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Keystone Normal School Course Notebook by [Women in Education] Fannie S. Hottenstein

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Title: Keystone Normal School Course Notebook
Author: [Women in Education] Fannie S. Hottenstein
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description: Kutztown, PA, 1890. Quarter roan over marbled boards measuring 8 x 6.25 inches and comprised of 73 pages of manuscript text (including a mixture of notes passed between friends on the verso of the final leaf and on the rear pastedown). Spine largely perished with boards and textblock held together by cords. Several leaves neatly excised towards rear. Containing notes from Fannie Hottenstein's courses in teacher training, the present volumes offer researchers a range of study topics, including the history of pedagogy and women's increasingly visible place in American education; the book also is a valuable resource for examining how educated young women were thinking through their own lives and roles -- as individuals and as a generation. Trained in one of the most educationally progressive states at the time, Fannie Hottenstein was one of a generation of women who could more widely dream about and pursue more independent lives than their matriarchs. Historically, Pennsylvania had been a vanguard for public and progressive education. "In his 1830 address to the state legislature, Governor George Wold championed the cause of universal public education" as a scaffold for "the security and stability of the individual privileges we have inherited from our ancestors" (Explore History). Before the decade was over, "more than 1,000 local school districts under a single statewide system of instruction" had been founded, working to regularize "educational standards, curriculum, and instructional credentials" in tandem with the 1857 Normal School Act which founded "a network of ten state academies to prepare public school teachers" (Explore History). Fannie attended one of these, preparing for a career in education that would give her a new level of social and economic independence. Much of Fannie's notebook reflects the kind of rigorous work required to teach middle and high school students. Contents include, for example, three pages of facts on basic Botany; fifteen pages on the practice of Logic in writing and debate, including an extensive section on presenting proper Opposition (accompanied by text book page numbers); and five pages on pedagogical methods for helping students develop curiosity and drive it forward into productive study. There are additional, fairly staid, essay samples on topics such as Influence and Gentleness. Yet it is in the thirteen page essay We Girls that sparks of Fannie's individuality, ambition, and independence show. In it, she reveals how much contact she has had with the period's literature on women's rights and suffrage; she shows her familiarity with anti-feminist arguments in opposition to women like her; and she powerfully expresses her hopes not only for her generation but the ones that follow. Fannie opens: "It is a recognized fact that the degree of civilization of every nation is marked by the social position of woman. Indeed, one of the most prominent features of the progress of civilization is her gradual elevation in society and the clear perception and recognition of her rights. In the earlier ages of the world, when the sphere of her influence was bounded by the narrow prejudices of the opposite sex, her happiness as well as her mental improvement and social rank depended more on what was done for her at the hands of men than on what she could do for herself. All this is changed now." Fannie praises the hard-won changes women accomplished in accessing education and job training; and she touts how many opportunities are available for women to dream about and pursue. This does not mean she's unaware of the challenges that continue -- particularly from men. "We have to contend with the prejudice sometimes entertained against us, that our highest destiny in life is to be a pretty piece of furniture in a handsome parlor. Men who entertain this notion, we girls must always urge to get their furniture somewhere else." To those who accuse women of being too emotional and insufficiently intellectual, she also has a response. "Our aim must be to develop and perfect our entire nature, mental, social, and moral," she argues. Only by embracing both thinking and feeling as strengths can any individual -- man or women, she contends -- succeed. Women are in a unique position to embrace both. A truly rich document, which also includes brief notes among Fannie and her friends about their flirtations and recent purchases of accessories at the end, gives insight into the development of a young woman who would go on to live what she preached. According to the US Census of 1900, Fannie remained single and lived in a boarding house, working as an office stenographer.

Tables of Logarithms ... with a preface and precepts for an explanation and use of the same, by Nevil Maskelyne .... by Taylor, M - MATHEMATICS - MASKELYNE

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Title: Tables of Logarithms ... with a preface and precepts for an explanation and use of the same, by Nevil Maskelyne ....
Author: Taylor, M - MATHEMATICS - MASKELYNE
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: Very good, untrimmed; some wear to the wrappers; modest browning to the pages of the Preface.
Description: London: F Wingrave, 1792. First Edition.. Original publisher's blue wrappers.. Very good, untrimmed; some wear to the wrappers; modest browning to the pages of the Preface.. Folio. [16], 64, [446] pp.. a - d2, A - 5C2-1 An important, accurate, and massive set of tables accompanied by a 64 page preface (dated Jan. 14, 1793) and introduction by Maskelyne, The author was on the staff of the Nautical Almanac and a pupil of Hutton. Henderson #92.

SAINT MAYBE by Tyler, Anne

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Title: SAINT MAYBE
Author: Tyler, Anne
Seller: Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1991. First edition. Precedes the Knopf trade edition. Signed by Tyler as issued. "Special Message" by Tyler for this edition. Frontispiece by Joannie Schwarz. Gilt-stamped leather-covered boards, all edges gilt, satin pagemarker. Unread copy in Fine condition. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II SIGNED FIRST EDITION by Bissinger, Buzz

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Title: The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II SIGNED FIRST EDITION
Author: Bissinger, Buzz
Seller: Underground Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780062879929
Condition: Very good +
Description: New York: Harper, 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Buzz Bissinger in ink at page specially bound in by the publisher. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xv, 461pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in cream paper over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm, tight, and sound. A highly presentable signed first printign of this untold story of WWII from the author of Friday Night Lights and Three Nights in August. ABOUT THIS BOOK: An extraordinary, untold story of the Second World War in the vein of Unbroken and The Boys in the Boat, from the author of Friday Night Lights and Three Nights in August. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, college football was at the height of its popularity. As the nation geared up for total war, one branch of the service dominated the aspirations of college football stars: the United States Marine Corps. Which is why, on Christmas Eve of 1944, when the 4th and 29th Marine regiments found themselves in the middle of the Pacific Ocean training for what would be the bloodiest battle of the war - the invasion of Okinawa-their ranks included one of the greatest pools of football talent ever assembled: Former All Americans, captains from Wisconsin and Brown and Notre Dame, and nearly twenty men who were either drafted or would ultimately play in the NFL. When the trash-talking between the 4th and 29th over who had the better football team reached a fever pitch, it was decided: The two regiments would play each other in a football game as close to the real thing as you could get in the dirt and coral of Guadalcanal. The bruising and bloody game that followed became known as "The Mosquito Bowl." Within a matter of months, 15 of the 65 players in "The Mosquito Bowl" would be killed at Okinawa, by far the largest number of American athletes ever to die in a single battle. The Mosquito Bowl is the story of these brave and beautiful young men, those who survived and those who did not. It is the story of the families and the landscape that shaped them. It is a story of a far more innocent time in both college athletics and the life of the country, and of the loss of that innocence. Writing with the style and rigor that won him a Pulitzer Prize and have made several of his books modern classics, Buzz Bissinger takes us from the playing fields of America's campuses where boys played at being Marines, to the final time they were allowed to still be boys on that field of dirt and coral, to the darkest and deadliest days that followed at Okinawa.(Publisher).

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