Product Description
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

Product Description
Teach Yourself Russian Language, Life and Culturedelves into the customs and ways of Russia and its inhabitants, taking a respectful yet lively point of view. Topics include government, arts, language, work, leisure, education, festivals and celebrations, and food. By asking questions such as "What kind of music is native to Russia?" this book invites you to examine fascinating aspects of another culture. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (6)

Excellent source of basic information
I am a Russian language and culture teacher from St. Petersburg, Russia, living currently in the United States. This book is an excellent source of basic information about a vast and complex country. The book is written to get the reader acquainted with Russian history and culture. I use it with my students and find it easy to read, rather entertaining, and to the point. In order to study something in detail, one can use this book to point them in the right direction. I highly recommend it to everybody who wants to learn about Russia but does not know where to start. You will not be disappointed!

excellent overview of history and present
this book does what it advertises, a consise discussion of cultural scene from historical context to present, very pleased;
ñïàñèáî for giving me everything in one volume, clear and full overview of most aspects of Russian lifestlye, great starting point

An insight into Russia
I wish I had had this book when I was teaching Russian culture, in its broadest sense, in UK universities. Most students took up the subject on entering the university and therefore had no grounding in it at all. This book, rightly, assumes zero knowledge on the part of the reader, yet manages not to assume a condescending tone. On the contrary it is readable, up-to-date, informative and interesting. Even an old Russia hand like myself learned a great deal from it. The fact that one of the authors is Russian, the other English, gives them a particularly broad insight into their subject.

Reader from Kazan, Russia
As a Russian studying in the UK, I am often asked a lot of questions about Russia by my British and iternational friends. Very often I did not have the answers! So, I was actually looking for a suitable source on Russia. This excellent book is the best of this kind - it manages to compress a great deal of information and insights about all aspects of Russian life into just some 250 pages. It is refreshingly free of the usual stereotypes about Russia, but is still realistic. So, for a taste of what Russia is, I can certainly recommend this book.

Previous reviewer misses point completely
The previous reviewer of this books gets it completely wrong - their lack of credentials to write a review is shown by their failure to appreciate the fact that Russian and Ukrainian are separate languages. This book is about Russian life and culture, and is NOT a language textbook. And excuse me, the whole point is you CAN'T find a summary of such a wide range of topics as covered in this book on any internet site or indeed any other book I can think of, hence the value of this book (as recognised by schools, universities and individual customers of the book in the UK). Take a look at the reviews on the amazon UK site, in the journal of the Russian teachers of the UK (Rusistika). ... Read more

Product Description
ABCTE World History Exam Flashcard Study System uses repetitive methods of study to teach you how to break apart and quickly solve difficult test questions on the American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence Exam. Study after study has shown that spaced repetition is the most effective form of learning, and nothing beats flashcards when it comes to making repetitive learning fun and fast. Our flashcards enable you to study small, digestible bits of information that are easy to learn and give you exposure to the different question types and concepts. ABCTE World History Exam Flashcard Study System covers all of the most important topics that you'll need to know to be successful on test day. ... Read more

Product Description
This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Title: Chapters in European History: What Can History Teach Us? the Christian Revolution. the Turning-Point of the Middle Ages. Medieval Spiritualism. the Renaissance and Liberty; Volume: 1; Original Published by: Chapman & Hall in 1886 in 360 pages; Subjects: History; Europe; History / Europe / General; ... Read more

Product Description
This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Macmillan and Co. in 1886 in 135 pages; Subjects: Social Science / Sociology of Religion; Religion / Education; Religion / Comparative Religion; Religion / Judaism / General; Religion / Comparative Religion; Religion / Education; Religion / Judaism / General; Social Science / Sociology of Religion; ... Read more

Product Description
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

Product Description
ABCTE World History & Professional Teaching Knowledge Exam Flashcard Study System uses repetitive methods of study to teach you how to break apart and quickly solve difficult test questions on the American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence Exam. Study after study has shown that spaced repetition is the most effective form of learning, and nothing beats flashcards when it comes to making repetitive learning fun and fast. Our flashcards enable you to study small, digestible bits of information that are easy to learn and give you exposure to the different question types and concepts. ABCTE World History & Professional Teaching Knowledge Exam Flashcard Study System covers all of the most important topics that you'll need to know to be successful on test day. ... Read more

