Explains the development, practice, and effects of slavery in the Americas with lively narrative chapters and special features, such as photographs and illustrations, maps and graphs, an index, a glossary, sidebars, fact boxes, and a timeline.
Real-life anecdotes and scenarios, including examples from the lives of famous and successful people, and advice and suggestions about ways youngsters can build and demonstrate character enable these books to serve as basic building blocks of character.
Readers learn about different types of genetic disorders. They learn how some are passed down from parent to child while others happen when the environment affects genes.
Describes the first people to live in the Subarctic region of North America, discussing their culture, customs, ways of life, interactions with other settlers, and their lives today.
Rewritten and newly designed, with full-color maps and illustrations, age-appropriate activites, this series provides readers with a detailed exploration of the colonization of America. Compelling coverage of the people and events that shaped a new nation.
This book takes an engaging look at the work of ground-breaking conservationist, Dian Fossey, and her work with mountain gorillas. It covers Fossey's inspiration, her methods, findings, and the impact of her work in Africa.
Explores the events that led the United States to war in Iraq and Afghanistan, follows the major events of the war, and examines military life and the effects of the war.
Explores the events following World War II and the beginning of the Cold War that led to the Korean conflict, follows the major events of the war, and examines the winding down of the conflict and later developments.
The transatlantic slave trade and the fugitive slave laws in the late 18th century led to a significant increase in the number of people seeking freedom. Runaway slaves were often aided in their escape by a growing network of people who saw slavery as morally reprehensible. This work explores this intriguing time in American history.
From the time that the great inventor Thomas Alva Edison first built a machine that played and recorded sound, to today's instant electronic technology, the phonograph changed along with our needs for it. This book traces the evolution of one of the most far-reaching inventions ever developed, and it eventually gave people a way to preserve bits of the past by capturing the present and passing it on to future generations. The phonograph also helped spawn industries that drive economics and influence worldwide culture.
This book takes an engaging look at the work of ground-breaking conservationist, Dian Fossey, and her work with mountain gorillas. It covers Fossey's inspiration, her methods, findings, and the impact of her work in Africa.
Readers learn about different types of genetic disorders. They learn how some are passed down from parent to child while others happen when the environment affects genes.
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