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STAT: Standing Tall and Talented is a series of children's books written by NBA basketball player Amar'e Stoudemire. [2] The books are partially autobiographical and tell the story of an 11-year-old Amar'e who discovers his innate talent and has to overcome many obstacles to become the success he is today. The books are all targeted for ...
When We Cease to Understand the World (Spanish: Un Verdor Terrible; lit. ' A Terrible Greening ') is a 2021 book by Chilean writer Benjamín Labatut.Originally written in Spanish and published by Anagrama, the book was translated into English by Adrian Nathan West and published by Pushkin Press and New York Review of Books in 2021.
The book explores Logan's early childhood in the 1930s, giving his personal account of his memories and life experiences, and the lessons he learned from his parents, neighbors and three older brothers. The Land Remembers has received critical acclaim for its familiarity and depth, with many praising its beautiful language and relevant themes.
Many of the long-term repercussions of 9/11 are still with us today — from the wars, government departments and the surveillance state that were started because of it, to the hastily discarded ...
It purports to contain "all the History you can remember", and, in sixty-two chapters, covers the history of England from Roman times through 1066 "and all that", up to the end of World War I, at which time "America was thus clearly Top Nation, and history came to a .". The book is full of examples of half-remembered and mixed-up facts.
These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history; For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of post-classical history; For events from c. 1500, see: Timelines of modern history
The Cambridge World History. Volume 1: Introducing World History, to 10,000 BCE, edited by David Christian. The Cambridge World History is a seven volume history of the world in nine books published by Cambridge University Press in 2015. The editor in chief is Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks. The history takes a comparativist approach.
Johnson describes world history beginning with the aftermath of World War I, and ending with the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe.. In the first part of the book, Johnson deals mainly with the shaping of the Soviet Union in the first decades after World War I, the collapse of democracy in Central Europe due to the rise of Fascism and National Socialism, the causes that led to World War ...