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History of the Peloponnesian War
Par Thucydides. 1993
Written in the fifth century B.C. by an Athenian commander, this is a history of the twenty-seven-year conflict between Athens,…
a democratic state and sea power, and the states of the Peloponnese headed by Sparta, a conservative power with an efficient military forceParallel journeys
Par Eleanor Ayer. 1995
Presents the lives of two young adults in Europe during World War II. Helen, a young Jewish woman, flees to…
escape the worsening treatment of Jews but is caught in the net. Alfons, an enthusiastic German teenager, is swept up in the Hitler Youth movement. This book includes excerpts from both of their autobiographies and tells of their joint work to educate future generations about the dangers of hatred. For junior and senior high readersHow good do we have to be?: a new understanding of guilt and forgiveness
Par Harold Kushner. 1996
Kushner, who wrote When Bad Things Happen to Good People (RD 17257, BR 5310), believes individuals demand too much of…
themselves in regard to sin and guilt. By offering a different approach to the story of Adam and Eve, Kushner suggests that God forgives our mistakes--experiences from which people learn and grow. BestsellerBound for the promised land: the great black migration
Par Michael Cooper. 1995
Following the Civil War, most African Americans in the South became sharecroppers whose lives were essentially controlled by plantation owners.…
Cooper explains how, shortly after the outbreak of World War I and the reduction of European immigrants, a new job market opened in the North for black farmworkers. He discusses the effect the Great Migration between 1915 and 1930 had on the United States. For grades 5-8A collection of diary excerpts from five Jewish teenagers--David Rubinowicz, Yitzhak Rudashevski, Moshe Flinker, Eva Heyman, and Anne Frank--who lived…
in Nazi-occupied Lithuania, Hungary, Belgium, and Holland between 1940 and 1944. Boas, a Holocaust survivor, provides biographical information and compares individual experiences. For junior and senior high and older readersOn our own terms: portraits of women business leaders
Par Liane Enkelis. 1995
Interviews with fifteen women who lead large corporations and also have a personal life. The women include the principal chief…
of the Cherokee Nation, the president of two highly successful catalog companies, and the head of one of the world's leading software companiesA humorous look at the workplace from the creator of the "Dilbert" cartoon strip. The Dilbert Principle is that "the…
most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage--management." BestsellerMaterial world: The six raw materials that shape modern civilization
Par Ed Conway. 2023
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed civilizations, and fed our ingenuity and…
greed for thousands of years. Without them, our modern world would not exist, and the battle to control them will determine our future. • Finalist for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award The fiber-optic cables that weave the World Wide Web, the copper veins of our electric grids, the silicon chips and lithium batteries that power our phones and cars: though it can feel like we now live in a weightless world of information—what Ed Conway calls "the ethereal world"—our twenty-first-century lives are still very much rooted in the material. In fact, we dug more stuff out of the earth in 2017 than in all of human history before 1950. For every ton of fossil fuels, we extract six tons of other materials, from sand to stone to wood to metal. And in Material World, Conway embarks on an epic journey across continents, cultures, and epochs to reveal the underpinnings of modern life on Earth—traveling from the sweltering depths of the deepest mine in Europe to spotless silicon chip factories in Taiwan to the eerie green pools where lithium originates. Material World is a celebration of the humans and the human networks, the miraculous processes and the little-known companies, that combine to turn raw materials into things of wonder. This is the story of human civilization from an entirely new perspective: the ground upCollection of poems and stories from the Bible, from great authors, and from folklore which Bennett suggests can be used…
for teaching parents, teachers, students, and children about specific virtues. Topics include faith, self-discipline, compassion, responsibility, friendship, work, courage, honesty, and loyalty. Bennett introduces each section. BestsellerThe West Indian-American experience (Coming to America)
Par Warren Halliburton. 1994
