Roberts, Russell

Describes the Battle of Waterloo, the climax of The Hundred Days, the period when Napoleon returned from exile on Elba and once again seized control of France.

A brief biography of seventeenth-century Dutch painter, Rembrandt, that chronicles his life and selected works.

A biography of the persistent inventor whose interest in electricity led him to develop an electronic television system in the 1920s.

Provides brief, chronologically arranged profiles of one hundred baseball players who helped shape sports history.

Evaluates several theories concerning the extinction of the dinosaurs including: climate change, the rise of mammals, changing vegetation, volcanic eruptions, and a major asteroid strike.

Presents a children's biography of Robert Goddard and his dream to build a rocket that would travel into space and chronicles his early attempts and experiments with liquid oxygen.

A biography of the persistent inventor whose interest in electricity led him to develop an electronic television system in the 1920s.

Describes how the ancient Roman city of Pompeii was destroyed by a volcanic eruption from Mt. Vesuvius in A.D. 79.

Examines the life of sixteenth-century French prophet Nostradamus, discussing his youth, his training and work as a physician, and the predictions for which he has become famous.