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A first-hand account of life in the streets of Sao Paulo from 1955 to 1960, details the plight of an artist, writer and single mother of three children who, while living in a hovel, supported her family by digging through the garbage for paper and scraps to sell.

This is the book that Maria Montesorri wrote in response to requests from thousands of American parents and teachers. A short, illustrated guide to the use of the Montessori classroom materials, it shows how to set up a "children''s house"-an environment for learning where children can be their own masters, free to learn at their own pace.

In The Montessori Method, Maria Montessori introduces her revolutionary approach to education, emphasizing child-centered learning, hands-on activities, and fostering independence. This groundbreaking work outlines principles and practices that have transformed early childhood education, inspiring educators worldwide to nurture each child''s natural curiosity and potential.

Communities organizing to end Brazil''s urban war on drugs

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With cover art by Brett Helquist, this thrilling and chilling tale of Green Knowe is about a haunted house in the English countryside. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

All Quiet on the Western Front (German Im Westen nichts Neues, lit. ''Nothing New In the West'') is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I. The book describes the German soldiers'' extreme physical and mental stress during the war, and the detachment from civilian life felt by many of these soldiers upon returning home from the front. The novel was first published in November and December 1928 in the German newspaper Vossische Zeitung and in book form in late January 1929. The book and its sequel, The Road Back (1930), were among the books banned and burned in Nazi Germany. All Quiet on the Western Front sold 2.5 million copies in 22 languages in its first 18 months in print. In 1930, the book was adapted as an Academy-Award-winning film of the same name, directed by Lewis Milestone. It was adapted again in 1979 by Delbert Mann, this time as a television film starring Richard Thomas and Ernest Borgnine.

With her total recall of the detail and texture of her mother''s life, she powerfully evokes a woman, a career, a world.

The basis of the 1977 film, Bobby Deerfield, starring Al Pacino, a novel by the author of All Quiet on the Western Front pairs a race-car driver with a terminally ill woman in a tragic romance.

Chronicles the life of Zoya, a Russian immigrant, as she makes a new life for herself in America despite the complications of war and the Great Depression.