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Mining social media

finding stories in Internet data
2020
"A guide to mining and analyzing data from social media websites. Combines both practical exercises and conceptual lessons on topics like writing a script to tap into an API and even how to analyze the data of an automated Twitter bot."--.

Publication manual of the American Psychological Association

the official guide to APA style
2020
The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association is the style manual of choice for writers, editors, students, and educators in the social and behavioral sciences, nursing, education, business, and related disciplines.

My life in Kenya

Follow a day in the life, from wake-up to bedtime, of a young person from Kenya.
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Impeachment

2020
This book gets to the root of the impeachment process, with facts about its origins in medieval England, its place in the U.S. Constitution, and instances where impeachment proceedings have been launched in American history.
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Hate Inc.

why today's media makes us despise one another
2019
". . . journalist Matt Taibbi provides an insider's guide to the variety of ways today's mainstream media tells us lies. Part tirade, part confessional, it reveals that what most people think of as "the news" is, in fact, a twisted wing of the entertainment business"--Jacket flap.
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Reading strategies for social studies

A series of standards-based strategies and accompanying CD that helps students to develop a better understanding of basic reading, writing, mathematics, science, and social studies concepts.
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Abraham Lincoln

Second grade social studies leveled readers. Social Studies Curriculum materials are year long loans to grade level appropriate teachers.
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Every book is a social studies book

how to meet standards with picture books, K-6
Offers guidance to teachers on integrating social studies instruction with language arts instruction through the use of picture books, highlighting how picture books can help meet each of the National Council for Social Studies' Ten Thematic Strands.
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Americans of character

Designed to build critical thinking and cooperative learning skills. Students explore ten important incidents in the lives of five historically significant Americans.
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Charge

Life and Death on the Front Lines
During the Civil War, at first black Americans weren't allowed to serve in the Union army. When they were finally allowed in, they served in separate units with white commanders. The most famous of these units is the Massachusetts 54th regiment.

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