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The Working Man's Green Space

Allotment Gardens in England, France, and Germany, 1870-1919

By: Micheline Nilsen,Brooks M. Barnes

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The Working Man's Green Space

Allotment Gardens in England, France, and Germany, 1870-1919

By: Micheline Nilsen,Brooks M. Barnes

With antecedents dating back to the Middle Ages, the community garden is more popular than ever as a means of procuring the freshest food possible and instilling community cohesion. But as Micheline Nilsen shows, the small-garden movement, which gained impetus in the nineteenth century as rural workers crowded into industrial cities, was for a long time primarily a repository of ideas concerning social reform, hygienic improvement, and class mobility. Complementing efforts by worker cooperatives, unions, and social legislation, the provision of small garden plots offered some relief from bleak urban living conditions. Urban planners often thought of such gardens as a way to insert "lungs" into a city. Standing at the intersection of a number of disciplines--including landscape studies, horticulture, and urban history-- The Working Man’s Green Space focuses on the development of allotment gardens in European countries in the nearly half-century between the Franco-Prussian War and World War I, when the French Third Republic, the German Empire, and the late Victorian era in England saw the development of unprecedented measures to improve the lot of the "laboring classes." Nilsen shows how community gardening is inscribed within a social contract that differs from country to country, but how there is also an underlying aesthetic and social significance to these gardens that transcends national borders.

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231

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University of Virginia Press

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0813935377

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9780813935379

Political Empowerment of Illinois' African-American State Lawmakers from 1877 to 2005

By: Erma Brooks Williams

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Political Empowerment of Illinois' African-American State Lawmakers from 1877 to 2005

By: Erma Brooks Williams

Presents brief biographies of prominent African American members of the Illinois General Assembly, from 1877 to 2005.

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108

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University Press of America

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0761840184

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9780761840183

Parenting

By: Jane B. Brooks

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Parenting

By: Jane B. Brooks

This text offers a concise, authoritative, and practical introduction to parenting. The focus throughout the book is on parent-child interaction and its application to the guidance and positive growth of children. Special sections of the text discuss the challenges parents face when raising their children in a time of changing social and economic needs. Chapters 10 and 11 discuss the stresses of contemporary life on parents and the supports available for parents and children. Throughout the text, interviews with parents and researchers highlight current research and reinforce the joys and challenges of parenting.

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446

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McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

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0767417976

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9780767417976

With Utmost Spirit

Allied Naval Operations in the Mediterranean, 1942-1945

By: Barbara Brooks Tomblin

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With Utmost Spirit

Allied Naval Operations in the Mediterranean, 1942-1945

By: Barbara Brooks Tomblin

Nineteen months before the D-Day invasion of Normandy, Allied assault forces landed in North Africa in Operation TORCH, the first major amphibious operation of the war in Europe. Under the direction of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, AUS, Adm. Andrew B. Cunningham, RN, Admiral H. Kent Hewitt, USN, and others, the Allies kept pressure on the Axis by attacking what Winston Churchill dubbed "the soft underbelly of Europe." The Allies seized the island of Sicily, landed at Salerno and Anzio, and established a presence along the coast of southern France. With Utmost Spirit takes a fresh look at this crucial naval theater of the Second World War. Barbara Brooks Tomblin chronicles the US Navy's and the Royal Navy's struggles to wrest control of the Mediterranean Sea from Axis submarines and aircraft, to lift the siege of Malta, and to open a through convoy route to Suez while providing ships, carrier air support, and landing craft for five successful amphibious operations. Examining official action reports, diaries, interviews, and oral histories, Tomblin describes each of these operations in terms of ship-to-shore movements, air and naval gunfire support, logistics, countermine measures, antisubmarine warfare, and the establishment of ports and training bases in the Mediterranean. Firsthand accounts from the young officers and men who manned the ships provide essential details about Mediterranean operations and draw a vivid picture of the war at sea and off the beaches.

