kings and rulers

Presents the complete text to William Shakespeare's play "King Lear" with an easy-to-understand translation on facing pages, helping students better understand the work and its meaning.

Brought back from the Mistwood to protect the royal family, a girl who has no memory of being a shape-shifter encounters political and magical intrigue as she struggles with her growing feelings for the prince.

Retells Sir Thomas Malory's tales of King Arthur and his knights in modern language.

Profiles Alexander the Great, military leader and king of ancient Macedonia, who conquered most of the known world of his time before his death at age thirty-three.

Examines the rule of Augustus Caesar, including his rise to power, politics, and final days.

Presents an overview of major political issues and theories from fifty personalities who that helped to change and shape the world.

Each chapter gives the full name, offices held, dates, historical context, biographical sketch, and two essays, in debate format, that contrast the creative and tyrannical roles of the subject.

Chronicles the lives and reigns of seven monarchs of the Middle Ages beginning with Charlemagne, the Frankish king who was the first to unite the Roman Empire during the eighth century AD to Charles VII, king of France during the fifteenth century.

From her childhood in Martinique, Josephine knew that she would someday be "more than a queen," and she eventually fulfills her destiny at the side of Napoleon Bonaparte as Empress of the French.

Presents the life of the Egyptian queen who lived from 69 B.C.E. to 30 B.C.E.