Book Description
Demonstrates the diversity of the African continent by describing daily life in some of its fifty-three nations.
Author : Margy Burns Knight
Publisher : First Avenue Editions
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 46,13 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0761316477
Demonstrates the diversity of the African continent by describing daily life in some of its fifty-three nations.
Author : Jennifer Noonan
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 16,67 MB
Release : 2016
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"Part of the torture of autism is that the future is so impossibly unsure. Your child might become a fully functioning member of society and appear no different than anyone else, even if he does have to look at mouths instead of eyes and can't stand to give his own kids a bath. Or, he might be so violent that he requires institutionalization...Either way, you're expected to work your ass off for it." Autism is a national epidemic that affects 1 in 68 children. When Jennifer Noonan's children were diagnosed, she decided to fight, beginning a lifelong journey into the latest science, medical treatments, and dietary interventions. This gripping, wryly funny memoir recounts the lengths one mother will go to in order to heal her family.
Author : Eric Weiner
Publisher : Twelve
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,48 MB
Release : 2008-01-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0446511072
Now a new series on Peacock with Rainn Wilson, THE GEOGRAPHY OF BLISS is part travel memoir, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide that takes the viewer across the globe to investigate not what happiness is, but WHERE it is. Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Qatar, awash in petrodollars, find joy in all that cash? Is the King of Bhutan a visionary for his initiative to calculate Gross National Happiness? Why is Asheville, North Carolina so damn happy? In a unique mix of travel, psychology, science and humor, Eric Weiner answers those questions and many others, offering travelers of all moods some interesting new ideas for sunnier destinations and dispositions.
Author : Erin Meyer
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 36,14 MB
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1610396715
An international business expert helps you understand and navigate cultural differences in this insightful and practical guide, perfect for both your work and personal life. Americans precede anything negative with three nice comments; French, Dutch, Israelis, and Germans get straight to the point; Latin Americans and Asians are steeped in hierarchy; Scandinavians think the best boss is just one of the crowd. It's no surprise that when they try and talk to each other, chaos breaks out. In The Culture Map, INSEAD professor Erin Meyer is your guide through this subtle, sometimes treacherous terrain in which people from starkly different backgrounds are expected to work harmoniously together. She provides a field-tested model for decoding how cultural differences impact international business, and combines a smart analytical framework with practical, actionable advice.
Author : Harriet Brundle
Publisher : Mapping My World
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 44,80 MB
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Cartography
ISBN : 9781789980516
Feeling lost when it comes to maps? With this fun and informative series, you'll soon know exactly where you are when it comes to maps and mapping! What is a map? What are maps used for? How do you read a map? Find your way to the answers and take a journey into mapping as you learn how to make your own maps of everything from your school, your town, your country, even the whole world!
Author : Catherine Hardy
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 18,36 MB
Release : 1983
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Author : Abraham Verghese
Publisher : BookRags
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 38,70 MB
Release : 1998
Category : AIDS (Disease)
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Author : Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Publisher :
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 13,3 MB
Release : 1899
Category : America
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Author : Colin Woodard
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 11,60 MB
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0143122029
• A New Republic Best Book of the Year • The Globalist Top Books of the Year • Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Non-fiction Particularly relevant in understanding who voted for who during presidential elections, this is an endlessly fascinating look at American regionalism and the eleven “nations” that continue to shape North America According to award-winning journalist and historian Colin Woodard, North America is made up of eleven distinct nations, each with its own unique historical roots. In American Nations he takes readers on a journey through the history of our fractured continent, offering a revolutionary and revelatory take on American identity, and how the conflicts between them have shaped our past and continue to mold our future. From the Deep South to the Far West, to Yankeedom to El Norte, Woodard (author of American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good) reveals how each region continues to uphold its distinguishing ideals and identities today, with results that can be seen in the composition of the U.S. Congress or on the county-by-county election maps of any hotly contested election in our history.
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Page : 936 pages
File Size : 50,71 MB
Release : 1881
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