A Place Called America: A Story of the Land and People by Jennifer ThermesRequirements: .ePUB reader, 95 MBOverview: Through the lens of the land that has come to be known as America, award-winning picture book creator Jennifer Thermes captures centuries of history A Place Called America takes the long view of the land’s history, from […]
Orca: The Whale Called Killer by Erich HoytRequirements: .ePUB reader, 13,8 MBOverview: Hoyt’s passionate sense of kinship with orca makes his account effective as both a science and literature. He has chronicled his adventures and discoveries …with grace, insight, wit–and a comprehensiveness that might satisfy even Herman Melville.”(“Discover Magazine”) Star performers in aquariums and marine […]
American Political Development and the Trump Presidency by Zachary Callen (Editor) , Philip Rocco (Editor)Requirements: .ePUB reader, 1.7 MBOverview: Leading political scientists analyze the presidency of Donald Trump and its impact on the future of American politics In virtually all respects, the Trump presidency has disrupted patterns of presidential governance. However, does Trump signify a […]
A Dance Called America: The Scottish Highlands, the United States and Canada by James HunterRequirements: .ePUB reader, 14 MBOverview: A dance was devised in eighteenth-century Skye. An exhilarating dance. A dance, a visitor reports, ‘the emigration from Skye has occasioned’. The visitor asks for the dance’s name. ‘They call it America,’ he’s told. In his […]
Orca: The Whale Called Killer by Erich HoytRequirements: .ePUB reader, 13 MBOverview: Hoyt’s passionate sense of kinship with orca makes his account effective as both a science and literature. He has chronicled his adventures and discoveries …with grace, insight, wit–and a comprehensiveness that might satisfy even Herman Melville.”(“Discover Magazine”) Star performers in aquariums and marine […]