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All About History: Book Of World War II - 3rd Edition (2016)
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All About History: Book Of World War II - 3rd Edition (2016)

All About History is the stunningly realised new magazine from the makers of How It Works and All About Space. Featuring beautiful illustrations, photos and graphics depicting everything from ancient civilisations to the Cold War, All About History is accessible and entertaining to all and makes history fun for the whole family.
 
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National Geographic History - July/August 2016
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National Geographic History - July/August 2016

Start your incredible journey into the past with National Geographic History, launched in spring 2015. In each issue you'll explore the march of civilization from ancient times to the modern era, examine the forces behind history's most explosive conflicts, gain appreciation of the culture and art that sprang forth from every epoch, and come away with a greater understanding of who we are and where we came from.
 
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Language Contact and the Origins of the Germanic Languages
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Language Contact and the Origins of the Germanic Languages

History, archaeology, and human evolutionary genetics provide us with an increasingly detailed view of the origins and development of the peoples that live in Northwestern Europe. This book aims to restore the key position of historical linguistics in this debate by treating the history of the Germanic languages as a history of its speakers. It focuses on the role that language contact has played in creating the Germanic languages, between the first millennium BC and the crucially important early medieval period.
 
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Tags: Germanic, languages, history, between, first
Beyond the Textbook: Using Trade Books and Databases to Teach Our Nation's History, Grades 7-12
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Beyond the Textbook: Using Trade Books and Databases to Teach Our Nation's History, Grades 7-12

During a time of standards-based instruction, Beyond the Textbook: Using Trade Books and Databases to Teach Our Nation's History, Grades 7–12 will fill the gap in today's middle and high school classrooms to simultaneously engage students in effective literacy skill exercises and teach our nation's history. Authored by three experienced former public school teachers, these ready-made lesson plans for classroom teachers and school librarians make planning easy for implementation in a social studies, history, or English classroom.
 
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Adolescent Identities: A Collection of Readings
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Adolescent Identities: A Collection of Readings

The volume reveals there is no single "normal" adolescent, nor is there a singular adolescent experience. Editor Deborah L. Browning illustrates that in the course of development, each individual must integrate one’s unique biologically-given constitution and temperament, personal life history, and the influence of the social and cultural milieu.
 
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