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  • America 1844

    Religious Fervor, Westward Expansion, and the Presidential Election That Transformed the Nation

    by John Bicknell ...
    The year 1844 saw a momentous presidential election, religious turmoil, westward expansion, and numerous other interwoven events that profoundly affected the U.S. as a nation. Author and journalist John Bicknell details these compelling events in this unusual history book. He explains how the election of James K. Polk assured the expansion that brought Texas, California, and Oregon into the union. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pathfinder and the President

    John C. Frémont, Abraham Lincoln, and the Battle for Emancipation

    by John Bicknell ...
    Two towering figures of American history collide in this riveting account of how the struggle between Lincoln and his defiant general John C. Frémont shaped the Civil War and emancipation."... a masterwork of history. . .Bicknell deftly interweaves Frémont's story with the grander narrative of the war and Abraham Lincoln's presidency." -Jon D. Schaff, author of Abraham Lincoln's Statesmanship and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Lincoln's Pathfinder

    John C. Fremont and the Violent Election of 1856

    by John Bicknell, John Bicknell ...
    The 1856 presidential race was the most violent peacetime election in American history. War between proslavery and antislavery settlers raged in Kansas; a congressman shot an Irish immigrant at a Washington hotel; and another congressman beat a US senator senseless on the floor of the Senate. But amid all the violence, the campaign of the new Republican Party, headed by famed explorer John C. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Fact, Conjecture, Speculation and the Unsolved Murders of Marianne Schmidt and Christine Sharrock

    by John Bicknell ...
    On 11 January 1965, 15-year-old best friends, Marianne Schmidt and Christine Sharrock were overwhelmed and slaughtered in the sandhills behind Sydney's Wanda Beach. Not only had the killer struck in a public area and during the summer school holiday break, but he'd done it in broad daylight. Despite the brazenness of the act, several police investigations and their ostensibly ongoing inquiries ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Fact, Conjecture, Speculation and the Unsolved Murders of Marianne Schmidt and Christine Sharrock

    by John Bicknell ...
    On 11 January 1965, 15-year-old best friends, Marianne Schmidt and Christine Sharrock were overwhelmed and slaughtered in the sandhills behind Sydney's Wanda Beach. Not only had the killer struck in a public area and during the summer school holiday break, but he'd done it in broad daylight. Despite the brazenness of the act, several police investigations and their ostensibly ongoing inquiries ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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    Lincoln's Pathfinder

    John C. Fremont and the Violent Election of 1856

    by John Bicknell ...
    Narrated by Bob Souer ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 33 min

    The 1856 presidential race was the most violent peacetime election in American history. War between proslavery and antislavery settlers raged in Kansas; a congressman shot an Irish immigrant at a Washington hotel; and another congressman beat a U.S. senator senseless on the floor of the Senate. But amid all the violence, the campaign of the new Republican Party, headed by famed explorer John C. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Collaborative Embodied Performance

    Ecologies of Skill

    by Prof Nicola Shaughnessy, Professor John Lutterbie ...
    Series series Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues
    This book is about joint intelligence in action. It brings together scholarship in performance studies, cognitive science, sociology, literature, anthropology, psychology, architecture, philosophy and sport science to ask how tightly knit collaboration works. Contributors apply innovative methodologies to detailed case studies of martial arts, social interaction, freediving, site-specific artworks ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

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    by Larry Writer ...
    Twenty-one of Australia's most startling real-life crimes, from the late 1800s to the present day are collected here in one gripping volume. Using exhaustive research, court records, police statements and original interviews, Larry Writer offers fascinating new insights into the lives of some of Australia's most notorious villains and their victims. ... Read more

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  • The Extended Mind

    The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain

    by Annie Murphy Paul ...
    **A New York Times Editors' ChoiceA Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book of 2021A New York Times Notable BookA bold new book reveals how we can tap the intelligence that exists beyond our brains—in our bodies, our surroundings, and our relationships**Use your head.That’s what we tell ourselves when facing a tricky problem or a difficult project. But a growing body of research indicates that we’ve ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Dingo's Got My Baby

    by Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton ...
    In 1980, nine-week-old Azaria Chamberlain was taken by a dingo from her family's tent near Uluru in Australia's remote Northern Territory. Her body was never found. In a terrible miscarriage of justice, her mother Lindy was wrongfully convicted of her daughter's murder and sentenced to life in prison. It was seven years before the conviction was overturned. This is the true story behind a tragedy ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Language at the Speed of Sight

    How We Read, Why So Many Can't, and What Can Be Done About It

    by Mark Seidenberg ...
    In this "important, alarming" (New York Times) book, see why so many American students are falling behind in their reading skills while others around the world excel.The way we teach reading is not working, and it cannot continue. We have largely abandoned phonics-based reading instruction, despite research that supports its importance for word recognition. Rather than treating Black English as a ... Read more

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  • Making Learning Whole

    How Seven Principles of Teaching Can Transform Education

    by David Perkins ...
    New in Paperback! Make learning more meaningful by teaching the "whole game"David Perkins, a noted authority on teaching and learning and co-director of Harvard's Project Zero, introduces a practical and research-based framework for teaching. He describes how teaching any subject at any level can be made more effective if students are introduced to the "whole game," rather than isolated pieces of ... Read more

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