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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: People From Wałbrzych, Abraham Robinson, Sebastian Janikowski, Gerhart Hauptmann, Krzesimir Dębski, Urszula Włodarczyk, Piotr Włodarczyk, Adrian Mrowiec, Bartosz Kurek, Agnieszka Wieszczek, Ryszard Wawryniewicz, Julian Kwit. Excerpt: Sebastian Janikowski (Polish pronunciation: ; born March 3, 1978 in Wabrzych, Poland) is a Polish placekicker who currently plays for the National Football League's Oakland Raiders. He is considered to have one of the strongest kicking legs in the league, and leads the NFL in kickoffs for touchbacks. He currently lives in Castro Valley, California Sebastian Janikowski was born to Henryk Janikowski and Halina Janikowska in Wabrzych located in Lower Silesia in southwest Poland. Henryk was a professional soccer player, and moved to the United States in the early 1980s in the hopes of reviving his career. Years after emigrating, Henryk divorced Halina and married an American. Left at home with just his mother, Sebastian began to excel at soccer himself. In 1993, 15-year-old Sebastian earned a spot on the Polish under-17 team. His father's marriage to an American meant that Sebastian could legally emigrate to America. He did so at the urging of his mother, even though the two were very close and it was emotionally painful for Sebastian. The teenager spoke very little English, and attended Orangewood Christian High School but learned quickly by taking a three-week night class and by watching television. Janikowski played in only 5 games for the Orangewood Christian soccer team, but led them to the Class A State Championship game by scoring 15 goals, where they lost to Lakeland Christian in penalty kicks (3-2). Now living in Orlando, Florida with his father and stepmother, Janikowski joined the Orlando Lions, an under... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2418655 ... Read more

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Chapters: Abraham Robinson, Sebastian Janikowski, Krzesimir Dębski, Urszula Włodarczyk, Piotr Włodarczyk, Bartosz Kurek, Agnieszka Wieszczek, Ryszard Wawryniewicz, Julian Kwit. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sebastian Janikowski (Polish pronunciation: ; born March 3, 1978 in Wabrzych, Poland) is a Polish placekicker who currently plays for the National Football League's Oakland Raiders. He is considered to have one of the strongest kicking legs in the league, and leads the NFL in kickoffs for touchbacks. He currently lives in Castro Valley, California Sebastian Janikowski was born to Henryk Janikowski and Halina Janikowska in Wabrzych located in Lower Silesia in southwest Poland. Henryk was a professional soccer player, and moved to the United States in the early 1980s in the hopes of reviving his career. Years after emigrating, Henryk divorced Halina and married an American. Left at home with just his mother, Sebastian began to excel at soccer himself. In 1993, 15-year-old Sebastian earned a spot on the Polish under-17 team. His father's marriage to an American meant that Sebastian could legally emigrate to America. He did so at the urging of his mother, even though the two were very close and it was emotionally painful for Sebastian. The teenager spoke very little English, and attended Orangewood Christian High School but learned quickly by taking a three-week night class and by watching television. Janikowski played in only 5 games for the Orangewood Christian soccer team, but led them to the Class A State Championship game by scoring 15 goals, where they lost to Lakeland Christian in penalty kicks (3-2). Now living in Orlando, Florida with his father and stepmother, Janikowski joined the Orlando Lions, an under-19 soccer club coached by A...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2418655 ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Bertrand Russell, Alonzo Church, Alan Kay, Fm-2030, Paul Pimsleur, Abraham Robinson, Jared Diamond, Al Gore, Joseph W. Eaton, Emory Tolbert, Wolfgang Smith, Paul Auerbach, Henry Masauko Blasius Chipembere, Gregory Stock, Peter Ladefoged, Ruth Milkman, Julian Schwinger, Kendall Houk, Richard C. Atkinson, Stanford J. Shaw, Lev Manovich, Johanna Drucker, William H. Oldendorf, Benjamin Karney, Terence Tao, Douglas Kellner, Henry Samueli, Alex Cline, Peter Mclaren, John A. Agnew, Larry Pressler, Daniel Dăianu, Eugene Volokh, Paul Terasaki, Marcia J. Bates, Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, Leonard Kleinrock, Sheila Greibach, Andrea M. Ghez, Robert Stevenson, James Fraser Stoddart, Chih-Ming Ho, Robert Epp, Helmut Ringsdorf, Stanley Wolpert, Debora Shuger, Louis Ignarro, Greg Graffin, Paul D. Boyer, Robert Bruce Merrifield, Asad Abidi, Utpal Banerjee, Charles E. Young, Eugen Weber, Myron Tribus, N. Katherine Hayles, Murray Leaf, Jennifer Steinkamp, George Rousseau, Ernest Morrell, Julián Marías, Dianne Walker, Jennifer Tour Chayes, Judea Pearl, Val D. Rust, Andrew Benson, Benjamin Anderson, Kenneth Sokoloff, D. Lewis Mingori, Ricardo Azziz, Mazisi Kunene, Lotfi Mansouri, Richard Yarborough, Larry Estrada, Gerald Jay Goldberg, Mike Rose, Gerald J. Popek, Harold Demsetz, Allen J. Scott, Christopher Mott, Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Jack Penn, Harold Garfinkel, Armen Alchian, Evelyn Venable, Johnnetta B. Cole, Jerry Leaf, Richard Popkin, Colin Westerbeck, Peter Wollen, Sue-Ellen Case, Geshe Gyeltsen, Laura E. Gómez, Brenda Marie Osbey, Peter Kollock, Diana Raab, Neil Denari, Anthony Pagden, David Wong Louie, Russell Leong, Page Smith, Murray Jarvik, Vaughan Jones, John Garcia, William Brice, Robert Livingston, Sandra Harding, Charles H. Kraft, Albert Boime, Norman H. Anderson, Paul Habibi, William Ouchi, ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5042706 ... Read more

