The Student Magellan
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Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Voyages around the world |
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Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Voyages around the world |
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Author | : Douglas Evans |
Publisher | : Boyds Mills Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2016-11-04 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1629795925 |
Every kid's dream is to be named Most Valuable Player. But how many ever dream that the game is a race around the world (no flying allowed) in just forty days? That's the challenge Adam faces in the Great Global Game. As the player for the Magellan Voyage Project, he competes against others for a four-million-dollar prize! Trackers with blowguns and a nefarious baron don't make things easy.
Author | : S. A. Kramer |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2004-08-03 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 044843105X |
When Portuguese sailor Ferdinand Magellan set sail from Spain in 1519, he believed he could get to the Spice Islands by sailing west through or around the New World. He was right, but what he didn't know was that the treacherous voyage would take him three years and cost him his life. Black-and-white line drawings illustrate Magellan's life and voyage, with sidebars and a time line that enhance readers' understanding of the period.
Author | : Chandler Belden Beach |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 822 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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Author | : Tim Joyner |
Publisher | : International Marine Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Voyages around the world |
ISBN | : 9780070331280 |
"In this stirring account of an epic voyage beset by shipwreck, desertions, scurvy, and hunger, (Magellan) emerges as an all-too-human hero who tested the limits of the possible."--"Publishers Weekly."
Author | : Cynthia A. Miller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Cartography |
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Author | : Chandler Belden Beach |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 856 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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Author | : Jim Millhorn |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 9780810836808 |
The World Wide Web is expanding at a rapid pace. This progressive growth has inevitably created a proliferation of sites and information sources that are posted on this medium. Jim Millhorn attempts to examine a small corner of this undergrowth in Student's Companion to the World Wide Web by focusing on outstanding academic and scholarly sites for students in the social sciences and humanities. While the Web is an invaluable source of information, students do not always know how to extract the information that they seek. This guide can offer assistance. This book expertly handles common reference sources, search engines, meta-subject guides, the humanities, and social science disciplines, which are arranged in an alphabetized sequence of chapters featuring each individual discipline. An innovative and timely answer to the student's quest for information, this book opens the broadest purview the Web offers on a specific discipline while simultaneously limiting the number of featured sites.
Author | : Tamson Pietsch |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2023-05-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226825175 |
The Floating University sheds light on a story of optimism and imperialist ambition in the 1920s. In 1926, New York University professor James E. Lough—an educational reformer with big dreams—embarked on a bold experiment he called the Floating University. Lough believed that taking five hundred American college students around the globe by ship would not only make them better citizens of the world but would demonstrate a model for responsible and productive education amid the unprecedented dangers, new technologies, and social upheavals of the post–World War I world. But the Floating University’s maiden voyage was also its last: when the ship and its passengers returned home, the project was branded a failure—the antics of students in hotel bars and port city back alleys that received worldwide press coverage were judged incompatible with educational attainment, and Lough was fired and even put under investigation by the State Department. In her new book, Tamson Pietsch excavates a rich and meaningful picture of Lough’s grand ambition, its origins, and how it reveals an early-twentieth-century America increasingly defined both by its imperialism and the professionalization of its higher education system. As Pietsch argues, this voyage—powered by an internationalist worldview—traced the expanding tentacles of US power, even as it tried to model a new kind of experiential education. She shows that this apparent educational failure actually exposes a much larger contest over what kind of knowledge should underpin university authority, one in which direct personal experience came into conflict with academic expertise. After a journey that included stops at nearly fifty international ports and visits with figures ranging from Mussolini to Gandhi, what the students aboard the Floating University brought home was not so much knowledge of the greater world as a demonstration of their nation’s rapidly growing imperial power.
Author | : Robin Mason |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2005-06-23 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1134663013 |
This book examines the educational and socio-cultural issues arising from the globalization of education.