Learning World History

The Smartest Kids Know Their Options: School Alternatives for Success in the Real World empowers parents, educators, and policymakers to make informed decisions about the education of children. It offers valuable insights into the flaws of the current system and presents a wide range of alternatives that prioritize individualized learning, holistic development, and parental involvement.

Now, for the first time, the nation's most respected reporters share their stories as the eyes and ears of the nation to create a fascinating oral history. Some of the most influential journalists of our time, including Christiane Amanpour, Walter Cronkite, Morley Safer, Peter Arnett, and Andy Rooney convey the facts, the brutality, and the drama of warfare and examine issues such as censorship, propaganda, ethics, the power of the press, and the future of war reporting, especially after September 11th.

Ruling Russia for a little over 300 years, from the 17th to the early 20th centuries, the Romanov tsars, and in rare but unforgettable cases, empresses, dominated the political landscapes of their times and forged one of the most legendary dynasties of all time.

A single cup of delicious, life affirming coffee can set you back two bucks or more at your local coffee shop. Did you know you can make coffee at home that not only costs much less, but actually tastes even better than what you are getting at the coffee shop? This guide will not only show you how to make the best cup of coffee you have ever had in your life, but will also take you on a journey through the history of the world’s greatest drink.

Children of concentration camp survivors are also known as "memorial candles" because they are usually named after a relative who was killed in the Holocaust. This is the autobiography of someone who counts the children of Holocaust victims and perpetrators among his best friends. A son of concentration camp survivors, an immigrant from Eastern Europe, a refugee from communism, a systems engineer, an American with many German friends, and some commentary on education, career, politics, some history, some travel, and some personal vignettes.

Mike Wells and one of the leading academics in the subject, Professor William Doyle, come together to examine a period in history which sent shock waves around the world, inspired millions, and still has the ability to send a shiver down the spine. Our History A Level series on the French Revolution and Napoleon fully follows the curriculum, providing new and fresh perspectives on this period, and will fully prepare and inform you throughout the course and provide a valuable resource when it comes to your exams.

In this wise and illuminating essay, Laura Tingle looks at leadership, economics, history and more. Competitiveness has marked our relationship from its earliest days. In the past half-century, both countries have remade themselves amid shifting economic fortunes. New Zealand has been held up as a model for everything from tax reform to the conduct of politics to the response to COVID-19. Tingle considers everything from Morrison and Ardern as national leaders to the different ways each country has dealt with its colonial legacy.

This fascinating work by Peter Fisher was published in 1825 when the Province of New Brunswick was still very young; and that's actually what makes it invaluable! The interested listener get's to know - comprehensively and in detail - about things such as the country, settlements, institutions, productions, the climate, inhabitants, the government, towns, trade, revenue, population... Essential stuff for those of us with a very wide range of interests and passions.

Wendy Law-Yone was 15 at the time of Burma's military coup in 1962. The daughter of Ed Law-Yone, daredevil proprietor of Rangoon Nation, Burma's leading postwar English-language daily, she experienced firsthand the perils and promises of a newly independent Burma. On the eve of Wendy's studies abroad, Ed Law-Yone was arrested, his newspaper shut down, and Wendy herself was briefly imprisoned. After his release, Ed fled to Thailand with his family, where he formed a government-in-exile.

World Order draws together Henry Kissinger's thinking on how we make sense of the world politically. Kissinger identifies four principal competing methods by which order has been and is still sought. Those four conceptions are European, Chinese, Islamic, and American. None of these has been accepted as dominant. Kissinger asks whether a new, universal world order can be developed today.

James Marsh tells of his evolution from a troubled childhood to a long career in publishing that culminated in the creation of The Canadian Encyclopedia—what one reviewer called “the intellectual equivalent of the building of the CPR.” Through friendships, curiosity, the insights of a charismatic psychiatrist, his passion for books, and the intimate encounters with the authors he met, he championed a diverse and inclusive view of Canada, which was used to draw the great minds of an impossible nation together in a common national enterprise.

The Early Tudors A Level History series takes you through the OCR specification step by step, ensuring that you have the necessary knowledge to perform throughout the period of your course and to help prepare you for your A Level. The series is produced by Nick Fellows, a lead examiner for OCR who has written many textbooks on The Tudors, Katie Fellows, who is currently studying for her D.Phil in History at St Peter's College, Oxford, and Oxford historian, Dr Glyn Redworth, who is a specialist in Early Modern British & European history.

A fascinating and comprehensive study by Charles C. Nott of an equally fascinating historical document (the Pinckney Draught) posing the probing question: what if Charles Pinckney was the author of the U.S. Constitution? And if so: why did nothing come of it? Was there foul play behind shut doors? Charles C. Nott (1827-1916), was a Chief Justice of the United States Court of Claims. Jack Brown is a passionate reader of classic and genre oriented literature. He enjoys creating high quality audio books.

How did the ancient Egyptians travel in this quaint old land thousands of years ago? What sort of transportation did they use? For how long did they go? What destinations did they visit? For which purposes did they travel? Is it correct to describe the ancient Egyptian travels as "tourism" or not? According to our current perceptions of tourism, if the Egyptians had tourism in ancient times, did they understand it as such? Which varieties of tourism did the ancient Egyptians have compared to what mankind has today?

The first British major success of World War II was when the Royal Navy forced the preying pocket battleship, Graf Spee, to scuttle at sea. Hitler had ordered a blockade of the British Isles and for some months German U-boats and warships caused havoc among allied merchant shipping carrying vital supplies.

The Cold War sent shivers down the spines of ordinary people, with the world holding its breath and confronting the spectre of nuclear armageddon. Throughout this A level series, students will learn about all the core aspects of the Cold War in Europe. Written by Dr Mark Hurst, an honorary fellow at the University of Kent and Cold War specialist and Richard McFarlane, a senior OCR examiner and Head of Humanities at Nottingham Girls High School.

It is night in the South Seas near Tahiti, and the ship HMS Bounty has begun the long voyage home to England. But the sailors on the ship are angry men, and they have swords and guns. They pull the captain out of bed and take him up on deck. He tries to run, but a sailor holds a knife to his neck. "Do that again, Captain Bligh, and you’re a dead man!" he says.

Ranging from the biggest international economic depression in modern history, through a world war to dramatic economic and social change, our series will provide you with detailed insight and address the key arguments across the core events and protagonists.

Der Vertrag zur Beendigung des Ersten Weltkriegs, auch bekannt als der „Krieg, der alle Kriege beendete“, wurde im Schloss von Versailles unterzeichnet, das bis 1789 Sitz der französischen Könige war und bis heute eines der schönsten Bauwerke der Welt ist.

La ficción histórica es un género literario en el que la trama se desenvuelve en un entorno ubicado en el pasado, así que volvamos a una época en la que terminó Californio e inició California. Escucha historias perdidas de vaqueros desesperados que tuvieron que huir para poder sobrevivir. Esta novela se basa en historias reales de amor y tragedia, hermandad y familia. Estos hombres fueron tildados de bandidos y criminales por el nuevo gobierno bajo el cual repentinamente tuvieron que vivir.