We the People: Modern America (We the People (Compass Point Books Hardcover))
In late January 1918, Dr. Loren Miner, a country physician in rural Kansas, saw the first cases of an influenza of a violent nature. With a warning to the U.S. Public Health Service, his was the lone voice of alarm about the potential spread of this virulent new strain of a particularly deadly disease. With hundreds of thousands of American servicemen crisscrossing the nation through military training camps and then to Europe to fight in World War I, an influenza pandemic wasn't just a possibili...
On January 16, 1979, the shah of Iran left the country he had ruled for more than 37 years. The streets of Tehran, Iran's capital, filled with celebration as the news spread that the hated monarchy had been overthrown. The revolution in Iran, led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, was sparked by many factors, including a widening gap between the different classes of Iranian society, an aggressive campaign of modernization, an ambitious program of land reform, and the brutality of the shah's oppress...
As one of history's most horrific political upheavals, the Cultural Revolution began in 1966, when the Chinese Communist Party officially launched the radical movement on the orders of its autocratic chairman, Mao Zedong. He intended for the movement to revitalize China's revolutionary fervor while simultaneously accelerating the country's evolution into a true communist utopia. China's young people became the advance guard for this new revolution, forming themselves into paramilitary Red Guard...
Chronicles from National Geographic (Cultural & Geographical Exploration - Chronicles from National Geographic S.)
On August 15, 1914, after more than a decade of work, the first steamship passed through the Panama Canal, opening up travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. This book describes the building of the canal, using National Geographic articles.'
Who's in Charge? Systems of Power: Saudi Arabia (Who's in Charge? Systems of Power)
by Sonya Newland
Saudi Arabia is the largest country in the Middle East, of great strategic importance as a bridge between Europe, Africa and Asia. Its influence also hinges on two other key factors: its wealth and its religion. This book considers the history of Saudi Arabia and its rulers and discusses what makes the country unique. It looks at how the present government is structured and at the role of the royal family, and asks what the key challenges are for Saudi Arabia today, both nationally and internat...
NBA and WNBA Finals (The Big Game (Lerner (Tm) Sports)) (The Big Game (Lerner Sports))
by Matt Scheff
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Victorian Servant! (You Wouldn't Want to) (You Wouldn't Want To Be)
by Fiona MacDonald
Pingüinos (Penguins) (Me Gustan Los Animales! (I Like Animals! Set 2))
by Julie Murray
World News Digest Yearbook, Volume 69 (Facts on File World News Digest Yearbooks, #69)
Produced in partnership with The National Archives, this title looks at the trenches of World War One. Timed for the anniversary of World War One this title uses material and images from The National Archives to tell the story of the Trenches. We look at how the war began and how the trenches were created - from single holes to vast networks running through Northern France. We look at what the trenches were like for the soldiers who lived in them; their daily routine, the work, food and water,...
Battle Royale: Lethal Warriors (Set) (Battle Royale: Lethal Warriors)
Rescue of the Bounty (Young Readers Edition) (True Rescue Series , #6)
by Douglas A. Campbell and Michael J. Tougias
The Nuremberg Nazi War Crimes Trial (Headline Court Cases)
by Harvey Fireside
Discusses the Nuremberg Nazi war crimes trial in which Nazi leaders, including Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, and Wilhelm Keitel, were tried for their roles in the Holocaust.
The World Series (The Big Game (Lerner Sports)) (The Big Game (Lerner (Tm) Sports))
by Matt Scheff
Astronomy students will explore the bitter rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union that served as fuel for the fire that catapulted rockets into the great unknown of the next frontier space and eventually landed a man on the moon.
Leaders Who Changed the Twentieth Century (Twenty Events S.)
by Jodine Mayberry
Presents biographical sketches of twenty people who made significant contributions to the history of the twentieth century, including Jane Addams, Ho Chi Minh, Lech Walesa, and Nelson Mandela.
The House by the Lake: The Story of a Home and a Hundred Years of History (Walker Studio)
by Thomas Harding
A beautiful picture-book adaptation of Thomas Harding's Costa-shortlisted biography for adults, exquisitely illustrated by Britta Teckentrup.On the outskirts of Berlin, a wooden cottage stands on the shore of a lake. Over the course of a century, this little house played host to a loving Jewish family, a renowned Nazi composer, wartime refugees and a Stasi informant; in that time, a world war came and went, and the Berlin Wall was built a stone's throw from the cottage's back door. Thomas Hardin...