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Beyond the stony mountains: nature in the American west from Lewis and Clark to today
Par Daniel B Botkin. 2004
Ecologist retraces the footsteps of early-nineteenth-century explorers Lewis and Clark and compares the natural history they documented to its condition…
in the early twenty-first century. Describes environmental changes including the damming of rivers and the disappearance of ecosystems and wildlife species. 2004The Greek way
Par Edith Hamilton. 1993
The author of Mythology (DB 20026) explores the accomplishments of Greek intellectual life in the fifth century B.C. Discusses customs,…
philosophy, religion, and art, referencing the era's noted writers--the poet Pindar; dramatists Aeschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles; and historians Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon--with excerpts from classic works. 1930Extreme weather: a guide & record book
Par Christopher C Burt. 2004
Meteorologist surveys the nature and history of extreme weather phenomena in the United States and abroad. Offers concise explanations of…
such climatic events as droughts, floods, thunderstorms, hail, tornadoes, hurricanes, and fog. Provides temperature and precipitation records for more than three hundred U.S. cities dating back to the 1800s. 2004Splendid solution: Jonas Salk and the conquest of polio
Par Jeffrey Kluger. 2004
This history of the 1950s battle to develop a polio vaccine focuses on Jonas Salk's successful dead-virus inoculation. Discusses social…
effects of infantile paralysis from 1916 to mid century, the controversy over live-virus vaccines, Walter Winchell's public denouncement of Dr. Salk, and Salk's 1954 vindication. 2004Days to celebrate: a full year of poetry, people, holidays, history, fascinating facts, and more
Par Lee Bennett Hopkins, Stephen Alcorn. 2005
A calendar lists each month's birthdays--of people, inventions, or historical events. Facts and poems for specific dates follow. For example,…
November 10, 1903, cited for the invention of the windshield wiper, is accompanied by Rebecca Kai Dotlich's poem "Windshield Wipers." For grades 4-7. 2005The secret man: the story of Watergate's Deep Throat
Par Bob Woodward. 2005
Journalist who uncovered the 1972 Watergate scandal, All the President's Men (DB 50574), chronicles his long relationship with the scandal's…
secret informant. Details Woodward's early dealings with the man as a mentor, their covert meetings during Watergate, decades of concealment, and W. Mark Felt's public admission in 2005. Bestseller. 2005An insider's guide to the UN
Par Linda M Fasulo. 2003
News correspondent's overview of the United Nations, the international body established in 1945 to promote peace and prosperity among member…
nations. Discusses its structure and function; humanitarian, crime-fighting, and peacekeeping missions; sovereignty issues; and twenty-first-century challenges. Profiles influential leaders such as Secretary General Kofi Annan. 2004American scholar of Middle Eastern Studies distills fifty years of research and experience into a concise overview of Iraqi history,…
providing insight into Iraqi conduct and culture under American occupation. Discusses possible outcomes for Iraq's economy, government, and internal administration depending on whether the United States continues occupation or withdraws. 2005A sense of the mysterious: science and the human spirit
Par Alan P Lightman. 2005
Essays exploring the emotional life of science by physicist and author of The Diagnosis (BR 13414) and Reunion (BR 15284).…
Reflects on his own scientific journey and his struggles to reconcile the working universe with humanity and truth. Incorporates portraits of influential figures including Albert Einstein and Vera Rubin. 2005A biography of Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), the champion of political change through peaceful resistance. Emphasizes the spiritual beliefs that guided…
his actions in the nonviolent struggle to gain India's independence from Great Britain. Includes activities. For grades 2-4. 2004A briefer history of time: A Special Edition Of The Science Classic
Par Stephen Hawking. 2005
An updated and more accessible version of A Brief History of Time (RC 26996). Emphasizes the concept of a dynamic…
cosmos, incorporating scientific knowledge from research and space exploration--by the Hubble Space telescope and satellites--not available in the previous, 1988 publication. 2005Replaceable you: engineering the body in postwar America
Par David Harley Serlin. 2004
Discusses the impact of medical developments--hormone treatments, plastic surgery, prosthetic devices, and sexual reassignment--on the human body and national psyche…
in 1950s America. Presents a sociocultural analysis of the postwar era using case studies of war veteran amputees, female survivors of Hiroshima, a transgendered GI, and a lesbian entertainer. 2004The city: a global history
Par Joel Kotkin. 2005
Chronicle of the city through time. Posits that an urban area can thrive only if is safe, economically viable, and…
spiritually enriching. Analyzes the ancient communities of Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, and China; the classical European centers; and Islamic megalopolises. Laments the lack of moral order in the twenty-first century. 2005Evening in the palace of reason: Bach meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment
Par James R Gaines. 2005
Describes the encounter between young Frederick the Great and the elderly kapellmeister Johann Sebastian Bach and examines Bach's masterful response…
in "A Musical Offering" to the warrior-king's compositional challenge. Combines the history of music and of eighteenth-century culture with biographies of these two notable figures of the era. 2005Retired veterinarian and director of Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo recalls safari adventures in India, Papua New Guinea, Africa, and Iceland.…
Describes personal encounters with wildlife, such as pulling a jaguar's tooth, crawling under an elephant's belly to avoid injury, and chasing an escaped gorilla. 2005Compendium of cons throughout history. Describes charlatans such as Nostradamus, misrepresentations perpetrated by the media, wartime ruses, state-sponsored deceptions, scientific…
and literary frauds, lies that have had catastrophic consequences, royal impersonators, and great escapes. 2005Seize the fire: heroism, duty, and the Battle of Trafalgar
Par Adam Nicolson. 2005
The author views Admiral Horatio Nelson in terms of a religious but brutal British culture that condoned war. Posits that…
"the twinning of apocalypse and millennium, of violence leading to peace," resulted in the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar, in which England defeated Napoleonic France. Violence. 2005The triumph of numbers: how counting shaped modern life
Par I. Bernard Cohen. 2005
Harvard science historian's history of numbers and the role of counting in public and private life. Traces the growing importance…
of numbers from Biblical times to the scientific revolution and modern era. Discusses Florence Nightingale's use of statistics and includes commentary on Kepler, Galileo, Benjamin Franklin, and Charles Dickens. 2005The digital person: technology and privacy in the information age (Ex machina)
Par Daniel J Solove. 2004
Law professor examines the proliferation of databases that store information on individuals' activities, interests, and preferences assembled through computers and…
the Internet. Examines privacy and legal concerns including identity theft, the debate over public records, and the use of government access to profile people for criminal or terrorist activity. 2004The big splat, or, How our moon came to be
Par Dana Mackenzie. 2003
Mathematician explores the origins of Earth's only natural satellite. Traces the history of lunar studies from ancient Greece to the…
twentieth century, weighing evidence for various theories before arriving at the "giant impact hypothesis" that posits that the moon is a product of Earth's collision with another planet. 2003