From Booklist
Gr. 4-7. From the Smart about History series, this book is similar to other recent titles that quickly delineate the presidents with cartoon-style illustrations and a few fast, fun facts. However, this also presents a paragraph or so of solid information along with the fluff....
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Up to Date for 2008! This is the perfect introduction for young readers to the lives and times of America’s 43 most influential leaders. Just as the new president is inaugurated, readers can easily relive the course of American history through a detailed timeline, more than 50 vivid photographs and illustrations, information...
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From School Library Journal
Grade 5–8—This update of the 2005 edition includes a large cover photo of Barack Obama, a foreword by him, revised coverage of George W. Bush’s tenure, and a brief overview of Obama’s political career and election. Four new two-page essays about topics related...
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Want to know a secret? Sssshhhh. Great comedy actors aren’t born…they’re made. Who makes them? Paul Ryan, that’s who. Now Ryan, the top comedy acting coach in Hollywood, shares his secrets in The Art of Comedy, a step-by-step guide for turning actors into comedy actors. Packed with exercises, The Art of Comedy...
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From Booklist
Conrad’s father is the senior Democratic senator of North Dakota, and her uncle is the Republican U.S. agricultural secretary and former governor of North Dakota. Still, she manages to be nonpartisan in this very helpful guide to American politics. She highlights the foibles of both parties...
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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Marketing won’t speak to engineering. Sales thinks production hogs the budget. Front desk believes back room’s lazy. These sorts of turf wars, which turn outwardly unified companies into groupings of uncommunicative “silos,” are the stuff of management lore. According to bestselling...
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