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  • The Evening Star: The Rise and Fall of a Great Washington Newspaper

    Faye Haskins

    Hardcover (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Sept. 11, 2019)
    The Evening Star: The Rise and Fall of a Great Washington Newspaper is the story of the 129-year history of one of the preeminent newspapers in journalism history when city newspapers across the country were at the height of their power and influence. The Star was the most financially successful newspaper in the Capital and among the top ten in the country until its decline in the 1970s. The paper began in 1852 when the capital city was a backwater southern town. The Star’s success over the next century was due to its singular devotion to local news, its many respected journalists, and the historic times in which it was published. The book provides a unique perspective on more than a century of local, national and international history.The book also exposes the complex reasons for the Star’s rise and fall from dominance in Washington’s newspaper market. The Noyes and Kauffmann families who owned and operated the Star for a century play an important role in that story. Patriarch Crosby Noyes’ life and legacy is the most fascinating –a classic Horatio Alger story of the illegitimate son of a Maine farmer who by the time of his death was a respected newspaper publisher and member of Washington’s influential elite. In 1974 his descendants sold the once-great newspaper Noyes built to Joseph Allbritton. Allbritton and then Time, Inc. tried to save the Star but failed.
  • Inside The Black Vault: The Government's UFO Secrets Revealed

    Greenewald, Jr., John,

    eBook (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, April 8, 2019)
    The evidence in this book may not ultimately give you the “smoking gun” you are looking for on your journey, but I guarantee it will give you a box of bullets when you find it.In 1996, John Greenewald, Jr. began researching the secret inner workings of the U.S. Government at the age of fifteen. He targeted such agencies as the CIA, FBI, Pentagon, Air Force, Army, Navy, NSA, DIA, and countless others.Greenewald utilized the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to gain access to more than two million pages of documents. This archive includes information relating to UFOs, the JFK Assassination, chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, and top secret aircraft. He took the millions of pages, and over the course of more than two decades, has built an archive known around the world, as The Black Vault.Inside The Black Vault: The Government’s UFO Secrets Revealed takes you on a journey within the secret world of unidentified aerial phenomenon that has plagued the military since at least the 1940s. Declassified records prove that the UFO topic is one of the most highly classified and most elusive subjects the U.S. Government has ever dealt with. Each chapter explores various agencies and their documents, and Greenewald breaks down the meaning of why some of the most important documents are relevant to proving a massive cover-up.Along with declassified documents, Greenewald outlines the struggle it took him to get them. No other topic has proven so difficult, in more than 8,000 FOIA requests that he has filed. He explores why that might be and meets skeptics and debunkers head on, outlining why some of their more prominent rebuttals for it all cannot be true.
  • I Love Riding Lessons Coloring Book

    Ellen Sallas

    Paperback (Little Roni Publishers, Feb. 16, 2016)
    Let's color twenty-five lessons currently underway!More than 25 students and their mounts practice everything pertaining to English riding.Groundwork, flatwork, and over fences, levels from beginner to advanced, are all right here in this collection!FOR EXTRA FUN - read quotes from each student describing their lessons.SAMPLE TEXT: “I’ve learned to use my legs to get Gongshow to turn. If he gets heavy on his forehand, I give tiny half-halts on the outside rein and he lifts. If he stiffens his jaw in the turn, I give a tiny squeeze-release on the inside rein and he softens. Coach said we are almost ready for our first dressage show!” ~ Rhonda, 13There are 12 fantastic equestrian coloring books in this series!! Let's color!Coloring fun from Award-winning Equestrian Sports Artist Ellen Sallas (Ellen C. Maze)
  • Equestrian Parade: A Special Coloring Book for Horse Lovers

