Author: John Nakhosteen
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN: 1606936344
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Armen Anoukian, a semi-retired CIA agent, is assigned to investigate and smash a California drug ring. He does so by recruiting a team of disparate individuals from his neighborhood, a complex undertaking fraught with personality conflicts and always on the brink of collapsing.
The Mockingbird File
Author: John Nakhosteen
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN: 1606936344
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Armen Anoukian, a semi-retired CIA agent, is assigned to investigate and smash a California drug ring. He does so by recruiting a team of disparate individuals from his neighborhood, a complex undertaking fraught with personality conflicts and always on the brink of collapsing.
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN: 1606936344
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Armen Anoukian, a semi-retired CIA agent, is assigned to investigate and smash a California drug ring. He does so by recruiting a team of disparate individuals from his neighborhood, a complex undertaking fraught with personality conflicts and always on the brink of collapsing.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Author: Harper Lee
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062368680
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father—a crusading local lawyer—risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062368680
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father—a crusading local lawyer—risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.
To Mock a Mockingbird
Author: Raymond M. Smullyan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0192801422
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The author of Forever Undecided, Raymond Smullyan continues to delight and astonish us with his gift for making available, in the thoroughly pleasurable form of puzzles, some of the most important mathematical thinking of our time.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0192801422
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The author of Forever Undecided, Raymond Smullyan continues to delight and astonish us with his gift for making available, in the thoroughly pleasurable form of puzzles, some of the most important mathematical thinking of our time.
Operation Mockingbird
Author: Linda Baletsa
Publisher: Spratt & Company LLC
ISBN: 9780989446105
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
OPERATION MOCKINGBIRD MIRRORS TODAY'S HEADLINES WITH ITS STUNNING REVELATIONS ABOUT THE DARK RECESSES OF MEDIA MANIPULATION. Miami journalist Matt Connelly returns home from the Middle East eager to resume his once successful writing career. He soon learns that a powerful public relations firm is manufacturing the news and feeding this propaganda to an unsuspecting public. Reporters who don't go along are being intimidated, tortured -- or worse. This firm will stop at nothing to maintain the spin, including murder. Matt Connelly vows to expose the truth as well as the unholy alliance among business, the government and the media but soon finds himself on the run from those determined to silence him.
Publisher: Spratt & Company LLC
ISBN: 9780989446105
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
OPERATION MOCKINGBIRD MIRRORS TODAY'S HEADLINES WITH ITS STUNNING REVELATIONS ABOUT THE DARK RECESSES OF MEDIA MANIPULATION. Miami journalist Matt Connelly returns home from the Middle East eager to resume his once successful writing career. He soon learns that a powerful public relations firm is manufacturing the news and feeding this propaganda to an unsuspecting public. Reporters who don't go along are being intimidated, tortured -- or worse. This firm will stop at nothing to maintain the spin, including murder. Matt Connelly vows to expose the truth as well as the unholy alliance among business, the government and the media but soon finds himself on the run from those determined to silence him.
Teaching Mockingbird
Author: Facing History and Ourselves
Publisher: Facing History & Ourselves National Foundation, Incorporated
ISBN: 9781940457079
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Teaching Mockingbird presents educators with the materials they need to transform how they teach Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Interweaving the historical context of Depression-era rural Southern life, and informed by Facing History's pedagogical approach, this resource introduces layered perspectives and thoughtful strategies into the teaching of To Kill a Mockingbird. This teacher's guide provides English language arts teachers with student handouts, close reading exercises, and connection questions that will push students to build a complex understanding of the historical realities, social dynamics, and big moral questions at the heart of To Kill a Mockingbird. Following Facing History's scope and sequence, students will consider the identities of the characters, and the social dynamics of the community of Maycomb, supplementing their understanding with deep historical exploration. They will consider challenging questions about the individual choices that determine the outcome of Tom Robinson's trial, and the importance of civic participation in the building a more just society. Teaching Mockingbird uses Facing History's guiding lens to examine To Kill a Mockingbird, offering material that will enhance student's literary skills, moral growth, and social development.
Publisher: Facing History & Ourselves National Foundation, Incorporated
ISBN: 9781940457079
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Teaching Mockingbird presents educators with the materials they need to transform how they teach Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Interweaving the historical context of Depression-era rural Southern life, and informed by Facing History's pedagogical approach, this resource introduces layered perspectives and thoughtful strategies into the teaching of To Kill a Mockingbird. This teacher's guide provides English language arts teachers with student handouts, close reading exercises, and connection questions that will push students to build a complex understanding of the historical realities, social dynamics, and big moral questions at the heart of To Kill a Mockingbird. Following Facing History's scope and sequence, students will consider the identities of the characters, and the social dynamics of the community of Maycomb, supplementing their understanding with deep historical exploration. They will consider challenging questions about the individual choices that determine the outcome of Tom Robinson's trial, and the importance of civic participation in the building a more just society. Teaching Mockingbird uses Facing History's guiding lens to examine To Kill a Mockingbird, offering material that will enhance student's literary skills, moral growth, and social development.
The Fourteenth Day: JFK and the Aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis: The Secret White House Tapes
Author: David Coleman
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393084418
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Describes what was going on in the Oval Office as the highly-charged events leading up the Cuban Missile Crisis unfolded, as well as the immediate aftermath, based on secret recordings made by President Kennedy.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393084418
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Describes what was going on in the Oval Office as the highly-charged events leading up the Cuban Missile Crisis unfolded, as well as the immediate aftermath, based on secret recordings made by President Kennedy.
