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Great Books is an hour-long documentary and biography program that aired on The Learning Channel. The series was a project co-created by Walter Cronkite and television producer Jonathan Ward under a deal they had with their company Cronkite Ward, The Discovery Channel , and The Learning Channel.
Mass market and trade were replaced by three new categories: fiction (15 titles), nonfiction (5 titles) and advice, how-to and miscellaneous (10 titles). The miscellaneous category would accommodate cartoon books, joke books and other titles that were not listed before, including "road atlases, tax preparation guides and computer handbooks". [1]
Eva Ibbotson's The Secret of Platform 13. The Secret of Platform 13 is a children's novel by Eva Ibbotson, and illustrated by Sue Porter, first published in 1994.. The book has gained extra significance as many readers find it similar to the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling, as the first book of that series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was published in 1997, three years after ...
Epic! is an American kids subscription-based reading and learning platform. It offers access to books and videos for targeted at children ages 12 and under. [1] The service can be used on desktop and mobile devices. [2] Epic! was founded in 2013 by Suren Markosian and Kevin Donahue [3] and launched in 2014. [4]
The Learning Company was founded in 8 May 1980 by Ann McCormick; Leslie Grimm; Teri Perl; and Warren Robinett, a former Atari, Inc. employee who had programmed the game Adventure. [2] They saw the Apple II as an opportunity to teach young children concepts of math, reading, science, problem-solving, and thinking skills.
The magazine said that the book was not easy to read, but that it would expose experienced programmers to both old and new topics. [ 8 ] A review of SICP as an undergraduate textbook by Philip Wadler noted the weaknesses of Scheme as an introductory language for a computer science course. [ 9 ]
Bradfield, Scott (June 13, 2019). "Why '1984' is still relevant today — but not for the reason you may expect". Los Angeles Times; Carey, John (May 19, 2019). "The Ministry of Truth by Dorian Lynskey review — why 1984 is not as good as Animal Farm". The Sunday Times; Drabble, Margaret (June 4, 2019).
1906–7: The University of Wisconsin–Extension [3] was founded, the first true distance learning institution in America. [4] 1909: The Machine Stops a short story by E. M. Forster, which describes an audio/visual communication network being used to deliver a lecture on Australian music to a remote audience. [5]