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In this engaging book, David Brion Davis offers an illuminating perspective on American slavery. Starting with a long view across the temporal and spatial boundaries of world slavery, he traces continuities from the ancient world to the era of exploration, with its expanding markets and rise in consumption of such products as sugar, tobacco, spices, and chocolate, to the conditions of the New World settlement that gave rise to a dependence on the forced labor of millions of African slaves. With the American Revolution, slavery crossed another kind of boundary, in a psychological inversion that placed black slaves outside the dream of liberty and equality--and turned them into the Great American Problem. Davis then delves into a single year, 1819, to explain how an explosive conflict over the expansion and legitimacy of slavery, together with reinterpretations of the Bible and the Constitution, pointed toward revolutionary changes in American culture. Finally, he widens the angle again, in a regional perspective, to discuss the movement to colonize blacks outside the United States, the African-American impact on abolitionism, and the South's response to slave emancipation in the British Caribbean, which led to attempts to morally vindicate slavery and export it into future American states. Challenging the boundaries of slavery ultimately brought on the Civil War and the unexpected, immediate emancipation of slaves long before it could have been achieved in any other way. This imaginative and fascinating book puts slavery into a brilliant new light and underscores anew the desperate human tragedy lying at the very heart of the American story.

Length from bust to hem of size S: 130cm. Chest 35cm, Waist 31cm, size S. Maxi dress.  Semi-lined. Model is a standard XS and is wearing size XS.  True to size.  Slight-stretch.  High-neck. Flower detail. Adjustable straps. Split to skirt. Cold hand wash only.  Polyester/Cotton. Make it a night to remember in our Challenging Strategies Maxi Dress. Featuring a high neckline and detachable flower detail. Pair with heels and curls for a look we're obsessed with.

Length from bust to hem of size S: 130cm. Chest 35cm, Waist 31cm, size S. Maxi dress.  Semi-lined. Model is a standard XS and is wearing size XS.  True to size.  Slight-stretch.  High-neck. Flower detail. Adjustable straps. Split to skirt. Cold hand wash only.  Polyester/Cotton. Make it a night to remember in our Challenging Strategies Maxi Dress. Featuring a high-neckline and detachable flower detail. Pair with heels and curls for a look we're obsessed with.

Uncover danger in the desert and the mysteries of deep space with this engaging set, written in Spanish, featuring inspiring content-area topics. Discover how wild animal trainers work and what mighty macros are in these books with amazing layouts that include sidebars, questions to consider, facts, graphics and enticing color photos.

Find out what a day of work is like for an ER doctor or why deep sea fishing is such a dangerous profession with this engaging 30-book collection. Supplement your reading program, build your classroom library and enhance your intervention program with high-interest nonfiction leveled books. These high-interest books are designed to help build comprehension skills with cross-curricular content, challenging informational text and key vocabulary.

Uncover danger in the desert and the mysteries of deep space with this engaging set featuring inspiring content-area topics. Discover how wild animal trainers work and what mighty macros are with books that include amazing layouts, sidebars, questions to consider, facts, graphics and enticing color photos. Books are designed for fifth-graders.

This entertaining yet content-rich set features such topics as how to spot a pirate and how to make your money grow. Children will explore underwater creatures, natural disasters and more with engaging layouts, conversational-style text and plenty of sidebars.

This entertaining yet content-rich set features such topics as how to spot a pirate and how to make your money grow. Children will explore underwater creatures, natural disasters and more with engaging layouts, conversational-style text and plenty of sidebars. Books are designed for fifth-graders.

Accessible educational tool helps people deal with anxiety, stress, and depression in healthy ways Encourages readers to maintain good-health basics, such as eating healthy foods, being active, and getting enough sleep Features tips to calm down, such as journaling, practicing deep breathing, being mindful, reframing thoughts, and more Add your custom personalization to the back panel in black

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"Artforum radically transformed the rules of the game. . . . This lively book, in which gossip becomes oral history, records how and why. . . . Newman should be commended."—Artforum "Newman’s book [makes] the activities of a handful of magazine editors and art critics seem totally fascinating . . . [It] provides an incredible amount of information about the evolution of American art, perhaps even more than can be found in the pages of Artforum itself."—Art in America "[I]ncisive and absorbing . . . An absolutely indispensable resource for anyone studying the field."––Irving Sandler, American Art of the Sixties "An accurate, honest, evenhanded -portrait of an extraordinary era in the words of the key players at the most important journal. . . . A great read."—Chuck Close, artist

The prophets of the Old Testament use a wide variety of metaphors to describe God and to portray people in relation to God. Some of these metaphors are familiar and soothing; others are unfamiliar and confusing. Still others portray God in ways that are difficult and uncomfortable--God as abusive husband, for instance, or as neglectful father. Julia O'Brien searches the prophetic books for these metaphors, looking for ways in which the different images intersect and build off each other. When confronted with disturbing metaphors, she deals with them unflinchingly, providing a sharp critique and evaluation of the interpretations of these metaphors for God. Giving particular attention to the possible uses of these metaphors in the church today--for good or ill--O'Brien listens to the fullness of the prophetic messages and points us toward new ways to read these theological metaphors for a just faith today.

