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American Education: A History, Fourth Edition (Kindle Edition)

American Education: A History, Fourth Edition

Review

“Now in its fourth edition, American Education: A History is the best general history of American education in print today. With twelve chapters containing material ranging from Native American education in precolonial America to the advent of No Child Left Behind at the turn of the twenty-first-century, Urban and Wagoner’s textbook presents a comprehensive survey of American educational history that is unparalleled.”–Jeffrey Aaron Snyder, Education Review, September 20 (more…)

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The American Gardener Complete Guide – Gardening Tips And Techniques That Really Work! (Kindle Edition) [Kindle Edition]

The American Gardener Complete Guide - Gardening Tips And Techniques That Really Work! (Kindle Edition)

If you think people are born with a green thumb, THINK AGAIN!The American Gardener provides over pages and pages of helpful gardening how to information, and tips that will help you grow plants with ease without them dying like they did on me!Even if you’re a professional gardener, you’ll find many tips to help better your growing success!Here’s What You’ll Find In The American Gardener:Choosing the right location on your property for growing plants. You’ll find in depth informa (more…)

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The Vegetable Gardener’s Bible: Discover Ed’s High-Yield W-O-R-D System for All North American Gardening Regions [Kindle Edition]

The Vegetable Gardener's Bible: Discover Ed's High-Yield W-O-R-D System for All North American Gardening Regions

Amazon.com Review

Wouldn’t it be lovely to have a patch of corn, lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, and beans just steps from your kitchen door? Would you like to learn how to control your zucchini plant? Ed Smith, an experienced vegetable gardener from Vermont, has put together this amazingly comprehensive and commonsensical manual, The Vegetable Gardener’s Bible. Basically, Ed and his family have been growing a wide variety of vegetables for years and he’s figured out what works. (more…)

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The American Gardener Complete Guide – Gardening Tips And Techniques That Really Work! (Kindle Edition) (Kindle Edition)

The American Gardener Complete Guide - Gardening Tips And Techniques That Really Work! (Kindle Edition)

If you think people are born with a green thumb, THINK AGAIN!The American Gardener provides over pages and pages of helpful gardening how to information, and tips that will help you grow plants with ease without them dying like they did on me!Even if you’re a professional gardener, you’ll find many tips to help better your growing success!Here’s What You’ll Find In The American Gardener:Choosing the right location on your property for growing plants. You’ll find in depth informa (more…)

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Keepers of the Children: Native American Wisdom and Parenting (Kindle Edition)

Keepers of the Children: Native American Wisdom and Parenting

Unique parenting book uses native concepts (like stewardship and good medicine) to teach parents how to raise children to develop their strengths as they’re growing up, so their lives become an expression of integrity and their unique strengths and talents. Rather than raising children to fit in, the author shows you how to raise kids to become progressively aware of who they are. More than just a parenting guide, this book offers a journey of self-discovery for child and parent (more…)

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The Everything American History Book (Kindle Edition)

The Everything American History Book

Starting with the first Viking explorations and continuing to the present day, The Everything American History Book, 2nd Edition takes you on a thrilling tour through history. It’s packed with facts and vivid details of events that shaped the United States, including: Wars, battles, and famous generals Outstanding American inventions-from the cotton gin to the Internet Key political figures-presidents, peacekeepers, visionaries And much, much more! The Everything American Histor (more…)

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Classic American Literature: 12 novels, 5 plays and 1 book of non-fiction by Upton Sinclair in a single file, with active table of contents (Kindle Edition)

Classic American Literature: 12 novels, 5 plays and 1 book of non-fiction by Upton Sinclair in a single file, with active table of contents

This file includes: Novels — Damaged Goods, based on the play “Les Avaries” by Eugene Brieux, 1913; Jimmie Higgins, 1919; The Jungle, 1906; King Coal, 1917; King Midas, a Romance, 1901; Love’s Pilgrimage, 1911; The Metropolis, 1908; The Moneychangers, 1908; 100%: The Story of a Patriot, 1920; Samuel the Seeker, 1909; Sylvia’s Marriage, 1915; They Call Me Carpenter, a Tale of the Second Coming, 1922; Non-Fiction — The Profits of Religion: an Essay in Economic Interpretation, 19 (more…)

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Classic American Literature: 6 books of memoirs, essays and non-fiction by Jack London in one file with active table of contents (Kindle Edition)

Classic American Literature: 6 books of memoirs, essays and non-fiction by Jack London in one file with active table of contents

This Kindle book includes: John Barleycorn, The Road, The People of the Abyss, War of the Classes, Revolution and Other Essays, and The Cruise of the Snark. According to Wikipedia: “Jack London (12 January, 1876 – 22 November, 1916] was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild and other books. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from writing.”

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Solar Gardening: Growing Vegetables Year-Round the American Intensive Way (The Real Goods Independent Living Books) (Kindle Edition)

Solar Gardening: Growing Vegetables Year-Round the American Intensive Way (The Real Goods Independent Living Books)

From Library Journal

The Poissons, experienced New England gardeners, present their system for continuous food production. Inspired by French intensive gardening techniques that originally utilized bell-shaped glass jars called cloches to protect tender plants and extend the growing season, the Poissons have developed solar gardening “appliances,” including the Solar Cone, the Solar Pod, and the Pod Extenders. Use of these mini-greenhouses, combined with other gardening technique (more…)

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Classic American Literature: six non-fiction books by Washington Irving, in a single file (Kindle Edition)

Classic American Literature: six non-fiction books by Washington Irving, in a single file

This file includes: The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, Astoria, Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, Old Christmas, and Oliver Goldsmith. According to Wikipedia: “Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American author, essayist, biographer and historian of the early 19th century. He was best known for his short stories “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip Van Winkle”, both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. His his (more…)

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