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Listed below are a few good reads to enhance your understanding of history - happy reading J
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12 Years a Slave
by Solomon Northrup Year Published:A People's History of the United States
by Howard Zinn Year Published:Anne Frank: A Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank Year Published:Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
by James W. Loewen Year Published:Locke: Two Treatises of Government (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
by John Locke Year Published:Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson Year Published:The Coquette (Early American Women Writers)
by Hannah W. Foster (Author), Cathy N. Davidson (Editor) Year Published:The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot Year Published:The Jungle (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Upton Sinclair Year Published:The Last Lecture
by Randy Pausch Year Published:From Amazon.com: A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can't help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy? When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave--"Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams"--wasn't about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because "time is all you have . . . and you may find one day that you have less than you think"). It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living. In this book, Pausch has combined the humor, inspiration, and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form. And in this enhanced e-book Legacy Edition, readers will be able to experience, firsthand, the energy and love of life that made Randy Pausch so inspiring. They will also be encouraged to think more deeply about how they can apply its messages in their own lives.The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien Year Published:The Wealth of Nations
by Adam Smith Year Published:Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy
by Annette Gordon-Reed Year Published:Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe Year Published:Copyright © 2002-2023 Blackboard, Inc. All rights reserved.