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Each chapter in this unique compilation, designed to be informative and thought-provoking, offers an examination of incidents from the pre-colonial period through the Civil War, important to the development of the American Nation. It features a mix of primary and secondary source materials on approximately 30 selected "moments" in American history. Designed for use in introductory courses in American history, the incidents it covers were chosen both for their historical significance and to present a wide variety of human endeavors. Given the range of topics presented, there should be subjects of special interest to every student, regardless of major.
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Great.......2006-01-17
Jim R. McClellan has done students a great service in publishing 100s of primary sources and secondary sources of certain events in Americas past. In this volume is many documents at the time the events occurred giving the reader the chance to come to his own conclusion about what happened. Also there are excerpts from what historians have said about the event since the time the event occured, in doing this the reader will see how historians have changed many of their interpretations of Americas past.
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- Squanto the great indian!
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Squanto, Friend Of The Pilgrims (Scholastic Biography)
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Squanto the great indian!.......2006-11-08
I have been reading this wonderful book called Squanto, If you didn't
read it well don't worry I'll tell you a little bit about him.
Squanto is about your age in this book.White men came to his island.
They where leaving but Squanto wanted to go with them.
He didn't know where he was going.He heard a voise saying
"were going to London!".Squanto stayed there for 3 years.He went back
and saw...............nothing
THE COOL BOOK ABOUT SQUANTO.......2006-11-08
I thought that book was a cool book. In the begening of the book the white men wanted Squanto to go with them to London.So Squanto said yes. So Squanto went with the white men. It took 1 year to get to America to London.Squanto had a comfty new bed that he had to get use to.Next he stayed there for a few years.
A Great Nonfiction Book.......2006-11-08
In this book ,Squanto Friend of the pilgrims,there is a boy named Squanto and in the book it tells how he is a Patuxet. One day he was walking along a path and saw a ship and knew it was a white man's ship. He didn't wait one second to tell his people what he saw. So he ran as fast as he could when he raeched his village Squanot went strate to his home. Squanto told his mom and dad about the ship he saw. His mom was not very happy about this but on the ather hand Squanto' dad was theriled to hear this news and he told him to tell the chief. Also the chief was happy about this news....The next day Squanto went to find the white men and make friends with them. Squanto found the white men over a hill finally they became friends.That is my version of this story.
Awesome Squanto.......2006-11-08
Squanto went with the white men to meet oher people. Squanto wanted to go home but all the ships were full.After one year Squanto lived with his best friend Charles Robbins. Then one day he heard a ship was avalible. He got on the ship and in a few days later. They went huning and Squanto dicided to go home and he got half way there and Caption Hunt and cought him and tied his ankles and wrists with rope.a slave market in spain.Two chrishtens bought him and let him go. He wentto England.Hewent home and he found a little boy and asked him where his tribe was
and the little boy said they had a disease.everyone caughtit and died.The little boy asked him if he wanted tocome to his tibe andhe said" YES". The End!
Squanto the great indian!!.......2006-11-08
Squanto friend of the pilgims is a great book! It gives a lot of information about Squanto.He was a nice person he wanted to meet the white men. When the white men came to their land Squanto went to meet them. Squanto was in a bush hiding from the white men {pilgrims} one of the white men pulled up gun and shot a bird Squanto jumped out and ducked. He met the white men and sailed to London with the pilgrims. He stayed there for many years. When he went back home he was captured and taken back to London and was a slave but two pastors freed him. when he came home his tribe was gone there was nothing left for him.
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- Great story for your children
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Squanto And The Miracle Of Thanksgiving
Eric Metaxas
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This entertaining and historical story shows that the actual hero of the Thanksgiving was neither white nor Indian, but God. In 1608, English traders came to Massachusetts and captured a 12-year old Indian, Squanto, and sold him into slavery. He was raised by Christians and taught faith in God. Ten years later he was sent home to America. Upon arrival, he learned an epidemic had wiped out his entire village. But God had plans for Squanto. God delivered a Thanksgiving miracle: an English-speaking Indian living in the exact place where the Pilgrims land in a strange new world.
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Great story for your children.......2007-09-20
We got this book when my son was 3 years old and he loved it. It tells the story in a way that brings glory to God in the midst of difficult circumstances. Highly recommend!
