* This Primary Source Edition provides 1 to 2 primary sources per chapter, tied to the chapter's content, with critical thinking questions for each source -- at no additional cost to your students. * Providing students with a thought-provoking account of America's past, The American People examines how American society assumed its present shape ...
/ Providing students with a thought-provoking account of America's past, The American People examines how American society assumed its present shape and developed its present forms of government. / A strong social emphasis underscores the "humanness" of America's history as revealed through the everyday lives of ordinary Americans. / Recovering ...
'Here's how I do it, and why': this is the premise behind John Howe's practical exploration of his artistic inspirations, approaches and techniques.This book will appeal to practical artists and fans of John Howe's work by providing step-by-step demonstrations, sketches and oustanding finished paintings, some designed specifically for this book.It ...
The American People, Fifth Edition, Study Edition offers the same proven structure and connections between the many factors--political, social, economic, technological, religious, cultural, and intellectual--that have shaped American society. The American People, Fifth Edition, and the Study Edition also includes the Chapter Tests located at the ...
/ Providing students with a thought-provoking account of America's past, The American People examines how American society assumed its present shape and developed its present forms of government. / A strong social emphasis underscores the "humanness" of America's history as revealed through the everyday lives of ordinary Americans. / Recovering ...
The entire collection of John Howe's dragon art, created over his 30-year career, is presented in one breathtaking volume. This book offers a personal exploration by John of the inspirations and techniques he uses to render these amazing beasts. Each dragon is gloriously presented on a double page spread; accompanying this is a series of pages ...
This is a condensed version of The American People, Sixth Edition (the comprehensive version). This engaging text examines U.S. history as revealed through the experiences of all Americans, both ordinary and extraordinary. With a thought-provoking and rich presentation, the authors explore the complex lives of Americans of all national origins and ...
A condensed version of "The American People, "this engaging text examines U.S. history as revealed through the experiences of all Americans, both ordinary and extraordinary. With a thought-provoking and rich presentation, the authors explore the complex lives of Americans of all national origins and cultural backgrounds, at all levels of society, ...
This is a condensed version of The American People, Seventh Edition (the comprehensive version). This engaging text examines U.S. history as revealed through the experiences of all Americans, both ordinary and extraordinary. With a thought-provoking and rich presentation, the authors explore the complex lives of Americans of all national origins ...
This volume collects a number of essays--by well-known science fiction and fantasy authors--about J. R. R. Tolkien, the author of THE LORD OF THE RINGS, arguably the most important work of fantasy in the Western world.
A stunning portfolio of over 100 of John Howe's Tolkien and fantasy cover, calendar and exhibition paintings, with supporting notes, sketches and photographs by the artist. Includes Foreword by Peter Jackson, director of the award-winning film trilogy. For the first time ever, a portfolio of illustrated work from the award-winning artist, John ...
Providing students with a thought-provoking account of America's past, The American People examines how American society assumed its present shape and developed its present forms of government. Emphasizing the interaction of ordinary Americans with extraordinary events, the text combines the discussion of political events with analysis of their ...
Written by an outstanding team of scholars and teachers, The American People seamlessly weaves together the rich and complex story of the creation and development of the American nation and American society. The narrative integrates discussion of public events such as presidential elections, wars, and reform movements with the private stories of ...
The Primary Source Edition of The American People, Brief Edition integrates the social dimensions of American history into one rich chronological narrative and includes 1 to 2 primary sources per chapter with critical thinking questions for each source. With a thought-provoking and rich presentation, the authors explore the complex lives of ...
Illustrated by John Howe, a lead artist on Peter Jacksons "Lord of the Rings" film trilogy, this adaptation of the ancient epic, retold by Nicky Raven, follows the mythic hero Beowulf, who is now the subject of a new film from Warner Bros. Pictures International and Paramount Pictures, set for theatrical release in November.
Breaking with the exoticizing cast of public discourse and conventional research, "Urban Outcasts" takes the reader inside the black ghetto of Chicago and the deindustrializing banlieue of Paris to discover that urban marginality is not everywhere the same. Drawing on a wealth of original field, survey and historical data, Loic Wacquant shows that ...
The Hollywood depicted in John Swope's photographs from the late 1930s is a working town not unlike others in America -- its main difference being that in place of town mill or factory, one finds instead the movie studios. Paradoxically, it is this ordinary, almost mundane, quality of the sets, the props, the extras knitting backstage between ...
Robespierre's defense of the French Revolution remains one of the most powerful and unnerving justifications for political violence ever written, and has extraordinary resonance in a world obsessed with terrorism and appalled by the language of its proponents. Yet today, the French Revolution is celebrated as the event which gave birth to a nation ...
In this study of DeGaulle, the author offers an indictment of the shallowness of contemporary politics in the West. He suggests that DeGaulle's disdain for electioneering reaffirms the vocation of political leadership as something other than adapting to popular preferences.
A Prix Goncourt winner writes a novel set in Paris in 1871 during the Commune, after the collapse of the Second Empire. Years ago, Horace Grondin was jailed for a murder he did not commit. Escaping from Devil's Island, he devised for himself a new identity and joined the Imperial Sūreté, hoping to find the real killer--a man named Antoine ...
This book overturns the prejudices of Victorian London's middle class moralists and reformers, who equated poverty with depravity, by presenting and analyzing an extraordinary range of hitherto unpublished firsthand documents: love letters and testimonies from working class women who faced pregnancy alone, and from their suitors, relatives and ...
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