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Recounts the childhood of the man who was President during the Civil War. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (5)

Great for a book report
My son chose this book for a school book report.The kids have enjoyed learning about the childhood of famous people, how their childhoods shaped who they became.

It was great to read and fun for all of us (DS 10, DS8).The chapters took us about 15min to read.

We've also read a couple other books in this series.I've enjoyed them as much as the children.

Engaging
This is not a biography, per se.The "Childhood of Famous Americans" books are a series of fictionalized accounts of the youth of famous Americans.The conversations and scenarios are made up, to show the character formation of the famous person.The places and names of people seem biographical; the situations are probably not.

Having said that... we like this series very well.

The Abraham Lincoln book conveys the values and choices that children would do well to adopt.But it is subtle -- the chapters are entertaining and engaging.The few illustrations are very clear and good.

My kids are 6 and 3 -- I read the story out loud to them.They listened and enjoyed the book.They asked a lot of questions, about early settlers and problems with Indians, and how did Lincoln's mother and sister die?We used the opportunity to look up the answers to their questions together (Mother - poisoned milk; sister - childbirth)

I recommend this for early elementary and up -- it is a great read as a family and a good chapter book for growing readers.

I especially like the Lincoln book because adventure books and moral books for boys are VERY hard to find, and this met my standards.

Honest Abe
Abraham Lincoln the Great Emancipator is a book written by Augusta Stevenson.It is 192 page biography.
Abe lived in Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois.

This story begins when Abe was a little boy, in Kentucky.

He learned the ways of the forest, walking without making noise, learned to cover tracks and follow them, learned to hide, learned to crawl through grass without making it move.
He learned the sounds of the forest and animals.

His family moved to Indiana, this is when Abe was homeschooled, he was 10 years old at the time.

Abe loved to read, write and to learn from books and people.
He would walk for miles to borrow a book, and walk miles to return it.

Abraham Lincoln was called "honest Abe" because of his integrity. He was also a very hard worker, always polite, funny, a good story teller and cared for others.

No wonder he made a good president of the United States.

A lot better than I thought it would be!
My mom was always encouraging me to read biograhies.One day, my mom sat me on a chair and forced me to read at least one chapter.I didn't think I would like it, but I loved it!Tons of info on Abe Lincoln!Some conversations were added to make it more interesting, but most of it wastrue.I am reading tons of bios from the same series (the Childhood ofFamous Americans series).I would encouage everyone to read this book andother books of the series!

Interesting.
This has been one of the more interesting biographys I read. This book focoses in more on his childhood than more on his life in polotics. ... Read more

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Not so good biography
While Ms. Robinson offers a good short bio of Muste in Peace Heroes ofTwentieth-Century America, here her writing is worse.Muste was a pacifistwho supported many solid causes and some questionable ones, like when heopposed World War II.The biography is written in a less than clear styleand jumps around far too much to be really readable. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Encyclopedia of Philosophy, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 818 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Explores major marketing and advertising campaigns from 1999-2006. Entries profile recent print, radio, television, billboard and Internet campaigns. Each essay discusses the historical context of the campaign, the target market, the competition, marketing strategy, and the outcome. ... Read more