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Author: Antonio Pace
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Published: 1958
Total Pages: 488
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis biography shows Rubens working and studying in Italy and follows the development of his distinctive style, which became a strong influence on the French and English painters of the following century.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Publisher: Xist Publishing
Published: 2015-03-15
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 1623957915
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is one of America's most famous memoirs. In this text, Ben Franklin shares his life story and details his attempts to build a life of good habits and virtues. His plan for self-improvement was one of the first "self help" books and his role as a founder of the United States is given a personal perspective. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes
Author: Stefania Buccini
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 0271041196
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Publisher: Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Published: 1950
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9780385072199
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of Benjamin Franklin, told for young children, presents various incidents from his life and career.
Author: Walter Staib
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2019-05-07
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 1538746670
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe delicious, informative, and entertaining cookbook tie-in to PBS's Emmy Award-winning series A Taste of History. A TASTE OF HISTORY COOKBOOK provides a fascinating look into 18th and 19th century American history. Featuring over 150 elegant and approachable recipes featured in the Taste of History television series, paired with elegantly styled food photography, readers will want to recreate these dishes in their modern-day kitchens. Woven throughout the recipes are fascinating history lessons that introduce the people, places, and events that shaped our unique American democracy and cuisine. For instance, did you know that tofu has been a part of our culture's diet for centuries? Ben Franklin sung its praises in a letter written in 1770! With recipes like West Indies Pepperpot Soup, which was served to George Washington's troops to nourish them during the long winter at Valley Forge to Cornmeal Fried Oysters, the greatest staple of the 18th century diet to Boston's eponymous Boston Cream Pie, A TASTE OF HISTORY COOKBOOK is a must-have for both cookbook and history enthusiasts alike.
Author: Michael C. Johanek
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9781592135219
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is the mission of American public education? As a nation, are we still committed to educating students to be both workers and citizens, as we have long proclaimed, or have we lost sight of the second goal of encouraging students to be contributing members of a democratic society? In this enlightening book, John Puckett and Michael Johanek describe one of America's most notable experiments in "community education." In the process, they offer a richly contextualized history of twentieth-century efforts to educate students as community-minded citizens. Although student test scores now serve to measure schools' achievements, the authors argue compellingly that the democratic goals of citizen-centered community schools can be reconciled with the academic performance demands of contemporary school reform movements. Using the twenty-year history of community-centered schooling at Benjamin Franklin High School in East Harlem as a case study-and reminding us of the pioneering vision of its founder, Leonard Covello-they suggest new approaches for educating today's students to be better "public citizens."
Author: Pierpaolo Polzonetti
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-03-17
Total Pages: 397
ISBN-13: 0521897084
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPolzonetti reveals how revolutionary America inspired eighteenth-century European audiences, and how it can still inspire and entertain us.
Author: I. Bernard Cohen
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780674066595
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the scientific work of Benjamin Franklin in fields ranging from heat to astronomy ; provides accounts of the theoretical backgroung of his science, the experiments he performed, and their influence throughout Europe and the U.S.
Author: Michael Meyer
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2022-04-12
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 132856911X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe incredible story of Benjamin Franklin’s parting gift to the working-class people of Boston and Philadelphia—a deathbed wager that captures the Founder’s American Dream and his lessons for our current, conflicted age. Benjamin Franklin was not a gambling man. But at the end of his illustrious life, the Founder allowed himself a final wager on the survival of the United States: a gift of two thousand pounds to Boston and Philadelphia, to be lent out to tradesmen over the next two centuries to jump-start their careers. Each loan would be repaid with interest over ten years. If all went according to Franklin’s inventive scheme, the accrued final payout in 1991 would be a windfall. In Benjamin Franklin’s Last Bet, Michael Meyer traces the evolution of these twin funds as they age alongside America itself, bankrolling woodworkers and silversmiths, trade schools and space races. Over time, Franklin’s wager was misused, neglected, and contested—but never wholly extinguished. With charm and inquisitive flair, Meyer shows how Franklin’s stake in the “leather-apron” class remains in play to this day, and offers an inspiring blueprint for prosperity in our modern era of growing wealth disparity and social divisions.
Author: Nian-Sheng Huang
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780871692115
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exploration of Benjamin Franklin's diverse legacies in American life from 1790, the year of his death, to 1990. This book also focuses on the intricate relations between the functions of images and perceptions in society on the one hand and the changing social and cultural conditions that have constantly affected the alterations of those images and perceptions on the other. Includes a Selected Bibliography. Illustrations.
