Author : Millie Miller
Publisher : Scholastic Reference
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 26,29 MB
Release : 2001-07-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780439272599
Presents information about the people, places, birds, insects, flowers, endangered species, and more associated with each of the fifty states and the nation's capital.
Author : Millie Miller
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,81 MB
Release : 2001
Category :
ISBN : 9780613357999
This guide to each state's official state bird, flower, and insect, along with other fun facts, is indispensable for the upper-elementary grades. Including biographical sketches of famous Americans, inventions, resources, and records, this book is unique because of its inclusion of endangered species and personal approach to the subject matter.According to Booklist, this title should be popular with browsers as well as with students beginning to learn U.S. geography. This lightweight paperback includes the new Census 2000 population figures.
Author : Millie Miller
Publisher : Scholastic
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 35,72 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780590043748
Presents information about the people, places, birds, insects, flowers, endangered species, and more associated with each of the fifty states and the nation's capital.
Author : William B. Allen
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 25,16 MB
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1641772670
An incisive collection of essays that reveals the past, present, and future strength of black America as the best hope for a nation that has lost faith in itself. "A much-needed antidote to the madness-inducing contradiction of woke orthodoxy." —The Honorable Judge Janice Rogers Brown In a nation that is tearing itself apart over race, trying to speak honestly about the state of black America is a perilous task. Candor and thoughtfulness are often drowned by hysteria, expediency, and sentimentalism. The State of Black America seeks to restore these sorely needed virtues to the present discourse, assembling a company of scholars who confront our nation’s troubled racial history even as they bear witness to the promise the American heritage contains for blacks. The essays in this volume bring clarity to the murky darkness of America’s race debates, reviewing and building upon the latest scholarship on the character, shape, and tendencies of life for black Americans. Together, they tell a story of black America’s astounding success in integrating into mainstream American culture and propose that black patriotism is the key to overcoming what problems remain. Featuring scholarship from a variety of disciplines, including history, economics, social science, and political philosophy, The State of Black America offers to the world a “toolbox” of intellectual resources to aid careful and sound thinking on one of the most fraught issues of our time. Featuring contributions from W. B. Allen, Mikael Rose Good, Edward J. Erler, Robert D. Bland, Glenn C. Loury, Ian V. Rowe, Precious D. Hall, Daphne Cooper, Star Parker, and Robert Borens.
Author : Harry Turtledove
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 49,20 MB
Release : 2013-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0575121289
Justin's having the worst trip ever. He and his mother are Time Traders, traveling undercover to different alternate realities of Earth so they can take valuable resources back to their own timeline. In some of these worlds, Germany won World War I or the world has been destroyed by nuclear warfare. Justin and his mother are in an America that never became the United States: each state is like a country, and many of them are at war with one another. Their mission takes them to Virginia, which is on the verge of bloody violence with Ohio. Beckie is from California and, like the rest of her world, is unaware that Time Traders exist. The only reason she's in small-town Virginia is because her grandmother dragged her there to visit old relatives. Beckie is just as horrified by the violence and racism of the alternate Virginia as Justin is, and the two are drawn to each other. But when full-fledged war breaks out between Ohio and Virginia, including a biologically designed plague, will either of them manage to get back home? Forget about home: will they make it out alive?
Author : Carol Crane
Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 34,37 MB
Release : 2010-10-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1585366471
The Sunshine State gets its own alphabet book! Florida, where "B is for Beaches, P is for Pirates, and V is for Vacationers," comes to life with playful, vivid illustrations by Michael Monroe and a conch shell full of fun facts and poems by Florida author and educator Carol Crane. Do you know which city is the state capitol? Which fragrant blossom is the state flower? Learn all this and more with S is for Sunshine: A Florida Alphabet.
Author : Holly Graham
Publisher : Harper Design
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,13 MB
Release : 2017-05-23
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780062571670
Discover the treasures of America with this unique coloring book featuring beautifully illustrated maps and key facts of each of the fifty states, printed on perforated scalloped pages reminiscent of vintage diner placemats. Take a trip across the United States, from Maine to Hawaii, Alaska to Florida, and every state in-between without leaving your home! Inspired by original road-stop cafe paper placemats from the 1950s and ’60s, each page of America State by State is devoted to one of the fifty states. Every illustrated map features quirky drawings noting the state’s key destinations—including places and monuments—popular drinks, foods, and sports, as well as the state bird and flower. Imitating the style, size, and design of those classic placemats of every Baby Boomer’s childhood, each page of America State by State is scallop-edged (even on the perforated edge) making them easy to remove, color, and frame—or use as placemats at home.
Author : Nicholas Dagen Bloom
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 29,26 MB
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 022649831X
The history of public policy in postwar America tends to fixate on developments at the national level, overlooking the crucial work done by individual states in the 1960s and ’70s. In this book, Nicholas Dagen Bloom demonstrates the significant and enduring impact of activist states in five areas: urban planning and redevelopment, mass transit and highways, higher education, subsidized housing, and the environment. Bloom centers his story on the example set by New York governor Nelson Rockefeller, whose aggressive initiatives on the pressing issues in that period inspired others and led to the establishment of long-lived state polices in an age of decreasing federal power. Metropolitan areas, for both better and worse, changed and operated differently because of sustained state action—How States Shaped Postwar America uncovers the scope of this largely untold story.
Author : Judy Young
Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 25,18 MB
Release : 2010-10-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1585367591
Ross & Judy Young's combined belief that children comprehend intricate ideas at a very young age made it possible for them to seamlessly create "S is for Show Me: A Missouri Alphabet." The husband and wife team elegantly synthesize text and illustration to provide a rich texture of the Show Me State. The alphabet book employs a two-tiered approach that reaches Pre-K through 6th grade students. A rhyme for each letter of the alphabet catches the attention of younger readers, while older elementary students grasp a richer understanding of the topic by reading expository information on the same page.
Author : Eileen Cameron
Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 47,63 MB
Release : 2010-10-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1585366226
Readers will be delighted to discover the many wonders of the Garden State, from her famous sons and daughters (inventor Thomas Edison and the Revolutionary War heroine Molly Pitcher) to her beautiful sights (the Highlands, the Pinelands, and New Jersey's famous shoreline), and her unique institutions (The Seeing Eye training institute for seeing eye dogs and Haddy, the largest complete dinosaur skeleton of its time, found in 1858). G is for Garden State explores the places, people, and landmarks that make New Jersey a fascinating place to live in and to visit again and again. Written in the popular two-tier format for our Discover America State by State alphabet series, young readers will explore state facts through colorful illustrations, rhyming verses, and expository text. Used in schools throughout the country, this series effectively expands classroom curriculum.Author/preservationist Eileen Cameron is interested in protecting our natural and historical resources. She serves on the board of the Washington Association of New Jersey at Morristown National Historical Park. Eileen has hiked the Appalachian Trail at High Point, rafted on the Delaware River, and now lives in Morristown, New Jersey. Doris Ettlinger has illustrated numerous children's books including Springtime in the Big Woods and Mr. Edwards Meets Santa Claus , both adapted from the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design. Doris lives and works in a 150-year old gristmill in western New Jersey with her family and a Welsh Corgi.
