The author has achieved a charming, beautiful and sincere portrait of one of the most picturesque characters in American history. The first one-hundred percent American - a walking delegate for…

Taking a reflective approach to learning, this text prepares teachers for classroom through emphasis on curriculum, differentiated instruction, assessment, and unit and lesson planning. It is useful for General Secondary…

This biography of the explorer Hernando de Soto, explains how he was obsessed with finding a second Inca empire, but instead he encountered the Mississippians. It tells of how Soto’s…

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part…

It’s July 2008, and uber-geek Liquin Sonos journeys back to the one place on Earth where he feels normal: the San Diego Comic-Con. Accompanied by first-time attendee Kate, socially inept…

The Readability of the World represents Hans Blumenberg’s first extended demonstration of the metaphorological method he pioneered in Paradigms for a Metaphorology. For Blumenberg, metaphors are symptomatic of patterns of…