David Stewart
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Summary: Do you think life as a Roman gladiator was romantic and exciting? Think again! This delightful new series brings something unusual to the study of history: humor. You Wouldn't Want to ... revels in the gory, dark, horrific side of life in ancient times. The reader is on center stage, as he or she gets a tour through life as a slave, warrior, exlporer-even a mummy! Hilarious illustrations, captions, and sidebars leave no doubt that you simply...
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This superbly researched, brilliantly plotted, and thoroughly gripping mystery draws readers into a sinister conspiracy of assassination and intrigue.
In March 1900, as former congressman John Bingham lies dying, he tells a strange tale to his physician, Dr. Jamie Fraser. Bingham famously prosecuted eight members of John Wilkes Booth's plot to kill President Lincoln. But during the 1865 trial, conspirator Mary Surratt divulged
6) Dinosaurs
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"For millions of years dinosaurs lived almost everywhere around the world. Sixty-five million years ago, they disappeared. Find out why!"--Page 4 of cover.
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In 1868 Congress impeached President Andrew Johnson of Tennessee, the man who had succeeded the murdered Lincoln, bringing the nation to the brink of a second civil war. Enraged to see the freed slaves abandoned to brutal violence at the hands of their former owners, distraught that former rebels threatened to regain control of Southern state governments, and disgusted by Johnson's brawling political style, congressional Republicans seized on a legal...
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"Historian David O. Stewart restores James Madison, sometimes overshadowed by his fellow Founders, to his proper place as the most significant framer of the new nation. Short, plain, balding, neither soldier nor orator, low on charisma and high on intelligence, Madison cared more about achieving results than taking the credit. To reach his lifelong goal of a self-governing constitutional republic, he blended his talents with those of key partners....
11) Seasons
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Text and illustrations on split pages introduce the concept of changing seasons.
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Barron’s American Sign Language is a brand-new title on ASL that can be used in the classroom, as a supplemental text to high school and college courses, or for anyone who wants to learn proper ASL.
The only book with comprehensive instruction and online graded video practice quizzes, plus a comprehensive final video exam.
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More than 1,000 illustrations of signs with instructions on movement--step-by-step with dialogue, tip boxes, and practice...
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This heavily illustrated, self-teaching guide to ASL-American Sign Language presents ASL's 10 key grammatical rules and emphasizes the use of "facial grammar" as an important supplement to manual signing. Most of the book's content takes the form of a presentation of more than 800 captioned line drawings that illustrate signs for their equivalent words and then show how to combine signs in order to communicate detailed statements.
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