    Ellen Sallas

    Paperback (Little Roni Publishers, Aug. 14, 2015)
    FINALLY - a coloring book that makes YOU the artist. Color, cut out, frame and hang! Original Equestrian Art by accomplished sport-horse artist, Ellen Sallas (Ellen C Maze). This coloring book is for horse-and-art-loving children as well as adults who simply enjoy looking at horses. There’s something about the horse in art – the soul of the equestrian goes into every painting. I suggest removing the art you’re working on with a X-acto blade or sharp scissor, and then use color pencils, crayons, or even markers, to make this art your own. If you use color pencil, the shadows will show through (as on the cover example) and give you a more finished look for framing and display. Go have fun!
  • Reading for Action: Engaging Youth in Social Justice through Young Adult Literature

    Ashley S. Boyd, Janine J. Darragh

    eBook (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, June 5, 2019)
    This book illustrates how teachers can draw upon young adult literature to facilitate students’ social action. Each chapter centers on one novel that represents a contemporary topic including police brutality, women’s rights, ecojustice, and bullying. In each, authors provide pre-, during-, and after reading strategies for teaching that connect the social issues in the texts to students’ lives and to the world around them. They then offer a multitude of avenues for student action, emphasizing the need to move readers from understanding and awareness to asserting their own agency and capacities to effect change in their local, national, and global communities. In addition to methods for scaffolding students’ analysis of texts and topics, authors also offer a plethora of additional resources such as documentaries, canonical companions for study, connected music, and supplementary lesson plans.
  • The New Concise History of the Crusades

    Thomas F. Madden

    Paperback (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, )
    How have the crusades contributed to Islamist rage and terrorism today? Were the crusades the Christian equivalent of modern jihad? In this sweeping yet crisp history, Thomas F. Madden offers a brilliant and compelling narrative of the crusades and their contemporary relevance. With a cry of "God wills it!" medieval knights ushered in a new era in European history. Across Europe a wave of pious enthusiasm led many thousands to leave their homes, family, and friends to march to distant lands in a great struggle for Christ. Yet the crusades were more than simply a holy war. They represent a synthesis of attitudes and values that were uniquely medieval--so medieval, in fact, that the crusading movement is rarely understood today. Placing all the major crusades within the medieval social, economic, religious, and intellectual environments that gave birth to the movement and nurtured it for centuries, Madden brings the distant medieval world vividly to life. From Palestine and Europe's farthest reaches, each crusade is recounted in a clear, concise narrative. The author gives special attention as well to the crusades' effects on the Islamic world and the Christian Byzantine East.More information is available on the author's website.Download the Powerpoint Presentation to view area maps for the New Concise History of the Crusades.
  • Dirt

    K F Ridley

    language (Little Roni Publishers, Dec. 16, 2012)
    Up until now, my life has been simple, uncomplicated, but because of what I am, everything is about to change. In fact, things are about to get deadly. Faeries are real and they want my blood. To make matters worse, I'm falling for one of them. In a mythical and magical world, I'm about to discover the secrets of my past and the truths of my existence. At least, that is, if I can survive.
  • The Happy Horse Show

    Jean Condren

    language (Little Roni Publishers, March 19, 2020)
    Hip-hip-HOORAY! It's time for the Happy Horse Show!Join all the children and their horses as they compete in all the fun games you find at a local horse show.Equestrian artist Jean Condren brings us her second illustrated horse-themed book full of the most gorgeous equine illustrations around, plus fun prose your children will love to read again and again!
  • Herod the Great: Statesman, Visionary, Tyrant

    Norman Gelb

    eBook (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Feb. 21, 2013)
    Herod the Great, king of ancient Judea, was a brutal, ruthless, vindictive and dangerously high-strung tyrant. He had many of his subjects killed on suspicion of plotting against him and was accused of slaughtering children in Bethlehem when informed that a new king of the Jews had been born there. Among the victims of the murderous paranoia that ultimately drove him to the brink of insanity were his three oldest sons and the wife he loved most. But there was a crucial aspect to Herod’s character that has been largely ignored over the centuries. Norman Gelb explores how Herod transformed his formerly strive-ridden kingdom into a modernizing, economically thriving, orderly state of international significance and repute within the sprawling Roman Empire. This reassessment of Herod as ruler of Judaea introduces a striking contrast between a ruler’s infamy and his extraordinary laudable achievements. As this account shows, despite his horrific failings and ultimate mental unbalance, Herod was a fascinatingly complex, dynamic, and largely constructive statesman, a figure of great public accomplishment and one of the most underrated personalities of ancient times. History buffs and those interested in popular ancient history can are introduced to this ruthless tyrant and his victims.
  • The Ghosts of Johns Hopkins: The Life and Legacy that Shaped an American City

