Nov 08
Amazon Best of the Month, November 2008: The Northern Clemency begins at the perimeter of a late-summer party, amidst a din of neighbors gossiping one moment and navigating awkward silences the next. But once you encounter the Glover family–in particular, their languidly handsome teenage son Daniel–there’s no turning back. The story that follows calls to [...]
Oct 30
Review
“John Muir’s battles to preserve the Sierra Nevada and Yosemite Park, his founding of the Sierra Club, his final, bitter, unsuccessful effort to save Hetch Hetchy Valley, his pioneering insights into the geology of the glacial age, and his late Victorian combination of religion and pantheism have been extensively chronicled. What is unique about A [...]
Oct 28
A new report released Thursday shows that students in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools outperform students from most other nations in mathematics.
To view the Multimedia News Release, go to: http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/cms/35501/
The analysis, conducted by the American Institute for Research (AIR), shows that students in only five of the 24 comparison countries did better than CMS students in fourth grade [...]
Oct 22
Children in England are to have lessons in how to manage their finances, under a new £11.5m government scheme.
The My Money programme will be rolled out to primary and secondary school pupils, covering topics such as how money is used and debt.
The Personal Finance Education Group charity is leading the programme.
A survey it commissioned [...]
Oct 18
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One of the main attractions that draws new students to Webster University is the Study Abroad program. It was certainly the main reason I came to WU. Everything about the program seemed to scream, “Come here!” WU has a magnificent Study Abroad program that every student should certainly take advantage of like I did.
Ever since [...]
Sep 13
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Campus MovieFest (CMF), the world’s largest student film festival, and AT&T Inc. announced the launch of CMF’s 2008-2009 World Tour, beginning in Berkeley, Calif. Presented by AT&T, CMF has provided more than 150,000 young filmmakers with free resources since the festival began in 2000, allowing aspiring students to share their short films with a [...]
Sep 10
From The Washington Post
Reviewed by Jonathan Yardley
Tom Vanderbilt’s Traffic — engagingly written, meticulously researched, endlessly interesting and informative — is one of those rare books that comes out of the depths of nowhere. Its subjects are the road and the people who drive it, which is to say Traffic gets about as close to the [...]
Sep 08
Tom Vanderbilt’s Traffic — engagingly written, meticulously researched, endlessly interesting and informative — is one of those rare books that comes out of the depths of nowhere. Its subjects are the road and the people who drive it, which is to say Traffic gets about as close to the heart of modern existence as any [...]
Aug 11
Amazon.comEveryone knows that Henry VIII had six wives. Few people realize, however, that he had two sisters who became queens of Scotland and France, scandalizing their brother and most of Europe in the process. In The Sisters of Henry VIII: The Tumultuous Lives of Margaret of Scotland and Mary of France, Maria Perry presents a [...]
Jul 22
From Publishers WeeklyMary, Queen of Scots (1542-1587), has for centuries fascinated historians and the general public, her life the stuff of Hollywood myth, involving murder, rape, adultery, abdication, imprisonment and execution. In bestselling historian Weir’s (Henry VIII, etc.) able hands, we see the young Catholic queen ruling over Protestant Scotland and a group of unruly [...]
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