Moving Beyond Storytelling: Emerging Research in Microfinance

Despite the promise for international development, despite the proven track record of exceptional loan repayment rates, and despite the development of competitive markets in countries like Bolivia, Peru and Bangladesh or the global expansion of microfinance access to tens of millions of new clients, little research has explored the impact this expansion has had on global poverty and economic and social development in general.

The Bourgeois Frontier: French Towns, French Traders, and American Expansion

Histories tend to emphasize conquest by Anglo-Americans as the driving force behind the development of the American West. In this fresh interpretation, Jay Gitlin argues that the activities of the French are crucial to understanding the phenomenon of westward expansion.
The Seven Years War brought an end to the French colonial enterprise in North America, but the French in towns such as New Orleans, St. Louis, and Detroit survived the transition to American rule.

Lectures on Cosmology: Accelerated Expansion of the Univers

The lectures that four authors present in this volume investigate core topics related to the accelerated expansion of the Universe.
The first lecture covers the inflationary period in the very early Universe.
The second lecture revolves around the accelerated expansion of the late Universe at redshifts z < 1 due to the enigmatic dark energy that is commonly interpreted as a cosmological constant.

Backpack Starter WB

The WB provides focused reinforcement of newly-introduced material, systematic recycling of previously-learned material, and expansion of themes, grammar and vocabulary.


Some pages for cutting and their backs are empty, that's why I didn't scan them!

With the expansion of the country came the expansion of what people wore on a day-to-day basis in the wild frontier of the West. Having moved away from established towns and trade routes, early settlers in the American West made their own clothes out of necessity. With the eventual introduction of familiar fabrics and clothing items, the styles favored by Western settlers and their families were distinct.