GET ANOTHER PIECE OF THE PUZZLE.......2007-01-11
If you want your kids to really know the full story of the first Thanksgiving, then you cannot forego this book. Squanto is one of those stories that has not remained at the fore front of Thanksgiving tales. And, that fact is a crying shame. This story will not only speak facts, it will teach several moral lessons that the child in all of us needs to learn. It is a reminder of how we can be thankful no matter what life hands us in the way of trials. Read this book to your kids and inspire them to live their best lives!
Very nice.......2006-12-02
This is an excellent book for teaching the history of Thanksgiving. The story is well told, and the writing is well crafted. The pictures are remarkable; you can spend a lot of time looking into the faces of the characters, which are rich with emotion and humanity and realism. This book is a great investment.
Beautiful.......2005-09-30
This was an incredibly beautiful rendering of Squanto's life. I highly recommend the book to all ages.
Excellent Thanksgiving book!.......2003-10-24
This is an excellent resource to teach children the true meaning of Thanksgiving and how much God loves each of his children and has a wonderful plan for all of them. I would definitely recommend this book!
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- A great first Thanksgiving book
- A Good Book For Young Children - a review of "The Story of Thanksgiving"
- The Story of Thanksgiving
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The Story of Thanksgiving
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This book tells the story of the first Thanksgiving-how the pilgrims came to America on the Mayflower in search of religious freedom, how they landed at Plymouth Rock, and how the Native Americans taught them to plant and then joined them in a Thanksgiving feast. Parents can use the simple text and the bright illustrations of this book to introduce a very young child to this holiday.
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A great first Thanksgiving book.......2007-01-11
My daughter, 20 months at the time, absolutely loved this book. She got to the point where she would say all the key words before I did. I highly recommend it to any parent of a young toddler.
A Good Book For Young Children - a review of "The Story of Thanksgiving".......2005-11-23
My five year old daughter (and to some extent my 3 y.o. son) is ready for a more advanced book than this one, but before we move on I thought I would say something about this sturdy little book that has been our foundation in Thanksgiving Day preparations for the last four years.
"The Story of Thanksgiving" begins with a question about why we celebrate Thanksgiving. It then goes on to depict how the pilgrims left England to come to America. It shows pictures of sad Pilgrims boarding the Mayflower, followed by a rough ocean (at least by toddler standards) and then the thankful travelers arriving at Plymouth. (They are thankful to be on land again-LOL)
After that the Pilgrims are shown briefly struggling with snow and cold, followed by a more cheerful picture of them planting. With Squanto's arrival they learn new things about the new land of America. Squanto shows them how to plant pumpkins, corn, and squash. And the book ends with a picture of Native Americans and Pilgrims at their feast; followed by a modern family at their feast.
"Thank you, God, for our families, our food, and our homes" the author writes.
Five Stars. A sturdy little book with child friendly artwork. The text is simple and easily understandable without needing many explanations from mom or dad. The religious aspects can be emphasized or not.
Examples of text so you can judge for yourself:
The Pilgrims lived in England.
They could not have their own church,
so they left their homes for a new land far away.
From another page:
The Pilgrims built their homes. Winter came.
Icy winds blew. Snow fell.
There was not much food to eat.
The Story of Thanksgiving.......2002-12-14
My 7 year old and 4 year old asked me to read this book every night since before Thanksgiving. It's December and they are still requesting it. The words are so simple, that they now recognize most of them and read to me! Simple words, but great story.
Great first Thanksgiving book for pre-schoolers.......1999-11-06
Nice clear pictures, short, simple, interesting story with appropriate emphasis on God's role in the pilgrim's lives (without being a "religious" book). My favorite thanksgiving book for little kids.
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Most American children know the story of the Pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving, but the Native American side of the tale is far less familiar. Joseph Bruchac, a prolific and award-winning author of Native American descent (The First Strawberries, A Boy Called Slow) describes life in 1620 for a man who was destined to save the Pilgrims even as he was losing his family and tribe. Told from Squanto's point of view, this historically accurate and detailed story brings to life one of the most important moments in America's past. Demonstrating how much his people (the Patuxet, the People of the Falls) value honor, Squanto befriends English traders, even after being kidnapped and taken to Spain. After much hard work, Squanto manages to sail back to his homeland, where, in spite of his discovery that many of his people have died from disease brought by white people, he acts as envoy between the English and his own people, and helps the pilgrims survive in their new world.
