PeaceBike: the Journals (Paperback)
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PeaceBike: the Journals (Paperback)As a 13 year old studying in India, Tad Beckwith took inspiration from his social studies teacher, Mr. Pleasance, who taught from stories tales from his own bike trips around the world with his wife and two kids. Tad never forgot those stories, and 12 years later in 1999, as an elementary school teacher in Oregon, Tad decided to leave the four walls of the classroom, but invited his students to join him virtually on a bike journey to promote

As a 13-year-old studying in India, Tad Beckwith took inspiration from his social studies teacher, Mr. Pleasance, who taught from stories Ð tales from his own bike trips around the world with his wife and two kids. Tad never forgot those stories, and 12 years later in 1999, as an elementary school teacher in Oregon, Tad decided to leave the four walls of the classroom, but invited his students to join him virtually on a bike journey to promote understanding and peace across cultures. A brand-new internet allowed Tad to share not only with his own students, but with thousands of students and families along his route and beyond.

He put out a call for a riding companion and Canadian Frank Pollari joined him. Together they helped connect hundreds of international pen pals and spoke to thousands of students about how they could be peacemakers in the world. Tad was also joined by friend and long-distance cyclist Shauna Curry, and in India by his younger sister Penny. These four PeaceBike Expedition Team Members lived an unforgettable adventure, and shared a message of friendship and cross-cultural understanding, while experiencing daily generosity and kindness of hosts and new friends.

Ride along with them in this commemorative collection of their journals ...
¥ Wake to the nighttime rustle of an escaped armadillo near your tent
¥ Munch fresh cookies from a bike-top solar oven
¥ Sing with kids in village India and the jungles of Ecuador, and jam on the harmonica with musicians in New Zealand
¥ Ride along with 200 cyclists in Quito or push into the wind along a lonely desert highway in Peru
¥ Stay curious and open to the gifts of the day: a stay in a 5-star hotel, or Ð when the locals recommended it for safety Ð in the town jail
¥ Help a child write a letter to a new friend, a classroom share their pledge of peace, or a farmer hoe her potatoes
... and discover the generous, humbling kindness of humanity around every turn.

(The paperback edition includes a black and white photo insert.)

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KDelphi
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★★★★★ 3
I really enjoyed the premise of this book
Format: Hardcover
It seems to me that, it was a book just waiting to be written. The author covers topics very rarely considered in any detail in other books on the Civil War. She helps cut through some of the romantic mysticism and points out reasons why, as we all suspected, that most of the South (especially the poor) were very much victims of the Confederacy. She also explains in greater detail the way of thinking of the Planter class of the Old South, which still exists today--you can even hear it in the speech of the elites of the Deep South today. The problem I had with this book, is that the author repeats herself. Some here have said that they don't understand why people are saying that. Let me paraphrase just a couple examples of what I mean. She says , in one paragraph, that "soldiers wives started to become a political constituency for the first time" and explains how. A paragraph later, she ends the paragraph with "becoming a political entity was something new for poor white soldiers' wives". On the next page it says "for poor soldiers' wives, the Civil War was a huge burden, and they came into their own politically". In three pages she might say, "the term soldiers' wives' began to take on political meaning for the first time". Now, that is not repeating yourself with the same words, exactly. But it is repeating concepts that are not that hard to grasp. The book could have been much shorter and, IMHO, much better. I am not sure why the author feels the need to repeat certain points over and over. Another concept "done to death" was how the Planter class had not considered that a full 1/3 of their population would not only not be soldiers, but also would , in all likelihood, be opposed to them. Now, this would seem obvious to us now, so it is important that she point it out. But once is enough. I hope I am explaining the "repetition problem" a little better here....the topic and concepts were great. Repeating concepts over and over made for, in some places, a very long read.
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VIRGINIA KURZWEG
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Fascinating Social History of the Confederacy
Format: Paperback
This was hard to get into in the first chapter. It became more and more readable. It provides a critical look at the untold stories of women and slaves in the Civil War-the powerless. It shows how poorly conceived the whole Confederate experiment was. When Jefferson Davis said that the Confederacy would have written on its tombstone "Died of a Theory", he could have said "Died of Many Half-Baked Theories" about the rights of the powerful over the powerless. There should be much more written about the social history of the Confederacy. One of the more interesting points the book makes is how little the Southern people had to do with the secession of most of the states. This was a tragedy of immense proportions.
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What a needed text for the canonical sciences. The glossary and footnote comments were most helpful. The definition of law is most excellent.
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