Mockingbird
Author: Kathryn Erskine
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1409541673
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Caitlin misses her brother every day. Since his death in a school shooting, she has no one to explain the world to her. And for Caitlin, the world is a confusing place. She hates it when colours get mixed up, prefers everything to be black-and-white, and needs to check her Facial Expressions Chart to understand emotions. So when Caitlin reads the definition of "closure", she decides that's what she needs. And as she struggles to find it, a world of colour begins to enter her black-and-white life...
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1409541673
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Caitlin misses her brother every day. Since his death in a school shooting, she has no one to explain the world to her. And for Caitlin, the world is a confusing place. She hates it when colours get mixed up, prefers everything to be black-and-white, and needs to check her Facial Expressions Chart to understand emotions. So when Caitlin reads the definition of "closure", she decides that's what she needs. And as she struggles to find it, a world of colour begins to enter her black-and-white life...
The Phish Companion
Author:
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9780879306311
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
Provides song histories, set lists, show reviews and statistics, and biographies of the band members.
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9780879306311
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
Provides song histories, set lists, show reviews and statistics, and biographies of the band members.
Harper Lee Collection E-book Bundle
Author: Harper Lee
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062441787
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
From celebrated Pulitzer Prize-winning author Harper Lee, her bestselling novels To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman available together in this convenient e-book bundle. Set in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama, and featuring characters that have become indelible in American culture, Harper Lee’s beloved classic of Southern literature, To Kill a Mockingbird and its follow-up, Go Set a Watchman, offer a haunting portrait of race and class, innocence and injustice, hypocrisy and heroism, tradition and transformation in the Deep South of the 1930s and 1950s that resonates today. Enduring in vision, Harper Lee’s timeless novels illuminate the complexities of human nature and the depths of the human heart with humor, unwavering honesty, and a tender, nostalgic beauty, and will be celebrated by generations to come.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062441787
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
From celebrated Pulitzer Prize-winning author Harper Lee, her bestselling novels To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman available together in this convenient e-book bundle. Set in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama, and featuring characters that have become indelible in American culture, Harper Lee’s beloved classic of Southern literature, To Kill a Mockingbird and its follow-up, Go Set a Watchman, offer a haunting portrait of race and class, innocence and injustice, hypocrisy and heroism, tradition and transformation in the Deep South of the 1930s and 1950s that resonates today. Enduring in vision, Harper Lee’s timeless novels illuminate the complexities of human nature and the depths of the human heart with humor, unwavering honesty, and a tender, nostalgic beauty, and will be celebrated by generations to come.
Experimentation and Collaboration
Author: North American Serials Interest Group. Conference
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780789005250
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Experimentation and Collaboration: Creating Serials for a New Millenium will help you see the current direction of serials collection, development, creation, and production as we travel with the electronic age into the dawn of the next millenium. You'll get instant access to the many ways in which traditional boundaries between academic libraries and computer services are dissolving, and you'll see the new sense of egalitarianism that's enhancing scholarship and scholarly communication as the next thousand years approaches. In Experimentation and Collaboration, you'll be transported instantly to all the best NASIG plenary, project, and issues sessions and workshops you might have missed, such as: surviving scholarhip in the 21st Century building a national electronic collection for long-term access creating an electronic archive understanding initiatives in Internet cataloging finding innovations in journal access surmounting the challenges of managing and delivering e-journals drumming up motivation for staff in changing times handling copyright issues and Web publishing Overall, the 12th Annual NASIG Conference was a grand affair, bringing over 600 publishers, vendors, and librarians to Ann Arbor from America, Canada, and Mexico, as well as Great Britain, Germany, and Australia. Experimentation and Collaboration gives you the full range of acitivites at this important conference and ensures that you'll be able to collaborate on, experiment with, and create new serials with the rest of the scholarly world as we begin a new electronic era of information provision, serials publishing, and library science.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780789005250
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Experimentation and Collaboration: Creating Serials for a New Millenium will help you see the current direction of serials collection, development, creation, and production as we travel with the electronic age into the dawn of the next millenium. You'll get instant access to the many ways in which traditional boundaries between academic libraries and computer services are dissolving, and you'll see the new sense of egalitarianism that's enhancing scholarship and scholarly communication as the next thousand years approaches. In Experimentation and Collaboration, you'll be transported instantly to all the best NASIG plenary, project, and issues sessions and workshops you might have missed, such as: surviving scholarhip in the 21st Century building a national electronic collection for long-term access creating an electronic archive understanding initiatives in Internet cataloging finding innovations in journal access surmounting the challenges of managing and delivering e-journals drumming up motivation for staff in changing times handling copyright issues and Web publishing Overall, the 12th Annual NASIG Conference was a grand affair, bringing over 600 publishers, vendors, and librarians to Ann Arbor from America, Canada, and Mexico, as well as Great Britain, Germany, and Australia. Experimentation and Collaboration gives you the full range of acitivites at this important conference and ensures that you'll be able to collaborate on, experiment with, and create new serials with the rest of the scholarly world as we begin a new electronic era of information provision, serials publishing, and library science.