Throughout this moving tale, Squanto's belief that "these men can share our land as friends" poignantly shines through. Greg Shed's gouache illustrations capture the warmth and dignity of Squanto and his friends. Young readers will be fascinated by this lesser-known perspective on the Thanksgiving tradition that remains strong today. (Ages 6 to 10) --Emilie Coulter
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In 1620 an English ship called the Mayflower landed on the shores inhabited by the Pokanoket people, and it was Squanto who welcomed the newcomers and taught them how to survive in the rugged land they called Plymouth. He showed them how to plant corn, beans, and squash, and how to hunt and fish. And when a good harvest was gathered in the fall, the two peoples feasted together in the spirit of peace and brotherhood.
Almost four hundred years later, the tradition continues. . . .
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The art in this book is offensive.......2001-10-25
The Native Americans in this book, with the lone exception of Massasoit, may have brown skin and wear traditional dress, but their facial features are totally *white* -- Squanto looks straight out of a JCrew catalog. Since when do Native Americans have turned up noses? Please. The art in this book isn't just "romanticized," it denies the physical bodies of Native Americans to the point at which it renders the accuracy of the text (and all it's good intentions) moot. Ugh. For much more interesting explorations of Native American history, I'd recommend This Land Is Your Land by George Littlechild.
Excellent Thanksgiving Story.......2000-11-06
This book is an excellent way of sharing the first Thanksgiving with children. It is told from the perspective of the Native Americans, a perspective that is often overlooked. The illustrations are beautiful and help to tell the story visually.
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Squanto: The Pilgrim Adventure
Kate Jassem
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Different from the Others!.......2003-10-12
This book provides a lot of information that hasn't appeared in other children's books. I really found myself interested in the story and understand the life of Squanto better than ever before. I highly recommend this book.
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Squanto: 1585? - 1622 (American Indian Biographies)
Arlene B. Hirschfelder
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Allegories and parables have long been effective ways to impart serious bits of knowledge and wisdom without getting too pedantic, and business readers seem increasingly receptive to sensible management theory that employs this lively age-old literary technique. Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive, a "leadership fable" by Patrick Lencioni, continues the trend with a solid prescription for organizational health--aiming for less politics, lower turnover, more productivity, and higher morale. Presented as a fictional tale of two technical consultants and their competing companies, the story is structured in a fashion that recalls his previous book (The Five Temptations of a CEO, whose main character and firm are even slipped into this narrative). Lencioni uses this hypothetical setting to show how his concepts might look and work in the real world. In this case, his "four disciplines at the heart of making any organization world class" are revealed and explained through the philosophy and behavior of Rich O'Connor of Telegraph Partners. Build and maintain a cohesive leadership team, create organizational clarity, communicate organizational clarity, and reinforce organizational clarity through human systems. Through his tale of Telegraph and its rival Greenwich Consulting, Lencioni illustrates how these principles can be beneficially employed--and how an organization can be stymied when they're missing. The story moves quickly and is followed by a comprehensive analytical summary, which includes self-assessment tools and suggestions for putting the ideas into practice. --Howard Rothman
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In this stunning follow-up to his best-selling book, The Five Temptations of a CEO, Patrick Lencioni offers up another leadership fable that's every bit as compelling and illuminating as its predecessor. This time, Lencioni's focus is on a leader's crucial role in building a healthy organization--an often overlooked but essential element of business life that is the linchpin of sustained success. Readers are treated to a story of corporate intrigue as the frustrated head of one consulting firm faces a leadership challenge so great that it threatens to topple his company, his career, and everything he holds true about leadership itself. In the story's telling, Lencioni helps his readers understand the disarming simplicity and power of creating organizational health, and reveals four key disciplines that they can follow to achieve it.
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Obviously, not all obsessions are productive and beneficial.......2007-07-12
This is one in a series of "leadership fables" in which Patrick Lencioni shares his thoughts about the contemporary business world. His characters are fictitious human beings rather than anthropomorphic animals, such as a tortoise that wins a race against a hare or pigs that lead a revolution to overthrow a tyrant and seize control of his farm.
In this instance, Lencioni focuses on a common business problem for or challenge to leaders: How to identify "a reasonable number of issues that will have the greatest possible impact on the success of [their] organization, and then spend most [their] time thinking about, talking about, and working on those issues." Presumably Lencioni agrees with Stephen Covey (among others) that executives tend to spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important. Of course, that sets a bad example for their direct reports. Viewed another way, some obsessions are productive...others are not. Extraordinary executives know the differences between the two types.
