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"Valiant Ambition is a complex, controversial, and dramatic portrait of a people in crisis and the war that gave birth to a nation. The focus is on loyalty and personal integrity, evoking a Shakespearean tragedy that unfolds in the key relationship of Washington and Arnold, who is an impulsive but sympathetic hero whose misfortunes at the hands of self-serving politicians fatally destroy his faith in the legitimacy of the rebellion. As a country wary...

"Rick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn and two other masterly books about World War II, has long been admired for his unparalleled ability to write deeply researched, stunningly vivid narrative history. Now he turns his attention to a new war, and in the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy he tells the story of the first twenty months of the bloody struggle to shake free of King George's shackles. From the battles...

It's 1964 in Greenwood, Mississippi, and Sunny's town is being invaded by people from up north who are coming to help people register to vote. Her personal life isn't much better, as a new stepmother, brother, and sister are crowding into her life, giving her little room to breathe.--From publisher description.

Now revised and updated, this guide shows just how easy and pleasurable it is to teach young children mathematics through the development of thinking and reasoning skills.

Having spent twelve years in a French prison, Armand, Comte de Valère, has lost the ability to interact with polite society until his family hires Felicity Bennett, a beautiful tutor who helps him to come alive again.

"The first book in a rollicking new historical-fantasy series that reinvents the French Revolution with vampires as the aristocrats, in a lively retelling of The Scarlet Pimpernel from the author of the beloved Invisible Library series. It is 1793 and the French Revolution is in full swing. Vampires are a normal part of society across Europe--usually rich and aristocratic, they have slaked the guillotines thirst in large numbers. The mysterious Scarlet...

Rebel Kate Gray cannot resist the advances of British Major Peter Tremayne, but after a member of her own family steals his military dispatches, Peter, having narrowly escaped hanging, vows to get revenge on Kate.

Une révolution bilingue pour l'Afrique explore la promesse et le potentiel de l'éducation plurilingue sur le continent africain. Composés d'experts de l'éducation, de chercheurs et d'acteurs de terrain, les auteurs proposent, à travers une série d'essais pertinents et éclairés, un examen précis de l'enseignement en deux langues en Afrique. Ces perspectives quant aux différentes formes d'éducation bilingue, les stratégies visant à en promouvoir...

Le plurilinguisme s'acquiert de manière variée, à des âges différents et pour des objectifs multiples. Cependant, les langues jouent un rôle crucial dans notre vie cognitive, sociale et émotionnelle, et les compétences que nous développons avec celles-ci ont un impact significatif sur notre existence. Il est donc primordial de prendre le temps d'analyser ce que nous savons du fait plurilingue, de l'apprentissage des langues étrangères et...