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With more than two million copies sold, America remains the leading
narrative history survey text because it's a book that students
enjoy reading. The Tenth Edition is both relevant, offering
increased attention to the culture of everyday life, and
accessible, featuring a reduced number of chapters and a
streamlined narrative throughout.
Lively yet concise, The Essential Learning Edition of America
blends Shi and Tindall's unrivalled narrative style with innovative
pedagogy to help students understand major historical developments
and strengthen critical interpretive skills. Online adaptive
learning tools enhance and assess students' mastery of the core
objectives from the text.
Growing up around music, young George was inspired to piece
together a makeshift drum set and teach himself to play as he
practiced in the dark, dank basement of his rundown New Jersey
townhouse. He soon joined forces with his friends to form a group
called the Jazziacs which then evolved into Kool & The Gang, a
band that began playing clubs and charting hits while its members
were still teenagers. By evolving their sound as musical tastes
changed, the band was able to stay on the charts for decades,
scoring 12 Top 10 hits in Funk, R&B, Pop, and Rock, and selling
over seventy million albums while navigating the highs and lows of
their career. In Too Hot, drummer, keyboardist, and primary
songwriter George Brown describes life in and out of the band
including a raucous life on the road as the band’s popularity
grew. He weathered the ups and downs of his musical career and
navigated many challenges including prescription drug addiction,
depression, and health issues. George shares how his recent cancer
scare, and subsequent treatment, compelled him to share his story,
warts and all, to give readers a glimpse into a band whose
reputation was considered relatively tame, but in reality, it was
exactly the opposite. George hopes to help others realize their own
professional and personal dreams—life is a symphony, and we must
all be our own conductor. Â
Lively yet concise, The Essential Learning Edition of America
blends Shi and Tindall's unrivalled narrative style with innovative
pedagogy to help students understand major historical developments
and strengthen critical interpretive skills. Online adaptive
learning tools enhance and assess students' mastery of the core
objectives from the text.
Assists academic staff to develop their effectiveness as teachers
and improve their students' learning by giving practical guidelines
and suggestions for teaching and a series of activities.
This newest volume in a long-running work of mapping the sources of
Anglo-Saxon literary culture in England from 500 to 1100 CE takes
up one of the most important authors of the period, the
eighth-century monk-scholar known as the Venerable Bede. Bede is
best known as the author of the Historia ecclesiastica gentis
Anglorum, which is one of the key sources for our historical and
cultural knowledge of the period; this collection covers that and
more, drawing on manuscript evidence, medieval library catalogues,
Anglo-Latin and Old English versions, citations, quotations, and
more, putting Bede and his work in the context of his period.
Bede is the inaugural volume in the Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary
Culture series, which seeks to comprehensively map British literary
culture from 500 to 1100 CE. This volume presents four texts, or
fascicles, dedicated to the Venerable Bede (d. 735), theologian and
author of the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum. Articles
provide a wealth of information on Bede through manuscript
evidence, medieval library catalogs, citations, and quotations.
Using discussions of source relationships, the entries weigh and
consider different interpretations of Bede's works and suggest
possibilities for future research. Part of an exciting new
reference series, this book"and those that follow"will be
indispensable to anyone interested in the history and literature of
the period.
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