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Thomas Edison for Kids

His Life and Ideas, 21 Activities

By: Laurie Carlson

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Thomas Edison for Kids

His Life and Ideas, 21 Activities

By: Laurie Carlson

Thomas Edison, one of the world's greatest inventors, is introduced in this fascinating activity book. Children will learn how Edison ushered in an astounding age of invention with his unique way of looking at things and refusal to be satisfied with only one solution to a problem. This book helps inspire kids to be inventors and scientists, as well as persevere with their own ideas. Activities allow children to try Edison's experiments themselves, with activities such as making a puppet dance using static electricity, manufacturing a switch for electric current, constructing a telegraph machine, manipulating sound waves, building an electrical circuit to test for conductors and insulators, making a zoetrope, and testing a dandelion for latex. In addition to his inventions and experiments, the book explores Edison's life outside of science, including his relationship with inventor Nikola Tesla, his rivalry with George Westinghouse, and his friendship with Henry Ford. A time line, glossary, and lists of supply sources, places to visit, and websites for further exploration complement this activity book.

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Chicago Review Press

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1613743041

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9781613743041

Thomas Hobbes

Turning Point for Honor

By: Laurie M. Johnson Bagby

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Thomas Hobbes

Turning Point for Honor

By: Laurie M. Johnson Bagby

Has modern Western society lost its sense of honor? If so, can we find the reason for this loss? Laurie Johnson Bagby turns to the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes for answers to these questions, finding in him the early modern 'turning point for honor.' She examines Hobbes's use of the word honor throughout his career and reveals in Hobbes's thought an evolving understanding of honor, at least in his analysis of politics and society. She also looks at Hobbes's life and times, especially the English Civil War, a cataclysmic event that solidified his rejection of honor as a socially and politically useful concept. Bagby analyzes key ideas in Hobbes's philosophy which shed further light on his conclusion that the desire for honor is dangerous and needs to be eliminated in favor of fear and self-interest. In the end, she questions whether the equality of fear in the state of nature is actually a better source of social and political obligation than honor. In rejecting any sense of obligation based upon earlier notions of natural superiors and inferiors, does Hobbesian and future liberal thought unnecessarily reject honor as a source of restraint in society that previously promoted protection of the weaker against the stronger?

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187

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Lexington Books

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0739136054

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9780739136058

Gardens Are For People, Third Edition

With a New Preface

By: Thomas D. Church,Grace Hall,Michael Laurie

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Gardens Are For People, Third Edition

With a New Preface

By: Thomas D. Church,Grace Hall,Michael Laurie

This classic of landscape architecture has been required reading for the residential garden design professional, student, and generalist since its publication in 1955. Gardens Are for People contains the essence of Thomas Church's design philosophy and much practical advice. Amply illustrated by site plans and photographs of some of the 2,000 gardens Church designed during the course of his career, the third edition has a new Preface as well as a selected bibliography of writings by and about Church. Called "the last great traditional designer and the first great modern designer," Church was one of the central figures in the development of the modern California garden. For the first time, West Coast designers based their work not on imitation of East Coast traditions, but on climatic, landscape, and lifestyle characteristics unique to California and the West. Church viewed the garden as a logical extension of the house, with one extending naturally into the other. His plans reflect the personality and practical needs of the homeowner, as well as a pragmatic response to the logistical demands of the site.

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Univ of California Press

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0520201205

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9780520201200

The Rhetoric of the Page

By: Laurie Maguire

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The Rhetoric of the Page

By: Laurie Maguire

This wide-ranging and entertaining book explores blank space from incunabula to Google books. Blanks are a paradox—simultaneously nothing and something, gesturing to what was once there or might be there. They are also a creative opportunity for readers as well as writers: readers respond to what is not there and writers come to anticipate that response. Thus, blank space develops literary and ludic applications. Each chapter focuses on one typographical form of what is not there on the page: physical gaps (Chapter One), marks of incompletion such as &c (Chapter Two), and the asterisk as a stand-in for things that cannot be said (Chapter Three). By looking at the early-modern page as a visual unit as well as a verbal unit, this volume shows how the relationship between textual layout and textual content is as productive for writers as it is for readers. Mise-en-page influences readers in the same way that rhetoric influences readers. It is thus possible to speak of 'the rhetoric of the page'.

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321

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Oxford University Press

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0192606697

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9780192606693

Portable Literature

Reading, Reacting, Writing

By: Laurie G. Kirszner,Stephen R. Mandell

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Portable Literature

Reading, Reacting, Writing

By: Laurie G. Kirszner,Stephen R. Mandell

Designed for literature classes that only need the essentials, The PORTABLE LITERATURE: READING, REACTING, WRITING, Sixth Edition is the affordable, portable alternative to full length-or even compact-introduction to literature texts.

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Wadsworth Publishing Company

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1413022812

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9781413022810

Literature Compact

Reading, Reacting, Writing

By: Laurie G. Kirszner,Stephen R. Mandell

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Literature Compact

Reading, Reacting, Writing

By: Laurie G. Kirszner,Stephen R. Mandell

[The editors's] practice is to place [nontraditional or contemporary] works where they belong, alongside the "classics": to integrate new with old, familiar with unfamiliar, inviting students to discover new works and to see familiar works in new contexts. Thus, [their] goal in this anthology remains what is has been from the start: not just to expand the literary canon, but also to expand the personal canons of both students and instructors ... [The goal is] to encourage students both to appreciate works representing diverse literary subjects, styles, and perspectives and to recognize their own roles in bringing these diverse works into their personal literary canons by reading, reacting to, and writing about them.-Pref

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1588

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0155053221

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9780155053229

The Seeker's Bible

New Testament

By: Greg Laurie

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The Seeker's Bible

New Testament

By: Greg Laurie

In The Seeker's Bible, Greg Laurie introduces seekers to God and his Word. Readers will find answers to such questions as: “What is the meaning of life,” “What happens when I die,” and “Can I really know God?” The complete New Testament, in the New Living Translation and the easy-to-carry size makes The Seeker's Bible a great tool for introducing people to God.

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580

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0842339280

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9780842339285

Twentieth Century Literary Criticism

By: Laurie DiMauro

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Twentieth Century Literary Criticism

By: Laurie DiMauro

Presents literary criticism on the works of twentieth-century writers of all genres, nations, and cultures. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines, books, reviews, diaries, interviews, radio and television transcripts, pamphlets, and scholarly papers.

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Twentieth-Century Literary Cri

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0810379740

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9780810379749

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Thomas Edison for Kids

Thomas Edison for Kids

Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes

Gardens Are For People, Third Edition

Gardens Are For People, Third Edition

The Rhetoric of the Page

The Rhetoric of the Page

Portable Literature

Portable Literature

Literature Compact

Literature Compact

The Seeker's Bible

The Seeker's Bible

Twentieth Century Literary Criticism

Twentieth Century Literary Criticism

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