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  • Lies My Teacher Told Me

    Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

    "Every teacher, every student of history, every citizen should read this book. It is both a refreshing antidote to what has passed for history in our educational system and a one-volume education in itself."—Howard ZinnA new edition of the national bestseller and American Book Award winner, with a new preface by the authorSince its first publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has become one ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Teacher Wars

    A History of America's Most Embattled Profession

    In her groundbreaking history of 175 years of American education, Dana Goldstein finds answers in the past to the controversies that plague our public schools today.Teaching is a wildly contentious profession in America, one attacked and admired in equal measure. In The Teacher Wars, a rich, lively, and unprecedented history of public school teaching, Dana Goldstein reveals that teachers have been ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Illustrated, Inline Footnotes)

    Oakshot Press

    Series series Oakshot Press Classics
    Each play Illustrated with Illustrations unique to this release, over 350 Illustrations in total.Biography and literary critique includes annotated inline footnotes.The Plays.The Comedies of William Shakespeare.All's Well That Ends Well. (Illustrated)As You Like It. (Illustrated)Comedy of Errors. (Illustrated)Cymbeline. (Illustrated)Love's Labour's Lost. (Illustrated)Mea... ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

    Winner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in NonfictionAnti-Intellectualism in American Life is a book which throws light on many features of the American character. Its concern is not merely to portray the scorners of intellect in American life, but to say something about what the intellectual is, and can be, as a force in a democratic society."As Mr. Hofstadter unfolds the fascinating story, it is no ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Train Go Sorry

    Inside a Deaf World

    A “remarkable and insightful” look inside a New York City school for the deaf, blending memoir and history (The New York Times Book Review).Leah Hager Cohen is part of the hearing world, but grew up among the deaf community. Her Russian-born grandfather had been deaf—a fact hidden by his parents as they took him through Ellis Island—and her father served as superintendent at the Lexington School ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ebony and Ivy

    Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities

    A groundbreaking exploration of the intertwined histories of slavery, racism, and higher education in America, from a leading African American historian.A 2006 report commissioned by Brown University revealed that institution's complex and contested involvement in slavery--setting off a controversy that leapt from the ivory tower to make headlines across the country. But Brown's troubling past was ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Conform

    Exposing the Truth About Common Core and Public Education

    by Glenn Beck ...
    Series series The Control Series
    Glenn Beck, the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Reset, considers the hot-button issue of education in the US, exposing the weaknesses of the Common Core school curriculum and examining why liberal solutions fail.Public education is never mentioned in the constitution. Why? Because our founders knew that it was an issue for state and local governments—not the federal one.It’s not a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Twenty-five Books That Shaped America

    How White Whales, Green Lights, and Restless Spirits Forged Our National Identity

    From the author of the New York Times bestselling How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes a highly entertaining and informative book on the twenty-five works of literature that have most shaped the American character.Thomas C. Foster applies his much-loved combination of wit, know-how, and analysis to explain how each work has shaped our very existence as readers, students, teachers, and ... Read more

    $9.49 USD

  • Building a Better Teacher: How Teaching Works (and How to Teach It to Everyone)

    **A New York Times Notable Book"A must-read book for every American teacher and taxpayer." —Amanda Ripley, author of The Smartest Kids in the World**Launched with a hugely popular New York Times Magazine cover story, Building a Better Teacher sparked a national conversation about teacher quality and established Elizabeth Green as a leading voice in education. Green's fascinating and accessible ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • History in the Making

    An Absorbing Look at How American History Has Changed in the Telling over the Last 200 Years

    by Kyle Ward ...
    The popular, “thought-provoking study” that explores how contemporary prejudices change the way each generation looks at the nation’s past (Library Journal).Historian Kyle Ward, the acclaimed co-author of History Lessons, offers another fascinating look at the biases inherent in the way we think about, write about, and teach our own history. Juxtaposing passages from US history textbooks of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Still Failing at Fairness

    How Gender Bias Cheats Girls and Boys in School and What We Can Do About It

    Despite decades of effort to create fair classrooms and schools, gender bias is alive and well, and in some ways growing. School practices continue to send boys and girls down different life paths, too often treating them not as different genders but as different species. Teachers and parents often miss the subtle signs of sexism in classrooms. Through firsthand observations and up-to-the-minute ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Inside American Education

    by Thomas Sowell ...
    An indictment of the American educational system criticizes the fact that the system has discarded the traditional goals of transmitting knowledge and fostering cognitive skills in favor of building self-esteem and promoting social harmony. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • AP United States History Key Terms Explained

    by Ethan Koch ...
    Welcome Juniors, Seniors, and College Students who are currently in enrolled in AP United States History (APUSH) along with anyone else looking to enlighten themselves with the history of America. As most of you are currently experiencing this, APUSH is a very intensive course filled with hours of work each week and more information to be learned than you ever thought possible. I know, I have ... Read more