When geniuses meet, something extraordinary happens, like lightning produced from colliding clouds, observed Russian poet Alexander Blok. There is perhaps no literary collision more fascinating and deserving of study than the relationship between Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837), Russia's greatest poet, and Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–81), its greatest prose writer. In the twentieth century, Pushkin, "Russia's Shakespeare," became enormously influential, his literary successors universally acknowledging and venerating his achievements. In the nineteenth century, however, it was Dostoevsky more than any other Russian writer who wrestled with Pushkin's legacy as cultural icon and writer. Though he idolized Pushkin in his later years, the younger Dostoevsky exhibited a much more contentious relationship with his eminent precursor.            In Challenging the Bard, Gary Rosenshield engages with the critical histories of these two literary titans, illuminating how Dostoevsky reacted to, challenged, adapted, and ultimately transformed the work of his predecessor Pushkin. Focusing primarily on Dostoevsky's works through 1866—including Poor Folk, The Double, Mr. Prokharchin, The Gambler, and Crime and Punishment—Rosenshield observes that the younger writer's way to literary greatness was not around Pushkin, but through him. By examining each literary figure in terms of the other, Rosenshield demonstrates how Dostoevsky both deviates from and honors the work of Pushkin. At its core, Challenging the Bard offers a unique perspective on the poetry of the master, Pushkin, the prose of his successor, Dostoevsky, and the nature of literary influence.

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Challenging Word Problems is a series of six books, specially written to supplement Singapore's Primary Mathematics textbooks for use in the USA. This Primary Mathematics series has been updated to align with the Common Core State Standards for mathematics. With extensive graded questions for students of mixed abilities as well as higher-order questions for better math students, these topical problem-solving books serve to enhance students' mathematical reasoning and bolster their confidence Each book in the series features the following: * Graded Worked Examples * Practice Questions * Challenging Problems * Review Questions * Worked Solutions to All Questions Through regular practice and review, the Primary Mathematics (Common Core Edition) Challenging Word Problems series serves to build a solid foundation in elementary mathematics and boost students' creative and critical problem-solving skills. Challenging Word Problems, distributed by Singaporemath.com, is a wallet-friendly math series that equips elementary math students, teachers, and parents with the mathematical problem-solving skills needed to solve brain-unfriendly math questions, which are often used to separate the nerd from the herd, or which appear in school exams and math contests.

This supplement supports the development of critical thinking skills necessary to success in the introductory psychology course. The chapter sequence mirrors the organization of the typical introductory psychology course. In the first chapter, the author identifies seven characteristics of critical thinkers, and in the following chapters he dissects a challenging issue in the discipline and models critical thinking for the reader. Each chapter concludes with an analysis of the process, exercises for the student, and extensive references. This useful volume supports the full semester of the course.

Newton's Laws held for 300 years until Einstein developed the 'special theory of relativity' in 1905. Experiments done since then show anomalies in that theory. This book starts with a description of the special theory of relativity. It is shown that Einstein was not the first to derive the famous equation E = mc2, which has become synonymous with his name. Next, experimental evidence that cannot be explained by special relativity is given. In the light of this evidence, the two basic postulates of the special theory of relativity on the behaviour of light are shown to be untenable. A new theory (universal relativity) is developed, which conforms to the experimental evidence. The movement of a conductor near a pole of a magnet and the movement of that pole near the conductor does not always give the same result. It has been claimed that this contradicts relativity theory. Experiments described in this book show that it is not special relativity but another basic law of physics that is contradicted - Faraday's Law. The Big Bang theory of the beginning of the universe is questioned and an alternative proposed. The source of much of the mysterious missing 'dark matter' that has been sought for decades by astronomers is located. An explanation of the shapes of some galaxies is proffered.

Gifted students have the potential to learn material earlier and faster, to handle more complexity and abstraction, and to solve complex problems better. These books in the Challenging Units for Gifted Learners series are designed to help teachers provide the stimulating curricula that will nurture this potential in school. The units presented in this series are based on research into how these students actually think differently from their peers and how they use their learning styles and potential not merely to develop intellectual expertise, but to move beyond expertise to the production of new ideas.The Social Studies book includes units that ask students to explore the struggles of America's first permanent English settlement in Jamestown, hold an African economic summit, study various Supreme Court cases and primary source documents, and create a Civil War documentary that views the war from the aspect of a person living in a particular state.