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Hardback. Condition: Good. Bruce Roberts takes us on a photographic tour of fourteen of the famous colonial Virginia plantation houses nestled along the shores of the Lower James River from Richmond east to Jamestown and Williamsburg. Now carefully restored, often with the original furnishings, these houses are glorious monuments to a bygone era. If you have never visited the James River plantations, this book will inspire you to plan a trip there. If you have, you will find this book a wonderful memento of a special place. Robert's 141 color photographs capture the magnificent exteriors of the houses, as well as their gardens and grounds, and offer rare and intimate glimpses of their interiors and furnishings. The plantations portrayed include Shirley Plantation, one of the oldest in America; Belle Air Plantation, with its unique seventeenth-century frame house containing America's finest Jacobean staircase; and Westover Plantation, site of the elegant Georgian home built by William Byrd II.The text provides histories of the plantations, presenting them as places where real people lived and worked -- and still do, in many cases. While the plantations share some common history, each reflects the individual characteristics of the men, women, and children who lived there. In the dining room at Berkeley Hundred, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and eight other presidents enjoyed meals and discussed affairs of state. At Carter's Grove, Roberts photographed the ""Refusal Room,"" where, according to local history, both Washington and Jefferson were refused in marriage by Virginia belles.Today many of the plantation homes have been designated state and national historic sites, and with this book you can visit them and relive four hundred years of history. …

Hardback. Condition: Good. Bruce Roberts takes us on a photographic tour of fourteen of the famous colonial Virginia plantation houses nestled along the shores of the Lower James River from Richmond east to Jamestown and Williamsburg. Now carefully restored, often with the original furnishings, these houses are glorious monuments to a bygone era. If you have never visited the James River plantations, this book will inspire you to plan a trip there. If you have, you will find this book a wonderful memento of a special place. Robert's 141 color photographs capture the magnificent exteriors of the houses, as well as their gardens and grounds, and offer rare and intimate glimpses of their interiors and furnishings. The plantations portrayed include Shirley Plantation, one of the oldest in America; Belle Air Plantation, with its unique seventeenth-century frame house containing America's finest Jacobean staircase; and Westover Plantation, site of the elegant Georgian home built by William Byrd II.The text provides histories of the plantations, presenting them as places where real people lived and worked -- and still do, in many cases. While the plantations share some common history, each reflects the individual characteristics of the men, women, and children who lived there. In the dining room at Berkeley Hundred, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and eight other presidents enjoyed meals and discussed affairs of state. At Carter's Grove, Roberts photographed the ""Refusal Room,"" where, according to local history, both Washington and Jefferson were refused in marriage by Virginia belles.Today many of the plantation homes have been designated state and national historic sites, and with this book you can visit them and relive four hundred years of history. …

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Reprint. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way. Amelie Jackowski (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Good. Columnist for The Dallas Morning News, Kent Biffle claims he has "the best job in the world." His Sunday column, Kent Biffle's Texana, takes him across the state in search of the unique, the picturesque, and the bizarre. A Month of Sundays offers a sampling of these treasures from the heart of Texas. The Texana afficionado will meet here the men and women who have helped to define the Texas spirit--from the early politicians to the suffragists, from outlaws to lawmen, from witches to cowboys.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. In Grade 5 Reading, children confidently read longer fiction and nonfiction passages. This workbook helps children differentiate between important concepts such as main idea and supporting elements, and actions and descriptions.Topics Covered in this Book:Vocabulary BuildingMain Idea & Supporting ElementsCause & EffectActions & DescriptionsCharactersReading Stories.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. This workbook will show your child how to begin putting words together to make phrases, a crucial skill for sentence construction.

