What Was Ellis Island? (Häftad)
avPatricia Brennan Demuth, David Groff, David Groff
ISBN: 9780448479156 - UTGIVEN: 2014-03From 1892 to 1954, Ellis Island was the gateway to a new life in the United States for millions of immigrants. In later years, the island was deserted, the buildings decaying. Ellis Island was not restored until the 1980s, when Americans from all over the country donated more than $150 million. It o[...]
Who Was Alexander Graham Bell? (Häftad)
avBonnie Bader, David Groff
ISBN: 9780448464602 - UTGIVEN: 2013-10Did you know that Bell's amazing invention--the telephone--stemmed from his work on teaching the deaf? Both his mother and wife were deaf. Or, did you know that in later years he refused to have a telephone in his study? Bell's story will fascinate young readers interested in the early history of mo[...]
Who Was Clara Barton? (Häftad)
avStephanie Spinner, David Groff
ISBN: 9780448479538 - UTGIVEN: 2014-07Clarissa Clara Barton was a shy girl who grew up to become a teacher, nurse, and humanitarian. At a time when few women worked outside the home, she became the first woman to hold a government job, as a patent clerk in Washington, DC. In 1864, she was appointed lady in charge of the hospitals at the[...]
The Crisis of Desire (Pocket)
avRobin Hardy, David Groff, Robin Hardy
ISBN: 9780816639113 - UTGIVEN: 2002-06With eloquent passion, Robin Hardy writes of the gay man's struggle to maintain power over his health, his body, and his sexuality in the face of a devastating epidemic. Building on the work of books like Paul Monette's Borrowed Time and Randy Shilt's And the Band Played On, The Crisis of Desire c[...]
The Criminology of Place (Inbunden)
avDavid Weisburd, Elizabeth R. Groff, Sue-ming Yang
ISBN: 9780195369083 - UTGIVEN: 2012-10The study of crime has focused primarily on why particular people commit crime or why specific communities have higher crime levels than others. In The Criminology of Place, David Weisburd, Elizabeth Groff, and Sue-Ming Yang present a new and different way of looking at the crime problem by examini[...]
Who Was Mother Teresa? (Pocket)
avJim Gigliotti, David (ILT) Groff, Jim Gigliotti
ISBN: 9780448482996 - UTGIVEN: 2015-05Born a humble girl in what is now Albania, Agnes Bojaxhiu lived a charitable life. She pledged herself to a religious order at the age of 18 and chose the name Sister Teresa, after the patron saint of missionaries. While teaching in India, where famine and violence had devastated the poor, Teresa sh[...]
