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The Story of the World Activity Book Four: The Modern Age: From Victoria’s Empire to the End of the USSR

Build a model of the Crystal Palace, make Ned Kelly’s armor, and color and construct a timeline of the Modern Age…don’t just read about history―experience it! This comprehensive, 8.5″ x 11″ curriculum guide and activity book contains map activities, coloring pages, games, projects, review questions, cross-references to illustrated encyclopedias, and extensive book lists. Children and parents love the …

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A Different Mirror for Young People: A History of Multicultural America (For Young People Series)

A longtime professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, Ronald Takaki was recognized as one of the foremost scholars of American ethnic history and diversity. When the first edition of A Different Mirror was published in 1993, Publishers Weekly called it “a brilliant revisionist history of America that is likely to become a classic of multicultural studies” and named it one …

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I am Martin Luther King, Jr. (Ordinary People Change World)

We can all be heroes. That’s the inspiring message of this New York Times Bestselling picture book biography series from historian and author Brad Meltzer.  Even as a child, Martin Luther King, Jr. was shocked by the terrible and unfair way African-American people were treated. When he grew up, he decided to do something about it—peacefully, with powerful words. He …

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I am Rosa Parks (Ordinary People Change World)

“We can all be heroes” is the message entertainingly told in this picture-book biography series from #1 New York Times Bestselling author Brad Meltzer.“Kids always search for heroes, so we might as well have a say in it,” Brad Meltzer realized, and so he envisioned this friendly, fun approach to biography – for his own kids, and for …

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Late Victorian and Edwardian Fashions (Dover Fashion Coloring Book)

From hoop skirts to bustles: a practical book that’s also fun to colorAn era that saw women’s fashions go from hoop skirts to softly draped bustles, the late Victorian and Edwardian periods also provided well-to-do ladies with elegant day dresses featuring leg-o’-mutton sleeves and lavish evening wear with plunging necklines.Twenty-nine colorable illustrations of fashionable apparel from the 1860s …

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Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt

#1 New York Times Bestseller ― With a new Afterword”Guaranteed to make blood boil.” ―Janet Maslin, New York TimesIn Michael Lewis’s game-changing bestseller, a small group of Wall Street iconoclasts realize that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders. They band together―some of them walking away from seven-figure salaries―to investigate, expose, and reform …

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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

New York Times Bestseller,   With a New Afterword“Schlosser has a flair for dazzling scene-setting and an arsenal of startling facts . . . Fast Food Nation points the way but, to resurrect an old fast food slogan, the choice is yours.”—Los Angeles TimesIn 2001, Fast Food Nation was published to critical acclaim and became an international bestseller. Eric …

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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

The real story of the crash began in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn’t shine and the SEC doesn’t dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit from the misery of lower–and middle–class Americans who can’t pay their debts. The smart people who understood what was …

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