Product Description: THE ENDURING VISION, CONCISE EDITION, is an engaging narrative that integrates political, social, and cultural history within a chronological framework. Known for its focus on the environment and the land, the text is also praised for its innovative coverage of cultural history, public health and medicine, and the West--including Native American history...read more

Product Description: THE ENDURING VISION, CONCISE EDITION, is an engaging narrative that integrates political, social, and cultural history within a chronological framework. Known for its focus on the environment and the land, the text is also praised for its innovative coverage of cultural history, public health and medicine, and the West--including Native American history...read more

Product Description: THE ENDURING VISION, CONCISE EDITION, is an engaging narrative that integrates political, social, and cultural history within a chronological framework. Known for its focus on the environment and the land, the text is also praised for its innovative coverage of cultural history, public health and medicine, and the West--including Native American history...read more

Developed to meet the demand for a low-cost, high-quality history book, this text is an economically priced version of The Enduring Vision, 5/e (©2004). The Dolphin Edition offers readers the complete text while limiting the number of photos, tables, and maps. All volumes feature a paperback, two-color format that appeals to those seeking a comprehensive, trade-sized history text. Like its hardcover counterpart, the Dolphin Edition's engaging narrative balances political, social, and cultural history within a clear, chronological framework. Each chapter features the latest scholarship, with a special emphasis on technology, public health, disease, and medicine. Significant narrative revisions to the Fifth Edition of The Enduring Vision are reflected in the Dolphin Edition.

An updated edition of the compendium defining the core of knowledge that all literate Americans should understand features hundreds of illustrations, maps, and photographs and encompasses a new multicultural focus and recent world events, technological advances, literature, and politics. 75,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Developed to meet the demand for a low-cost, high-quality history book, this text is an economically priced version of The Enduring Vision, 5/e (©2004). The Dolphin Edition offers readers the complete text while limiting the number of photos, tables, and maps. All volumes feature a paperback, two-color format that appeals to those seeking a comprehensive, trade-sized history text. Like its hardcover counterpart, the Dolphin Edition's engaging narrative balances political, social, and cultural history within a clear, chronological framework. Each chapter features the latest scholarship, with a special emphasis on technology, public health, disease, and medicine. Significant narrative revisions to the Fifth Edition of The Enduring Vision are reflected in the Dolphin Edition.

Product Description: Book by Boyer, Paul S., Clark Jr., Clifford E., Kett, Joseph F., Salisbury, Neal, Sitkoff, Harvard, Woloch, Nancy

Product Description: Developed to meet the demand for a low-cost, high-quality history book, this text is an economically priced version of The Enduring Vision, 5/e (©2004). The Dolphin Edition offers readers the complete text while limiting the number of photos, tables, and maps...read more

Product Description: This book traces the history of adult education in America from its roots in the popular tradition of self-improvement, to present day education outside a college or university setting. The author persuasively links developments in the realm of popular self-improvement to cultural and social forces, and explores the reasons why ordinary citizens turned to the cultivation of knowledge...read more

An updated edition of the compendium defining the core of knowledge that all literate Americans should understand features hundreds of illustrations, maps, and photographs and encompasses a new multicultural focus and recent world events. 100,000 first printing.

Defines the people, places, sayings, and ideas representing what the authors consider essential information for literate Americans

An historian's detailed investigation of critical social, economic, and cultural transitions made by young people in America since 1790 illuminates changing adult expectations for youth and the emergence of the concept of adolescence