James Fenimore Cooper was the social historian for the landed gentry's class in New York. He presented his social history in his Littlepage Trilogy: Satanstoe, The Chainbearer,and The Redskins . Cooper saw the landed gentry's class as the middle part of the pillar of American society.

Después de años de trabajo frente a numerosas cohortes de alumnos, en el Ciclo Básico Común de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, creemos que existe una creencia generalizada, aunque pocas veces admitida, de que las acciones del docente poco pueden hacer sobre el rendimiento académico de los alumnos. Por esta razón y pensando en que, un aula universitaria de Física, no puede evaluarse exclusivamente en términos de rendimiento académico, expresado en porcentajes y promedios, creemos, que es importante ...

Tanglewood Tales for Boys and Girls is a collection of Greek myths and legends retold by Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1881. The book is a sequel to A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys, which also features retellings of Greek myths. In Tanglewood Tales, Hawthorne takes readers on a journey through ancient Greece, recounting some of the most famous stories from Greek mythology. The book includes tales of heroes such as Theseus, Perseus, and Jason, as well as stories of gods and goddesses like Apollo, Athena, and Demeter. The stories are written in a ...

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Comment améliorer votre mémoire ? Comment apprendre plus facilement ? Avons-mous appris à apprendre ? Ce livre vous propose une synthèse sur la trucs et astuces pour améliorer votre mémoire et vos facultés d'apprentissage. Vous découvrirez comment la naturopathie, le Brain Gym,la PNL, la Relaxation, ...peuvent vous aidez. Ce livre s'adresse autant à l'étudiant en période d'examens qu'au retraité qui observe sa mémoire changer en passant par l'adulte en formation.

Nestled on the banks of the Willow River, just to the east of the Cherokee Mountains, the idyllic little city of Harper Falls was quintessential small town America. Nothing bad had ever happened there . . . until 1961, that is. It was in the wee hours of May 8, when firefighter Jack Troy responded with his ladder company to a major fire in a residence hall at the College of Saint Brigid where he proceeded to smash his way into a smoke-filled third floor apartment in an attempt to save a young woman who appeared to be trapped. Jack knew this high-wire ...

A must read for CEOs and senior business executives who wish to transform and transcend circumstance, Magnificent Leadership is the culmination of the author's interviews with leadership exemplars across all different domains for The Making Magnificence Project®. Inviting you into the unique leadership journeys that she captured, the author distills the essential elements of leadership success gleaned during her interviews. Although well suited for business executives leading in high stakes, chaotic environments, this book is for anyone who hopes to ...

For more than 50 years John Waters has been staging a coup against the good taste of the American public. From the ultimate gross-out in Pink Flamingos to the amazing general-audience rating of his biggest hit Hairspray, Waters has been subverting viewers' expectations with comedies that stretch past the boundaries of even today's jaded audiences. A provocateur of bad taste in a glorious way, Waters started out as an outsider with a camera and a small circle of fellow delinquents. In tearing down icons of the silver screen, Waters would create his own that ...

"In the whole of European literature there is no poet who can furnish the texts for a more significant variety of discourse than Virgil. [He] symbolizes so much in the history of Europe, and represents such central European values..." -T.S. Eliot The Georgics (29 BC) is a poem by Roman poet Virgil. Although less prominent than The Aeneid , Virgil's legendary epic of the Trojan hero Aeneas and his discovery of what would later become the city of Rome, The Georgics have endured as a landmark in the history of poetry. The Georgics were inspired by Lucretius's ...