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Living History
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Living HistoryLiving History
Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Yet few beyond her close friends and family have ever heard her account of her extraordinary journey. She writes with candor, humor and passion about her upbringing in suburban, middle-class America in the 1950s and her transformation from Goldwater Girl to student activist to controversial First Lady. Living History is her revealing memoir of life through the White House years. It is also her chronicle of living history with Bill Clinton, a thirty-year adventure in love and politics that survives personal betrayal, relentless partisan investigations and constant public scrutiny.
Hillary Rodham Clinton came of age during a time of tumultuous social and political change in America. Like many women of her generation, she grew up with choices and opportunities unknown to her mother or grandmother. She charted her own course through unexplored terrain -- responding to the changing times and her own internal compass -- and became an emblem for some and a lightning rod for others. Wife, mother, lawyer, advocate and international icon, she has lived through America's great political wars, from Watergate to Whitewater.
The only First Lady to play a major role in shaping domestic legislation, Hillary Rodham Clinton traveled tirelessly around the country to champi health care, expand economic and educational opportunity and promote the needs of children and families, and she crisscrossed the globe on behalf of women's rights, human rights and democracy. She redefined the position of First Lady and helped save the presidency from an unconstitutional, politically motivated impeachment. Intimate, powerful and inspiring, Living History captures the essence of one of the most remarkable women of our time and the challenging process by which she came to define herself and find her own voice -- as a woman and as a formidable figure in American politics.

 
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The Adventures Of Ulysses by Charles Lamb
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The Adventures Of Ulysses by Charles Lamb
The Adventures Of Ulysses
by Charles Lamb

This work is designed as a supplement to the Adventures of Telemachus. It treats of the conduct and sufferings of Ulysses, the father of Telemachus. The picture which it exhibits is that of a brave man struggling with adversity; by a wise use of events, and with an inimitable presence of mind under difficulties, forcing out a way for himself through the severest trials to which human life can be exposed; with enemies natural and preternatural surrounding him on all sides. The agents in this tale, besides men and women, are giants, enchanters, sirens: things which denote external force or internal temptations, the twofold danger which a wise fortitude must expect to encounter in its course through this world. The fictions contained in it will be found to comprehend some of the most admired inventions of Grecian mythology.

 
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Tools of Thinking: Understanding the World Through Experience and Reason
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Tools of Thinking: Understanding the World Through Experience and Reason

 

(24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture)
Course No. 4413
Taught by James Hall
University of Richmond
Ph.D., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Mp3 + guidebook
Для любителей философии и психологии.

What is the best way to prove a case, create a rule, solve a problem, justify an idea, invent a hypothesis, or evaluate an argument? In other words, what is the best way to think? Everyone has to think in order to function in the world, and this course will equip you with the tools to reason effectively in your pursuit of reliable beliefs and useful knowledge. Whether you are a budding philosopher searching for ultimate truths, a science student grappling with the nature of scientific proof, a new parent weighing conflicting childrearing advice, or a concerned citizen making up your mind about today's issues, Tools of Thinking will help you cut through deception and faulty reasoning to get closer to the essence of a matter.
 
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Young Learners Go! Start with English Pupil's Book B (with Audio)
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Young Learners Go! Start with English Pupil's Book B (with Audio)Young Learners Go! is a complete English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) course that gives young learners a solid foundation and a positive first experience in learning English.
  • Relevant: teaches English through meaningful themes and practical contexts that are relevant to learners' daily lives
  • Based on the multiple intelligences theory: designed to introduce and reinforce language items through specially crafted activities
  • Spiral progression teaching: allowing for a complete understanding and acquisition of the language
  • Learner-centric
 
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Two books by Lewis Carroll
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Two books by Lewis Carroll
There are two books by Lewis Carroll  in one archive:
1. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, illustrated by John Tenniel
2. Through the looking-glass and what Alice found there
 
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