    Free

  • College

    What it Was, Is, and Should Be

    As the commercialization of American higher education accelerates, more and more students are coming to college with the narrow aim of obtaining a preprofessional credential. The traditional four-year college experience--an exploratory time for students to discover their passions and test ideas and values with the help of teachers and peers--is in danger of becoming a thing of the past. In College ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World

    An unusual and authoritative 'natural history of languages' that narrates the ways in which one language has superseded or outlasted another at different times in history.The story of the world in the last five thousand years is above all the story of its languages. Some shared language is what binds any community together, and makes possible both the living of a common history and the telling of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line

    Untold Stories of the Women Who Changed the Course of World War II

    by Mari Eder ...
    For fans of Radium Girls and history and WWII buffs, The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line takes you inside the lives and experiences of 15 unknown women heroes from the Greatest Generation, the women who served, fought, struggled, and made things happen during WWII—in and out of uniform—for theirs is a legacy destined to embolden generations of women to come.From daring spies to audacious pilots, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Common Core Standards and World War II

    A Literary Veteran's Day Observance

    by Pat Scales ...
    President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a five-star general and commander of the Allied Forces in Europe during World War II, established a committee in 1954 to plan a Veterans Day observance. This day honors all veterans of the United States and is held each year on November 11 with a somber ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. A wreath is placed on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and followed by a ... Read more

    Free

  • Number Games

    9/11 to Coronavirus

    Number Games | 9/11 to Coronavirus was written for the purpose of educating the people of the world about the agendas that are being carried out against us, and the very clear plan that went into motion in 1968, when coronavirus was coined, World Trade Center construction in New York began, and 9-1-1 was made the United States' national emergency dialing code. As the reader will learn, these ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Einstein For Dummies

    Genius demystified, the Dummies way!In 1905, Albert Einstein revolutionized modern physics with his theory of relativity. He went on to become a twentieth-century icon-a man whose name and face are synonymous with "genius." Now, at last, ordinary readers can explore Einstein's life and work in this new For Dummies guide. Physicist Carlos Calle chronicles Einstein's career and explains his work ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • The Royal Wardrobe: peek into the wardrobes of history's most fashionable royals

    by Rosie Harte ...
    'I loved this book!' - Alison Weir'[A] lively, gossipy forage through royal wardrobes' - Daily Mail**'**A sparkling history' - Dr Kate StrasdinPeek into the wardrobes of history's most fashionable royalsWhy did women wear such heavy and uncomfortable skirts in the Elizabethan era?What the hell happened to Charles II's pubic hair wig?<s... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Teaching White Supremacy

    America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity

    **A powerful exploration of the past and present arc of America’s white supremacy—from the country’s inception and Revolutionary years to its 19th century flashpoint of civil war; to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s and today’s Black Lives Matter.“The most profoundly original cultural history in recent memory.” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University“Stunning, timely . . . an achievement ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Middle East For Dummies

    Demystifies the area's culture, politics, and religionsExplore Middle Eastern history from ancient to modern timesLooking to better understand the Middle East? This plain-English guide explains the importance of the region, especially in light of recent events. You'll meet its people and their leaders, discover the differences and similarities between Arab and Western mindsets, and examine the ... Read more

    $12.00 USD

  • Other Pasts, Different Presents, Alternative Futures

    by Jeremy Black ...
    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    “The most robust defense of historical counterfactuals to date . . . For those interested in this fascinating subject, Black’s book is indispensable.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)What if there had been no World War I or no Russian Revolution? What if Napoleon had won at Waterloo in 1815, or if Martin Luther had not nailed his complaints to the church door at Wittenberg in 1517, or if the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Not God

    A History of Alcoholics Anonymous

    by Ernest Kurtz ...
    A fascinating account of the discovery and program of Alcoholics Anonymous, Not God contains anecdotes and excerpts from the diaries, correspondence, and occasional memoirs of AA's early figures.The most complete history of A.A. ever written, this book is a fast-moving and authoritative account of the discovery and development of the program and fellowship that we know today as Alcoholics ... Read more

    $14.99 USD