Kid-friendly atlas featuring maps and infographics about trade, oil production, agriculture, pollution, architecture, internet access, and space launches. Includes a glossary, index, and resources for online information.
Explores the development and history of medicine through fifty essential objects from early prehistory to the present. Discusses tools and technology, symbols of social movements, prescriptions and vaccines, and surgical innovations. Includes photos, illustrations, and an index.
Contains illustrations and descriptions of various aspects of Victorian life, including homes, different rooms, fashions, games and toys, celebrations, transportation, and more.
Lady Dai and the ancient Chinese treasures of Mawangdui
Liu-Perkins, Christine
Over two thousand years ago in China, Lady Dai was buried with her family. In 1972, their tombs were discovered, and Lady Dai's body was remarkably preserved.
Readers explore different aspects of Ancient Egypt's economy, including the importance of the sea to this civilization's economy and about how papermaking was an art essential to Egypt's culture. Students will gain an understanding of how the culture used money and which trades flourished during this period of history.
Contains alphabetically arranged entries that examine various aspects of American material culture and its study, and includes a historical overview of material culture studies, and a bibliography.
Contains seventy-one essays, each of which highlights a different aspect of American life that is disappearing forever, including carbon paper, drive-in movies, girdles, the milkman, rotary phones, and vinyl records.
