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  • Understanding School Transition

    What happens to children and how to help them

    by Jennifer Symonds ...
    School transition is a life changing event for children - they are rarely faced with such a powerful set of personal and social changes. These underpin the immediate and longer term wellbeing of children, peer groups, teachers and schools. Understanding School Transition provides a most comprehensive, international review of this important area, complete with practical advice on what practitioners ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Young Adult Development at the School-to-Work Transition

    International Pathways and Processes

    Edited by E. Anne Marshall, Jennifer E. Symonds ...
    Series series Emerging Adulthood Series
    The school-to-work transition is a critical part of the human life-span for young adults, their families, and society. The timing of the transition varies greatly and its co-occurrence with a number of other life transitions make it challenging to summarize or generalize. Individual differences and normative developmental factors, as well as external contextual factors such as global pandemics, ... Read more

    $65.69 USD

  • The Mexican-American War Experiences of Twelve Civil War Generals

    by Sean Chick, Dr. Christian B. Keller, Dr. Ethan S. Rafuse, Dr. Thomas W. Cutrer, Dr. Stephen D. Engle, Joseph T. Glatthaar, Jennifer M. Murray, Craig L. Symonds, Timothy B. Smith, T. Michael Parrish, Brian Steel Wills, Alexander Mendoza, Cecily N. Zander ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    Long overshadowed by the American Civil War, the Mexican-American War (1846–1848) has received significantly less attention from historians partly because of its questionable origin and controversial outcome. Rather than treat the conflict with a form of historical amnesia, the contributors to this volume argue that the Mexican-American War was a formative experience for the more than three ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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    The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee

    by Michael Korda ...
    New York Times Bestseller"Lively, approachable, and captivating. Like Lee himself, everything about Clouds of Glory is on a grand scale." —Boston GlobeMichael Korda, the acclaimed biographer of Ulysses S. Grant and the bestsellers Ike and Hero, offers a brilliant, balanced, single-volume biography of Robert E. Lee, the first major study in a generationKorda paints a vivid... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Lincoln's Lieutenants

    The High Command of the Army of the Potomac

    by Stephen W. Sears ...
    A multilayered group biography of the Civil War commanders who led the Army of the Potomac: "a staggering work . . . by a masterly historian" ( Kirkus, starred review).The high command of the Army of the Potomac was a changeable, often dysfunctional band of brothers, going through the fires of war under seven commanding generals in three years, until Grant came east in 1864. The men in charge all ... Read more

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  • Three Roads to Gettysburg

    Meade, Lee, Lincoln, and the Battle That Changed the War, the Speech That Changed the Nation

    by Tim McGrath ...
    An epic, revelatory account of the Battle of Gettysburg, where George Meade, Lincoln's unexpected choice to lead the Union army, defeated Robert E. Lee and changed the course of the Civil War, from the award-winning author of James Monroe: A LifeBy mid-1863, the Civil War, with Northern victories in the West and Southern triumphs in the East, seemed unwinnable for Abraham Lincoln. Robert E. Lee’s ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Sickles at Gettysburg

    The Controversial Civil War General Who Committed Murder, Abandoned Little Round Top, and Declared Himself the Hero of Gettysburg

    by James A. Hessler ...
    "Sickles is as dividing a figure in Civil War history as there is. In his masterful work . . . Hessler . . . puts him out there with all his wrinkles" ( Confederate Book Review).Winner of the Robert E. Lee Civil War Roundtable of Central New Jersey's Bachelder-Coddington Literary AwardWinner of the Gettysburg Civil War Roundtable's Distinguished Book AwardBy licensed battlefield guide James ... Read more

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  • "Lee is Trapped, and Must be Taken"

    Eleven Fateful Days after Gettysburg, July 4–14, 1863

    by Thomas J. Ryan, Richard R. Schaus ...
    This award-winning Civil War history examines Robert E. Lee's retreat from Gettysburg and the vital importance of Civil War military intelligence.While countless books have examined the Battle of Gettysburg, the Confederate Army's retreat to the Potomac River remains largely untold. This comprehensive study tells the full story, including how Maj. Gen. George G. Meade organized and motivated his ... Read more

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  • The Grand Design

    Strategy and the U.S. Civil War

    by Donald Stoker ...
    Despite the abundance of books on the Civil War, not one has focused exclusively on what was in fact the determining factor in the outcome of the conflict: differences in Union and Southern strategy. In The Grand Design, Donald Stoker provides for the first time a comprehensive and often surprising account of strategy as it evolved between Fort Sumter and Appomattox. Reminding us that strategy is ... Read more

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  • Robert E. Lee

    by Emory M. Thomas ...
    "The best and most balanced of the Lee biographies."—New York Review of BooksThe life of Robert E. Lee is a story not of defeat but of triumph—triumph in clearing his family name, triumph in marrying properly, triumph over the mighty Mississippi in his work as an engineer, and triumph over all other military men to become the towering figure who commanded the Confederate army in the American Civil ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

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  • Ulysses S. Grant: A Victor, Not a Butcher

    The Military Genius of the Man Who Won the Civil War

    by Edward H. Bonekemper III ...
    Ulysses S. Grant is often accused of being a cold-hearted butcher of his troops. In Ulysses S. Grant: A Victor, Not a Butcher, historian Edward H. Bonekemper III proves that Grant's casualty rates actually compared favorably with those of other Civil War generals. His perseverance, decisiveness, moral courage, and political acumen place him among the greatest generals of the Civil War; indeed, of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Desperate Engagement

    How a Little-Known Civil War Battle Saved Washington, D.C., and Changed American History

    by Marc Leepson ...
    This Civil War history offers a "sharp assessment of the single Confederate victory north of the Mason-Dixon line"—and the threat it posed to the capitol ( Kirkus ).The Battle of Monocacy is one of the Civil War's most significant yet little-known battles. On July 9, 1864, in the fields just south of Frederick, Maryland, some 12,000 Confederate troops led by the controversial Jubal Anderson Early ... Read more

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