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The Twentieth Century World

Author : Colin Shephard

Publisher : Hodder Education

Page : 129 pages

File Size : 23,86 MB

Release : 2001

Category : History, Modern

ISBN : 9780719585487

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Re-Discovering the Past is SHP's ideal series for mixed-ability teaching in Key Stage 3, combining clear author text, accessible but worthwhile activities and clear lines of enquiry. About the series Through this series you can ensure your teaching of National Curriculum History is totally accessible, interesting and worthwhile. It is based on the Schools History Project's awarding-winning series Discovering the Past but for this series SHP have: * streamlined the content, * simplified the language, * scaffolded the tasks, while retaining their characteristic emphasis on challenging readers to think deeply and pursue historical enquiry. SHP have also provided extensive support for further differentiation through FREE online support material via the Hodder History Nest. About this title Re-Discovering the Twentieth Century World provides an accessible textbook for the studying the revised History National Curriculum theme: 'Challenges for Britain, Europe and the wider world 1901-the present day'. It also offers an effective transition to GCSE History providing an overview of the content covered by many Modern World History courses. It covers four key topics: - The First World War (causes and life on the Western Front) - The rise of the dictators and the causes of the Second World War - The Second World War (overview and depth) - The Cold War Era (including the Cuban crisis, the Berlin Wall and Gandhi) The Twentieth Century Special Needs Support Materials and Re-Discovering the Twentieth Century World Teacher's Resource Book are available FREE from the Hodder History Nest. The full series: - Re-discovering Medieval Realms 1066-1500 - Re-discovering the Making of the United Kingdom 1500-1750 - Re-discovering Britain 1750-1900 - Re-discovering the Twentieth Century World



Rediscovering the Kingdom Daily Devotional Journal

Author : Myles Munroe

Publisher : Destiny Image Publishers

Page : 234 pages

File Size : 32,24 MB

Release : 2011-07-28

Category : Religion

ISBN : 0768493129

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In Rediscovering the Kingdom, Myles Munroe challenges all Christians to examine their ideologies and concepts. This 40-day journal and study guide will guide you through this book of wonderful self discovery and help you to put the concepts you learn into practice. Discover a whole new world: Use the questions to examine your current ideologies. Use the applications to retrain your daily walk. Use the meditations to change your worldview. This journal is designed to check both heart and mind as they bring Kingdom principles to bear in our daily walk. The philosophy of the Kingdom is made possible through the exercises and meditations, useful for self-study or in a group. Exposure to the ideologies is just the beginning---watch out for a new world of reality ahead.



City

Author : William H. Whyte

Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press

Page : 405 pages

File Size : 12,4 MB

Release : 2012-09-10

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 081220834X

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Named by Newsweek magazine to its list of "Fifty Books for Our Time." For sixteen years William Whyte walked the streets of New York and other major cities. With a group of young observers, camera and notebook in hand, he conducted pioneering studies of street life, pedestrian behavior, and city dynamics. City: Rediscovering the Center is the result of that research, a humane, often amusing view of what is staggeringly obvious about the urban environment but seemingly invisible to those responsible for planning it. Whyte uses time-lapse photography to chart the anatomy of metropolitan congestion. Why is traffic so badly distributed on city streets? Why do New Yorkers walk so fast—and jaywalk so incorrigibly? Why aren't there more collisions on the busiest walkways? Why do people who stop to talk gravitate to the center of the pedestrian traffic stream? Why do places designed primarily for security actually worsen it? Why are public restrooms disappearing? "The city is full of vexations," Whyte avers: "Steps too steep; doors too tough to open; ledges you cannot sit on. . . . It is difficult to design an urban space so maladroitly that people will not use it, but there are many such spaces." Yet Whyte finds encouragement in the widespread rediscovery of the city center. The future is not in the suburbs, he believes, but in that center. Like a Greek agora, the city must reassert its most ancient function as a place where people come together face-to-face.



Uncertain Order

Author : Blaine Terry Browne

Publisher : Pearson

Page : 830 pages

File Size : 45,38 MB

Release : 2003

Category : History

ISBN :

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This book offers a narrative, chronological, and regionally organized approach to twentieth century world history. Throughout the presentation, three themes emphasize the importance of ideology, conflict, and technology to the century's events. Its broad and inclusive focus also pays attention to necessary detail and specifics, and incorporates relevant material into the book, to give readers an uninterrupted historical narrative. A three-part organization covers: The Decline of European Hegemony, 1900--1945; The Age of the Superpowers, 1945--1989; and The World Order in Transition, 1989--Present. Balanced coverage of major world regions includes Southeast Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the non-western world in general. A focus on both the First and Second World Wars enables readers to examine twentieth century history's theme of the primacy of conflict. For armchair historians with particular interest in the twentieth century world.



