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Describes London during Shakespeare's time, Elizabethan theater, how plays were produced, music of the time, where Shakespeare got his plots, and how he transformed them.

Profiles athletes, coaches, sportscasters and writers, and team executives from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century who have had a significant impact on their sport and society, discussing each individual's family, early involvement in sports, career highlights, and championships and awards; arranged alphabetically from A to E.

Sixteen-year-old Jessica, who longs to be free of the restrictions of her father and life in the Jewish ghetto of sixteen-century Venice, falls in love with a Christian aristocrat and must make choices which will affect her whole family. Inspired by Shakespeare's play The merchant of Venice.

Discusses various aspects of the Olympic games, including their history, politics, commercialization, size, participation, and drug use.

Describes many cases of modern genocide including the systematic murder of Jews, Armenian, Cambodians, Rwandians, and the "ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia and Kosovo with many descriptions, facts, and actions of the justice community.

An account of the Vikings, examining their origins in the Scandinavian homelands, their raiding, trading and colonizing activities, and their daily life, warfare, art and religion.

Photographs and text describe the history of immigration to the U.S.A. in the twentieth century.

A photographic history of Hollywood's first century, discussing movies and their stars, the birth of American film, the Hollywood director, behind-the-scenes movie magic, and kids and animals.

A photographic chronicle of flight in the twentieth century, from the pioneering attempts of Otto Lilienthal to take to the air, to the return of John Glenn to outer space in 1998.

"A simple introduction to the Minnesota Twins major league baseball team, including its start in 1901 as the Washington Senators, its World Series triumphs, and its stars throughout the years"--Provided by publisher.