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Includes "Minnesela Days" by Joe Koller; "Recollections of an Adventurous Life as Told to Will G. Robinson" by Dennis Moran; "Peter Duhamel, Pioneer" by Don Patton; "Waiting for a Railroad at Pierre" by Will G. Robinson; "John Blair Smith Todd, South Dakota Delegate" by Norman Thomas; "History of South Dakota Rural Credit System" by Gilbert C. Fite; "The Early and Territorial History of Codington County" by Wright Tarbell; and "Report on Historic Sites in the Fort Randall Reservoir Area" by Merril J. Mattes ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Oceania, published by University of Sydney on December 1, 1999. The length of the article is 1720 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Citizenship and Indigenous Australians: Changing Conceptions and Possibilities.(Review) (book review)
Author: Paul Patton
Publication: Oceania (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 1999
Publisher: University of Sydney
Volume: 70Issue: 2Page: 188

Article Type: Book Review

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This comprehensive book is non-categorical in focus, viewing instructional methods and all curricular content areas in the special education field. A valuable tool for teaching students in resource and self-contained classrooms, this book is a current presentation of instructional challenges involving students with special needs.Contemporary themes include inclusion, collaboration, cooperative teaching, strategytraining, the importance of phonological awareness, holistic perspectives, home-school collaboration, ethical issues in the education profession, transition, and educational outcomes. Expanded coverage on new research discusses phonological awareness as a basis for successful reading, transition planning and life skills instruction, collaboration with professionals and paraeducators, and effective strategies throughout the curriculum. A second chapter on reading significantly increases the attention given to issues in reading instruction, the phonological basis for successful reading and students with special needs, and the promotion of effective comprehensive instructional strategies. Practical chapters emphasize teaching study skills, developing social skills and self-determination, teaching the creative arts, and teaching science and social studies—in addition to the core academic areas of reading, writing, math, and spoken language.For educators teaching learning disabled students. ... Read more

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excellent
This book was high quality and speedy delivery! Excellent service, I would order from this seller again.

Could use older edition
This 8th edition could easily be replaced with the 7th edition for a lot less money.The chapters contain basically the same information AND the 7th edition comes with a cd with strategies and the 8th edition does not have any extras.This is a paperback book and for the money, you would be better off saving it and getting the 7th edition. ... Read more

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Offering a student-friendly writing style, this text presents a body systems approach with a strong emphasis on vocabulary and basic anatomy and physiology concepts, as well as the basic mechanisms of disease and pathologic conditions associated with each body system. This comprehensive text is dominated by two unifying themes: the complementarity of structure and function and homeostasis. The integrating principle of homeostasis is used to show how "normal" structure and function is achieved and maintained. Failures of homeostasis are shown as basic mechanisms of disease. The reader is drawn into the subject by superior illustrations, including cadaver dissections, and other student-friendly features.* Boxed Essays throughout each chapter contain information ranging from clinical applications to sidelights on recent research or topics related to exercise and fitness. * Clinical Applications at the end of each chapter offer short case studies with questions that tie theory to practice, and encourage students to apply their knowledge to specific, practical problems. Answers are in the back of the book. * Readability and coverage are at the appropriate level for students approaching the study of anatomy and physiology for the first time, with interesting analogies and examples along with the factual information. * Superior art program, with over 450 full-color illustrations, complements text material. * Chapter Outlines introduce each chapter and preview the content. * Objectives contain measurable objectives for students to identify key goals and master information. * Detailed Outline Summaries at the end of each chapter provide an excellent ... Read more

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Outstanding
My textbook was in great condition when I received it...and the it was shipped quickly to me.

The Human Body in Health and Disease
This book is in very good condition.
There was some confusion on the delivery day, but it all worked out

Another school book
The picture it portrayed on Amazon didn't arrive in the mail. This was a way older version of what I had wanted. Other than that, the book arrived in good shape and I was please with the amount of time it took for me to get it.

The Human body in heath & disease
This was a required book for my anatomy course but I love this book.It's clear and straight to the point. Plus the book has an interactive CD which allows you to up-load the chapters onto your ipod

Never recieved my book!
I amvery disatisfied.THe amount was taken from my account but I never recieved my book! ... Read more

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The last 100 days of the Nazi regime have long remained clouded by the fact that it was the Soviet armies that reached Berlin first and afterwards controlled the information surrounding the end of it all. Until things had settled down, and let's not forget that they only ever partially settled down (Patton's cry of "Let's push on to Moscow," still rings in one's ears), little or no information was available to the Western press about the successful Russian attack against the German capital. ... Read more

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The best account of the fall of Nazi Germany
I have read this book quite a number of times, having it in my possession all these years. I cannot conceive of a better account of the fall of Nazi Germany than this book.
John Toland writes with a verve and immediacy that grips the reader. The viewpoint is varied, always changing with all the various participants, their hopes, raised, then dashed.
Hitler's waning grip on reality and power is searingly told thru these pages, his henchmen and their gradual realisation of the situation and quiet abandonment of the madman in the last days.
Amazing stuff. It cannot be bettered!

