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Presents a one-on-one matchup of U.S. presidents and Super Bowl games, providing accounts of each of the forty-four football contests, alongside information about the lives and achievements of the forty-four chief executives, from Washington to Obama.

Analyzes sweet tasting treats, and discusses the cultural and social views, dispels commonplace mythology, and describes the history of sweet from the banquet tables of emperors through the twenty-first century.

Draws from journals, diaries, photographs, poetry, and personal testimonies of Holocaust victims, as well as documents of the Nazi regime, to provide information about the day-to-day lives of Jews and others who were persecuted by the Nazis; and includes accounts from victims of post-Holocaust injustices.

"Describes daily life in the countryside of England during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901), from the poor, to the middle classes, to the upper classes"--Provided by publisher.

Contains illustrated drawings of over ten thousand years of Native American culture and survival in New England including how they dressed, built shelters, grew crops, made tools and weapons, treated disease, and traveled.

Recreates the swashbuckling era of the privateer.

Describes the history and culture of the prehistoric Woodland Indians as well as the Central Algonquian, Coastal Algonquian, and Iroquois tribes.

Describes the construction of the early houses and the later development of structural steel buildings including today's latest developments in poured concrete.