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  • Empire's Nursery

    Children's Literature and the Origins of the American Century

    by Brian Rouleau ...
    How children and children’s literature helped build America’s empireAmerica’s empire was not made by adults alone. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, young people became essential to its creation. Through children’s literature, authors instilled the idea of America’s power and the importance of its global prominence. As kids eagerly read dime novels, series fiction, pulp magazines, and ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • With Sails Whitening Every Sea

    Mariners and the Making of an American Maritime Empire

    by Brian Rouleau ...
    Series series The United States in the World
    Many Americans in the Early Republic era saw the seas as another field for national aggrandizement. With a merchant marine that competed against Britain for commercial supremacy and a whaling fleet that circled the globe, the United States sought a maritime empire to complement its territorial ambitions in North America. In With Sails Whitening Every Sea, Brian Rouleau argues that because of their ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Stuck in Stupid

    by Brian "The Cat" Rouleau, Andy Petepiece ...
    Stuck in Stupid is the autobiography of Brian "The Cat" Rouleau from Cornwall, Ontario, Canada, but now living in Atlanta, Georgia. He is a mythical figure in his hometown, and hopefully, this effort will remove the falsehoods and lay bare the truth. In addition, he hopes the readers will have some fun and recall great memories along the way.Brian fulfilled his lust for travel by joining the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Writing History with Lightning

    Cinematic Representations of Nineteenth-Century America

    by Kenneth Greenberg, William L. Andrews, Lesley J. Gordon, John David Smith, Jonathon Sarris, Catherine Clinton, John F. Marszalek, Ryan Keating, Joseph Beilein, Brian Rouleau, Donna Barbie, Allison Dorsey, Stephen Whitfield, Marcus Rediker, Nicole Etcheson, Diane Miller Sommerville, Graham Hodges, Drew Swanson, Michael Burlingame, Tom Lee, James Crisp, Kevin Waite, Jacob Lee, Matthew E. Stanley ...
    Films possess virtually unlimited power for crafting broad interpretations of American history. Nineteenth-century America has proven especially conducive to Hollywood imaginations, producing indelible images like the plight of Davy Crockett and the defenders of the Alamo, Pickett’s doomed charge at Gettysburg, the proliferation and destruction of plantation slavery in the American South, Custer’s ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Forty Years Master

    A Life in Sail and Steam

    by Daniel O. Killman, Rebecca Huycke Ellison, David Hull ...
    Series series Marine, Maritime, and Coastal Books, sponsored by Texas A&M University at Galveston
    Winner, 2016 the John Lyman Book Award, sponsored by the North American Society for Oceanic History.During Daniel O. Killman’s more than fifty years at sea, he was shipwrecked off Coos Bay, discovered gold in Alaska, was dismasted in a hurricane near Fiji, lost a rudder en route to Adelaide, had run-ins with bureaucrats, officials, and seamen, and found himself in court facing charges of murder, ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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    The New Classroom Instruction That Works

    The Best Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement

    by Bryan Goodwin, Kristin Rouleau ...
    Narrated by Brian Arens ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 33 min

    The book that inspired millions of educators to refine their approach to teaching returns for an all-new third edition. Built on a rigorous research base of hundreds of studies conducted in a wide array of classrooms, The New Classroom Instruction That Works offers a streamlined focus on the 14 instructional strategies proven to promote deep, meaningful, and lasting learning:Cognitive interest ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    A Memoir

    by Tom Selleck, Ellis Henican ...
    ***THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER***There are many miles from the business school and basketball court at the University of Southern California to 50 million viewers for the final episode of a TV show called Magnum P.I. Tom Selleck has lived every one of those miles in his own iconoclastic and joyful way.Frank, funny and open-hearted, You Never Know is an intimate Hollywood memoir from one ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Befriend and Betray

    Infiltrating the Hells Angels, Bandidos, and Other Criminal Brotherhoods

    by Alex Caine ...
    A "fascinating and nearly unbelievable" true crime memoir of an undercover agent specialized in infiltrating biker gangs (Guy Lawson, coauthor of The Brotherhoods )."One of the most engaging tales ever told about the deep infiltration of organized crime. His revelations are extraordinary; his story gripping. I couldn't put it down." —William Marsden, coauthor of The Road to Hell... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Working Toward Whiteness

    How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs

    by David R. Roediger ...
    How did immigrants to the United States come to see themselves as white?David R. Roediger has been in the vanguard of the study of race and labor in American history for decades. He first came to prominence as the author of The Wages of Whiteness, a classic study of racism in the development of a white working class in nineteenth-century America. In Working Toward Whiteness, Roediger continues ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Fierce Discontent

    The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in A

    by Michael McGerr ...
    The Progressive Era, a few brief decades around the turn of the last century, still burns in American memory for its outsized personalities: Theodore Roosevelt, whose energy glinted through his pince-nez; Carry Nation, who smashed saloons with her axe and helped stop an entire nation from drinking; women suffragists, who marched in the streets until they finally achieved the vote; Andrew Carnegie ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Man of Many Fathers

    Life Lessons Disguised as a Memoir

    by Roy Wood Jr. ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From comedian, Emmy-nominated writer and producer, and former Daily Show correspondent Roy Wood Jr., an unforgettable, laugh-out-loud funny memoir revealing that sometimes the best advice comes from the most surprising teachers“Honest, raw, and an absolute treat to read.”—TREVOR NOAH“Insightful and memorable.”—CHELSEA HANDLER“Roy didn’t just write a book—he left a mark.” ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Hey Buddy

    In Pursuit of Buddy Holly, My New Buddy John, and My Lost Decade of Music

    by Gary W. Moore ...
    The "thoroughly fun . . . [and] crazy good" memoir about one man's life and how it was changed by the legacy of a rockabilly legend ( Chicago Sun-Times).Buddy Holly, icon: black horn-rimmed glasses, blue jeans, a white T-shirt, white socks, loafers, and "Peggy Sue." Not so much to Gary W. Moore. Admitting he "grew up in a Rock & Roll vacuum," Gary favored jazz. He couldn't name a single Buddy ... Read more

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