The Road to Berlin
This is an excellent account of the last 100 days of the Third Reich, including the murderous fight between the Russians and Germans for Berlin.It also chronicles the desperate situation for the Germans in the closing months of the war and its immediate aftermath.A comment frequently heard by Germans at this time was, "Enjoy the war.The peace will be terrible."For those living in the Russian zone, it was.

Still among the best
I read this book when it first came out in paperback in the 1960s, when I was a middle school student.It made a profound impact on me at the time.I recently saw it in basically the same Bantam mass market paperback edition I'd bought in the '60s (though without the photos and map contained in the '60s version, even though the price had increased five-fold in the interim).I re-read it again primarily out of curiosity, simply to see what I thought of it forty years later.

Despite having read many dozens of books on WWII in the intervening years, I was wowed by Toland's account all over again.Toland was a master storyteller, not an academic or military historian as such, and had a novelist's understanding of the illuminating detail, the minor tragedy emblematic of the whole, and the reader's fascination with the character of people acting under the most extreme duress imaginable.

Toland weaves together numerous narrative threads of the highest diplomacy (FDR, Churchill, and Stalin at Yalta), the lowest farce (the goings on of Hitler and his bizarre entourage in Hitler's underground bunker), and endless violent encounters -- between enemy forces, and between military forces and the incredible masses of civilians fleeing the fighting or trapped in cities under ferocious bombardment.

While the book is populated with the brave and noble, at high levels and low, it is also frequented by monsters, knaves, cowards, innocent victims, and thugs on all sides (though the Germans, of course, were peerless in the scope and cruelty of their barbarities).This is not the place to go if you are looking for "the good war."This book gave me my first deep insight into why my uncle (now deceased, but at the time I first read this book younger than I am now), who had served as a rifleman in the 8th Infantry Division in Europe, seldom could be persuaded to talk about the war.

Toland's work was also somewhat unusual, when first published, in its lack of triumphalism.The atmosphere which permeates The Last 100 Days is not that of the impending victory of the good, or the impending defeat of the evil -- although the end of the war in Europe was certainly both -- but of immense tragedy and the dawning awareness that at the end of the war, the world was going to remain an exceedingly dangerous place, as the unnatural marriage of necessity between the Western powers and Stalin's Soviet Union came to an end.

Toland's narrative method has been adopted and adapted in other's subsequent works (Toland doubtless borrowed elements of it from others before him as well), but few have been his equal.And having read all of John Toland's several excellent books at one time or another, I am convinced that this book was his best.On the mountain of books on WWII, The Last 100 Days belongs near the top.This book should remain in print for a long time to come because it is great history, powerfully told.

The nazi gov'tis in state of collapse
can be consider as one of the best book about the last days of the gov't of hitler, in this book you can find how himmler,a high ranking Hitler general who was consider as the one responsible for the death of thousand of jews was strangely trying to saved them from extermination. most of the information you find in this book are quiet new.

This Book Details the Final Collapse of the Third Reich
This book is a delight to read for any confirmed WWII history buff. It uses a combination of oversight narrative as well as individual recollections and reconstructions from diaries and other historicaldocuments to provide a highly readable, entertaining and informative lookat the final momentous crush of battle between the western and easternfronts of the war against Germany. It is often highly novel, with aseemingly endless number of humorous and informative anecdotes about theprosecution of the war.

For example, author John Toland describesChurchill deliberately taking time, along with Generals Montgomery,Brookes, and Simpson, to publically urinate on a concrete bridge abutmentthat comprised part of the frontiers of the so-called Western Wall dividingHolland from Germany. He also details, with first person reports, thesystematic murderous rampages of the Soviet soldiers, who, unchecked bytheir officers, raped and pillaged their way toward Berlin and the finalvictory over Germany.

The main saving grace of the book is its tone,which delivers the mountain of information concerning this finalcoordinated assault at every level in a very simple, straightforward, andexcellently written expository fashion, and he seldom bores the reader.Instead, by bringing it down to the level of the individual participants,he anticipates a whole new wave of later WWII books by highly regardedauthors such as Stephen Ambrose et al that also employ this "first personrecollection" approach to thread together interesting narratives aboutvarious aspects of the war.

Toland's narrative helps us to betterunderstand the long- debated issues surrounding the curious slow-down ofAmerican, British and other Allied forces on the western front, whichallowed the Soviets to enter Berlin first, but also forced the Soviets tosuffer the brunt of the extremely high casualty rates at the hands of thefanatically inspired German soldier fighting to save the "Fatherland" fromthe barbarian Russian hordes. It also helps the reader to appreciate theextent to which the Soviets were, in fact, doing the lion's share of toughfighting for a number of years, as the casualty figures tend to support.The numbers of Russians lost dwarfs the losses of Brits, Australians,Americans, Canadians, French, or any other combatants.

This is awonderful book, which, although out of print, should be back-ordered, orsought out as a used book, or lent from the library. It is an easy read,and well-written and scholarly tome, and yet was light enough to slidethrough without any of the ponderous language and endless details of otherbooks on the war. I recommend it for any serious student of the secondworld war, and especially for those that want a wide-ranging narrativeregarding the final days and collapse of the ignominious Third Reich.Enjoy! ... Read more