![]() The mother of two grown children, Pat Kenschaft has taught mathematics to hundreds of elementary school children. ![]() Patricia Clark Kenschaft is professor emerita of mathematics at Montclair State University, where she was a professor of mathematics for thirty-two years. It shows how parents can set positive switches in their kids that will help them enjoy mathematics both in school and out." - Henry Pollack, former President, Mathematical Association of America "I hope many parents will read this valuable book. Sobel, former President, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics "Should be required reading for all parents of elementary schoolchildren." - Max A. Her critically acclaimed guide is particularly valuable to homeschoolers, offering all parents the tools they need to help children achieve academic and real-world success. These lively techniques - including games, questions, conversations, and specific math activities - are suitable for children from preschool to age 10.Īuthor Patricia Clark Kenschaft maintains that rote learning and standardized testing weaken children's natural love of learning, and she shows how parents can effectively supplement students' math education. Math Power offers easy-to-follow and concrete strategies for teaching math concepts. ![]() Any child can overcome the disadvantages of mediocre math teaching in school and parental math anxiety at home. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Instead of backing down, he embarks on a crusade to fight the corruption.Īfter discovering and trying to expose a massive fraud by government officials, he gets banned from the country and his local companies stolen. ![]() He becomes wildly successful, which made him the target of corrupt Russian oligarchs and even Putin himself. After having difficulty convincing his employers to invest in Russia, he sets up his own hedge fund. He saw huge opportunity to invest in Russian privatization. While based in London and working on consulting projects in Eastern Europe, he discovers companies being privatized at insanely low valuations. It’s important (and interesting) to understand how the author rebelled against his American Communist leader grandfather and far left-leaning parents by becoming an ardent capitalist who built the biggest hedge fund in Russia.Įarly in his career he becomes interested in Eastern Europe at around the time the Berlin Wall came down. It would make a great fiction novel, but the crazy thing is that it’s a true story. Makes me appreciate the life that I have? Check. Gripping like a Mitch Rapp or Jack Reacher spy novel? Check. ![]() Teaches about interesting history? Check. Inspires to be a better person and do good in the world? Check.Ĭontains lessons about investing and business? Check. It combines almost everything I like reading about all into one book. “Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice” by Bill Browder just became one of my all-time favorite books. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They faced similar struggles in past decades and settled for simplistic solutions. I am not suggesting that liberals are immune to these problems. But the dumbing down of the GOP has gone on for so long that nearly half of Republicans don’t know what that acronym stands for. It was founded on big ideas: abolishing slavery and holding together a federal republic. The Republican Party is called the Grand Old Party for a reason. ![]() Empty-headed talking point reciters, rookie politicians who’ve never managed anything in their lives, media clowns such as Donald Trump, dim bulbs in tight pants or short skirts, professionally outraged shout-fest talking heads, and total political neophytes dominate conservative airwaves and the Right’s political discourse. This is the dirty little secret of the conservative movement in America today: everyone knows that it has lost its lost its intellectual bearings. ![]() ![]() ![]() The three Bronte sisters have become three of the most renowned female authors of their time. This novel follows Lucy Snowe as she moves from her native England to a French village where she is employed to teach at a girls' school. This novel has striking portrays of mental and physical cruelty, following the emotional story of Catherine and Heathcliff. This novel follows William Crimsworth as he becomes a teacher at an all-boys boarding school in Belgium. This novel is set in Yorkshire during an industrial depression, set against the backdrop of the Luddite uprising in the Yorkshire textile industry. This novel is about the orphaned Jane, who winds up under the employer Mr Rochester, a mysterious man who lives at Thornfield Hall. ![]() ![]() The novel was largely based on Anne's own experiences working as a governess. 'Agnes Grey' is about the governess Agnes Grey who works with English gentry families. After she arrives, the writer of the letters, Gilbert Markham, falls in love with her. 'Wildfell Hall' is set out in a series of letters, during which a mysterious young widow arrives at Wildfell Hall. 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Agnes Grey', published in 1935. Finely bound in a signed binding by Bayntun-Riviere. A complete set of the published novels of the Bronte sisters. A finely bound complete set of the novels of the Bronte sisters, beautifully bound in a signed binding by Bayntun-Riviere. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Marcellus surreptiously retraces the path of Jesus and asks to hear remembrances of the man in that way, Douglas retells the story of the Christ.