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Public Policy in the United States: At the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century

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Public Policy in the United States: At the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century
Mark E. Rushefsky
Manufacturer: M.E. Sharpe
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Binding: Paperback

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Kiss, Bow, or Shake Hands: How to Do Business in Sixty Countries

ASIN: 076560647X

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First Truth
Dawn Cook
Manufacturer: Ace
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Hidden Truth
Forgotten Truth
Lost Truth
The Decoy Princess
Princess at Sea

ASIN: 044100945X
Release Date: 2002-05-28

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Alissa didn't believe in magic, not until she was sent on a journey to an endangered fortress known as The Hold-and discovered the gifts within herself to save it.

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Write It Down!
Dawn Kolakoski
Manufacturer: Thomson Delmar Learning
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Binding: Paperback

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50 Social Studies Strategies for K-8 Classrooms (2nd Edition) (50 Teaching Strategies Series)

ASIN: 1401840647

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PERFECT FOR NEW TEACHERS AND STUDENT TEACHERS ALIKE! This supplemental book is an excellent tool for students completing internships, observation/participation experiences, field work, student teaching and practicum's in early childhood and elementary school settings. Through a host of techniques that encourage journaling, students are guided to record entries of curriculum ideas and teaching strategies they observe in the field. Sample observations help them get started, and journal forms in the final section teach students how to analyze their own teaching skills. The student becomes the author of what will be an invaluable personal resource and curriculum book of ideas they know to be successful.

The Very First Light: The True Inside Story of the Scientific Journey Back to the Dawn of the Universe

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The Very First Light: The True Inside Story of the Scientific Journey Back to the Dawn of the Universe
John C. Mather , and John Boslough
Manufacturer: Basic Books
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Binding: Hardcover

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Wrinkles in Time
The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next
The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design
The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe
Einstein: His Life and Universe

ASIN: 0465015751

Egyptology at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century Volume I (Egyptology at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century)

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Egyptology at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century Volume I (Egyptology at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century)
Zahi Hawass , and Lyla Pinch Brock
Manufacturer: American University in Cairo Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 9774246748

Summer Bridge Activities For Young Christians: Kindergarten to First Grade

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Summer Bridge Activities For Young Christians: Kindergarten to First Grade
Julia Ann Hobbs , Carla Dawn Fisher , and Sabena Maiden
Manufacturer: Rainbow Bridge Publishing (UT)
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Binding: Paperback

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Summer Bridge Activities for Young Christians: Preschool to Kindergarten
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Summer Bridge Activities For Young Christians 2-3
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ASIN: 1594412812

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Summer Bridge Activities for Young Christians is a special edition of the best-selling workbook series Summer Bridge Activities™! It starts with the award-winning educational content designed to help children move confidently between grades by reviewing and previewing basic skills in reading, writing, math, and language arts. In addition, Summer Bridge Activities for Young Christians includes original content to reinforce and promote Christian values and a Christlike way of life.

With Summer Bridge Activities for Young Christians, academic achievement goes hand-in-hand with the values and lessons of the Bible as integral part of your child's summer study. There's no better way to prepare for a new school year!

Journey from the Dawn: Life With the World's First Family

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Journey from the Dawn: Life With the World's First Family
Kevin O'Farrell
Manufacturer: Villard
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0394580842
Release Date: 1990-10-31

THE FIRST JIHAD: Khartoum, and the Dawn of Militant Islam

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THE FIRST JIHAD: Khartoum, and the Dawn of Militant Islam
Daniel Allen Butler
Manufacturer: Casemate
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Binding: Hardcover

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The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution
The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace

ASIN: 1932033548

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Before there was Osama bin Laden, Abu al-Zarqawi or Ayatollah Khomeini, there was the Mahdi-the "Expected One"-who raised the Arabs in pan-tribal revolt against infidels and apostates in the late 19th-century Sudan.