The term West Indian usually refers to people from the English-speaking Caribbean. This book explains West Indian history, recounting how…
European settlers wiped out the original Caribbean inhabitants and how modern West Indians descended from Africans brought over as slaves. Economic factors have caused many West Indians to emigrate to the United States even though they have been appalled by U.S. racism. For grades 5-8 and older readersPhenomenal woman: four poems celebrating women
Par Maya Angelou. 1994
The author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (RC 24959) and the poem read at President Clinton's inauguration,…
On the Pulse of the Morning (RC 36169, BR 9188), presents four poems that celebrate women. The collection includes "Phenomenal Woman," "Still I Rise," "Weekend Glory," and "Our Grandmothers." BestsellerThe tribe of tiger: cats and their culture
Par Elizabeth Thomas. 1994
Author of The Hidden Life of Dogs (BR 09410) turns to the thirty-five different species of cats. She explains the…
evolution of cats (they come from the mongoose tribe) and discusses their behavior and their carnivorous diet ("meat-eating alone accounts for a cat's sense of fun, of play"). Pumas, tigers, house cats, and others are observed in a variety of urban environments. BestsellerBeyond all reason: my life with Susan Smith
Par David Smith. 1995
Smith looks at his life before and after the death of his two sons, Michael and Alex. He explains how…
he and Susan met and discusses their rocky marriage, their separation, and finally the days leading up to and following the devastating news that his wife had murdered their two sons. Some strong language. BestsellerSusan B. Anthony slept here: a guide to American women's landmarks
Par Lynn Sherr. 1994
Lists two thousand sites that reveal the broad range of contributions made by American women. Arranged by state and city,…
the citations include a brief history of each woman, place, or achievement. Molly Pitcher fought with bravery in New Jersey. Julia Morgan designed the Hearst Castle. The "Hawaiian riding dress" freed women from riding only sidesaddleIt happened in America: true stories from the fifty states
Par Lila Perl. 1992
Beginning with the Alabama bus boycott sparked by Rosa Parks and continuing state-by-state in alphabetical order, the author presents a…
selection of fifty true accounts from American history. A history that she describes as "crammed with tales of quiet courage and dashing bravado, feats of accomplishment, and magnificent failures." For grades 5-8 and older readersThe World in 1492
Par Jean Fritz. 1992
An introduction to the history, accomplishments, customs, and beliefs of people living in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Oceania, and the…
Americas at the time Columbus discovered the new world. Includes accounts of African doctors who routinely removed cataracts from the human eye and of an Italian artist and inventor who sketched his idea for a flying machine. For grades 5-8 and older readersOld songs in a new café
Par Robert Waller. 1994
Nineteen essays written since 1983 by Waller, a folksinger and author of the bestselling Bridges of Madison County (RC 35861).…
The writings include a loving tribute to his wife, thoughts on his daughter leaving home at eighteen, a book signing on a snowy day in St. Ansgar, playing "Wabash Cannonball" for a program with Charles Kuralt, and thoughts on his fiftieth birthday. BestsellerTurn of the century: our nation one hundred years ago
Par Nancy Levinson. 1994
On New Year's Eve 1899, America celebrated not only a new year, but a new century. Levinson looks at the…
country as it was in 1900 and then shows ways in which people's lives began to change. Topics include the growth in the use of the railroad, automobile, and telephone and the evolution of large cities as America turned from an agricultural country into an urban one. For grades 4-7 and older readersA pioneer sampler: the daily life of a pioneer family in 1840
Par Barbara Greenwood. 1994
A year in the life of a fictional family, the Robertsons, shows how pioneers spent their days in the 1840s.…
Explains how to make maple sugar, what school was like, how the land was cleared and farmed, and much more. Provides projects to give modern-day children a chance to do things the way their ancestors did. For grades 3-6Smart exercise: burning fat, getting fit
Par Covert Bailey. 1994
PBS fitness star believes "exercise ... can cure almost everything." Bailey explains the difference in the body's procedures for utilizing…
sugars and burning fat, and he recommends aerobic exercise. He claims any activity that lasts at least twelve minutes, causes deep breathing but not breathlessness, and uses the muscles in the thighs and buttocks falls in this category. Bestseller