įrom Andrew Greeley’s introduction to the 1986 reprint ![]() At first, the robe haunts him but later compels him to seek the truth of the man from Galilee. ![]() He is the tribune of the troop of soldiers ordered to carry out the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth, and the robe of the deceased comes into his possession. The protagonist, Marcellus, is a Roman nobleman sent to command a remote Judean outpost. The writing is solid except for the overuse of adverbs to describe dialogue, “he said, incredulously.” The author’s motivation is didactic and apologetic. The Robe evokes the sights, sounds, and smells of Palestine and the Roman Empire of the first century. From the first to the last, Douglas’ novels received critical acclaim as Biblical fiction in the genre tradition of Ben Hur (1880) and Quo Vadis (1896). The last of his ten novels, The Big Fisherman, (Simon Peter) was published in 1949, and it too was made into a successful movie in 1959. His first novel, Magnificent Obsession, was published in 1929. It remained number one on the list for a year, and it also became a popular movie released in 1953 starring Richard Burton.ĭouglas was a Lutheran minister who turned to writing at age 50. Published in 1942, The Robe soon achieved New York Times bestseller status. ![]() ![]() Washington which provided that Southern blacks would work and submit to white political rule, while Southern whites guaranteed that blacks would receive basic educational and economic opportunities. ![]() DuBois and his supporters opposed the Atlanta compromise, an agreement crafted by Booker T. DuBois was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.īefore that, DuBois had risen to national prominence as the leader of the Niagara Movement, a group of African-American activists that wanted equal rights for blacks. ![]() Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, DuBois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community, and after completing graduate work at the University of Berlin and Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate, he became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University. William Edward Burghardt DuBois (Febru– August 27, 1963) was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor. DuBois’s best known books: The Souls of Black Folk ![]() This week’s FREE ebook download is one of W.E.B. DuBois …Įvery week, we provide a FREE ebook every week to our readers, and especially those on our daily email list.įREE EBOOK is to be on our Daily Email List This week marks the anniversary of the death of noted sociologist, W.E.B. ![]() ![]() Ever since seeing his 'objective and compassionless' look in a self-portrait at an exhibition in Paris, M has felt compelled to meet (and sort of possess) him, but when he eventually turns up to stay, not alone but with a horribly perfect young girlfriend in tow, she knows that the whole thing is already out of her control: 'It wasn't at all how I'd planned it!' She will never get to know L at all, and he will never 'see' her, something that has become inexplicably essential to her whole sense of reality. ![]() ![]() Second Place is a strange and fascinating story of a battle of wills, in which the narrator (only identified as 'M') goes back over the events and violent feelings aroused by a world-famous artist ('L') coming to stay on her property on the Norfolk coast in the retreat-studio of the title. But this latest fiction, Second Place, re-sets the dial yet again. Two sequels followed in the same mode, Kudos and Transit, and all three books are now studied on university courses for their ground-breaking innovations. ![]() She stopped writing autobiography when it ‘seemed to be making people angry’ and adopted a new technique for her novel Outline in 2014 in which the narrator doesn't really narrate at all, but listens to other people's stories. ![]() New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENTĪchel Cusk is always moving forward. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Beyond distance, beyond time, beyond life itself. We Must Be Brave Written by: Frances Liardet Narrated by: Louise Jameson, Penelope Freeman Unabridged Audiobook Play Free with a 30-day free trial Give as a gift Ratings Book Narrator Release Date February 2019 Duration 16 hours 11 minutes Summary We can’t choose who we love. Spanning the sweep of the 20th century, We Must Be Brave explores the fierce love that we feel for our children and the power of that love to endure. But with the end of the fighting comes the realization that Pamela was never theirs to keep. As the war rages on, love grows where it was least expected, surprising them all. Little Pamela, it seems, is entirely alone.Įllen has always believed she does not want children, but when she takes Pamela into her home, the child cracks open the past Ellen thought she had escaped and the future she and her husband, Selwyn, had dreamed for themselves. In Upton village, amid the chaos, newly married Ellen Parr finds a girl asleep, unclaimed at the back of an empty bus. As German bombs fall on Southampton, England, during World War II, the city's residents flee to the surrounding villages. The child who changed everything.ĭecember 1940. Beyond distance, beyond time, beyond life itself.Ī woman. "A powerful story that proves how love itself requires courage." (Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing ) ![]() ![]() Editorials in the daily papers of that date caused a meeting to be held in the Cotton Exchange Building a committee was sent for the editors of the "Free Speech," an Afro-American journal published in that city, and the only reason the open threats of lynching that were made were not carried out was because they could not be found. ![]() ![]() Wednesday evening May 24th, 1892, the city of Memphis was filled with excitement. She delivered a similar speech twice in February 1893, at the Tremont Temple in Boston, Massachusetts, and by invitation of Frederick Douglass at the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C. She delivered this speech at Lyric Hall in New York City on October 5, 1892, and published the speech as a pamphlet on Oct. ![]() Wells first published a version this speech on June 25, 1892, in the New York Age. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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