bookshelves: autumn-2013, published-2013, nonfiction, fradio, radio-4 Read from November 09 to 16, 2013 BOTWBBC BLURB: Letters to and from President Kennedy are published in book form and edited by Martin W Sandler to mark fifty years since the assassination of 1963. And a selection, abridged in...
Tricked! This is a basic outline-format book moving from subtopic to subtopic through WWII. The trick is that all the subheaders have been turned into questions--the old SQ3R technique (coincidentally developed during WWII for the military)! This could be effective, especially if the reader browsed ...
An excellent chronicle of one of the most shameful episodes in American history.
Read full review: http://bit.ly/1bxoKp63.5/5 StarsMy opinion: For being a middle school/early high school targeted book, I felt that it contained excellent content and very incredibly detail oriented for the number of pages. I have read NUMEROUS books on this topic, but I still felt that I learned a...
Ever since being drawn in by the opening scenes of Frankenstein with the icebound ship, this kind of bleak setting and desperate narrative has been something I enjoy in books. I was dragged on enough winter camps as a scout in the 80s to know that I would absolutely hate it. Butterfield Canyon in th...