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Book Pip and Posy

Download or read book Pip and Posy written by Axel Scheffler and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Posy is baking cupcakes one rainy day, a big furry hand taps on her window, then a growl and a knock bring her to her door, where a scary--but somewhat familiar--monster waits.

Book No Useless Mouth

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rachel B. Herrmann
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2019-11-15
  • ISBN : 1501716123
  • Pages : 194 pages

Download or read book No Useless Mouth written by Rachel B. Herrmann and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rachel B. Herrmann's No Useless Mouth is truly a breath of fresh air in the way it aligns food and hunger as the focal point of a new lens to reexamine the American Revolution. Her careful scrutiny, inclusive approach, and broad synthesis―all based on extensive archival research―produced a monograph simultaneously rich, audacious, insightful, lively, and provocative."―The Journal of American History In the era of the American Revolution, the rituals of diplomacy between the British, Patriots, and Native Americans featured gifts of food, ceremonial feasts, and a shared experience of hunger. When diplomacy failed, Native Americans could destroy food stores and cut off supply chains in order to assert authority. Black colonists also stole and destroyed food to ward off hunger and carve out tenuous spaces of freedom. Hunger was a means of power and a weapon of war. In No Useless Mouth, Rachel B. Herrmann argues that Native Americans and formerly enslaved black colonists ultimately lost the battle against hunger and the larger struggle for power because white British and United States officials curtailed the abilities of men and women to fight hunger on their own terms. By describing three interrelated behaviors—food diplomacy, victual imperialism, and victual warfare—the book shows that, during this tumultuous period, hunger prevention efforts offered strategies to claim power, maintain communities, and keep rival societies at bay. Herrmann shows how Native Americans, free blacks, and enslaved peoples were "useful mouths"—not mere supplicants for food, without rights or power—who used hunger for cooperation and violence, and took steps to circumvent starvation. Her wide-ranging research on black Loyalists, Iroquois, Cherokee, Creek, and Western Confederacy Indians demonstrates that hunger creation and prevention were tools of diplomacy and warfare available to all people involved in the American Revolution. Placing hunger at the center of these struggles foregrounds the contingency and plurality of power in the British Atlantic during the Revolutionary Era. Thanks to generous funding from Cardiff University, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.

Book Stranger Citizens

    Book Details:
  • Author : John McNelis O'Keefe
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2020-12-15
  • ISBN : 1501756532
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book Stranger Citizens written by John McNelis O'Keefe and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stranger Citizens examines how foreign migrants who resided in the United States gave shape to citizenship in the decades after American independence in 1783. During this formative time, lawmakers attempted to shape citizenship and the place of immigrants in the new nation, while granting the national government new powers such as deportation. John McNelis O'Keefe argues that despite the challenges of public and official hostility that they faced in the late 1700s and early 1800s, migrant groups worked through lobbying, engagement with government officials, and public protest to create forms of citizenship that worked for them. This push was made not only by white men immigrating from Europe; immigrants of color were able to secure footholds of rights and citizenship, while migrant women asserted legal independence, challenging traditional notions of women's subordination. Stranger Citizens emphasizes the making of citizenship from the perspectives of migrants themselves, and demonstrates the rich varieties and understandings of citizenship and personhood exercised by foreign migrants and refugees. O'Keefe boldly reverses the top-down model wherein citizenship was constructed only by political leaders and the courts. Thanks to generous funding from the Sustainable History Monograph Pilot and the Mellon Foundation the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access (OA) volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other Open Access repositories.

Book An Introduction to Language

Download or read book An Introduction to Language written by Victoria Fromkin and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mabela the Clever

    Book Details:
  • Author : Margaret Read MacDonald
  • Publisher : Albert Whitman & Company
  • Release : 2001-01-01
  • ISBN : 0807549045
  • Pages : 35 pages

Download or read book Mabela the Clever written by Margaret Read MacDonald and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pick of the Lists, ABA A 2001 Parents' Choice Picture Book Silver Honor Highly Commended Book–2002 Charlotte Zolotow Award Committee Texas Library Association 2002 2 X 2 Reading List Children's Literature Choice List 2002 Storytelling World Award-2002 Winner-Stories for Young Listeners 2001 Aesop Accolade, American Folklore Society 2003 Washington Children's Choice Master List "MacDonald's retelling of this Limba tale is engineered for storytime success."—School Library Journal starred review Mabela may be the smallest mouse in the village, but her father has taught her to be clever. And this cleverness comes in handy when the cat comes, inviting everyone to join the secret Cat Society. The mice line up, with Mabela at the front and the Cat at the back. They march into the forest, singing the secret Cat song and shouting FO FENG! Only clever Mabela realizes the Cat is up to no good!

Book Hollywood s Indian

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Rollins
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release : 2011-01-23
  • ISBN : 0813131650
  • Pages : 267 pages

Download or read book Hollywood s Indian written by Peter Rollins and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2011-01-23 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering both in-depth analyses of specific films and overviews of the industry's output, Hollywood's Indian provides insightful characterizations of the depiction of the Native Americans in film. This updated edition includes a new chapter on Smoke Signals , the groundbreaking independent film written by Sherman Alexie and directed by Chris Eyre. Taken as a whole the essays explore the many ways in which these portrayals have made an impact on our collective cultural life.

