Presents six essays that analyze and discuss eighteenth-century folklore, everyday life in Europe during the time, and stories including "Little Red Riding Hood, " an account of a massacre of cats, and Mother Goose.
A study of Greece during the centuries which preceded the Hellenistic age. Describes Minoan Crete; the Mycenaean civilization; and the flowering in culture and political thought which began in the mid-eighth century B.C.; the growth of Athenian democracy; Hellenism; and the Persian Wars; and the end of the age in 323 B.C. with the death of Alexander. Makes liberal use of illustrations, photographs, and maps.
Presents an overview of one of oldest countries of the world, the people who populate it, the diverse cultures, and the tumultuous events when Mao began converting the agrarian country into a powerful industrial nation.
