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Author
Publisher
Penguin Group USA
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
From acclaimed Abraham Lincoln historian Harold Holzer, a groundbreaking account of Lincoln's grappling with the politics of immigration against the backdrop of the Civil War. In the three decades before the Civil War, some ten million foreign-born people settled in the United States, forever altering the nation's demographics, culture, and--perhaps most significantly--voting patterns. America's newest residents fueled the national economy, but they...
1942) Driving to Greenland
Author
Publisher
Lyons & Burford
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
A collection of essays of first-hand adventure portraying the author's lifelong fascination with ice, snow, the arctic and northern sport. He also examines the physics of thirteen difference kinds of snow.
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
Lucid, nontechnical study presents the absorbing human, scientific and political dramas involved in the discovery and reconstruction of the gigantic reptiles, birds and other creatures who roamed the prehistoric West. Much of the book is devoted to the work of Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope, two brilliant 19th-century paleontologists whose discoveries revolutionized the discipline, but whose bitter feud is legendary. 51 halftones. Bibliography....
1945) Young Thomas Jefferson
Author
Publisher
Troll Associates
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
Recounts the life of the versatile inventor and statesman who became third president of the United States, with an emphasis on the days of his youth in Virginia.
Author
Publisher
Harry N. Abrams
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Tens of millions of children have grown up learning to count, to name things correctly, to behave well, to know what adults do all day, and to recognize cars and trucks and things that go because Richard Scarry taught them how. In dozens of books, with hundreds and hundreds of illustrations, and in witty, memorable words, Scarry revealed to kids that the everyday world was a place that could be understood - and that learning was fun. Although he died...
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