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A superb reference for writers, researchers, students and teachers, this dictionary-style book illuminates everyday life in the 1800s, decade by decade. Readers will find hundreds of otherwise obscure facts about:
* Popular slang--from the range to the underworld
* How to furnish a farmhouse or outfit a barn
* How much it cost for a shot of whiskey or to mail a letter
* Styles of the fashionable--and not so fashionable
* Courtship and marriage rituals
* Popular food and drink--including brand names
* And much, much more!
Customer Reviews:
One book you will need as a writer........2007-08-23
This book has all the stuff you will need to make your novel seem real. I promise you will enjoy this book even if you are not a writer. I found the answers to all the questions I had been asking. I thank Marc McCutcheon for all his hard work. It has helped me.
Great information at your finger tips.......2007-01-29
This is a great reference guide. I am currently writing a romance novel set in the mid 1800's. The chapters are easy to find what you're looking for and the examples show how the word or phrase was used. If your looking for a great reference guide that is straight to the point I would highly recommend "Everyday Life in the 1880's"
Mediocre, missing essential information, poorly constructed.......2006-06-12
This book lacks any information about education. Such an essential subject - affecting children and adults alike - should certainly be included.
Nor does it include information about art (visual/performing) or literature pertinent to the people at the time.
It also has no index, so that searching for anything is ridiculously slow.
Visuals are lacking - textual descriptions of hair or various equipment are poor substitutes for an image.
Essentially it is a poorly organized dictionary, and stating that it is "a guide for writers, students and historians" is an overstatement to say the least!
Simply a dictionary .......2006-03-09
When I read the description of the book I thought that this book would actually provide information about everyday life in the 1800's; instead, it is merely a dictionary. There are no passages that describe fashion, etiquette, industry, clothing, or anything else useful to a historian. Instead, the book merely provides one sentence descriptions of objects you probabaly can already identify. This book may be useful if you come across the name of an item in a primary text and you are not sure what it is. However, it provides very little useful general information
Holy disorganization, Batman...........2005-12-28
It's been a few months since I read this, but I thought I might give a review.
I found this book horrid. It was not organized in a way that would be simple and easy for a reader. As a writer of historical fiction I was interested in finding out about daily life during the Civil War. But I would find references from all years thrown together so I had to fish out the important details.It was not broken down by years or decades which I think would have been much easier. I gave up on this book because I couldn't find the information I needed.
If you are a writer and are thinking about this book I suggest getting it from the library, and if you believe it will be of use to you buy it then.
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This clinical learning tool contains the step-by-step actions for every procedure found in Fundamentals of Nursing: Standards and Practice, third edition, by Sue C. DeLaune and Patricia K. Ladner.
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B> Brief, yet comprehensive, this user-friendly reference/text provides history students with practical advice about how to improve their writing and study skills while learning about history. It presents the discipline of history as a very relevant social science, demystifies the writing process, lessens students' anxiety over library research, and reviews the rudimentary skills necessary for “surviving” a college history course. It offers guides to preparing different types of history papers and features fun and interesting creative writing exercises that invite readers into the world of writing history in unique ways that are more enjoyable than traditional approaches.
Customer Reviews:
Borderline Useless.......2005-09-23
While this volume contains some useful info on how to write history papers, it has many shortcomings which ultimately make it not worth the money.
As an example, the section on internet sources is outdated to the point of humor.
Futhermore, there are more than just a few spelling errors in this book. While this may not affect one's ability to understand the text, it certainly undermines the authority of the author as an expert on writing.
For $30, there are many better sources for this sort of information.
A useful tool.......2005-09-08
I teach history at the university level, and was dismayed when excellent students did not have some very basic skills. An earlier reviewer said something like 'boring textbook' - well, yes. But as a tool, rather than a quick read, this book is very very good. Well organized and clearly presented, this text by Hellstern manages to pack quite a bit into a short text. I now require it for all history majors, simply to guide them as they hone their skills.
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practical and concise.......2007-06-13
practical and concise- it's the ideal introduction to studying art history (particularly studying and preparing papers for university art history classes). I took an upper-level art history class my freshman year of college, and this book really made it possible for me to thrive in that class, despite my absolute lack of advanced art/advanced university studies.
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How to Write Essays & Dissertations: A Guide For English Literature Students
Nigel Fabb , and
Alan Durant
Manufacturer: Pearson Longman
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History Skills: A Student's Handbook
Mary Abbott
Manufacturer: Routledge
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History Skills provides clear and practical guidance for students from freshman year until the end of the final year that helps to develop skills and knowledge.
History Skills gives frank and practical help to students from the moment of contemplating entry into higher education until the end of the final year. It provides the comprehensive toolkit for all history students. Designed as a guide to success the book supports the development of the critical skills of investigation, analysis and argument.
