos, a glossary, and a corresponding curriculum, A Queer History of the United States for Young People will be vital for teachers who want to introduce a new perspective to America's story.

The 20th Century Year by Year: The Family Guide to the People and Events That Shaped the Last Hundred Years

Lindop, Edmund/ Goldstein, Margaret J.

Edmund Lindop and Margaret J. Goldstein

Edmund Lindop and Margaret J. Goldstein

Oorah Leadership & Tip-of-the-spear Transformation

A Framework for Understanding Poverty 5th Revised Edition

Zdrok, Jodie L./ Zdrok-Ptasz, Jodie (EDT)

Zdrok, Jodie L. (EDT)/ Zdrok-Ptasz, Jodie (EDT)