Text and photographs recreate life during Roman times, including how people worked, bathed, dressed, ate, cooked, and prayed. Includes Roman recipes and instructions for dyeing cloth and making a writing tablet.
Text and photographs summarize natural disasters throughout history, emphasizing the causes, the loss of life and property, and ways of lessening the damage.
Provides illustrations and information about some of the wonders of the ancient world, and features four transparencies that allow the reader to see inside an Egyptian pyramid, a Minoan palace, the cliff tombs and temples of Petra, and the church of Hagia Sophia.
Surveys the development of automobiles, bicycles, trucks, and motorcycles and briefly discusses such related topics as motor sports, pollution, and safety.
Presents a pictorial history of the people and events around the world during the 1940s including World War Two, Women at war, rationing, the regime of Mao Tse Tung, advances in science and technology, the atom bomb, and more.
