Mark Friedman
Author
Publisher
The Child's World
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
From the town mayor to the president of the United States, politicians serve citizens on three separate levels-local, state, and federal. This book encourages young readers to explore how people ranging from city councilmen to Supreme Court justices shape our nation. The Our Government and Citizenship series inspires young readers to learn about the development and structure of American government as well as their rights and responsibilities as U.S....
3) The Apache
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the Apache people, explaining who they are, reviewing the history of the Apache, examining the life of Geronimo and other Apache warriors, and looking at how the Apache live in the twenty-first century.
4) Trying hard is not good enough: how to produce measurable improvements for customers and communities
Author
Publisher
Parse Publishing
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
10) Assisted suicide
Author
Series
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Discusses the controversy over assisted suicide, describing the history of euthanasia, worldwide legal and moral views on the issue, and specific case studies.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Shortly after receiving the news that they will soon be reunited with their families back in the United States, a unit serving in Iraq is deployed on one last humanitarian mission. Their objective is to deliver medical supplies to a remote Iraqi village. Upon arriving in the village, the unit is viciously ambushed and many lives are lost. Now, as the four surviving members of the battalion return home and attempt to readjust to civilian life, the...
Author
Series
Complete works of Mark Twain volume 24
Publisher
Harper & Bros
Pub. Date
[1923]
Language
English
Description
If I were to sell the reader a barrel of molasses, and he, instead of sweetening his substantial dinner with the same at judicious intervals, should eat the entire barrel at one sitting, and then abuse me for making him sick, I would say that he deserved to be made sick for not knowing any better how to utilize the blessings this world affords. And if I sell to the reader this volume of nonsense, and he, instead of seasoning his graver reading with...
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[1966]
Language
English
Description
"A Mark Twain sketch may begin as an ordinary cartoon: a camel eating the author's coat. You can see the scene, and it's very funny: the camel “opening and closing his eyes in a kind of religious ecstasy, as if he had never tasted anything as good as an overcoat before in his life.” But then comes the Twain touch. The camel finds some newspaper correspondence, starts to eat it, and “dies a death of indescribable agony, choking on one of the...