Born on the Nile in 1844, Muhammed Ahmed grew into a devout, charismatic young man, whose visage was said to have always featured the placid hint of a smile. He developed a ferocious resentment, however, against the corrupt Ottoman Turks, their Egyptian lackeys, and finally the Europeans who he felt held the Arab people in subjugation. In 1880, he raised the banner of holy war, and thousands of warriors flocked to his side.

The Egyptians dispatched a punitive expedition to the Sudan, but the Mahdist forces destroyed it. In 1883, Col. William Hicks gathered a larger army of nearly 10,000 men. Trapped by the tribesmen in a defile at El Obeid, it was massacred to a man. Three months later, another British-led force met disaster at El Teb.

Prime Minister William Gladstone ordered a withdrawal from Sudan, and dispatched one of Victoria's most celebrated heroes, General Charles "Chinese" Gordon, to effect the evacuation. Instead, Gordon was besieged by the Mahdi at Khartoum. In an epic contest pitting military innovation and discipline against religious fervor, the Mahdi and Gordon dueled throughout 1884, while the British government hesitated to send relief.

On January 26, 1885 a treacherous native (or patriot, depending on one's point of view) let the Mahdist forces into the city of Khartoum. Gordon, realizing that the end was at hand, donned a white uniform, took up his sword, and walked out upon his palace steps. He was hacked to death by jihadists and his head was carried around the city on a pole. A British relief column arrived two days later.

The Mahdi died shortly afterward, yet his revolt had succeeded. The British vacated the territory for almost 15 years until in 1899, led by Herbert Kitchner, they returned to forestall encroachments by other European powers. The Mahdist forces were crushed at the Battle of Omdurman, and the great jihad temporarily dissolved into the desert, not to be renewed for another century.

In today's world the Mahdi's words have been repeated almost verbatim by the Muslim jihadists who have attacked New York, Washington, Madrid and London, and continue to wage war from the Hindu Kush to the Mediterranean. Along with Saladin, who once defeated a holy war, the Mahdi stands as an Islamic icon who once launched his own successful crusade against the West.

This deeply researched work reminds us that the "clash of civilizations" that supposedly came upon us in September 2001 in fact began much earlier. This book is essential reading for all those who seek to understand the roots of our current relationship with Islam.

The Ends of the Earth: A Journey at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century

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The Ends of the Earth: A Journey at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century
Robert D. Kaplan
Manufacturer: Random House
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Binding: Hardcover

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The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy

ASIN: 0679431489
Release Date: 1996-02-27

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Robert D. Kaplan, author of the acclaimed Balkan Ghosts, travels from the countries of West Africa and the fundamentalist enclaves of Egypt and Iran to the culturally explosive lands of Central Asia, India, Pakistan, and Southeast Asia with hardly more than a notebook and a backpack. The result is an intimate portrait of the devastated parts of the world whose cultural disasters - like those in Rwanda, Bosnia, and Chechnya - will dominate our attention and remake the world of tomorrow.

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The bestselling author of Balkan Ghosts takes readers on a journey through troubled regions where age-old cultural rivalries threaten to reshape the world of tomorrow. From West Africa to the fundamentalist enclaves of Egypt and Iran to the culturally explosive lands of Central Asia, the people who will remake our world tomorrow are profiled.

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First Dawn (Freedoms Path)
Judith Miller
Manufacturer: Bethany House
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0764229974
Release Date: 2005-07-01

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Lured by the promise of "real" freedom and a new town to call their own, sharecroppers Ezekial Harban and his three daughters leave behind remnants of slavery in the war-torn south and set off for Nicodemus, Kansas. When they arrive, they are shocked to see that little of what they were promised actually exists. Many head back home, but Ezekial and his daughters are determined to build a new life in the stark territory. Dr. Boyle, a newly arrived doctor in neighboring Hill City, is called to deliver a baby in Nicodemus. He and his family are moved by the plight of the settlers there and vow to help. But the white pioneers of Hill City face problems, too. When the lives of these two families intersect, neither town will ever be the same. Freedom's Path Book 1.

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