History of Modern China (Emerging Superpower)
by Jianwei Wang
Tales of pirates, whether in fact or fiction, have long excited young imaginations. The pirate stories here all have a Scottish connection. The title is part of the Scotties series of activity books for young readers and includes an 8pp black and white section of activities which are photocopiable for home or classroom use.
Join Darsey the French dormouse on his exciting adventure to Wales! Darsey loves exploring new places and when he hears about the beautiful country of Wales he cannot resist the opportunity to go and see it for himself. As Darsey travels through Wales, he encounters all sorts of amazing things and learns so much. He visits haunted castles, waterfalls, nuclear power plants, finds out about coal mining and so much more. There is so much to discover in this beautiful country. This charming chil...
Jamaica (Caribbean Today) (Discovering The Caribbean)
by Colleen Williams
Energy (Issues, #413)
"A complete visual package." --Booklist, starred reviewOn a clear, warm Sunday, April 14, 1935, a wild wind whipped up millions upon millions specks of dust to form a duster--a savage storm--on America's high southern plains.The sky turned black, sand-filled winds scoured the paint off houses and cars, trains derailed, and electricity coursed through the air. Sand and dirt fell like snow--people got lost in the gloom and suffocated... and that was just the beginning.Don Brown brings the Dirty Th...
Israel (Major Nations of the Modern Middle East)
by M. Garfinkle
Afghanistan (Major Nations of the Modern Middle East) (Growth & Influence of Islam S.)
by Kim Whitehead
A Game for Swallows: To Die, to Leave, to Return
by Zeina Abirached
Fidel Castro's Cuba. 2nd Edition (Dictatorships)
by Rita J Markel
Amazing People of New York (Amazing People Club)
by Charles Margerison
An inside look at the life and work of the noted civil rights leader, from the viewpoint of his wife Coretta Scott King.
America in 1982: Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting U.S. autoworkers out of their jobs. Anti–Asian American sentiment simmers, especially in Detroit. A bar fight turns fatal, leaving a Chinese American man, Vincent Chin, beaten to death at the hands of two white men, autoworker Ronald Ebens and his stepson, Michael Nitz. Paula Yoo has crafted a searing examination of the killing and the trial and verdicts that followed. When Ebens and Nitz pled guilty to manslaught...
As his sculptures introduce themselves, African American artist and Tennessee native William Edmondson, who lived during the first half of the twentieth century, relates how God called him toward his vocation of stone carving.
A new perspective on an importnt era of American history is presented in this enlightening book which focuses on the heroism of slaves prior to and during the Civil War. 65 prints and black-and-white photographs illustrate an informative book that forcefully shows the slaves' striving toward freedom.