Paperback. Condition: Good. In this book, children progress to two-digit addition while learning the commutative property of addition- an important foundation for future math success. Problems incorporate both horizontal and vertical form addition, which prepares children for practice with three and four-digit addition. Upon completion, your child will be ready for advanced arithmetic!Topics Covered in this Book:Horizontal addition reviewVertical form additionTwo-digit plus two-digit addition to 198Early three- & four-digit additionAddition of three two-digit numbersCommutative property of additionPatterns & sequencing. Kumon Publishing (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. In this book, children progress to two-digit addition while learning the commutative property of addition- an important foundation for future math success. Problems incorporate both horizontal and vertical form addition, which prepares children for practice with three and four-digit addition. Upon completion, your child will be ready for advanced arithmetic!Topics Covered in this Book:Horizontal addition reviewVertical form additionTwo-digit plus two-digit addition to 198Early three- & four-digit additionAddition of three two-digit numbersCommutative property of additionPatterns & sequencing. Kumon Publishing (illustrator).…

Hardback. Condition: Good. Ted Rand (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Your child will read with ease while continuing to build his or her vocabulary with Kumon's Grade 4 Reading Workbook. Activities that ask your child to determine true and false, cause and effect, and main idea equip him or her with the tools necessary for reading success in school and beyondTopics Covered in this Book:Vocabulary BuildingDefining Words by ContextWho, What, When, Where, Why, & HowTrue & FalseCause & EffectMain IdeaCharactersReading Stories.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. In Grade 5 Reading, children confidently read longer fiction and nonfiction passages. This workbook helps children differentiate between important concepts such as main idea and supporting elements, and actions and descriptions.Topics Covered in this Book:Vocabulary BuildingMain Idea & Supporting ElementsCause & EffectActions & DescriptionsCharactersReading Stories.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Your child will read with ease while continuing to build his or her vocabulary with Kumon's Grade 4 Reading Workbook. Activities that ask your child to determine true and false, cause and effect, and main idea equip him or her with the tools necessary for reading success in school and beyondTopics Covered in this Book:Vocabulary BuildingDefining Words by ContextWho, What, When, Where, Why, & HowTrue & FalseCause & EffectMain IdeaCharactersReading Stories.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. This workbook will show your child how to begin putting words together to make phrases, a crucial skill for sentence construction.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Studies show that it's important for children to engage in educational activities even when school is out. That's why we developed our Summer Review & Prep series. Each book includes engaging math and reading activities that review concepts from the previous year and introduce next year's curriculum.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. In Grade 5 Reading, children confidently read longer fiction and nonfiction passages. This workbook helps children differentiate between important concepts such as main idea and supporting elements, and actions and descriptions.Topics Covered in this Book:Vocabulary BuildingMain Idea & Supporting ElementsCause & EffectActions & DescriptionsCharactersReading Stories.…

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. In this first play from the award-winning memoirist and poet Nick Flynn, four strangers meet during a blackout on a New York City sidewalk. Gideon finds himself locked out of his apartment, stranded on the street with nothing but a television and the company of three individuals, each mysterious in their own way: the spectre-like Alice, ringleader of the neighbourhood; Esra, a fifteen-year-old girl whose mother is MIA - again; and Ivan, a stranded businessman trying to make his way home. As Gideon makes futile attempts to break into an apartment that may or may not be his, an unsettling connection between Ivan and Esra develops while Alice and Gideon look on helplessly. Unable to make sense of their predicament, let alone alter it, the four float aimlessly in and out of seeming reality only to find themselves more lost when the electricity finally comes back on.Once again exploring the tenuous membrane that separates comfortable, everyday existence from the desperate margins of society, Flynn portrays an urban dystopia disturbingly similar to our own world while poignantly tapping into the loneliness and peril of city life.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. A Santa Cruz postpartum doula, a New Hampshire flute-maker, a Zen teacher, a dance therapist, a Sri Lankan film director-these are a few of the grandparents who share their stories in this bracing collection. The essays cover a wide range of experiences as they examine the marrow of this often undervalued relationship from both the grandparent and the grandchild point of view. A common thread running throughout is the special importance of these relationships, which are often as complex and rewarding as the parent-child connection. Wondrous Child is divided into four parts. In Part One, "Settling In," new grandparents survey the territory and describe their expectations. Part Two, "Balancing Reality and Hope," takes a deeper look at some of the heartbreak that can occur, as well as complexities: step-grandparenting, spanning geographical distance,the surprise of children living with grandparents. Part Three, "Grandparents Raising Grandchildren," explores men and women parenting their grandchildren in the absence of parents. Part Four, "Grandchildren Remember" is written by grown grandchildren who catch the tone and feeling of this special person in their life.These vivid essays will appeal to both grandparents, as a celebration of their place in the family, and new parents curious about how grandparents can contribute to their children.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. The last thing eighteen-year-old Wilhelmina "Willa" MacCarthy wants is to be a nun. It's 1936, and as the only daughter amongst four sons, her Irish-Catholic family is counting on her to take her vows--but Willa's found another calling. Each day she sneaks away to help Doctor Katherine Winston in her medical clinic in San Francisco's Richmond District. Keeping secrets from her family only becomes more complicated when Willa agrees to help the doctor at a field hospital near the new bridge being built over the Golden Gate. Willa thinks she can handle her new chaotic life, but as she draws closer to a dashing young ironworker and risks grow at the bridge, she discovers that hiding from what she truly wants may be her biggest lie of all.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Learn how to draw male and female fashion models, using Lee Hammond''s fun and easy techniques for realistic results. Hundreds of step by step illustrations show how to break down the figure into simple shapes that can be drawn one at a time.'.

