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The United States Government Internet Directory, 2010

Peggy Garvin - Bernan Press
Format: Paperback

Discover the depth of government information and services available online.The United States Government Internet Directory serves as a guide to the changing landscape of government information online.The Directory is an indispensable guidebook for anyone who is looking for official...
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Degrees of Inequality: How the Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American Dream

Suzanne Mettler - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

Americas higher education system is failing its students. In the space of a generation, we have gone from being the best-educated society in the world to one surpassed by eleven other nations in college graduation rates. Higher education is evolving into a caste system with separate and unequal...
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Newbery & Caldecott Awards

Association for Library Service to Children - Amer Library Assn Editions
Format: Print book

Updated with the 2015 award and honour books, this perennial favourite gathers together the books deemed most distinguished in American children's literature and illustration since the inception of the renowned prizes. Librarians and teachers everywhere rely on this guidebook for quick...
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Servants: A Downstairs History of Britain from the Nineteenth Century to Modern Times

Lucy Lethbridge - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The vividly told lives of British servants and the upper crust they served. From the immense staff running a lavish Edwardian estate and the lonely maid-of-all-work cooking in a cramped middle-class house to the poor child doing chores in a slightly less poor household, servants were essential...
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The Roar of the Lion: The Untold Story of Churchill's World War II Speeches

Richard Toye - Oxford University Press; First Edition edition

The popular story of Churchill's war-time rhetoric is a simple one: the British people were energized and inspired by his speeches, which were almost universally admired and played an important role in the ultimate victory over Nazi Germany. Richard Toye now re-examines this accepted...
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This Is Who We Were: In the 1960's

Diana Delgado - Grey House Pub; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

This is Who We Were: In the 1960s explores American life in the 1960s - a truly tumultuous and pivotal decade in our nation. Readers will uncover what life was like for ordinary Americans as they lived through a Social Revolution, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Vietnam War, all in the span...
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Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue 2015: Countries of the World C-F

Charles Snee - Scott Pub Inc Co
Format: Paperback

Thousands of value changes were made in Volume 2, with robust activity in both Canada and China. Classic era and superior quality stamps pushed values up in Canada, where more than 1,300 changes were recorded. In China, over 3,500 values changed. More than 1,000 changes were made in Colombia....
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