Tag Archives: Politics

Story of the World, Volume 1: Ancient Times Audiobook CD: From the Earliest Nomads to the Late Roman Empire, Revised Edition (7 CDs)

Rating: (13 reviews)
Author: Susan Wise Bauer
Publisher: Peace Hill Press

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The Story of the World CD audiobook is a collaboration between Jim Weiss, whose voice is “liquid gold” (CNN TV), and Susan Wise Bauer, whose writing has been described as “timeless and intelligent” (Publishers Weekly). These spirited readings of the first volume [...]

Cracking the AP U.S. Government & Politics Exam, 2008 Edition (College Test Prep)

Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review

Book Description
Scoring high on the AP U.S. Government & Politics Exam is very different from earning straight A’s in school. We don’t try to teach you everything there is to know about government—only the strategies and information you’ll need to get your highest score. In Cracking the AP U.S. [...]

The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls

Rating: (44 reviews)
Author: Joan Jacobs Brumberg
Publisher: Vintage

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Adolescent girls today face the issues girls have always faced: “Who am I?” and “Who do I want to be?” Unfortunately their answers, now more than ever before, revolve around the body rather than the mind, heart, or soul. “The body is at the heart [...]

Millennials Rising: The Next Great Generation

Rating: (70 reviews)
Author: Neil Howe, William Strauss
Publisher: Vintage
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Building on the concepts they first developed in Generations and 13th Gen, Neil Howe and William Strauss now take on Generation Y, or, as they call them, the Millennials. Unlike their rather distressing portrait of the more reactive Generation X (the 13th Gen), or [...]

Lincoln: A Photobiography (Houghton Mifflin social studies)

Rating: (18 reviews)
Author: Russell Freedman
Publisher: Clarion Books
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This work is perhaps the most complete and enjoyable children’s book ever written about one of the nation’s most fascinating and important figures, Abraham Lincoln. Russell Freedman covers Lincoln’s life and career in a balanced treatment that is enhanced by period photographs and drawings. [...]