Product Description
ABCTE World History Exam Secrets helps you ace the American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence Exam, without weeks and months of endless studying. Our comprehensive ABCTE World History Exam Secrets study guide is written by our exam experts, who painstakingly researched every topic and concept that you need to know to ace your test. Our original research reveals specific weaknesses that you can exploit to increase your exam score more than you've ever imagined. ABCTE World History Exam Secrets includes: The 5 Secret Keys to ABCTE Success: Time is Your Greatest Enemy, Guessing is Not Guesswork, Practice Smarter, Not Harder, Prepare, Don't Procrastinate, Test Yourself; A comprehensive General Strategy review including: Make Predictions, Answer the Question, Benchmark, Valid Information, Avoid Fact Traps, Milk the Question, The Trap of Familiarity, Eliminate Answers, Tough Questions, Brainstorm, Read Carefully, Face Value, Prefixes, Hedge Phrases, Switchback Words, New Information, Time Management, Contextual Clues, Don't Panic, Pace Yourself, Answer Selection, Check Your Work, Beware of Directly Quoted Answers, Slang, Extreme Statements, Answer Choice Families; Along with a complete, in-depth study guide for your specific ABCTE exam, and much more... ... Read more

Product Description
ABCTE World History & Professional Teaching Knowledge Exam Secrets helps you ace the American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence Exam, without weeks and months of endless studying. Our comprehensive ABCTE World History & Professional Teaching Knowledge Exam Secrets study guide is written by our exam experts, who painstakingly researched every topic and concept that you need to know to ace your test. Our original research reveals specific weaknesses that you can exploit to increase your exam score more than you've ever imagined. ABCTE World History & Professional Teaching Knowledge Exam Secrets includes: The 5 Secret Keys to ABCTE Success: Time is Your Greatest Enemy, Guessing is Not Guesswork, Practice Smarter, Not Harder, Prepare, Don't Procrastinate, Test Yourself; A comprehensive General Strategy review including: Make Predictions, Answer the Question, Benchmark, Valid Information, Avoid Fact Traps, Milk the Question, The Trap of Familiarity, Eliminate Answers, Tough Questions, Brainstorm, Read Carefully, Face Value, Prefixes, Hedge Phrases, Switchback Words, New Information, Time Management, Contextual Clues, Don't Panic, Pace Yourself, Answer Selection, Check Your Work, Beware of Directly Quoted Answers, Slang, Extreme Statements, Answer Choice Families; Along with a complete, in-depth study guide for your specific ABCTE exam, and much more... ... Read more

Product Description
Find 3,000 years of history in one succinct volume! This title covers the geography, politics, sociology, and economics that have shaped Great Britain and includes tables and chronologies that outline trends and help place events in context. ... Read more

Product Description
An introduction to the lives of the Ancient Greeks. It looks at all areas of Ancient Greek culture, from art and architecture to literature and mythology, and the legacy of Greek civilization in the modern world is also explored. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (2)

A well presented survey of Greek civilization
Classics has always been one of my weak areas, but this book did a lot to give me a solid understanding of Greek civilization throughout its development and who the ancient Greeks were.It was presented in a way that sparked my interest, and I now want to study Greek literature and Sparta in more detail.

Well intentional and informative...
This book does well in presenting many aspects of Greek Civilization, including information about both historical events and the lifestyle of theGreeks.However, it would be better used as a supplement to a course onthe ancient world or as a quick background reference when reading any ofthe Greek and some of the Roman writers.A good introdution to thefascinating Hellene civilization, but only an introduction!Happy reading,and kale tukei! ... Read more

Product Description
The Wild West goes farther back in time and space than you might imagine. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (6)

This is what they DID teach me
If you like your history written by an author who is trapped in the fallacy of ethnomorphism, and believes that people living in previous generations should have their actions judged using today's ethical standards, than you will be fine with this book.This style of writing is easy and fashionable. If, however, you are looking for historical facts presented in their appropriate historical context, I believe you will find this book lacking.
I found the tone of this book to be glib, disrespectful, and pseudo-historical.For instance, I could not escape the over-riding and simplistic theme that all Native Americans are good, all European invaders are evil.Ex.On page 14, Christopher Columbus is referred to as "Chris" Columbus, and is labeled a "Johnny-come-lately".Ex. On page 22, it is claimed that in 1754, George Washington led a raid that killed a French diplomat, which led to a defeat at Fort Necessity.Here the author feels it appropriate to quip, "first battle, first defeat", as if to impugn the first great general and president of the United States of America.It occurred to me that this book is written by an author with a chip on his shoulder, or maybe with a hidden political agenda.This is not a history book that I can trust, and I do not recommend it.

Interesting. Worth the read....
As any historian will tell you, there are many sides to an historic event and the story is told from the viewpoint of the victors. Wright attempts to illustrate unknown facts, and clarify popular misconceptions about historical events in "What They Didn't Teach You about the Wild West." While I enjoyed Wright's interpretation of history, I found the format to be at times confusing. Facts were jumbled together in large chapters without subheadings which made browsing confusing. Perhaps this book would be better if arranged in chronological order? This complaint was small, however in light of what "What they-" has to offer.

The parts I particularly enjoyed were the colonization facts, information about early prostitution and early American 'attitudes' towards women, other races and cultures. Perhaps if there is a reprint, there should be a chapter about gender roles included?

Definitely interesting enough to pick up for scholars and writers of western fiction. A good solid work.

