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Following the stock market crash of 1929, the United States plummeted into the Great Depression and unemployment soared. But when Franklin D. Roosevelt took office the following year, he enacted federal programs, financial regulations, and public works projects to boost the economy and put America back together. In this instructive volume, students will discover fascinating facts and little-known details about this series of reforms, called the New Deal. They'll also be able to choose from a variety of hands-on projects, from map-making to writing and performing a speech to designing and...

A New York Times best-seller and winner of the ABBY Award features lavish illustrations of Native American settings and shares Chief Seattle's environmental message for "helping preserve what is being lost."

Students will gain a deeper understanding of the Cold War by delving into major social studies topics in this project-based examination. The volume presents a series of broad questions touching on major themes in the social studies curriculum. Each question is accompanied by several paragraphs examining that question in the context of the Cold War, as well as a detailed project that prompts readers to think critically and present their findings or opinions in a particular format, such as a poster with side-by-side comparisons, a persuasive essay, or a class presentation.

Brno, años cincuenta. En pleno terror estalinista, una joven pintora es asesinada tras un interrogatorio de la policía secreta. Su hermano, un arquitecto especializado en diseñar edificios de mal gusto para los gerifaltes comunistas, jura venganza. Un día, por casualidad, descubre un sótano abovedado situado justo debajo de su edificio, en el centro de Brno, y es entonces, tras recordar un relato de Nabokov, a quien conoció en su infancia, cuando se propone encerrar allí al responsable de la muerte de su hermana. No obstante, su particular campaña de venganza privada se le va de las...