Rediscovering America

Author : Peter Duus

Publisher : Univ of California Press

Page : 357 pages

File Size : 11,7 MB

Release : 2011-09-01

Category : History

ISBN : 0520950372

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In this extraordinary collection of writings, covering the period from 1878 to 1989, a wide range of Japanese visitors to the United States offer their vivid, and sometimes surprising perspectives on Americans and American society. Peter Duus and Kenji Hasegawa have selected essays and articles by Japanese from many walks of life: writers and academics, bureaucrats and priests, politicians and journalists, businessmen, philanthropists, artists. Their views often reflect power relations between America and Japan, particularly during the wartime and postwar periods, but all of them dealt with common themes—America’s origins, its ethnic diversity, its social conformity, its peculiar gender relations, its vast wealth, and its cultural arrogance—making clear that while Japanese observers often regarded the U.S. as a mentor, they rarely saw it as a role model.



Rediscovering American Values

Author : Dick DeVos

Publisher : Plume Books

Page : 324 pages

File Size : 31,76 MB

Release : 1998-11

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9780452277588

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Considers the principles underlying the American concept of freedom by drawing on inspirational anecdotes taken from a cross-section of the population. Describes how people have bettered themselves both morally and in their careers by practicing such values as honesty, compassion, self-discipline, initiative, hard work, charity and forgiveness.



History of the Twentieth Century

Author : Martin Gilbert

Publisher : Rosetta Books

Page : 723 pages

File Size : 44,90 MB

Release : 2014-06-05

Category : History

ISBN : 0795337329

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A chronological compilation of twentieth-century world events in one volume—from the acclaimed historian and biographer of Winston S. Churchill. The twentieth century has been one of the most unique in human history. It has seen the rise of some of humanity’s most important advances to date, as well as many of its most violent and terrifying wars. This is a condensed version of renowned historian Martin Gilbert’s masterful examination of the century’s history, offering the highlights of a three-volume work that covers more than three thousand pages. From the invention of aviation to the rise of the Internet, and from events and cataclysmic changes in Europe to those in Asia, Africa, and North America, Martin examines art, literature, war, religion, life and death, and celebration and renewal across the globe, and throughout this turbulent and astonishing century.



The Hidden History of American Fashion

Author : Nancy Deihl

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing

Page : 352 pages

File Size : 46,30 MB

Release : 2018-02-08

Category : Design

ISBN : 1350000485

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This book is the first in-depth exploration of the revolutionary designers who defined American fashion in its emerging years and helped build an industry with global impact, yet have been largely forgotten. Focusing on female designers, the authors reclaim a place in history for the women who created not only for celebrities and socialites, but for millions of fashion-conscious customers across the United States. From one of America's first couturiers, Jessie Franklin Turner, to Zelda Wynn Valdes, the book captures the lost histories of the luminaries who paved the way in the world of American fashion design. This fully illustrated collection takes us from Hollywood to Broadway, from sportswear to sustainable fashion, and explores important crossovers between film, theater, and fashion. Uncovering fascinating histories of the design pioneers we should know about, the book enlarges the prevailing narrative of fashion history and will be an important reference for fashion students, historians, costume curators, and fashion enthusiasts alike.



Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (The Global Century Series)

Author : J. R. McNeill

Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company

Page : 452 pages

File Size : 33,61 MB

Release : 2001-04-17

Category : Science

ISBN : 0393075893

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"One of those rare books that’s both sweeping and specific, scholarly and readable…What makes the book stand out is its wealth of historical detail." —Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker The history of the twentieth century is most often told through its world wars, the rise and fall of communism, or its economic upheavals. In his startling book, J. R. McNeill gives us our first general account of what may prove to be the most significant dimension of the twentieth century: its environmental history. To a degree unprecedented in human history, we have refashioned the earth's air, water, and soil, and the biosphere of which we are a part. Based on exhaustive research, McNeill's story—a compelling blend of anecdotes, data, and shrewd analysis—never preaches: it is our definitive account. This is a volume in The Global Century Series (general editor, Paul Kennedy).



War Games

Author : Jenny Thompson

Publisher : Smithsonian Institution

Page : 473 pages

File Size : 27,74 MB

Release : 2014-05-27

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1588344312

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D-Day with beach umbrellas in the distance? Troops ordering ice cream? American and German forces celebrating Christmas together in the barracks? This could only be the curious world of 20th-century war reenactors. A relatively recent and rapidly expanding phenomenon, reenactments in the United States of World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War now draw more than 8,000 participants a year. Mostly men, these reenactors celebrate, remember, and re-create the tiniest details of the Battle of the Bulge in the Maryland Woods, D-Day on a beach in Virginia, and WWI trench warfare in Pennsylvania. Jenny Thompson draws on seven years of fieldwork, personal interviews, and surveys to look into this growing subculture. She looks at how the reenactors' near obsession with owning “authentic” military clothing, guns, paraphernalia, and vehicles often explodes into heated debates. War Games sheds light on the ways people actually make use of history in their daily lives and looks intensely into the meaning of war itself and how wars have become the heart of American history. The author's photographs provide incredible evidence of how “real” these battles can become.