Homeschool: Maths – Book review:Alex in Numberland by Alex Bellos

Click Here to watch Review Click Here to Buy Book Recommended: Middle School, High School, Young Adult, Adult A fantastic read that combines history and correlation between day to day life to make it a living math book.The author does a fantastic narration about the history of geometry and keeping the reader engaged with other anecdotes. Some interesting information that I gleaned

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Book Review: LITERATURE: Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens

Recommended : High school,Young Adults, Adults A good book to learn about the French revolution.A moving tale that helps to understand what went into the making of the revolution and the reign of terror.It  helps to sympathize on both sides.A classic for a good reason. The story follows the lives of Sidney Carton,Charles Darnay and  Lucie  Manette and how they become a part of the revolution. Click Here to watch the

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Homeschool History(India):Book review:A Children’s History of India by Subhadra Sen Gupta

Recommended age: 8 years and up Beautiful book to explain Indian history to a young child.It contains maps, drawings , fascinating information and links to additional information on each topic. Subhadra Sen Gupta does a wonderful job of captivating a young child’s imagination ,narrating history in a manner that would be understandable for a young children.I thoroughly enjoyed the concise

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Living Homeschool History(South India):Book Review:A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar) by Robert Sewell

Recommended Age: High School Being a South Indian,South Indian history intrigues me.Robert Sewell’s  the forgotten empire does justice to this Forgotten Empire Vijayanagar. Sewell sources for this book have been the  the chronicles from Nunez  a Portuguese visitor and  traveller Ibn Bhutia It gives account of the beginning of Vijayanagar empire with my very favorite king Kamipla Deva of Kampili

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Living Homeschool History(South India):History of South India from Prehistoric Times to Vijayanagar by Nilakanta Sastri

Recommended age: Upper Middle school and High school. This is valuable book for those interested into intensive and thorough reading into South Indian history. The book begins with sources that were taken into account to writing of history (coins ,rock edicts and writings by foreign travellers) Goes on to explain the Geography of the south Then moves to chronologically describe

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Book Review : Indian History:Rulers of India: Lord Clive by George Bruce Malleson

Recommendation: High School The Rulers of India was a biographical book series edited by William Wilson Hunter and published from the Clarendon Press, Oxford,now not in print.You can get it on kindle or from the archives. Robert Clive is a important figure of Indian history,as he was the one to bring Bengal under the rule of East Indian Company. His

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Book Review: Science: A Short History of Nearly Everything – BILL BRYSON

Recommended:Middle School and High School In the school hour rush I didn’t have much time to actually pay details to the history behind them.This book really helped in rectifying that. A much needed book to understand the history of prominent scientific discoveries and it does it in laymen terms. My favorite part of the book was the calculation of the

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