Chronicles the 1950s in text and photos, describing events and developments in politics, science and technology, exploration and discovery, religion, philosophy, the arts, sports, society, and pop culture around the world.
Contains a collection of short biographies of influential men and women and key events of the 1940s including the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and beginning of World War Two, Adolf Hitler's rise to power,the Doolittle Raid, the Homefront and wartime movies, the atomic bomb, and more.
As eleven-year-old Franny Chapman deals with drama at home and with her best friend in 1962, she tries to understand the larger problems in the world after President Kennedy announces that Russia is sending nuclear missiles to Cuba. Features historic quotations and photographs.
This book, divided into one hundred illustrated topic panels, presents information on history from the Norman invasion of England to the dissolution of the U.S.S.R.
the people and ideas that changed the way we think
Abbott, Chris
Collects twenty-one speeches delivered in the last hundred years and presents essays on them arguing about how these speeches have impacted Western culture and politics. The speakers include Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher, and Ronald Reagan.
German physicist Leo Zuckermann, the son of a Nazi doctor, teams up with graduate student Michael Young in an attempt to travel to the past and prevent the birth of Adolf Hitler, but upon their return to an altered future, they discover their plot was not altogether successful.
Discusses how transnational forces in a world of scarce resources, instant communications, and exploding population might affect the nations and people of the world in the twenty-first century.
