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The American Revolution for Kids: A History with 21 Activities (For Kids series) $8.89 Summary:Heroes, traitors, and great thinkers come to life in this activity book, and the concepts of freedom and democracy are celebrated in true accounts of the distinguished officers, wise delegates, rugged riflemen, and hardworking farm wives and children who created the new nation. This collection tells the story of the Revolution, from the hated Stamp Act and the Boston Tea Party to the Briti… |
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From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765-1776 $10.00 “An intellectual interpretation of the American revolution that raises it to a new height of comprehensiveness and significance. A superbly detailed account of the ideological escalation . . . that brought Americans to revolution.” —Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book ReviewIn this classic account of the American revolution, Pauline Maier traces the step-by-step process through which the extr… |
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A Man in Time of War: How Colonial Boys Became American Men, 1765-1775 $2.99 From carrying newspapers in the street to instigating the Boston Massacre, colonial boys, teenagers, and apprentices played crucial and underappreciated roles in bringing about the American Revolution. “A Man in Time of War” examines the political experiences of a generation growing up under British occupation in New York and Boston, explores what the Revolutionary crisis meant for everyday life i… |
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Decade Under the Influence $24.95 The 1970s was an extraordinary time of rebellion, and of questioning every accepted idea. As political activism, the sexual revolution, the women’s movement, the civil rights movement, and the music revolution contributed to social unrest across America, American cinema witnessed the emergence of a new generation of filmmakers. Influenced by the social climate, foreign directors, and a new freedom of expression, these ground-breaking artists began targeting their films toward a new kind of audience–moviegoers who were disenchanted with age old studio formulas and were yearning for stories that reflected the ever-changing reality of the era. A love letter to an amazing era in film, A Decade Under the Influence enlists a cast of pioneering writers, directors, and actors to talk about the times, their films and their colleagues. Luminaries such as Francis Ford Coppola, William Friedkin, John Cassavetes, Julie Christie and Ellen Burstyn reveal intimate, personal, and often untold stories about their experiences, and interspersing these interviews with a virtual cinematic scrapbook of the decade, filmmakers Richard LaGravenese and the late Ted Demme include a cornucopia of clips from such classics as Easy Rider, The Godfather and Coming Home. The result is a fantastic celebration of the artists and films that left a vital and lasting stamp on America’s national cinema and identity. |
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George Washington’s Mount Vernon $32.55 George Washington’s Mount Vernon brings together–for the first time–the details of Washington’s 45-year endeavor to build and perfect Mount Vernon. In doing so it introduces us to a Washington few of his contemporaries knew, and one little noticed by historians since. Here we meet the planter/patriot who also genuinely loved building, a man passionately human in his desire to impress on his physical surroundings the stamp of his character and personal beliefs. As chief architect and planner of the countless changes made at Mount Vernon over the years, Washington began by imitating accepted models of fashionable taste, but as time passed he increasingly followed his own ideas. Hence, architecturally, as the authors show, Mount Vernon blends the orthodox and the innovative in surprising ways, just as the new American nation would. Equallyinteresting is the light the book sheds on the process of building at Mount Vernon, and on the people–slave and free–who did the work. Washington was a demanding master, and in their determination to preserve their own independence his workers often clashed with him. Yet, as the Dalzells argue, that experience played a vital role in shaping his hopes for the future of American society–hope that embraced in full measure the promise of the revolution in which he had led his fellow citizens. George Washington’s Mount Vernon thus compellingly combines the two sides of Washington’s life–the public and the private–and uses the combination to enrich our understanding of both. Gracefully written, with more than 80 photographs, maps, and engravings, the book tells a fascinating story withmemorable insight. |
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Stamp Out Stress: Living with Stress Is a Choice, Not a Fact of Life $21.95 Stamp Out Stress provides an innovative new way of looking at and dealing with the symptoms of stress. This is not just another book about stress. It is a revolution in living your life. Living with stress is a choice not a fact of life. Learning to turn off the thoughts that promote the effects of stress in your life will give you back your life. In return, you will receive better health and much more happiness and abundance if only because your body and mind will have more time and energy to relax and allow a better way of living. So the choice is yours. Put this book back on the shelf and do nothing or take action by incorporating the techniques in this book into your life so you can have that life beyond the insanity of stressful living. |