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608

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813137683

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9780813137681

The Process of Parenting

By: Jane B. Brooks

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The Process of Parenting

By: Jane B. Brooks

Using a process approach, this in-depth introduction to parenting children from birth through adolescence includes the theories and practical strategies for how parents and caregivers can establish secure and close emotional relationships with their children. The book focuses on two basic tasks of p

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McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

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0767402154

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9780767402156

Big Science for Growing Minds

Constructivist Classrooms for Young Thinkers

By: Jacqueline Brooks

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Constructivist Classrooms for Young Thinkers

By: Jacqueline Brooks

Strong evidence from recent brain research shows that the intentional teaching of science is crucial in early childhood. Big Science for Growing Minds describes a groundbreaking curriculum that invites readers to rethink science education through a set of unifying concepts or “big ideas.” Using an integrated learning approach, the author shows teachers how to use readily available, low-cost items to create a safe classroom setting that fosters hands-on learning and exploration of real-life problems. The text includes classroom activities that connect science learning to mathematics, technology, art, and literacy. Book Features: Shows teachers how to address fundamental biology, chemistry, physics, and Earth science concepts using easy-to-find objects.Describes constructivist learning environments that are aligned with emerging data on brain development.Includes guidance for adopting approaches and instructional strategies consistent with NSTA, NSES, and NAEYC guidelines. “We need to celebrate the birth of this book. It is a vivid embodiment of how young children learn scientific ideas when their teachers create conditions that match the ways youngsters are able to integrate meaning. Constructivist practice comes to life in these pages. At a time of narrow high-stakes tests, here is a model that preserves truly professional practice.” —From the Foreword by Doris Pronin Fromberg, Hofstra University “Big Science for Growing Minds is a wonderful, jam-packed storehouse of research-based ideas for the effective teaching of science. The author is masterful in her ability to clearly explain current brain research and cognitive science studies and to exemplify the research through practical classroom applications.” —Lawrence Lowery, Professor (emeritus), Graduate School of Education and the Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California at Berkeley

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225

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Teachers College Press

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0807772054

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9780807772058

The Harvard Guide to African-American History

By: Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

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The Harvard Guide to African-American History

By: Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

Compiles information and interpretations on the past 500 years of African American history, containing essays on historical research aids, bibliographies, resources for womens' issues, and an accompanying CD-ROM providing bibliographical entries.

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Harvard University Press

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0674002768

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9780674002760

No Easy Answers

The Truth Behind Death at Columbine High School

By: Brooks Brown,Rob Merritt

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No Easy Answers

The Truth Behind Death at Columbine High School

By: Brooks Brown,Rob Merritt

On April 20, 1999, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, two seniors at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, walked into their school and shot to death twelve students and one teacher, and wounded many others. It was the worst single act of murder at a school in U.S. history. Few people knew Dylan Klebold or Eric Harris better than Brooks Brown. Brown and Klebold were best friends in grade school, and years later, at Columbine, Brown was privy to some of Harris and Klebold's darkest fantasies and most troubling revelations. After the shootings, Brown was even accused by the police of having been in on the massacre—simply because he had been friends with the killers. Now, for the first time, Brown, with journalist Rob Merritt, gets to tell his full version of the story. He describes the warning signs that were missed or ignored, and the evidence that was kept hidden from the public after the murders. He takes on those who say that rock music or video games caused Klebold and Harris to kill their classmates and explores what it might have been that pushed these two young men, from supposedly stable families, to harbor such violent and apocalyptic dreams. Shocking as well as inspirational and insightful, No Easy Answers is an authentic wake-up call for all the psychologists, authorities, parents, and law enforcement personnel who have attempted to understand the murders at Columbine High School. As the title suggests, the book offers no easy answers, but instead presents the unvarnished facts about growing up as an alienated teenager in America today. This edition contains a new afterword that describes what the two authors have experienced and learned about Columbine since the publication of the book.

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310

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Lantern Books

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1590563247

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9781590563243

The House of Life

Rachel Carson at Work

By: Paul Brooks

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The House of Life

Rachel Carson at Work

By: Paul Brooks

A comprehensive study of the distinguished American author provides insight into her character as well as her struggles as a spokeswoman for conservation

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G K Hall & Company

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0839828667

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9780839828662

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The Working Man's Green Space

The Working Man's Green Space

Political Empowerment of Illinois' African-American State Lawmakers from 1877 to 2005

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Parenting

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With Utmost Spirit

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The Process of Parenting

The Process of Parenting

Big Science for Growing Minds

Big Science for Growing Minds

The Harvard Guide to African-American History

The Harvard Guide to African-American History

No Easy Answers

No Easy Answers

The House of Life

The House of Life

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