Famous Men of Modern Times (Illustrated)

Famous Men of Modern Times (Illustrated) PDF

Author: John H. Haaren

Publisher: Readaclassic.com

Published: 2011-01-01

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9781611043969

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In "Famous Men of Modern Times," author John Haaren introduces the birth of the modern era! Readers will meet the men responsible for shaping our recent foundations---such as Lorenzo de Medici, Christopher Columbus, Galileo, Newton, Napoleon, Gladstone, and George Washington---and experience the adventurous times through their eyes. With detailed black-and-white artwork and vibrant color illustrations, this easy-to-understand text correlates history with reading for an all-encompassing study. Haaren, who also wrote "Famous Men of Greece," "Famous Men of Rome," and "Famous Men of the Middle Ages," was an American educator and historian. Haaren's father was German and his mother Irish. He studied under Prof. N. M. Butler at Columbia University, 1889-91, before becoming a teacher in New York. In 1907 he became Associate Superintendent of Schools in New York, increasing the number and efficiency of kindergartens and starting classes to teach English to foreigners. He was president of the department of pedagogy in the Brooklyn Institute. Haaren High School (which was located on 10th Avenue between 58th and 59th Streets in Manhattan) was named in his honor. The Charles B. J. Snyder-designed school which was initially DeWitt Clinton High School is now Haaren Hall on the campus of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

Famous Men of Modern Times (Classic Reprint)

Famous Men of Modern Times (Classic Reprint) PDF

Author: John H. Haaren

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2019-02-19

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780365531258

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Excerpt from Famous Men of Modern Times It should be carefully noted that this little volume is the fourth and last in a series written for the express purpose of creating a deeper interest in the study of History. These four volumes are entitled respectively Famous Men of Greece; Famous Men of Rome; Famous Men of the Middle Ages; and Famous Men of Modern Times. The very titles of these books convey at once, both to the teacher and -the pupil, that the method of teaching History here pursued is by approaching it through the realm of Biography; and it is not too much to say that, in this respect, the previous volumes have been eminently successful. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Famous Men Who Never Lived

Famous Men Who Never Lived PDF

Author: K. Chess

Publisher: Tin House Books

Published: 2019-03-05

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 194779325X

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Finalist for a 2019 Sidewise Award “Conceptually adventurous yet full of feeling. . . . smart, thought-provoking, and thoroughly enjoyable.” —Charles Yu, author of Interior Chinatown Wherever Hel looks, New York City is both reassuringly familiar and terribly wrong. As one of the thousands who fled the outbreak of nuclear war in an alternate United States—an alternate timeline, somewhere across the multiverse—she finds herself living as a refugee in our own not-so-parallel New York. The slang and technology are foreign to her, the politics and art unrecognizable. While others, like her partner, Vikram, attempt to assimilate, Hel refuses to reclaim her former career or create a new life. Instead, she obsessively rereads Vikram’s copy of The Pyronauts—a science fiction masterwork in her world that now only exists as a single flimsy paperback—and becomes determined to create a museum dedicated to preserving the remaining artifacts and memories of her vanished culture. But the refugees are unwelcome and Hel’s efforts are met with either indifference or hostility. And when the only copy of The Pyronauts goes missing, Hel must decide how far she is willing to go to recover it and finally face her own anger, guilt, and grief over what she has truly lost. With Famous Men Who Never Lived, K Chess has created a compelling and inventive speculative work on what home means to those who have lost it forever.

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