Books with author Lowell Thomas

Prerequisites: Child must be able to count to ten and count ten objects.Mistakenly, no one seems to advocate teaching math concepts to 2, 3, 4, and 5 year old children. There doesn’t seem to be an understanding that mathematics is like a language. It has its own vocabulary and patterns. Grandparents and parents can give preschool children a giant head start in school and life by treating and teaching math as a language. If a preschool child can learn a language with minimal drill, why can’t he or she just as easily be introduced to math concepts like addition, multiplication, negative numbers, squares and square roots, and so on without excessive formal drill?This eBook, the first in a series, begins that process by teaching the names of big numbers using skip counting and pattern addition.

[MP3CD format in vinyl case][Read by Jeff Riggenbach] Here is the gritty, powerful story of Thomas Sowell's life-long education in the school of hard knocks, as the journey took him from Harlem to the Marines, the Ivy League, and a career as a controversial writer, teacher, and economist in government and private industry. It is also the story of the dramatically changing times in which this personal odyssey took place. The vignettes of the people and places that made an impression on Thomas Sowell at various stages of his life range from the poor and powerless to the mighty and the wealthy, from a home for homeless boys to the White House, as well as ranging across the United States and around the world. It also includes Sowell's startling discovery of his own origins during his teenage years. More than a story of the life of Sowell himself, this is also about the people who gave him their help, their support, and their loyalty, as well as those who demonized him and knifed him in the back. It is a study not just of one life but also of life in general, with all its exhilaration and pain of constant striving and deserved success.

Prerequisites: Have some understanding of addition and subtraction.Primary audience: 3, 4, and 5-year old children. Secondary audience: third grade and below.This is a children’s book with instructions for adults. It is part of a nontraditional math series published in the expectation that if math is taught as a series of patterns, very young children can grasp math concepts that they wouldn’t normally encounter for several years.Two future preschool eBooks in this series will require the preschool child to know how negative numbers relate to zero and to positive numbers.The requirement to know about addition and subtraction does not imply that the purpose of this eBook is to teach the addition and subtraction of negative numbers. The first book in this series is “Counting past 10 for a Future Gifted Child.”

Scary headlines and scarier statistics tell the story of a financial crisis on a scale not seen in decades—certainly not within the lifetime of most Americans. Moreover, this is a worldwide financial crisis. Financial institutions on both sides of the Atlantic have either collapsed or have been saved from collapse by government bailouts, as a result of buying securities based on American housing values that eroded or evaporated.Now completely revised in paperback, The Housing Boom and Bust is designed to unravel the tangled threads of that story. It also attempts to determine whether what is being done to deal with the problem is more likely to make things better or worse.