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Did you know you can sell your books at the end of the class? The best time to sell your textbooks is during exam time but University Store will buy back your used books thoughout each semester. Even if your books aren't being used here next semester, they still have value. These books are shipped out of state to be recycled to other colleges and universities around the country. Recycling your textbooks results in savings for everyone.
Vermont: A
Seasonal CelebrationPhotographs of Vermont throughout the seasons taken by native Vermonter Paul Boisvert.
By: Willard Sterne Randall and Nancy Nahra
Renowned biographer
Randall (Thomas Jefferson, 1993, etc.) and wife Nahra,
an award-winning poet, here offer fascinating sketches of
Americans who have unjustly been relagated to the footnotes of
history.
While not all of the authors' subjects are truly obscure - most
students of the Revolutionary period are aware of Polish patriot
Tadeusz Kosciuszko or the Tory William Franklin, Benjamin's son,
who was the last royal govenor of New Jersey, and of Peggy
Shippen, who induced Benedict Arnold's treason, while Tecumseh
and Sitting Bull are well known even to casual students of
American history. But most have faded from popular consciousness
despite having been influential or even notorious in their own
time. After vividly sketching the bloody tale of Tom Quick, who
fought a personal feud with the Lenape Indians for 40 years, the
authors tell the stories of Native Americans who resisted the
conquest of the continent by whites, like the Lenape Teedyuscung,
and those who conformed to white culture, like old-time Cleveland
baseball star Louis Sockalexis, an Abenaki Indian after whom the
Cleveland Indians were named. Besides Native Americans, the
authors depict persons who, often courageously, resisted the
exclusions of white male society: Anne Hutchinson, the
independent mystic who dared defy the male authority of the
Puritan church; James Forten, black Philadelphia inventor and
philanthropist and his granddaughter Charlotte, an abolitionist
who taught ex-slaves at a special school in South Carolina; and
Myra Bradwell, feminist lawyer and suffragist.Charmingly, the
authors also include an account of Thomas Jefferson and James
Madison taking a summer vacation in New England in 1791: rather
than showing us "forgotten Americans," here the authors
emphasize the forgotten dimensions of the best-remembered
Americans.
Wll narrated, these thumbnail portraits vividly show the
forgotten side of important struggles and issues in American
history.*
*from Kirkus Reviews, Date of Issue: May 1, 1998
Book published by Addison-Wesley. $24.00
Millions of readers defined their lives though Gail Sheehy's
landmark work, Passages, named by a Library of Congress
survey as one of the most influential books of our time. The
author of thirteen books, Ms. Sheehy is also a political
journalist and contributing editor to Vanity Fair. The
mother of two daughters, she divides her time between New York
and California, where she lives with her husband, editor Clay
Felker, who teaches journalism at the University of California at
Berkeley.
Understanding
Men's Passages: Discovering the New Map of
Men's LivesUnderstanding Men's Passages is the most intimate and candid account of what men's lives are really like today, revealing their doubts, their passions, their hunger for renewal. Given their increasingly unpredictable and elongated lives, men need to reinvent themselves and expand the ways they demonstrate their manliness.*
*from jacket cover
Published by Random House. $24.00
Autographed books still available.
Frank Smallwood's
University of Vermont Presidents
Two Centuries of Leadership
This book would make a great gift!
and
Willard Randall's
George Washington: A Life
These two authors were kind enough to autograph a few extra copies of their books. There is a very limited quantity of each title still available. Get your copy before they are gone for good!
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