Book In Cold Blood

    Book Details:
  • Author : Truman Capote
  • Publisher : Modern Library
  • Release : 2013-02-19
  • ISBN : 0812994388
  • Pages : 417 pages

Download or read book In Cold Blood written by Truman Capote and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote—also available are Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Other Voices, Other Rooms (in one volume), Portraits and Observations, and The Complete Stories Truman Capote’s masterpiece, In Cold Blood, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, who brutally killed them on the night of November 15, 1959, is the seminal work of the “new journalism.” Perry Smith is one of the great dark characters of American literature, full of contradictory emotions. “I thought he was a very nice gentleman,” he says of Herb Clutter. “Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat.” Told in chapters that alternate between the Clutter household and the approach of Smith and Hickock in their black Chevrolet, then between the investigation of the case and the killers’ flight, Capote’s account is so detailed that the reader comes to feel almost like a participant in the events.

Book Practice Makes Perfect  Basic English  Premium Third Edition

Download or read book Practice Makes Perfect Basic English Premium Third Edition written by Julie Lachance and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get the skills you need to read and speak English with confidence!Learn how to read and speak English with this easy-to-use workbook. Dozens of manageable, bite-sized lessons take you through the basics of the English language. Three-page units cover each subject, which can be completed in just 20 minutes. Each lesson covers a single grammar concept and is supported by many clear examples. The book includes tons of exercises help you practice your new language skills. Plus, you’ll also have access to streaming audio recordings of the most difficult English sounds to pronounce.Practice Makes Perfect: Basic English, Premium Third Edition features: •Lessons and exercises to expand your vocabulary •Review exercises to measure your progress •Fun word search puzzles and scramble sentence exercises •An answer key for all the exercises in the book•Streaming audio of numerous exercise answers, available online and via our exclusive McGraw-Hill Education Language Lab app •Additional audio recordings of the most difficult sounds to pronounce in English•All aspects of grammar and basic vocabulary that a first-year student needs to know

Book Scared

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anthony Horowitz
  • Publisher : Orchard Books
  • Release : 2011-09-01
  • ISBN : 1408316838
  • Pages : 45 pages

Download or read book Scared written by Anthony Horowitz and published by Orchard Books. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three sinister and creepy tales by Anthony Horowitz, a master storyteller and the bestselling author of the Alex Rider series. Gary hates the countryside - why did his mum have to bring him here to stay with his gran? It's boring and prickly and field after field, it all looks the same - especially when you're lost... Kevin loves computer games, but this latest game (Smash Crash Slash 500 Plus) breaks all the rules, and now Kevin is part of the game... Howard is in Heaven, strange after a life spent bullying, stealing and playing truant - so why is he so unhappy?

Book In the Wilds of South America  Six Years of Exploration in Columbia  Venezuela  British Guiana  Peru  Bolivia  Argentina  Paraguay  and Brazil

Download or read book In the Wilds of South America Six Years of Exploration in Columbia Venezuela British Guiana Peru Bolivia Argentina Paraguay and Brazil written by Leo Edward Miller and published by London : T.F. Unwin. This book was released on 1918 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Phonics from A to Z

    Book Details:
  • Author : Wiley Blevins
  • Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780590315104
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book Phonics from A to Z written by Wiley Blevins and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an explanation of phonics, a method of reading instruction that focuses on the relationship between sounds and their spellings, and features over one hundred activities for the classroom, as well as sample lessons, word lists, and teaching strategies.

Book Fifty Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners

Download or read book Fifty Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners written by Adrienne L. Herrell and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2008 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents teaching strategies and procedures to help English language students build vocabulary and fluency.

Book The Encyclopedia of Country Living

Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Country Living written by Carla Emery and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the garden or barnyard to the kitchen table, here is a comprehensive resource for step-by-step information about food production. Filled with more than 1,000 recipes, 700 mail-order sources, how-to instructions, and earthly wisdom gleaned from a lifetime of self-sufficient living, this thorough, reliable treasury should be in every home. Features 300 illustrations.

Book The Brightest Stars

    Book Details:
  • Author : Fred Schaaf
  • Publisher : Wiley
  • Release : 2008-04-21
  • ISBN : 9780471704102
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Brightest Stars written by Fred Schaaf and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2008-04-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fred Schaaf is one of the most experienced astronomical observers of our time. For more than two decades, his view of the sky-what will be visible, when it will be visible, and what it will look like-has encouraged tens of thousands of people to turn their eyes skyward." —David H. Levy, Science Editor, Parade magazine, discoverer of twenty-one comets, and author of Starry Night and Cosmic Discoveries "Fred Schaaf is a poet of the stars. He brings the sky into people's lives in a way that is compelling and his descriptions have all the impact of witnessing the stars on a crystal-clear dark night." —William Sheehan, coauthor of Mars: The Lure of the Red Planet and The Transits of Venus In this book, you’ll meet the twenty-one brightest stars visible from Earth. You’ll learn how to find these stars and discover the best ways to see them. Each star is profiled in a separate chapter, with detailed guidance on what to look for while observing it. Suitable for beginners as well as experienced amateur astronomers, the book shares fascinating information about the lore and legends connected with each star through history, as well as what the science of astronomy has to teach us about the star’s physical nature.

Book Adirondack Rock

Download or read book Adirondack Rock written by Jim Lawyer and published by Adirondack Rock PressLlc. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to rock climbing and bouldering in the Adirondack Park in New York State. Included are 1,923 routes on 242 cliffs, and more than 350 boulder problems in 6 areas.

Book LDS Preparedness Manual

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christopher Parrett
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2008-10-01
  • ISBN : 9780982194645
  • Pages : 237 pages

Download or read book LDS Preparedness Manual written by Christopher Parrett and published by . This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Robots on the Move

Download or read book Robots on the Move written by William D. Adams and published by World Book. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explains how robots walk, roll, swim, and even fly from place to place"--