Here's the fictitious situation. Lencioni introduces CEOs of two rival firms in the Bay Area, Vince Green (Greenwich Consulting) and Rich O'Connor (Telegraph Partners) who have quite different obsessions: Green's are best revealed within the book's narrative; Green's are directly or indirectly the result what could be described as Greenwich Consulting's organizational inferiority complex insofar as Telegraph Partners is concerned. There is an early and significant development when O'Connor - struggling to cope with the pressures of trying to balance his family and his successful but demanding business - experiences what Lencioni characterizes as an "epiphany": the recognition of four basis activities ("disciplines, really") that guide and inform his leadership of Telegraph Partners thereafter. "He never certainly suspected that [his list of what become leadership obsessions] would become the blue-print of an employee's plan to destroy the firm."
Almost immediately, it becomes obvious that a new hire, Jamie Bender, "didn't seem to share the hunger and humility of his colleagues" at Telegraph Partners and that is a key point for reasons also best revealed within Lencioni's narrative. Recognizing the mistake, O'Connor must decide how to correct it. Over time, he and his colleagues become infected by what Lencioni describes as a "virus." What then happens - and does not happen - throughout the ensuing weeks allow Lencioni to dramatize both the importance of the four "obsessions of an extraordinary executive" to which the title of his book refers and the consequences when any one of them is compromised. He is a brilliant business thinker but he also possesses the skills of a master raconteur, introducing a cast of characters, conflicts between and among them, and then allowing "rising action" build to a climax (i.e. resolution) also best revealed within the narrative.
Of special interest to me is a conversation between Bender and Green when Bender explains each of the four disciplines with which O'Connor is obsessed. This conversation occurs late in the narrative and indicates that Bender understands the four disciplines and yet is unwilling and/or unable to master and then follow them. (This strikes me as an excellent example of what Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton characterize as the "Knowing-Doing Gap.") Bender's explanation seems somewhat didactic to me but, nonetheless, serves as a means by which Lencioni can summarize his key points. He adds a nice dramatic touch when O'Connor appears at Green's office and there is a brief encounter between him and Bender before he and Green meet. Although they and other executives are fictitious characters, each is credible as a human being rather than as a literary device.
As is Lencioni's custom in each of the other volumes in the series of "leadership fables," he then provides an "Organizational Health: The Model" section and supplementary material (Pages 139-180) whose value-added benefits will help his reader to make effective application of the lessons learned from the experiences shared by Rich O'Connor and his colleagues at Telegraph Partners as well as from what Vince Green finally realizes about himself and about the consequences of his own obsessions.
Those who share my high regard for this volume are urged to check out Patrick Lencioni's other "leadership fables" as well as Michael Ray's The Highest Goal, David Maister's Practice What You Preach, Bill George's Authentic Leadership and his more recently published True North, James O'Toole's Creating the Good Life, and Michael Maccoby's Narcissistic Leaders.
Highly Effective Teaching Tool.......2006-12-27
So far I've given this book to 3 of my middle managers in an effort to explain to them what type of company I want to run. Every one of them has found Four Obsessions incredibly useful. I'd make it required reading for anyone in your business that needs help understanding the way a company should operate.
Simple and powerful - Do it and see what happens!.......2006-11-03
Lencioni writes this as a leadership fable, and at the end of it, does a section explaining the 4 disciplines in greater detail.
The fable is about 2 competing companies in the same space but of different performance. One CEO wanted to know what it is about the other company. A new hiring of the lauded company became the problem of the company and has insecurities and was not able to fit in to the company culture. But in that time, he learns what goes on in that company and after resigning, he heads for the other company and begins to tell that CEO what was going on in there.
This is an interesting fable where you can draw out lessons from it. It does show that no CEO is perfect, and many are just ordinary people who simply choose to put a focus on what needs to be done, and so he does - the 4 disciplines.
Lencioni writes that "no one but the head of an organization can make it healthy... and so... it is actually more important for leaders to focus on making their organization healthy..." I believe the principle to be true, as any living creature that is healthy will automatically grow.
The 4 disciplines are:
1. Build and maintain a cohesive leadership team.
2. Create organizational clarity.
3. Over-communicate organizational clarity.
4. Reinforce organizational clarity through human systems.
Lencioni's parting remarks in this book were, "First, there is nothing more important than making an organization healthy... Second, there is no substitute for discipline." Be inspired that you can make a difference as a leader wherever you are!
It was good - especially since I had to read it.......2006-07-11
I enjoyed this book. I had to read it for class, so the fact that it was prefaced with a very enjoyable story was a HUGE plus! Since I am someone actively seeking management, I found this book to be helpful with my life goals - although it seems a little simple, I am looking forward to putting this into practice!
