Land : how the hunger for ownership shaped the modern world

“In many ways, Land combines bits and pieces of many of Winchester’s previous books into a satisfying, globe-trotting whole. . . . Winchester is, once again, a consummate guide.”— Boston Globe The author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World , and The Perfectionists explores the notion of property—bought, earned, or received; in Europe, Africa, North Ame…

Biographic: Dickens

Most people know that Charles Dickens (1812–1870) was one of the greatest novelists of the Victorian era, whose works include David Copperfield and Great Expectations. What, perhaps, they don't know is that he invented more than 200 original words and phrases; that he always slept facing north, in an effort to battle insomnia; that he sent more than 14,000 letters in his lifetime; and that he…

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author. An engrossing record of Mao’s impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern wor…

The Boys Who Challenged Hitler : Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club

At the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nation's leaders, fifteen-year-old Knud Pedersen resolved with his brother and a handful of schoolmates to take action against the Nazis if the adults would not. Naming their secret club after the fiery British leader, the young patriots in the Churchill Club committed countless acts of sabotage, infu…

Children's World History Encyclopedia

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Then and Now : a world history of how people lived from ancient times to the …

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The World Wars

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All About China

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Life in the Viking Age

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An Ancient Land Prehistory Vikings

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Eyewitness: Victorians

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70 Years Later D-Day

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Gory Stories: Plague and Peril

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Ancient Greece

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British King & Queens

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DK Eyewiness Guides:Shakespeare

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Women Who Changed the World

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Hitler

Narrates the dictator's rise and fall, describing how by the force of his personality, political fanaticism, and superior abilities as an orator he became the leader of Germany and led his country into the devastation of World War II.

Where is Grand Canyon ?

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Who Was Hurricane Katrina ?

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Eyewitness: Early People

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Who's Horrible in History

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Chrisye: Sebuah Memoar Musikal

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Mengenal Pahlawan Indonesia

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Indonesia Etc.

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Unfinished Nation : Indonesia before and after Suharto

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Great Events That Change the World : the most important moments from 1950 to …

This book is dedicated to precisely those key events in our time; it uses a rich array of iconography to retrace what were to be the points of no return, the developments that would suddenly change the lives of many human beings.

CONTINENTAL DRIFT

Explore how the continents have drifted, from the Devonian Era to the Jurassic Period, to form the world as we know it! This beautiful book will take readers through different periods and explore the ecosystems and conditions of each time and how the changes led to where we are now. Learn about sea life, insects, animals, plants, rocks, and more! This book will be sure to capture the attention …