Hoobler, Dorothy

Presents biographical sketches of such prominent Italians as Julius Caesar, St. Francis of Assisi, Michelangelo, Galileo, Suetonius, and Maria Montessori.

Portraits of people prominent in Chinese civilization over a 3000-year period. Includes a list of words in the Pinyin language system as well as their counterparts in the older Wade-Giles system.

Presents biographies of some prominent sub-Saharan Africans throughout history, including Piankhy, Ahmed Baba, Ann Nzinga, Cinque, Kip Keino, and Wole Soyinka.

Presents biographical sketches of Nezahualc?yotl, Moctezume II, Malinche, Juan Diego, Diego de la Cruz, Juana In?s de la Cruz, Father Miguel Hidalgo, Benito Ju?rez, Pancho Villa, Emiliano Zapata, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahol, and Amalia Hern?ndez.

Returning home to investigate the possible connection of his family's tea shop with smugglers, Seikei, now a samauri in eighteenth-century Japan, becomes involved in murder at a local puppet theater and saving the life of his sister's accused boyfriend.

A scrapbook-style collection of photographs and memoirs chronicling the history of the Jewish-American people.

A scrapbook-style collection of photographs and memoirs chronicling the history of the Scandinavian people in the United States.

Mexican Americans journeyed to the United States to make a new life for themselves and made many contributions to our country's culture.