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. This workbook will show your child how to begin putting words together to make phrases, a crucial skill for sentence construction.

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Paperback. Condition: Good. For decades, historians have primarily analyzed charges of black-on-white rape in the South through accounts of lynching or manifestly unfair trial proceedings, suggesting that white southerners invariably responded with extralegal violence and sham trials when white women accused black men of assault. Lisa Lindquist Dorr challenges this view with a careful study of legal records, newspapers, and clemency files from early-twentieth-century Virginia. White Virginians' inflammatory rhetoric, she argues, did not necessarily predict black men's ultimate punishment. While trials were often grand public spectacles at which white men acted to protect white women and to police interracial relationships, Dorr points to cracks in white solidarity across class and gender lines. At the same time, trials and pardon proceedings presented African Americans with opportunities to challenge white racial power. Taken together, these cases uncover a world in which the mandates of segregation did not always hold sway, in which whites and blacks interacted in the most intimate of ways, and in which white women and white men saw their interests in conflict. In Dorr's account, cases of black-on-white rape illuminate the paradoxes at the heart of segregated southern society: the tension between civilization and savagery, the desire for orderly and predictable racial boundaries despite conflicts among whites and relationships across racial boundaries, and the dignity of African Americans in a system dependent on their supposed inferiority. The rhetoric of protecting white women spoke of white supremacy and patriarchy, but its practice revealed the limits of both.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Tara is an inspirational figure to many practitioners. She embodies the most compelling and vital qualities of the feminine: beauty, grace, and the ability to nurture, care for and protect. In addition, she is a true warrior, vanquishing fear and ignorance. One could say she is the earliest known Buddhist feminist.Skillful Grace is an entirety of instructions on deity practice centered on the female Buddha Tara. It covers everything from beginning to end. It has all the preliminaries, as well as the main part and the subsequent yogas. There is the outer and inner sadhanas with Tara and her retinue of twenty-one Taras that dispel the various fears. There is also the innermost practice of Tara with consort. It has all the details on the development stage, and describes completion stage both with and without conceptual attributes. Nothing is left out. It is utterly complete with treasure and pith instructions from Tulku Urgyen and Adeu Rinpoche, skillfully arranged by the translation/author team of Erik Pema Kunsang and Marcia Binder Schmidt.There are many explanations of the different Tara practices. However, Skillful Grace is unique in that it outlines an entire path, taking Tara as support. This book is s divided into three main sections. The first is the root text of this cycle, The Essential Instruction on the Threefold Excellence, according to the mind treasure of the profound essence of Tara as revealed by Chokgyur Lingpa. Following that is a commentary on this root text by Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche. Next is Jamgon Kongtrul and Adeu Rinpoche's synthesized commentary on the same text. In order to make this work less scholarly and more applicable to practitioners, we decided to paraphrase Jamgon Kongrtul commentary and blend it together with Adeu Rinpoche's teaching.The book is rounded out with a foreword by Tara Bennett Goleman, author of the best selling book Emotional Alchemy, in depth introduction by Marcia Schmidt, and various appendixes and footnotes.…

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Condition: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.