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13 produkter
What Is It Like to Be Blind?
Av Deborah Kent
E-bok, 2012
417 kr
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People who are blind learn ways to use their senses of touch and hearing in order to sense the world around them. Readers will learn about the tools they use, including canes and seeing eye dogs, to travel and to be independent. First-hand stories of children who are blind help readers get a …
What Is It Like to Be Deaf?
Av Deborah Kent
E-bok, 2012
417 kr
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The world is quieter if you are deaf. What is that like? How do people who are deaf or hard of hearing communicate? How do videophones work? Readers learn all about sign language, hearing aids, and the latest technology that helps people who are deaf interact with the people in their lives.
What Is Braille?
Av Deborah Kent
E-bok, 2012
417 kr
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Many people who are blind learn Braille in order to read. This innovative code allows them to read everything from popular books to maps and signs as well as write their own books? Readers will learn the history of Braille, how it has developed, and how it is used by some young people featured in …
What Is Sign Language?
Av Deborah Kent
E-bok, 2012
417 kr
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For people who are deaf, learning language is different. Many learn sign language to let people know what they are thinking or feeling. They motion with their hands, faces, and bodies to communicate? Readers will learn the history of sign language, how it is used today, and how it is the first …
Vietnam War
From Da Nang to Saigon
Av Deborah Kent
E-bok, 2011
536 kr
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"What are we over here fighting for?" An American soldier asked this question during the Vietnam War. Many other American soldiers and citizens wondered the same thing. The conflict began when the United States sent armed forces to defend South Vietnam against Communist North Vietnam. It was …
American Revolution
From Bunker Hill to Yorktown
Av Deborah Kent
E-bok, 2011
536 kr
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On April 19, 1775, American militiamen gathered at the village center in Lexington to face the coming British soldiers. No one knows who fired the initial shot, but that first blaze of gunfire signaled the beginning of the Revolutionary War. Only a year after the first battle, the American colonies …
Internment of Japanese Americans
Av Deborah Kent, Charlotte Taylor
E-bok, 2015
581 kr
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Before World War II, Japanese Americans worked hard to adapt to American life while creating tight-knit communities. But after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, everything changed. The U.S. government sent 120,000 Americans of Japanese descent into internment camps. Learn the sad history of the camps, the …
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Founder of the Women''s Suffrage Movement
Av Deborah Kent
E-bok, 2016
581 kr
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Every time women vote, they should thank Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Stanton''s unyielding efforts to attain the vote for American women finally paid off in 1920, after her death, with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Enhanced by primary sources, images, and sidebars, …
Seneca Falls Convention
Working to Expand Women''s Rights
Av Deborah Kent
E-bok, 2016
581 kr
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They were two days that changed the world. The 1848 Seneca Falls Convention was the first of its kind to address the topic of women’s rights. Featuring excerpts from primary sources, images, and sidebars, this informative volume describes the low status held by nineteenth-century women, and how a …
Crooked Paths Made Straight
A Blind Teacher’S Adventures Traveling Around the World
Av Isabelle L. D. Grant, Deborah Kent
E-bok, 2016
57 kr
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In 1959, two years before she retired from teaching, Dr. Isabelle Grant set off on a yearlong journey around the world with Oscar, her long white cane, in her hand. She had been totally blind for the past twelve years. In Crooked Paths Made Straight, she shares the story of her journey during which …