Great Writing, Thin on Research.......2006-06-24
Easy to read, well written, a page turner. It also contains a few profound thoughts--namely the four disciplines:
1) Build and Maintain a Cohesive Leadership Team
2) Create Organizational Clarity
3) Over-Communicate Organization Clarity
4) Reinforce Organizational Clarity Through Human Systems.
The fable does a great job illustrating the meaning and application of these four disciplines. Unfortunately it stops at that. There is no appendix referencing facts, studies or collaborative evidence proving that these four obsessions really work as illustrated. (Other research based material I've read does back it up) Not including a "hardcore" chapter in this volume definitely lowers the quality of the book. But, overall I still found it an excellent book, well worth my time.
Book Description
An elegant, attractively priced box set of the bestselling leadership fables
This set brings together all three of Patrick Lencioni's successful leadership fables: The Five Temptations of a CEO, The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive, and The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. Each book combines an engaging fictional story with insightful analysis to address some of the major obstacles facing leaders today. All three of the stories are aimed at helping readers build healthy organizations, focusing on results, not politics. While these tales are set in the business world, Lencioni's wisdom and practical advice will appeal to general readers and benefit leaders in any field. The classic and consistent design of the trilogy make this a perfect gift set.
Patrick M. Lencioni (Emeryville, CA) is President of The Table Group, a management consulting firm specializing in executive team development and organizational effectiveness. As a consultant and executive coach, he has worked with hundreds of senior executives in organizations ranging from Fortune 500 companies and high tech start-ups to universities and nonprofits. Some of his clients include Novell, AT&T, Visa, and The Make-A-Wish Foundation of America. He has worked internationally in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, Canada, and Mexico.
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Rich O'Connor, fundador y Consejero Delegado de Telegraph Partners, tiene ante sí un reto que cuestiona su liderazgo y sus convicciones sobre la manera de dirigir una empresa. Sin embargo, la solución a sus problemas se encuentra en una hoja de papel que conserva sobre la mesa de su despacho...
Los protagonistas de esta entretenida narración dirigen dos empresas competidoras que representan sendos modelos organizativos contrapuestos.
Lencioni nos ofrece una gran lección de sabiduría empresarial: resulta crucial para los directivos de cualquier empresa dedicar sus mayores esfuerzos a construir una organización saludable. Este objetivo suele ser relegado por muchos líderes porque requiere disciplina, coraje, una visión a largo plazo y resulta difícil de medir en términos cuantitativos.
Las cuatro obsesiones de un ejecutivo presenta las cuatro claves fundamentales para conseguir que una empresa cuente con una organización que goce de buena salud:
·Crear un equipo de liderazgo
·Crear claridad organizacional
·Comunicar esa claridad
·Reforzar la claridad organizacional mediante los sistemas humanos.
También proporciona las herramientas para aplicar esos principios de una manera clara y tremendamente práctica.
Customer Reviews:
Excelente Visión Administrativa.......2007-02-11
Me parece clara y sencilla la aplicabilidad de los conceptos que muestra este libro. Espero que en los siguentes libros de este autor, tener la misma impresión.
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"These are some of the most practical and absorbing books on management I’ve read. Lencioni is fast defining the next generation of leadership thinkers. Don’t put this collection in your library. Keep it on your desk!"
—Ken Blanchard, coauthor, The One Minute Manager
This four-book set brings together Patrick Lencioni’s unique and best-selling leadership fables: The Five Temptations of a CEO, The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, and Death by Meeting. Each book contains both an engaging fictional story and a separate insightful analysis to help readers address some of their most pressing leadership challenges, including becoming a better leader, running a healthy company, building a cohesive team, and conducting effective and engaging meetings. While these tales are set in the business world, Lencioni’s wisdom and practical advice will appeal to managers and benefit leaders in all types of organizations.
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He just makes sense!.......2006-04-12
His books are good. I've read all of them including his new one. I bought this library because I believe what he has to say. Death by Meeting alone is a reason enough (hello? who has meetings?). Anyway -- good collection to add to my library. I'm proud of this one.
A Must Have for Executives.......2006-03-18
Lencioni's library of management fables is a must read for everyone who finds themselves responsible for any aspect of people and company management. Applicable for CEO's and first level management, told in an easy-to-understand experiential manner, these books teach the basics and beyond.
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- History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
- History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
- History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
- History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
- History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
- History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
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Out of Our Past
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