For more than a century, great African American athletes have contributed to the role of sports in American life. People of all ages have cheered for the players who represent their communities. The Outstanding African American series examines the experiences, events, and accomplishments of African Americans.
The Monster Energy NASCAR Cup is a racing series in which stock car drivers compete against each other on a variety of tracks. These drivers race at incredible speeds to determine who will be the champion. Learn more about this fascinating championship in Monster Energy NASCAR Cup, a title in the We Are the Champions series. We Are the Champions is a series of AV2 media enhanced books. Each title in the series features easy-to-read text, stunning visuals, and a challenging educational activity. A unique book code printed on page 2 unlocks multimedia content. These books come alive with video, audio, weblinks, slideshows, activities, hands-on experiments, and much more.
An introduction to the career of the Arizona lawyer who, as the first woman to be a United States Supreme Court justice, played a major role in many important decisions.
The J. Paul Getty Museum is known as one of the most informative art museums in the world. Ever since its opening, the museum has inspired curiosity, enjoyment, and understanding of the visual arts. People from all over the world visit this museum to see paintings, drawings, sculptures, and photographs from Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Discover more about this incredible museum and its collections in The J. Paul Getty Museum, a Museums of the World book.
Vincent van Gogh painted colorful scenes of nature and of farming communities in Belgium, France, and the Netherlands. He was unknown as an artist during his lifetime, and sold only one painting. Today, van Gogh’s paintings have sold for some of the highest prices ever paid for artwork. Learn more in Vincent van Gogh, one of the titles in the Greatest Artists series.
Michelangelo Buonarroti is remembered for creating some of the world’s greatest masterpieces. He sculpted and painted grand works of art during the Renaissance, an era of great artistic development. More than 500 years later, people from all over the world travel to Italy to see Michelangelo’s art in person. Learn more in Michelangelo, one of the titles in the Greatest Artists series.
Built in the mid-1800s, the Great Synagogue of Budapest has remained a constant through difficult times. As many as 20,000 Jewish people sought refuge in the synagogue during the Holocaust of World War II. However, the synagogue was also occupied by Nazi forces for part of the war. Explore the facility, history, people, and beliefs behind the building in Great Synagogue of Budapest, a Houses of Faith book.
Croatia’s proximity to the Adriatic Sea provides the country with magnificent coastlines that rise up to mountains in the east and highlands in the north. This dramatic scenery makes Croatia a very popular destination for travelers. Learn about Croatia’s fascinating history, culture, geography, and more in Croatia, an Exploring Countries book.
Lightbox is an all-inclusive digital solution for the teaching and learning of curriculum topics in an original, ground breaking way. Lightbox is based on National Curriculum Standards"--Page 2.
Sir Francis Drake was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe. James Cook set up trade routes in the Pacific Ocean. Learn more about explorers in English Explorers, an Early Explorers of the World book.
The courtship and remarriage of a rich widow was a popular motif in early modern comic theatre. Jennifer Panek brings together a wide variety of texts, from ballads and jest-books to sermons and court records, to examine the staple widow of comedy in her cultural context and to examine early modern attitudes to remarriage. She persuasively challenges the critical tendency to see the stereotype of the lusty widow as a tactic to dissuade women from second marriages, arguing instead that it was deployed to enable her suitors to regain their masculinity, under threat from the dominant, wealthier widow. The theatre, as demonstrated by Middleton, Dekker, Beaumont and Fletcher and others, was the prime purveyor of a fantasy in which a young man's sexual mastery of a widow allowed him to seize the economic opportunity she offered.
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