Authors:Betsy Franco, Nina Nickle,
Publisher: Candlewick
Keywords: franco, adult, betsy, boys, writing, teenage, poems
Number of Pages: 107
Published: 2001-05-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 076361159X
ISBN-13: 9780763611590
Teenage boys speak out—without the filter of adult sensibility—in a compelling collection of poetry and prose.In a powerful collection of more than seventy uncensored poems and essays, more than fifty teenage boys from across the country explore their many-layered concerns: identity, love, envy, gratitude, sex, anger, competition, fear, hope. Here, unadorned and without the filter of adult sensibility, is the raw stuff of their lives, in their own words. Isn’t it time to listen?
Authors:Betsy Franco, Nina Nickle,
Publisher: Candlewick
Keywords: betsy, franco, adult, girls, teenage, poems, writing, things
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2001-05-01
List price: $8.99
ISBN-10: 0763610356
ISBN-13: 9780763610357
Teenage girls tell their own storiesâ??in compelling poetry and prose paired with 42 striking black-and-white photographs.The voices in this collection have so much to question, so much to grieve. They have so much to celebrate, so much to rage against. Theyâ??re ready to speak up and begin the conversation â?? with you and with the world. More than thirty uncensored poems are accompanied by Nina Nicklesâ??s masterful photographs, which sensitively capture the moods and essence of adolescence. Here, painted in the words of teenage girls, is a portrait of their dreams and desires - a record
Authors:Professor Paul Franco, Paul Franco,
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: freedom, philosophy, hegel
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2002-10-01
List price: $39.00
ISBN-10: 0300093225
ISBN-13: 9780300093223
Hegel offers perhaps the most profound and systemic modern attempt to understand the state as the realization of human freedom. In this comprehensive examination of the philosopher’s ideas on freedom, Paul Franco focuses particularly on G.W.F. Hegel’s masterpiece, Philosophy of Right. Franco traces the development of Hegel’s ideas and relates them to modern political theory.
Authors:Franco Mormando, Franco Mormando, Thomas Worcester,
Publisher: Truman State University Press
Keywords: century, essays, studies, sixteenth, baroque, plague, byzantium, piety
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2007-10-15
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 1931112738
ISBN-13: 9781931112734
Plague was one of the enduring facts of everyday life on the European continent, from earliest antiquity through the first decades of the eighteenth century. It represents one of the most important influences on the development of Europe s society and culture. In order to understand the changing circumstances of the political, economic, ecclesiastical, artistic, and social history of that continent, it is important to understand epidemic disease and society’s response to it. This research draws extensively upon a wealth of primary sources, both printed and painted, and includes ample bib
Author: Frangois Crouzet
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: british, history, economic, franco, studies, comparative, britain, ascendant
Number of Pages: 524
Published: 1991-01-25
List price: $130.00
ISBN-10: 0521344344
ISBN-13: 9780521344340
François Crouzet is one of the most distinguished economic historians in the world whose life’s work has been largely devoted to the study of European industrialization. In Britain Ascendant, a collection of essays spanning his career, he examines the rise of Britain to the position of dominance in the world economy in the nineteenth century and the concomitant decline of France. Special attention is paid to the problems of capital formation, foreign trade and the Empire. In later chapters, Crouzet examines the Anglo-French relationship up to the present day, attacking conventional
Author: Betsy Franco
Publisher: McElderry
Keywords: mathematickles
Number of Pages: 40
Published: 2006-06-20
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 1416918612
ISBN-13: 9781416918615
Follow a girl and her cat as they walk through the seasons, and note the mathematical concepts illustrated around them.This unique collection of math-poems addresses the principles of addition, subtraction, division, simple graphs, and more!Look around and jump into the world of Mathematickles!
Author: Franco E. Scanloni
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Keywords: racist
Number of Pages: 126
Published: 2002-05-14
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 1553693256
ISBN-13: 9781553693253
In most cases racists don’t pose a serious threat. They are easy to recognize and most people know how to deal with them. However, there is another strain of racism much more virulent and lethal, a strain more subtle and harder to diagnose, a strain that exists in all of us no matter what our colour, religion and background may be and the author believes, if given the right set of circumstances, each of us is capable of falling prey to that strain of nastiness. In the novel Racist, Frank Freemont, a middle-aged, liberal-thinking white man suffers a humiliating experience and finds hi