A Supplement to Those Old Movies
Mike Wright is a TV writer in Chicago who won an "Emmy".This book covers some of the 19th Century West, from around 1816 (the year without a summer) to about 1916.Thirteen chapters cover various topics from that century, and tells you things left out of the movies and TV shows.

Those over forty remember various movies and TV shows about cowboys and cattle herds ("Gunsmoke", "Bonanza", etc.).But this era lasted only about 25 years.A cow sold for $4 in TX, $40 in KS; we would call them arbitrageurs nowadays.People preferred the taste of longhorn cattle over domestic beeves.Is there something to be relearned here?Free-range meat?

It retells the importance of the railroads in the history of the 19th century America, and the Chicago stockyards (another memory).Railroads long ago spent their Govt. subsidies; trucking still benefits from Govt. super-highway system.

Mike Wright questions Wild Bill Hickok's claim to having killed "a hundred men", saying it was maybe 15 or so as a cattle town lawman.But Wm. Hickok had been a Jayhawker, Civil War soldier, Army scout, etc.I wouldn't dispute that claim, exaggerated or not.

A range of lively facts
From the origins of 'dude' in dude ranch to the history of the Afro-American cowboy and his prominence in the west, What They Didn't Teach You About the Wild West gathers a range of lively facts which provides a fun and involving collection for leisure browsers and history students seeking supplemental reading.

What I learned was You (Mike) need to do more research!
Found an error in Chapter 26, page 280, re: the last surviving Civil War veterans.The last Union veteran (Albert Woolson) died on August 2, 1956 (not the stated 1951)at age 109. The last Confederate veteran, Walter W. Williams (not the stated "Walter Washington")died on December 19, 1959 (not the stated 1952) at age 117.The reference for the above is the New York Times newspaper, August 2, 1956. ... Read more

Product Description

From the early 1960s to the 1970s, the province of Ontario witnessed an explosion in university enrolment. So dramatic was the increase that there were neither the institutions nor the faculty in place to meet the demand. In response, a dozen new universities from Trent in the southeast to Lakehead in the northwest were established, and faculty had to be recruited wherever they could be found. It was the events and developments of this decade, many argue, that created the university system that exists in Ontario today.

Someone to Teach Them is an insider's account of this period as told by historian John T. Saywell. As Dean of Arts at York University from 1963 to 1973, Saywell witnessed the expansion of the university from 500 students in 1963 to 7000 by 1970, and the many changes it took to accommodate such a change. York managed to recruit the necessary faculty, he writes, but the large number of American instructors led to a radical attack on the so-called Americanization of the universities. Saywell also elucidates the adverse effect that the reduction of government funding and enrolment had on the administration of the university in the 1970s.

Featuring many of the elements of personal memoir, this is also a thoroughly researched account of a critical decade for the history of education in Ontario.

Product Description

Untangle the history of this fascinating island

Teach Yourself The History of Ireland makes sound sense of the Emerald Isle's complicated history. You will learn about all the major players and events, from the wars of the ancient kings and British subjugation to the IRA's decommissioning of arms and the murders of Robert McCartney and Denis Donaldson.

Product Description
This interdisciplinary volume takes as its subject the multi-faceted genre of didactic literature (the literature of instruction), which constituted the cornerstone of literary enterprise and social control in medieval and early modern Europe. Following an Introduction that raises questions of didactic meaning, intent, audience, and social effect, nineteen chapters deal with the construction of the individual didactic voice and persona in the premodern period, didactic literature for children, women as the creators, objects, and consumers of didactic literature, the influence of advice literature on adult literacy, piety, and heresy, and the revision of classical didactic forms and motifs in the early modern period. Attention is paid throughout to the continuities of didactic literature across the medieval and early modern periods-its intertextuality, reliance on tradition, and self-renewal-and to questions of gender, authority, control, and the socially constructed nature of advice. Contributors particularly explore the intersection of advice literature with real lives, considering the social impact of both individual texts and the didactic genre as a whole. The volume deals with a wide variety of texts from the early Middle Ages to the eighteenth century, written in languages from Latin through the European vernaculars to Byzantine Greek and Russian, offering a comprehensive overview of this pervasive and influential genre. ... Read more

Product Description
This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Universalist Pub. House in 1893 in 125 pages; Subjects: Universalism; Religion / Biblical Studies / Prophecy; Religion / Christian Theology / General; Religion / Christian Theology / Eschatology; Religion / Christian Theology / Soteriology; Religion / Eschatology; Religion / Theology; ... Read more

Product Description
Publisher: National Society's DepositoryPublication date: 1881Subjects: BibleHistory / GeneralReligion / Biblical Criticism ... Read more

Product Description
Part of the TY POPULAR SCIENCE series, this book examines the background to this key scientific area with a view to highlighting the issues affecting our environment and the animal world today. It clarifies the potential future implications and gives suggestions for the way forward. ... Read more