    Antero Pietila

    Hardcover (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Nov. 2, 2018)
    Johns Hopkins destroyed his private papers so thoroughly that no credible biography exists of the Baltimore Quaker titan. One of America’s richest men and the largest single shareholder of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Hopkins was also one of the city’s defining developers. In The Ghosts of Johns Hopkins, Antero Pietila weaves together a biography of the man with a portrait of how the institutions he founded have shaped the racial legacy of an industrial city from its heyday to its decline and revitalization. From the destruction of neighborhoods to make way for the mercantile buildings that dominated Baltimore’s downtown through much of the 19th century to the role that the president of Johns Hopkins University played in government sponsored “Negro Removal” that unleashed the migration patterns that created Baltimore’s existing racial patchwork, Pietila tells the story of how one man’s wealth shaped and reshaped the life of a city long after his lifetime.
  • Paris on the Brink: The 1930s Paris of Jean Renoir, Salvador DalĂ­, Simone de Beauvoir, AndrĂ© Gide, Sylvia Beach, LĂ©on Blum, and Their Friends

    McAuliffe, Mary,

    eBook (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Sept. 13, 2018)
    Paris on the Brink vividly portrays the City of Light during the tumultuous 1930s, from the Wall Street Crash of 1929 to war and German Occupation. This was a dangerous and turbulent decade, during which workers flexed their economic muscle and their opponents struck back with increasing violence. As the divide between haves and have-nots widened, so did the political split between left and right, with animosities exploding into brutal clashes, intensified by the paramilitary leagues of the extreme right. Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini escalated the increasingly hazardous international environment, while the civil war in Spain added to the instability of the times. Yet throughout the decade, Paris remained at the center of cultural creativity. Major figures on the Paris scene, such as Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, André Gide, Marie Curie, Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, and Coco Chanel, continued to hold sway, in addition to Josephine Baker, Sylvia Beach, James Joyce, Man Ray, and Le Corbusier. Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre could now be seen at their favorite cafés, while Jean Renoir, Salvador Dalí, and Elsa Schiaparelli came to prominence, along with France’s first Socialist prime minister, Léon Blum. Despite the decade’s creativity and glamour, it remained a difficult and dangerous time, and Parisians responded with growing nativism and anti-Semitism, while relying on their Maginot Line to protect them from external harm. Through rich illustrations and evocative narrative, Mary McAuliffe brings this extraordinary era to life.
  • Let's Play Two: The Life and Times of Ernie Banks

    Doug Wilson

    Hardcover (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Feb. 15, 2019)
    When Ernie Banks passed away in 2015, he was regarded as one of the most beloved men in baseball history. Making his start as a shortstop with the Kansas City Monarchs in the Negro Leagues as a teenager, Banks went on to become the first African American to play for the Chicago Cubs. Known affectionately as “Mr. Cub,” he brought exceptional talent and boundless optimism to the game of baseball, earning him a Presidential Medal of Freedom and a place in the Hall of Fame.In Let’s Play Two: The Life and Times of Ernie Banks, Doug Wilson explores the life of one of baseball’s most immortal figures, from his humble beginnings as a young boy living in the segregated South to his last few years and the public battles over his remains and will. Drawing on interviews of those close to Banks from all stages of his life, Wilson presents a portrait of the baseball player not just as an athlete, but also as a complex man with ambitious goals and hidden pains. Ernie Banks’s enthusiasm and skill transcended issues of race and helped him to become one of the most highly-regarded men in baseball. Offering details that have never before been printed, this book discusses Banks’s athletic prowess as well as the legacy he left behind. Let’s Play Two is the essential Ernie Banks biography for sports fans and historians alike.