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How to Win as a Final-Year Student
Phil Race
Manufacturer: Open University Press
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Final year undergraduates face a particular set of challenges. What they do in their final year is critical to their futures. They must cope with revision for final exams as well as completing coursework and sometimes working on extended dissertations or projects. At the same time they need to be taking strategic decisions about their future careers. Many will be handling job applications and interviews. Others will be going through selection processes for entry into higher degrees.
With greater numbers of students entering higher education, representing a broader cross-section of the population than ever before, the challenges of the final year cause most students some measure of stress, and prove unmanageable for a significant number. Because of larger class sizes in most institutions, the amount of real help and support from academic staff to final year students is diminishing.
Many final year students will have read one of the many useful general study-skills texts which are available. However these books do not provide the depth of assistance, or the range of coverage which final year students need. How to Win as a Final-Year Student is the first book to deal with the specific challenges faced by final year students. It is strongly recommended that students be advised to read it at the beginning of their final year.
Topics covered by this book include:
* How to think strategically about what you're doing
* How to plan your time in order to work successfully on several things at once
* Tackling big dissertations and projects
* Revision - learning from past mistakes
* Managing stress
* Exam techniques for final exams, including preparing for a viva
* Thinking about research and higher degrees
* Writing a CV
* Making job applications
* Preparing for interviews and tests
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Teaching Bibliographic Skills in History: A Sourcebook for Historians and Librarians
Manufacturer: Greenwood Press
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Drawing upon the work of historians and librarians who teach bibliographic skills and the general literature of bibliographic instruction, this sourcebook discusses a diversity of instructional issues, designs, and concerns. It presents a collection of approaches to teaching bibliographic skills to history students at three levels: undergraduates, advanced undergraduates, and graduate students. Each topic is covered by an expert. The work opens with two chapters discussing (1) Historical Methodologies and Research and (2) History and Interdisciplinary History. Attention is then directed to bibliographic instruction in history, with chapters on finding and using historical materials and bibliographic instruction in history. Other chapters consider special topics--including catalogs and indexes, reference sources, sources for interdisciplinary research, electronic information sources, and using the finding aids to archive and manuscript collections. The work concludes with an extensive and wide ranging annotated bibliography of books, articles, and other literature. Thoughtful and convenient, this book is a rich source of instructional insights, ideas, and designs. In its totality, it presents bibliographic and library research skills as an integral part of the historical enterprise.
Customer Reviews:
Great book by accomplished author still out there fighting for Western Civilization!.......2006-07-14
Des Griffin's 'Fourth Reich of the
Rich', despite it's silly cover is a
fine book that was originally written
in 1975 and released in 1976 as 'The
Missing In World Affairs'. Mr Griffin,
a solid Christian-Patriot has reproduced
this never refuted book many times in
updates that give the astute reader an
up-to-date picture of the scene as our
civilization slips further away from a
Constitutional Republic and more into
a 'Demo(n)ocracy', one of the worst
froms of Gov't on planet earth; a 'de-
mocracy' is Establishment 'Mob Rule',
by what Ross Perot and Pat Buchanan,
when they both originally had their
heads screwed on right, used to call
'Push-Poll-Politics'. Lie to the people,
then create a counter lie, and offer
"the only possible solution", naturally
all the while curtailing more and more
liberties and rights from Joe Q. Citizen.
Dictatorship anyone?!
An Wonderful Eye Opener Of Finance Capital.......2004-09-22
Evidence for an international conspiracy, from an American perspective, Fourth Reich of the Rich documents centuries of ties between world revolutionaries and international financiers. Demonstrates how Rockefeller-Rothschild interests manipulate Communists and anti-Communists alike in the interests of one-world domination.
One of the most important books that anyone should read.......2004-06-16
If you want to know who is controlling the world, and what they are planning for it; then you should read this book.
Unmitigated bunk.......2004-05-05
from the start to the finish. Not worth a Christian's time.
Brilliant.......2003-12-09
This is a great book, it is extremely well documented, well researched and thorough. It also has copies of documents used, and gives a good overview of what is going on today in good chronological order. This is a very important book and has all the different groups involved and is not just focused on one area.
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Fourth Reich of the Rich
Manufacturer: Noontide Press
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Books:
- Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South
- Famous First Flights That Changed History: Sixteen Dramatic Adventures (Explorers Club Classic)
- Forbidden Fruit: Love Stories from the Underground Railroad
- Four Volume Set: UXL Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes
- Frederick Douglass : Autobiographies : Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave / My Bondage and My Freedom / Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (Library of America)
- Frederick Douglass : Autobiographies : Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave / My Bondage and My Freedom / Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (Library of America)
- Gibraltar Earth
- Give Your Heart to the Hawks: A Tribute to the Mountain Men
- Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War
- Harry Hopkins: Sudden Hero, Brash Reformer (The Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute Series on Diplomatic and Economic History)
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