Thornton: 700 books
A Teacher's Guide to Our Town
Common-Core Aligned Teacher Materials and a Sample Chapter
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
For teachers
We know that the Common Core State Standards are encouraging you to reevaluate the books that you assign to your students. To help you decide which books are right for your classroom, each free ebook in this series contains a Common Core–aligned teaching guide and a sample chapter.
This...
by Sarah Thornton
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2008
A fly-on-the-wall account of the smart and strange subcultures that make, trade, curate, collect, and hype contemporary art.
The art market has been booming. Museum attendance is surging. More people than ever call themselves artists. Contemporary art has become a mass entertainment, a luxury...
Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers
How a Nineteenth-Century Man of Business, Science, and the Sea Changed American Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
In this engagingly written biography, Tamara Plakins Thornton delves into the life and work of Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838), a man Thomas Jefferson once called a "meteor in the hemisphere." Bowditch was a mathematician, astronomer, navigator, seafarer, and business executive whose Enlightenment-inspired...
The Cabala and The Woman of Andros
Two Novels
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
“For much of the twentieth century, these remarkable early novels were hidden in the great shadow of The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Now we can examine them in the spotlight for the gifts that they are—memorable monuments to style and keys to understanding Wilder’s genius.” – Penelope Niven,...
by James Thornton, Martin Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Environmentally, our planet lacks the laws to keep it safe and those laws we do have are feebly enforced. Every new year is the hottest in human history, while forest, reef, ice, tundra, and species are disappearing forever. It is easy to lose all hope.
Who will stop the planet from committing...
My Adventures with Your Money
George Graham Rice and the Golden Age of the Con Artist
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Today, we talk about Bernard Madoff, but in the early 20th century, they talked about George Graham Rice. Born Jacob Simon Herzig in 1870, he later changed his name - just as he would frequently change his swindles to make himself into one of the most colorfully successful villains in American history....
Dividing Lines
Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
With this bold offering from two decades of research, J. Mills Thornton III presents the story of the civil rights movement from the perspective of community-municipal history at the grassroots level. Thornton demonstrates that the movement had powerful local sources in its three birth cities—Montgomery,...
by Michael Thornton
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
From choirboy to cowboy . . . In 1967, fresh from boarding school humiliations, and having lost his father to alcoholism, gangly teen Michael Thornton was packed off to a tough sheep and cattle station to work as a jackaroo. He was to learn the wool trade from the lamb up, under a boss legendary for...
by Bruce S Thornton
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
A concise introduction to the literature of Greece and Rome.
Bruce Thornton’s crisp and informative Student’s Guide to Classics provides readers with an overview of each of the major poets, dramatists, philosophers, and historians of ancient Greece and Rome. Including short bios of major...
by John K. Thornton
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250–1820 explores the idea that strong links exist in the histories of Africa, Europe and North and South America. John K. Thornton provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the Atlantic Basin before 1830 by describing political, social and cultural...
by Charles Thornton
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Have you ever thought of being an audiobook narrator? Do you know that you can make a living by narrating audiobooks on your iPhone? I will tell you how I create money from my iPhone. You can be an audiobook narrator for free. Are you tired of working for other people? Do you know that you can build...
Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation
The Economics of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
What role did economics play in leading the United States into the Civil War in the 1860s, and how did the war affect the economies of the North and the South? Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation uses contemporary economic analyses such as supply and demand, modern market theory, and the economics of...
American Wine Economics
An Exploration of the U.S. Wine Industry
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
The U.S. wine industry is growing rapidly and wine consumption is an increasingly important part of American culture. American Wine Economics is intended for students of economics, wine professionals, and general readers who seek to gain a unified and systematic understanding of the economic organization...
by Jason Thornton
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Even with the right plans and preparation, change and adaptation are necessary for the best zombie apocalypse survivor. This is the blog of a successful survivor that follows his experiences, successes and failures, as he hides away in his attic during the initial stages of the zombie plague to his...