Reducere. They were “throw away” kids, living in the streets or in orphanages and foster homes. Then Charles Loring Brace, a young minister working with the ...
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Victoria GoldenAuthor: William WaltersFrom 1854 to the early 1930s, the American Orphan Trains transported 250, 000 childre...
Reducere. In 1848 famine gripped Ireland. Nearly a million people would die of starvation and typhoid fever. A million more Irish would abandon their homelan...
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Reducere. In the early 1900s, adults hoped to find parents for homeless city children by sending them west on trains. Most of these children had no idea whet...
Reducere. America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line--the first American railroad--in the 1830s sparked a national revolutio...
Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...
university of chicago press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology
Reducere. The massive orphan train exodus whisked three-year-old Teresa from the safety of her New York orphanage, where the worst thing the Foundling nuns d...
Reducere. If you know anything at all about mixed martial arts and the UFC, then you know the name Matt Hughes. With devastating slams and ground-and-pound -...
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Reducere. This book describes and illustrates all the rolling stock commonly used by any American railroad, including the 150 different types of locomotive. ...
Reducere. Through his own life story - from childhood to his life as an adult, Toufic El Rassi illustrates the prejudice and discrimination Arabs and Muslims...
Reducere. In America is a kaleidoscopic portrait of America on the cusp of modernity. As she did in her enormously popular novel The Volcano Lover, Susan Son...
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Reducere. Atlantis is a legendary continent that is said to have disappeared sometime in the ancient past. Lewis Spence presents evidence that Atlantis was l...
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Reducere. The Cleveland Jewish Orphan Asylum was for fifty years (1868-1918) the home for some 3, 500 boys and girls, most of them immigrants from Eastern Eu...
kent state university press, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences
Reducere. The complete edition based on the revised and corrected text of the 1961 French editionOriginally penned in the mid-eighteenth century by Frenchman...
harpercollins publishers, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history
Reducere. Elizabeth Wurtzel's New York Times best-selling memoir, with a new afterword "Sparkling, luminescent prose . . . A powerful portrait of one girl's ...
Reducere. The mass industrial democracy that is the modern United States bears little resemblance to the simple agrarian republic that gave it birth. The mar...
cambridge university press, carti, carte straina, economics
Reducere. American immigration policies have changed significantly over the past 200 years, but debates over more restrictive versus more open policies have ...
calvin college press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology
Reducere. DescriptionLearn to identify, collect, and prepare wild edibles Step into your backyard, garden, or nearby green space, and harvest an abundance of...
adventure publications, carti, carte straina, lifestyle
Reducere. Cut It Out examines the exponential increase in the United States of the most technological form of birth that exists: the cesarean section. While ...
new york university press, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences
Reducere. The Artisan Bagel is the most iconic food ever made in the City of New York. It has become identified and synonomous with NYC itself. While people ...
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Michael Gaulden His life was barely worth a dollar. He slept outside, on park benches, in stairwells, under bushes. Michael...
Reducere. Before Orange is the New Black, there was Inside.American jails and prisons confine nearly 13.5 million people each year. Despite these disturbing ...
Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...
sage publications, inc, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences
Reducere. Santer a represents the first in-depth, scholarly account of a profound way of wisdom that is growing in importance in America today. A professiona...
beacon press, carti, carte straina, philosophy & religion