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  • The Knowledge Deficit

    Closing the Shocking Education Gap for American Children

    by E. D. Hirsch ...
    The Knowledge Deficit illuminates the real issue in education today -- without an effective curriculum, American students are losing the global education race. In this persuasive book, the esteemed education critic, activist, and best-selling author E.D. Hirsch, Jr., shows that although schools are teaching the mechanics of reading, they fail to convey the knowledge needed for the more complex and ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fancy Feet

    Guess Who's Walking (The Nature Riddles and Rhymes Series)

    by Rebecca E. Hirsch ...
    Illustrated by Sally Soweol Han ...
    Series series Nature Riddles and Rhymes
    From the slimy snail to the jumping kangaroo, kids will delight in learning about the many fantastic feet of our world in this nonfiction picture book guessing game and companion to Wonder Wings from critically acclaimed creators Rebecca E. Hirsch and Sally Soweol HanSome feet swing from vines, some feet fly through the air, and some feet carry us to other worlds. Can you guess who these feet ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wonder Wings

    Guess Who's Flying (The Nature Riddles and Rhymes Series)

    by Rebecca E. Hirsch ...
    Illustrated by Sally Soweol Han ...
    Series series Nature Riddles and Rhymes
    From the swooping bat to the buzzing honeybee, kids will delight in learning about the many wondrous wings of our world in this nonfiction picture book guessing game from critically acclaimed creators Rebecca E. Hirsch and Sally Soweol HanWings can soar and wings can skim.Wings can hover, hum, and swim.Small wings, big wings, near and far.Can you guess whose wings these are?Some wings make music, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How to Educate a Citizen

    The Power of Shared Knowledge to Unify a Nation

    by E. D. Hirsch ...
    Why a dumbed-down curriculum is bad for our democracy: "A persuasive, scientifically sound case for an education revolution." — Shelf AwarenessIn How to Educate a Citizen, E.D. Hirsch continues the conversation he began thirty years ago with his classic bestseller Cultural Literacy, urging America's public schools, particularly at the elementary level, to educate our children more effectively to ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Hammer of God

    by Robert E. Hirsch ...
    Series Book 2 - The Dark Ages Saga of Tristan de Saint-Germain
    A majestic novel of assassination, espionage, and forbidden love in the time of the Crusades.Ordained as a Black Monk, Tristan de Saint-Germain is inducted into medieval Europe's most secretive organization, the Benedictine Underground, where he's tasked with carrying out secret orders, embassies, and assassinations on behalf of the Gregorian papacy.But Tristan holds a secret. He has become ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Horde of Fools

    by Robert E. Hirsch ...
    Series Book 3 - The Dark Ages Saga of Tristan de Saint-Germain
    A mob of peasants ransacks its way to Byzantium while a young bishop struggles to stop them, in this sweeping historical novel of the Crusades.Wild-eyed evangelist Kuku Peter has inflamed the pauper hordes of Europe, raising a violent peasant army of thirty thousand men, women, children, and elderly intent on recapturing Jerusalem from Islam. Untrained, armed with farm implements, and lacking ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why Knowledge Matters

    Rescuing Our Children from Failed Educational Theories

    by E. D. Hirsch Jr. ...
    In Why Knowledge Matters, E. D. Hirsch, Jr., presents evidence from cognitive science, sociology, and education history to further the argument for a knowledge-based elementary curriculum.Influential scholar Hirsch, author of The Knowledge Deficit, asserts that a carefully planned curriculum that imparts communal knowledge is essential in achieving one of the most fundamental aims and objectives ... Read more

    $24.79 CAD

  • Climate Scientists at Work

    by Rebecca E. Hirsch ...
    Series series Taking Earth's Temperature
    Scientists around the world are working to understand our changing climate. Learn what they do and how you can help. You may want to become a citizen scientist! This title supports NGSS for Earth and Human Activity. ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Promise of the Black Monks

    by Robert E. Hirsch ...
    Series Book 1 - The Dark Ages Saga of Tristan de Saint-Germain
    Religious war erupts between church and king and shapes a young man's fate in eleventh-century France . . .Born of nobility in France in the year 1066, seven-year-old Tristan de Saint-Germain has his fate thrown to the winds upon the execution of his father for treason against William the Conqueror of Normandy. Abandoned by his mother, who remarries and departs for England, Tristan and his four ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • God's Scarlet Fury

    by Robert E. Hirsch ...
    Series Book 4 - The Dark Ages Saga of Tristan de Saint-Germain
    A bishop's vows are tested by the epic eleventh-century battle between East and West, in this compelling novel of the Crusades.It is the year 1097. The violent warrior class of Western Europe is marching against the Islamic Seljuk Empire to recapture Jerusalem at the plea of Pope Urban II, igniting a searing inferno of war, betrayal, and intrigue as two worlds collide—East against West, Christians ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Your Sixth Grader Needs to Know

    Fundamentals of a Good Sixth-Grade Education, Revised Edition

    by E.D. Hirsch Jr. ...
    Series series The Core Knowledge Series
    Grade by grade, these groundbreaking and successful books provide a solid foundation in the fundamentals of a good education for first to sixth graders.B & W photographs, linecuts, and maps throughout; two-color printing. ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Cup of Blood . . . Bread of Salvation

    by Robert E. Hirsch ...
    Series Book 5 - The Dark Ages Saga of Tristan de Saint-Germain
    An epic novel of the Crusades, the siege of Antioch, and a man and woman swept up in the bloody quest to reach Jerusalem.In 1097, Pope Urban's Army of God confronts the great city of Antioch, the final obstacle before reclaiming Jerusalem from the hammer of Islam. But Antioch is defended by the wily Turcoman, Emir Yaghi Siyan, and is coveted by the atabeg of Mosul, Kerbogha.After overcoming a ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus